HOME | SCOOP!! & NEWS | BOLLYWOOD 'Eklavya's selection for Oscar gets into a legal tangle29th Sept 2007 22.00 IST By Agencies Amitabh Bachchan starrer Eklavya , India's official entry for the Oscar award, today got into a legal tangle with the Bombay High Court observing that prima facie the selection of the movie appeared to be biased. "Prima facie, there seems to be a merit in the argument (that selection process was biased)", said a division bench of Chief Justice Swatanter Kumar and Justice Dhananjay Chandrachud while hearing a petition challenging the selection of 'Eklavya'. 
The bench asked the Film Federation of India, which selected the film, to file a reply within ten days and said "consequences of the film's section would be subject to the court order". The bench posted the matter to October 10 for further hearing. The petition was filed by director of film 'Dharm' Bhavana Talwar challenging the selection of "Eklavya" as India's official entry for the Academy Awards (Oscars). "Dharm," which has Pankaj Kapur as the protagonist lost out to "Eklavya", directed and produced by Vidhu Vinod Chopra , for the awards. Talwar's main contention is that the whole selection process was biased as some members of the selection committee, namely film director Sudhir Mishra , Jagdish Sharma and Ranjit Bahadur, were "very close" to Chopra. Bahadur was the editor of 'Making of Eklavya', a promotional film on 'Eklavya', the petitioner said. The judges made it clear that High Court has jurisdiction to hear such a case, by noting that "any process of selection which appears to be result of general or specific bias or arbitrariness can invite judicial review." Related Amitabh Bachchan Eklavya Pankaj Kapur Vidhu Vinod Chopra Sudhir Mishra |
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