The Indian Film Federation decided to officially select female director Zoya Akhtar's "India Has Hip Hop" to compete for next year's Oscar "Best International Film", which is the previous "Best Foreign Language Film" award. "India has hip hop" is originally "gully boy" (not curry boy), which originally means "street boy/underground boy", who translated this title...
The male protagonist of the film is a 22-year-old young man from the slums of Mumbai, whose parents are drivers and has worked hard all his life in order to give him a white-collar job that can get him ahead. And the real dream in murdle's heart is to become a rapper. True rap in India, also coming from the streets, has come from the streets, following artistic dreams and clashing with his family.
The trailer has no subtitles, let's see it, to the effect that the male protagonist's father is very dissatisfied with him to be a rapper, but he still participates in the very "eight miles" underground freestyle battle, and the Muslim sister wearing a turban is his girlfriend. All rappers around the world diss their opponents the same number of ways: you have no money, you are bored, your clothes are fake.
There are many musical films in India about "chasing dreams and pure hearts", and "India Has Hip Hop" held its premiere at the Berlin Film Festival in February this year, and was released in India on Valentine's Day, which attracted countless hot reviews. The film' male and female stars, ranville singer and Alia Burhart, respectively, Bollywood,000 grossed $37 million worldwide.
India has been "bidding" for the Olympic Games since 1957, and has been nominated for the "Best Foreign Language Film" award three times, namely "Mother of India" (1957), "Hello, Mumbai" (1988) and "Once Upon a Time in India" (2001), but has not yet won.
At present, Japan has announced the bid for Makoto Shinkai's "Weather Child", South Korea has selected Bong Joon-ho's "Parasite", and Spain has selected Pedro Almodóvar's "Pain and Glory", and the competition facing India this year looks like a lot.