India’s ‘Missing Ladies’ out of Oscar 2025, but Hindi language film sent from UK made shortlist

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences released its list of films in the race for Oscars 2025 on Wednesday, December 18, which were nominated in 10 different categories. Now this list has given a big blow to India. Because Kiran Rao’s film ‘Lapata Ladies’ has been left out of Oscar Awards 2025. At the same time, the Hindi language film ‘Santosh’, which was nominated by the UK, has been shortlisted for the ‘Best International Feature Film’. Payal Kapadia’s ‘All We Imagine as Light’ was selected from the Indian side. But she also dropped out of this race. But ‘Santosh’, which is a Hindi film, has got a place in the Best International Feature Film category. Although the title is yet to be won. A total of 85 films were nominated for the 97th Academy Awards 2025. But out of them only 15 were selected and Sandhya Suri’s directed movie made its place in it.

What is the story of the film ‘Santosh’?

The film ‘Santosh’ was premiered at the 77th Cannes Film Festival in May 2024 and was highly appreciated by the critics. The story of this film is the story of a woman who, after the death of her husband, inherits the police job in his/her place. The girl’s name is Santosh, who investigates the brutal murder of a small caste girl. After this he/she faces the world of corruption and corruption.

Team happy on shortlisting of film ‘Sutosh’

In this movie, Sunita Rajwar also plays the role of an inspector, who solves the mystery of the murder of a Dalit girl. Whereas, Shahana is in the lead role. he/she has also expressed happiness on Instagram and thanked everyone. The production house has also expressed happiness over the film being shortlisted. But the sad thing is that India’s name is nowhere in the list of those 15 films.