The
Academy
of
Motion
Picture
Arts
and
Sciences
(AMPAAS)
has
announced
that
the
Amit
Masurkar-directed
black
comedy
is
not
a
part
of
the
nine-film
line-up
which
have
advanced
to
the
next
round
of
voting.
The
nine
films
are
-
A
Fantastic
Woman
(Chile),
In
the
Fade
(Germany),
On
Body
and
Soul
(Hungary),
Foxtrot
(Israel),
The
Insult
(Lebanon),
Loveless
(Russia),
Felicite
(Senegal),
The
Wound
(South
Africa)
and
The
Square
(Sweden).
Featuring
Rajkummar
Rao
and
Pankaj
Tripathi
in
key
roles,
the
Hindi
language
film
chronicles
the
foibles
of
democracy
in
the
jungles
of
Chhattisgarh.
Nominations
for
the
90th
Academy
Awards
will
be
announced
on
January
23.
No
Indian
film
has
ever
won
an
Oscar.
The
last
Indian
film
that
made
it
to
the
final
five
in
the
Best
Foreign
Film
category
list
was
Ashutosh
Gowariker's
Lagaan
in
2001.
Mother
India
(1958)
and
Salaam
Bombay
(1989)
are
the
other
two
Indian
movies
to
have
made
it
to
the
top
five.
Tamil
film
Visaranai
by
director
Vetrimaaran
was
India's
official
submission
to
the
Oscars
last
year.
The
ceremony
will
be
held
on
March
4
in
Los
Angeles.
with
pti
inputs.