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Eklavvya's nomtination for the Oscars runs into legal issues
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Monday, 1 Oct 2007
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The Bombay High Court Saturday noted that there was prima facie bias in the selection process of this year's Oscars nomination of the Amitabh Bachchan starrer Eklavya - The Royal Guard. The court asked the film jury that selects India's official entry to the Oscars to reply to a petition by Bhavna Talwar, who made the acclaimed film Dharm, challenging the selection of the Vidhu Vinod Chopra directed Eklavya as biased.
The jury has been asked to reply by Oct 10, when the court will take up the matter for hearing again. The petition said one of the members of the jury was associated with a promotional film of Eklavya.
The high court division bench comprising of Chief Justice Swatanter Kumar and Justice Dhananjay Chandrachud Saturday, without accepting the petition, noted there was prima facie bias in the selection process, and thus asked the jury for their reply. The fate of the petition will be decided on Oct 10 once the reply is received.
Talwar, whose Dharm, a socially relevant film starring Pankaj Kapur and Supriya Pathak, lost out to Eklavya in the Oscars race, filed the petition Friday challenging the Film Federation of India (FFI)'s decision and also alleged that some members of the FFI were close to Vidhu Vinod Chopra.
"Talwar in her petition labelled FFI's decision to be vitiated by bias and had sought a recall of Eklavya, which stars besides Bachchan, Sanjay Dutt, Saif Ali Khan, as India official entry for the Academy Awards," Bombay High Court officials said Saturday.
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