Ranbir-Priyanka starrer Barfi! has been nominated in the category of 'Best Foreign Language Film' at the Oscars in February next year.
Barfi, directed by Anurag Basu has
beaten 19 other films to be named India's official entry to the Oscars.
Its collection in its opening week is Rs. 58.6 crore.
The magic of Anurag Basu's Barfi! has worked. The heartwarming movie,
about love between a deaf and mute boy and an autistic girl.
The decision was taken at a Film Federation of India (FFI) meeting in Hyderabad on Saturday night.
"Barfi! has indeed been chosen as the country's official entry this year," FFI secretary general Suparn Sen said.
The UTV is Delighted about the news.
"We are honoured that Barfi! has been selected to represent India as
its official entry to the Academy Awards 2013. Barfi! is very close to
the hearts of all of us at UTV, and it gives us great satisfaction that a
film we have developed and nurtured from its inception has met with so
much love from audiences and critics worldwide," Siddharth Roy Kapur,
managing director - Studios, Disney UTV, said in a statement.
"An added source of pride is that this is the fourth UTV film in the
last seven years to have been selected to represent India at the Academy
awards; our earlier selections being Rang De Basanti (2006),
Harishchandrachi Factory (2009) and Peepli Live (2010)," he added.
