Bollywood extravaganzas are the most well-known aspect of Indian cinema, but an art-house film about three women navigating love and loneliness in a city is attracting attention from around the world and has received nominations for Golden Globes.
The multilingual film All We Imagine as Light, which is set in Mumbai, the nation’s financial center, has won multiple international accolades this year, including the Grand Prix at Cannes. It is also the first Indian film to receive a nomination in the Golden Globes’ Best Director category, which will be given out on January 5.
In the Best Picture category for non-English films, it has also received a nomination.
The reaction to her first film in her native country is a welcome addition to the praise it has received overseas, according to filmmaker Payal Kapadia.
“Independent films find it extremely challenging to find distribution in India. I am rather pleased with the answer. In an interview with Reuters, Kapadia stated, “I now want to show the film in places in the country where it hasn’t been shown yet, the smaller cities.”
Although more somber content on streaming platforms is gradually shifting tastes, independent, art-house films are not very popular in India, where viewers are accustomed to watching Bollywood and other mainstream movies with their song-and-dance routines, violence, and melodrama.
According to a representative of Sideshow and Janus Films, who own the distribution rights in the US, All We Imagine as Light has more than $2 million in box office receipts worldwide and is nominated for Academy Awards for best picture, best director, and best original screenplay.
However, it wasn’t India’s official Oscar nomination for Best Foreign Film.
Kapadia, 38, claimed that while waiting in a hospital, she had the idea for the movie. It took eight years to make, and it was originally intended to be a short film.
In a list he posted on social media, former US President Barack Obama named it one of his favorite movies of the year.
An essential theme in the picture is the friendship and romantic relationships of three immigrant women who live and work in Mumbai, a crowded city of over 12 million people.
“There are a lot of inconsistencies in Mumbai. Even though things can be difficult here, people also feel more free. We also attempted to depict that in the movie,” Kapadia stated.
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