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Friday, November 1, 2024
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Topic: Oscars

Oscars 2025: Kiran Rao’s ‘Laapataa Ladies’ is India’s official entry to 97th Academy Awards

The film, which tells the story of two newly-wed wives inadvertently switched during a train ride, explores themes of equality and women empowerment in rural India.

Oppenheimer named as ‘Best Picture’ at the Oscars, Cillian Murphy bags ‘Best Actor’ trophy

Emma Stone won best actress for 'Poor Things,' while Robert Downey Jr. and Da'Vine Joy Randolph claimed their first Academy Awards in the supporting actor categories.

The Oscar for ‘everything everywhere all at once’ goes to…and when your bank loses its balance

The best cartoons of the day, chosen by the editors at ThePrint.

What Naa-tu take away from Oscar night & Academy Award for Best Carpentry goes to…

The best cartoons of the day, chosen by the editors at ThePrint.

Naatu Naatu fever hits RS after Oscar. IUML suggests MPs shake a leg, BJP says ‘India has arrived’

Praise for ‘Naatu Naatu’ — which won the Oscar for best original song — and 'The Elephant Whisperers', judged the best documentary (short), cut across party lines.

Celebrate Naatu Naatu’s Oscar but don’t forget this exclusion

The exclusion and passing in the Naatu Naatu Oscar performance have been questioned by South Asian dancers living in Los Angeles.

‘Do you know Naatu? You are about to!’ PM Modi says India elated, proud at ‘RRR’ song’s Oscar win

Director Rajamouli said the Academy recognition will accelerate the sequel; actor NTR Jr said many more stories will now come out of India.

Compelling, simple, magical—Gujarati film Chhello Show deserves to be India’s Oscar entry

Pan Nalin’s film is not perfect, but its heartwarming story about the love for celluloid will make you root for it.

India’s Oscar entry, Tuhin Kashyap’s The Horse from Heaven is right mix of myth and magic

With Atul Pachoni as Kuxhol and Goti as the ‘reincarnation’ of Hindu god Indra’s horse, the Assamese film shows the power of fictionalising reality to feel better.

What is life like as refugee? Oscar-nominated Flee shows Afghanistan at its best—and worst

From Kabul's 'liberated' heights to 1980s Soviet regime, Taliban invasion and refugee life—Flee shows the horrors of escaping a warzone.

On Camera

16th BRICS Summit was about building dollar-free world order. India can use it to expand trade

For New Delhi, a USD-free system is not an immediate priority nor an existential necessity to unconditionally support the China-Russia agenda.

Watch CutTheClutter: Flattening INR-USD rate, and debate on pros and cons of a ‘strong’ rupee

In Episode 1544 of CutTheClutter, Editor-in-Chief Shekhar Gupta looks at some top economists pointing to the pitfalls of ‘currency nationalism’ with data from 1991 to 2004.

All about Major Bob Khathing, whose daring expedition & diplomatic parleys secured Tawang for India

The decorated Naga officer from Manipur also served as envoy to Myanmar & Nagaland chief secy. Defence Minister Rajnath Singh inaugurated a museum dedicated to the Tawang hero Thursday.

From 2004 to 2024, bad news has come wrapped as good news for Congress

Congress is silently acknowledging it over-read verdict of last general election. You can see it in easy concession to SP. It will likely be more reasonable in Maharashtra & Jharkhand.