"Laapataa Ladies" at the Oscars

The film Missing Ladies, made under the banner of Mir Khan's production house, will be India's official entry in the Oscars 2025. The Film Federation of India has selected Missing Ladies from a list of 29 films. Directed by Kiran Rao, the film was released in theaters on March 2 this year. The film may not have earned a bumper amount, but it received a lot of praise from everyone. Kiran Rao is very happy with the decision to send the film to the Oscars on behalf of the country.

After this news came, Kiran Rao has issued a statement saying that she feels honored. Kiran Rao said, "I am deeply honored and extremely happy that Missing Ladies has been selected as India's official entry for the Academy Awards. This is a testament to the hard work of our entire team. This story came alive only because of the hard work and passion of the team. Cinema has always been a strong medium to connect hearts, cross borders and start important conversations.

I hope that this film will be liked by people all over the world like in India. Kiran Rao has also thanked the selection committee of the Oscars official entry. She said, "I thank the selection committee and all those people from the bottom of my heart who have believed in this film.

It is a great honor to be selected among many great Indian films this year, which were equal contenders for this honor. Along with this, Kiran Rao also thanked Aamir Khan Productions and Jio Studios for supporting her vision. Going to the Oscars as an official entry from the country was not an easy task for Missing Ladies. This time the jury of the Film Federation of India had a list of 29 films, from which they had to choose one film. Among the 29 films, there were films in many languages ​​​​including Hindi. Hindi films like Ranbir Kapoor starrer Animal,

Randeep Hooda starrer Swatantrya Veer Savarkar, Yami Gautam starrer Article 370 were in the race. Apart from these, Malayalam National Award winning film 'Aattam', Cannes award winning 'All We Imagine As Light', Prabhas, Deepika Padukone, Kamal Haasan and Amitabh Bachchan's Telugu film Kalki 2898 AD which earned huge amount, Vijay Sethupathi's Tamil film Maharaja and Teja Sajja starrer Telugu film Hanuman-Man were also in this race. However, the story of the missing ladies overshadowed all these.