"Gully Boy" Is Anticipated To Be The First Bollywood Movie To Win Oscars International Feature Film

The news of Gully Boy getting a spot in the honorable Academy Award Oscars has got the whole movie lover community over the moon.

Gully Boy is the film that features Ranveer Singh, Alia Bhatt along with Siddhant Chaturvedi. The movie centers around the story of Murad, a young person who wants to be a rapper and he has to cope with many tough decisions on the way of pursuing his dream.

Talking about the character, Ranveer Singh shared,

Though India has had three nominations in the International Feature Film category for Oscar, the nation has never actually bagged an award. The three films that got nominated were Mother India released in 1957, Salaam Bombay released in 1989 and Lagaan released in 2002.

All that happened and maybe, 2020 will be the year we can see some changes…

Ever since Gully Boy was known to be nominated as the official entry of India at the prestigious Oscar, director Zoya Akhtar has been swamped with the support from the whole Hindi movie industry.

Zoya Akhtar said,

The filmmaker also added that a lot of actors as well as directors of the B-town have been sending their congratulations to the movie’s teams recently.

As shared by the filmmaker, "I am very happy for myself, for my production team and my crew. Let's see what happens. Now, the work starts."

The director also has other work that bagged success beside Gully Boy. Lately, the famous Netflix film Lust Stories, which is directed by Zoya and three more helmers, was the nominee for the International Emmys 2019.

She said,

Speaking of her future, Zoya shared,

Sharing this, the renowned director was in a talk and interaction with the press in the Jio MAMI Mumbai Film Festival held in Mumbai.