Congratulations from stars
A number of Bollywood personalities including Paresh Rawal, Anil Kapoor and Karan Johar have congratulated Indian National Award-winning actor Rajkummar Rao, whose latest release Newton has been selected as India’s official entry at the Oscars 2018. Here is what stars have tweeted: Paresh Rawal: Huge congrats to my favourite actor Rajkummar Rao for Newton and hope you win the Oscar! Good luck.
Anil Kapoor: Congratulations Rajkummar Rao and the whole team of Newton! This is such great news! All the best!
Karan Johar: Huge Congratulations Raj!
Manoj Bajpayee: Congratulations ‘Newton’ director Amit Masurkar. Rajkummar Rao, Pankaj Tripathi, Amit Masurkar and the captain Manish Mundra.
Aanand L Rai: While typing this tweet I feel so emotional. Yes Newton is India’s official entry to Oscars this year. So proud Amit Masurkar, Rajkummar Rao.
Bhumi Pednekar: Well deserved and congratulations team Newton.
Ayushmann Khurrana: Newton is India’s official entry to the Oscars. Very deserving! Hail Aanand L Rai sir, fab Rajkummar Rao, genius Amit Masurkar.
Dia Mirza: So proud and happy for you all! More power to good stories.
Bejoy Nambiar: Wow! Way to go Rajkummar Rao. choice would encourage the entire film fraternity to support good cinema and filmmakers.
“It’s something to be proud of as we have [thousands] of films coming out each year and out of that number, our film gets an entry. The entry is making us feel proud, so the win [if it happens] will have an amazing impact on the entire film fraternity,” Tripathi said.
“Newton is a film which will reflect real India and it is not at all a biased project,” he added.
Meanwhile, actress Anjali Patil said: “The hard work of our entire team has borne fruit.”
Filmmaker Hansal Mehta, who has worked closely with Rao in films such as Shahid and Aligarh, also hailed the move.
“Newton is India’s entry to the Oscars. The best choice in years by the federation,” Mehta tweeted, adding: “If films like A Separation and Children of Heaven made it to the Oscar nominations, so can Newton .It is our best shot. Manish Mundra go for it!”
The film is produced by Manish Mundra of Drishyam Films, the company best known for backing criticallyacclaimed projects such as Masaan and Umrika.
The 90th Academy Awards are scheduled for March 4, 2018 in Los Angeles.