{"id":3322,"date":"2015-02-08T03:53:22","date_gmt":"2015-02-08T03:53:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shows4.com\/entertainment\/?p=3322"},"modified":"2015-02-08T03:53:22","modified_gmt":"2015-02-08T03:53:22","slug":"box-of-surprises","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shows4.com\/?p=3322","title":{"rendered":"Box of Surprises"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/shows4.com\/blog_bollywood\/article645_slide.jpg\" \/>Just when one assumed that The Lunchbox, directed by Ritesh Batra, has reached the last leg of its journey, came the news of its nomination in the foreign films category of British Academy of Film and Television Awards (BAFTA) 2015. To know whether the film lifts the trophy \u2014 with the enviable cast of Irrfan, Nawazuddin Siddiqui and Nimrat Kaur (picture below) \u2014 one has to wait till Sunday night.<\/p>\n<p>Batra is happy to be nominated along with some of the best films of the world \u2014 Ida, Leviathan, Trash and Two Days, and One Night. \u201cIt\u2019s an honour to be pitted against these films by filmmakers I love,\u201d he says. Though The Lunchbox has already become one of the top foreign language films worldwide, the nomination might boost its viewership further. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf you want Indian films to travel, you have to figure out how to access international platforms, such as the Oscars and BAFTA as well as film festivals in Cannes and Berlin,\u201d says Batra. As India\u2019s Oscar entry for the year 2013, The Good Road was chosen over The Lunchbox by a jury constituted by the Film Federation of India. This snowballed into a controversy when Batra and producer Anurag Kashyap questioned the selection process for not being \u201ctransparent\u201d. At the National Film Awards 2013, too, The Lunchbox drew a blank.<\/p>\n<p>To ensure that the best Indian films are sent to the Oscars, Batra suggests there be a process and the people on the selection panel be given a criteria to make their choice. \u201cPutting a bunch of people together in a room and giving them a vague criterion like \u2018the Indianness of the film\u2019 does not help,\u201d he says. Batra, who is rewriting and revising his next film, Photograph, wants to strike a deal with his next producer not to apply for awards. \u201cAwards do not matter when it comes to connecting with viewers,\u201d says Batra.<\/p><\/div>\n<div><div class=\"epyt-video-wrapper\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\"  style=\"display: block; margin: 0px auto;\"  id=\"_ytid_12507\"  width=\"1140\" height=\"641\"  data-origwidth=\"1140\" data-origheight=\"641\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/pImOh4RjgwU?enablejsapi=1&autoplay=0&cc_load_policy=0&cc_lang_pref=&iv_load_policy=1&loop=0&rel=1&fs=1&playsinline=0&autohide=2&theme=dark&color=red&controls=1&disablekb=0&\" class=\"__youtube_prefs__  no-lazyload\" title=\"YouTube player\"  allow=\"fullscreen; accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen data-no-lazy=\"1\" data-skipgform_ajax_framebjll=\"\"><\/iframe><\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just when one assumed that The Lunchbox, directed by Ritesh Batra, has reached the last leg of its journey, came&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3402,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3322","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shows4.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3322","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shows4.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shows4.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shows4.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shows4.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3322"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.shows4.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3322\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shows4.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shows4.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3322"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shows4.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3322"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shows4.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}