{"id":6557,"date":"2014-09-23T19:08:24","date_gmt":"2014-09-23T19:08:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogbox.indianeagle.com\/\/?p=6557"},"modified":"2017-03-20T20:04:19","modified_gmt":"2017-03-20T20:04:19","slug":"liars-dice-is-indias-choice-for-oscars-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.indianeagle.com\/travelbeats\/liars-dice-is-indias-choice-for-oscars-2015\/","title":{"rendered":"Liar\u2019s Dice is India\u2019s choice for Oscars 2015 in Best Foreign Language Category"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Finally, <strong>India made its entry to the Academy Awards 2015 in the Best Foreign Film category<\/strong>. The national Award winning Hindi film <em>Liar\u2019s Dice<\/em> is the selection made by a 12-member jury in the Film Federation of India. Headed by renowned filmmaker T. Hariharan, the jury picked Liar\u2019s Dice out of 30 entries for Oscars. The movie, an interface between a road movie and a survival drama, has already won the <strong>National Award in two different categories<\/strong> \u2013 Best Film and Best Cinematography.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.indianeagle.com\/travelbeats\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Liars-Dice-is-Indias-choice-for-Oscars-2015.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-6560 size-full\" title=\"Liar's Dice is India's choice for Oscars 2015\" src=\"https:\/\/www.indianeagle.com\/travelbeats\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Liars-Dice-is-Indias-choice-for-Oscars-2015.jpg\" alt=\"Indian cinema, travel movies of India, India's entry for Oscars 2015\" width=\"600\" height=\"409\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>A directorial debut by Geethu Mohandas<\/strong>, a Malayalam actor, <em>Liar\u2019s Dice<\/em> stars Nawazuddin Siddiqui and Geetanjali Thapa who are among the critically acclaimed actors in Indian Cinema. <strong>The movie is a sensitive story about the adventures of a woman and her daughter in search of her missing husband<\/strong> from the Himalayan region of the Indo-Tibet border to Delhi. They come across a mysterious man with brooding nature, during their travels. The man is no one but Nawazuddin Siddiqui\u2019s character.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Siddiqui\u2019s character is an army deserter who is kind inside but rigid outside. He accompanies the mother and daughter during their journey out of his assumption that the road ahead may be perilous for them. The different aspects of this offbeat character which is sometimes brooding and sometimes benevolent coherently rhyme with different terrains of the journey.<strong><em> Liar\u2019s Dice<\/em> beat other 29 movies including<em> Mary Kom, Shahid, 2 States, Apur Pachali<\/em> and <em>Jatishwar<\/em><\/strong>, on strength of naturalistic performance and striking visual.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>Lair\u2019s Dice<\/em> was premiered at Mumbai Film Festival first. <strong>It earned kudos at International Film Festival Rotterdam and Sundance Film Festival.<\/strong> Though a low-budget independent film, <em>Liar\u2019s Dice<\/em> beautifully captures the wonder of travel from the sparsely populated Himalayan region to the madding crowd of Delhi in India. <strong>The 87<sup>th<\/sup> Academy Awards will be held on February 22, 2015.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.indianeagle.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">IndianEagle.com<\/a> represents India to the NRIs in the USA and Canada. We at Indian Eagle have our fingers crossed for support of Liar&#8217;s Dice at Oscars.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Finally, India made its entry to the Academy Awards 2015 in the Best Foreign Film category. The national Award winning Hindi film Liar\u2019s Dice is the selection made by a 12-member jury in the Film Federation of India. Headed by renowned filmmaker T. Hariharan, the jury picked Liar\u2019s Dice out of 30 entries for Oscars. 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