Eros International & Colour Yellow Production’s NEWTON Is India’s Official Entry To The Oscars 2018
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Saturday, 23th September 2017, 04:00 PM IST Eros International and Colour Yellow Productions’ latest release ‘Newton’ featuring Rajkummar Rao in the lead role was named as India’s official pick for Oscars 2018 in the Foreign Language Film category. The coming-of-age satire directed by Amit Masurkar has impressed several critics and B-town influencers who couldn’t stop raving about the poignant film, brilliant subject and superlative performances by the cast including Rajkummar Rao, Pankaj Tripathi, Sanjay Mishra and Anjali Patil. Rajkummar took to his social networking site to share the big news and congratulated the entire team of ‘Newton’. He wrote, “It’s amazing! Newton is such a unique and a special film for all of us. It’s a film which has been made with so much purity and honesty, without keeping any commercial aspects in mind. It’s a simple, honest story and it’s resonating with everyone. The response that we have been getting from the critics also is huge. I really hope this translates on to the box office as well. Now, more number of people would be interested in watching Newton!” Director Amit Masurkar says, “It's a great honour for us to represent India at the Oscars. We hope this film will bring attention to the need to strengthen democracy in our country. The film is in theatres at the moment and this announcement will help us reach out to a larger audience.” Sunil Lulla, Managing Director, Eros International Media Ltd says, "It gives us immense pleasure that Newton is India's official entry to Oscars 2018. We at Eros are extremely proud as this film is totally deserving of this huge honour and we will continue to back good cinema as always." Now you can enjoy ad-free experience bydownloading India’s first Box Office mobile app from here –Android: http://bit.ly/BOCapsuleMobileApp and iOS: bit.ly/BOCapsuleiOSApp | |||