Kiran Rao's 'Laapataa Ladies', selected as India's official entry for the Oscars 2025, has failed to make it to the shortlist of films in the Best International Feature Film category. The Academy announced the shortlist on December 17. Brazil's 'I'm Still Here,' Canada's 'Universal Language', Czech Republic's 'Waves', Denmark's 'The Girl With the Needle', Ireland's 'Kneecap', France's 'Emilia Perez', Germany's 'The Seed of the Sacred Fig', Iceland's 'Touch' are among the films that made it into the shortlist.

Sandhya Suri's Santhosh, a UK film set in North India starring Indian actors, has been included on the shortlist.

The decision by a 13-member committee, to pick 'Laapataa Ladies' as India's official entry overlooking festival favourite 'All We Imagine As Light', had met with a lot of criticism, when the entry was announced in September. Though 'Laapataa Ladies' was a commercial and critical success, the film on how two young brides getting mistakenly swapped in a train, had hardly competed in festival circuits, reducing chances of its win at the Oscars, unlike Payal Kapadia's 'All We Imagine As Light', which also won the Grand Prix at the Cannes Film Festival.

Last year, too, Malayalam film '2018', which was India's official entry from India failed to make it into the shortlist of films competing in the Best International Feature Film category.

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