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Siddharth Roy Kapur's reaction to FWICE demanding Chhello Show shouldn’t be sent to the Oscars

Mumbai (Maharashtra): The Gujarati film Chello Show, also known as The Last Film Show, which is this year's official Oscar entry from India, honours childhood and the wonder and joy of learning new things. The Chello Show is allegedly a copy of The Italian film Cinema Paradiso (1988), which won an Academy Award for best international feature film, according to the Indian Film & Television Directors' Association (IFTDA) and Federation of Western India Cine Employees (FWICE), who have demanded that the film's Oscar nomination be revoked.

Siddharth Roy Kapur, the film's producer, addresses the accusations made by the IFTDA and FWICE and provides a timeline of his involvement with the project in an interview with Indian Express. Kapur also explains to the Academy members how he is organising the movie's promotional campaign.

In response to Chhello Show being compared to the Italian movie Cinema Paradiso, Siddharth Roy Kapur said, “I think we should look at the future since we’re representing India now and we’ve been selected by the Film Federation of India (FFI). We’re honoured and privileged to be given the responsibility to represent our country. The film is such a subjective medium, and everyone will have an opinion on it, nothing is black or white. There’s a jury that was put together and they selected us. We will do our best to bring glory to the country, that’s where I’d like to leave it. It is a free country and everyone is entitled to an opinion. We are passionate people and films is a passionate business, so I think it is only right for people to have passions when they believe in one movie over another, there’s really nothing wrong in that.”

Siddharth wants everyone to watch the movie and fall back in love with the movies because he watched it long before it was chosen as India's official entry to the Oscars this year.

He says, “After Nalin shot the film, I had the opportunity to watch it and fell in love with it. I’m sure the audience will fall in love with it as well. The journey from there has been about distributing the film in India. We announced the release date of the film as October 14 and we were fortunate to be selected as India’s official selection a few weeks earlier, that primes us really well to generate as much curiosity as possible with the Indian audience with everyone wanting to know what is this film all about.”

Chhello Show promotes the magic of cinema, thus Kapur is delighted to release it in India. Kapur concludes by saying, “Across the world, we’ve started speaking about giving the audience a theatrical experience, a cinematic experience, to get them back to the cinema hall. Chhello Show celebrates the cinematic experience and I don’t think there will be a more apt time for a film like this than now. We’re making people realise once again, remind them, how they fell in love with movies in darkened cinema halls in the first place. So, while the star system exists, a lot of the recent movies draw audiences because of the value in the storytelling and the fact that they’re so cinematic. I think Chhello Show is one of the films that when you watch it, you’ll realise how there is nowhere else to see it but in a cinema hall.”

The film stars Bhavin Rabari, Vikas Bata, Richa Meena, Bhavesh Shrimali, Dipen Raval and Rahul Koli, and is produced by Roy Kapur Films, Jugaad Motion Pictures, Monsoon Films, Chhello Show LLP, and Marc Duale.

 

 

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