While
Mira
Nair
has
openly
said
that
Hollywood
suffers
from
colour
blindness
after
her
resplendent
film
The
Namesake
failed
to
make
it
into
any
of
the
Oscar
nominations,
Mira's
leading
man
Irrfan
says
he
isn't
the
least
disappointed.
"I
knew
The
Namesake
won't
find
favour
at
the
Oscars.
The
culture
and
ambience
were
all
very
alien
to
the
Americans.
They
live
in
a
very
enclosed
kind
of
society
where
their
culture
and
way
of
life
is
all
that
matters
to
them.
To
them,
a
film
about
a
Bengali
family
was
strange
and
alien.
We're
yet
to
make
inroads
in
the
West
the
way
Chinese
cinema
has
made.
I
mean,
long
before
Ang
Lee's
Crouching
Tiger
Hidden
Dragon,
Bruce
Lee
had
made
a
big
impact
on
the
Western
audience.
We
from
Indian
cinema
are
yet
to
make
that
kind
of
an
impact.
But
we're
getting
there."
Irrfan
says
he
has
suffered
a
much
bigger
blow
at
the
Oscars.
"And
that
was
when
my
British
film
Warrior
by
Asif
Kapadia
failed
to
make
it
into
the
nomination
for
Best
Foreign
Film
for
a
technical
reason.
The
Academy
rejected
Warrior
because
it
was
a
British
film
in
Hindi.
According
to
them,
a
British
film
can
only
be
in
English!
Thank
God,
since
then
the
language
barriers
have
dissolved.
But
it
was
never
fun
while
it
lasted."
Story first published: Tuesday, February 12, 2008, 8:47 [IST]