Oscar for me is a joke: Rajamouli

For Indian Cinema, Rajamouli’s ‘Baahubali’ is a way ahead of our Bollywood and regional movies in terms of technical brilliance and visualisation of an epic drama in the context of using visual effects. So we are trapped psychologically to think that ‘Baahubali’ should go to Oscars.

Does the film maker also think that his film can be an Oscar contender? Rajamouli admits that ‘Baahubali’ is definitely something like a notable attempt in Indian Cinema. But coming to World Cinema, we are still taking baby steps and comparisons with international film standards a bit stupid.

Rajamouli quips, “For me Oscar is a joke.” Some of our movies like Aamir Khan’s ‘Lagaan’ stood strong in Oscar competition but that is due to the strong story. Coming to technical aspects, Baahubali is really the best of Indian Cinema till date.

However Oscar for technicality is like anticipating too much because we find far more brilliantly made films in Hollywood. Kudos for Rajamouli for being grounded! He knows how far his movie’s reach without miscalculations. But as Indian audiences, we would be elated to see ‘Baahubali’in the Oscars entry list. Don’t we?