Aamir Khan Says Indians Dying For Oscars

Aamir Khan says Indians dying for Oscars. Aamir Khan is known for his frank talk and at times his comments will ruffle the wrong feathers. Speaking to scribes, he said Indians have been dying for Oscars. It is known that Laapataa Ladies is the India's Official entry for  the Best International Feature Film at the 97th Academy Awards.

The film is directed by Kiran Rao, ex wife of Aamir Khan and the duo together bankrolled the project. Speaking about the film and it means for him if the film wins the Oscars,he said , "I am not quite sure how seriously to take a competition. But I would be really happy. It would create tremendous opportunity for the film to be seen by a lot more people because when a film wins an Oscar or Academy award, then people from around the world want to see what it’s like. So it opens a huge window of opportunity for a larger audience for a film."

He added "More important than that, I think Indian are so film crazy and we have been dying to win an Academy Award for an Indian film which hasn’t happenedd till now. So the country would go ballistic. They’ll just go mad if we win. So just for the people of our country, I’d be very happy if we win the award."