‘Missing Ladies’ out of Oscar 2025 race, not even in top 15
Indian cinema film ‘Missing Ladies’ was the only film which was included in ‘Oscars 2025’. But this film was eliminated from the first round of Oscars itself. This film could not even make it to the last 15 films in the Best International Feature category at the 97th Academy Awards. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) announced the film’s exit.
The 15 films that made it to the Oscars include ‘I’m Still Here’ (Brazil), ‘Universal Language’ (Canada), ‘Emilia Perez’, ‘The Girl with the Needle’ (Denmark), ‘Waves’ (Czech Republic), ‘ ‘Seed of the Sacred Fig’ (Germany) ‘Touch’ (Iceland), ‘Kneecap’ (Ireland), ‘Vermiglio’ (Italy), ‘Flo’ (Latvia), ‘Armand’ (Norway), ‘From Ground Zero’ (Palestine), ‘Dahomey’ (Senegal) and ‘How to Make Millions Before Grandma Dies’ (Thailand).
The film’s team, including director Kiran Rao and producer Aamir Khan, had already started the campaign for the Academy Awards. Recently the film was also screened in London. Last month, a new poster of the film was released with the title Lost Ladies. This highlighted a change for international audiences, as the Hindi word lapata was translated into the English word lost.
The film stars Nitanshi Goyal, Pratibha Ranta, Sparsh Srivastava, Ravi Kishan and Chhaya Kadam. Set in rural India, Missing Ladies revolves around the story of two new brides who get swapped on a train. One track from the film ‘Sajni’ is still liked today and is the most popular on social media. On Spotify India, it is one of the top tracks of 2024 and has been streamed over 186 million times.
