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Ashutosh Gowariker gives 'Gyan'

Gowariker's advice to the director of The Good Road for his film's Oscar journey.

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Taking a small-budget Gujarati film as India’s official entry to the Oscars is not a small matter.

This, Gyan Correa the director of The Good Road, has realised. Nonplussed and beleaguered  by the task ahead of projecting and pitching this small film to the Oscars’s jury in the best possible manner, Gyan did the best thing possible. He met Ashutosh Gowariker who, along with his producer Aamir Khan, was stationed in Los Angeles for nearly two months in 2001 promoting Lagaan for the Oscars. Lagaan finally made it to the list of Best Foreign Film — the first from India to be thus honoured — though it finally lost the trophy to the Bosnian film No Man’s Land.

NFDC, the  producers of The Good Road are doing their  best to get LA’s attention for the film.

NFDC has already stationed their general manager Vikramjit Roy in LA. However, Gyan felt the need to understand the process better. Last week he met Ashutosh for advice on the Oscars funda. Correa has come away from the meeting feeling enormously enlightened.

“We spent an hour together. Ashutosh is a very helpful guy, most willing to share his knowledge of how the Oscar nominations work. Happy to see another film taking a shot at it. He has provided me fabulous insights into how the Oscar thing works. I’ve come away with a lot of ideas and suggestions,” he says.

Gyan will now advise his producers to follow Ashutosh’s line of thought for the Oscars.

Interestingly, UTV was the producer of Lagaan and also The Lunch Box which lost out to The Good Road.

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