: Start the week with a film: A blood-stained crown in Shekhar Kapur’s ‘Elizabeth’ #IndiaNEWS SS Rajamouli’s RRR was passed over for Pan Nalin’s Last Film Show as India’s official entry in

Start the week with a film: A blood-stained crown in Shekhar Kapur’s ‘Elizabeth’ #IndiaNEWS
SS Rajamouli’s RRR was passed over for Pan Nalin’s Last Film Show as India’s official entry in the Best International Feature Film category. Given RRR’s Stateside box office success and warm reviews from American critics, Rajamouli is boldly attempting to secure nominations without the Indian government’s imprimatur. Even if he does not succeed, Rajamouli has managed what no Indian filmmaker has done before: to be accepted on his own terms with a film made entirely by Indians and on a local subject.One of India’s brightest chances at the Oscars was in 1999, the year that the Academy considered films released in 1998. Shekhar Kapur’s Elizabeth was nominated for seven Oscars. In the end, however, it won a single trophy: for make-up.Elizabeth was bested by other period productions, including Shakespeare in Love and Saving Private Ryan. Even Cate Blanchett, whose brilliant performance in Elizabeth made her an international star, was denied the Best Actress award (she unfairly lost to Gwyneth Paltrow from Shakespeare in Love).If RRR is an action epic with British colonisers as the villains, Elizabeth is a portrait of the early years of an English queen. Michael Hirst’s screenplay, directed by Kapur with panache, veers away from the history books to instead present a thoroughly modern study of the consolidation of authority. The film is available on a pay-per-view basis on...Read more

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