This will be surprise for many as Movies like "Lunchbox", "Bhag Milka Bhag", "English Vinglish", Malyalam film "Celluloid" & Kamal Hassan film "Vishwaroopam" were the one of strong contenders for Best Foreign film at 86th Academy awards. But the selection committee praised the hard work done by Gyan Correa The Debut Director of the movie The Good Road. The film also won the award for Best Gujarati film at the 60th National Film awards.
This must be shocked for Karan Johar who was also supporting the film "Lunchbox" saying "All kinds of audience can connect with it and yet within the parameters of love story it is completely unusual. You feel all the love in the world for the protagonists and the unusual aspect of it is they haven't met."
The Movie "The Good Road" is the story of a boy who is lost and then found while his family is on a holiday trip to Kutch. The film is related to highway where three different stories come across each other.The film has been shooted at Kutch in Gujarat. Starcast of the film are Ajay Gehi, Keval Katrodiya, Shamji Dhana Kerasia, Sonali Kulkarni, Poonam Kesar Singh & Priyank Upadhyay.
The selection of movie to Academy awards made The Chief Minister Narendra Modi a reason to proud as Gujarati Movie has gotten recognition like never before.
The selection of The Good Road make some people happy & some people really sad just like Karan Johar disappointment, Director & Film Maker Anurag Kashyap too expressed his sadness on Twitter. "Feeling very very disappointed, can't comment on the film I have not seen, but it better make it to final five," he tweeted.
He further tweeted, "We should then make a clean policy,you want to send the best film, then send the national award winner.or send the one most likely to win."
Being a Experience filmmaker & knowing so much about making films. Films personality like Karan Johar & Anurag Kashyap instead of showing disappointment they should have encouraged the film making by supporting the selection committee decision. Though its their personal comment but it will make a impact on small film maker who is on learning stage & doing exceptionally good job. I think they forgot the way they had travel to reach at this position.
Concluding the Fact Film making is not an easy job whether its a small budget or big budget, lots of efforts people put into it to make a film a better film & after making a better film if it raising the praises all around, one should see the positive side of it instead of disappointment.
So Cheers & All the Good Luck for "The Good Road" as long way to go ahead.
Now here i am adding another protest for the movie The Good Road""..
This time Several Gujarati filmmakers including Abhilash Ghoda, Deepak Antani and writer-lyricist Vinay Dave aren't happy with the selection of The Good Road as India's official entry for Oscars because of the concept of the film.
Abhilash Ghoda told Hindustantimes.com, "The Good Road was released silently, without any publicity in a single show to qualify for Oscar, after 18 months of its official release. We are sensing something dicey is being cooked. After 'Slum Dog Millionaire" Once again a wrong image of India and specially Gujarat and Kutch is being presented to the world, with a clear cut objective of spoiling Gujarat's name."
The filmmaker further added, "The controversial film (The Good Road) made out of NFDC's huge budget, receives National Award first and then immediately, it is announced for Oscar nomination, with definite and deliberate malafied intentions. (sic)"
The Good Road shows child prostitution in the interiors of Kutch and stars Ajay Gehi, Sonali Kulkarni, Keval Katrodia, Shamji Dhana Kerasia among many others.
Gujarati film writer Vinay Dave posted on Facebook, "On 24/09/13, those who are associated with Gujarati film industry, protested against the nomination (of) Gujarati film "THE GOOD ROAD" for OSCARS," along with a few pictures of the protest.
The Gujarati filmmaker also plans to take the protest to Delhi and Mumbai, his posts on the social networking site suggested.
Now let's see what will be the consequence this movie has to face going forward.....
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