I think its more to do with the production house. Water was a Canadian
entry and lagaan, we do know.
On Mar 1, 2009, at 1:24 AM, V S Rawat wrote:
A non-ARR general query.
A long part of SDM at the beginning had hindi dialogs, not even dubbed
but subtitled in English.
Still, the film got qualified for main oscar, and not as a foreign
language film like Lagaan and Water.
So, how much non-English is allowed in a film for it to go to main
Oscars instead of foreign language film?
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Once, a film goes to main Oscar, instead of in foreign language
category, its music (lyrics actually) can be in any language to get
nominated to music categories? Is it so?
Thanks.
--
Rawat
