'It's an amazing opportunity", Zoya Akhtar on Oscar nomination

world is shrinking and one has to compete with best, says director Zoya Akhtar as she gears up for Gully Boy's Oscar campaign. After enthralling audiences and winning hearts at box office, ‘Gully Boy’ has been anunced as India’s official entry to Acemy Awards next year.

In her interview with PTI, Zoya Akhtar said she is t fazed by competition but looks at it as an amazing opportunity.

"Even meeting people re, opens your mind in so many ways. It's an amazing opportunity. world's getting smaller and we are a huge industry. We all are going to be out re at some point or or,"."Your country has selected you and w you have to go in re and give your best shot. You have to represent what your country stands for, what film stands for and what it's context is. You call it competition, I call it that club, where best from different countries are re," she ded.

director said aim is to hold as many screenings of film as possible to familiarise Acemy voters with it and furr asserted that this movie was her attempt to look at class system in India. 

"It is a film about class system, where we are functioning in a way where certain people are kind of trapped in it and find it difficult to break out. That is what film is about, everything else is backdrop," she said. 

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dressing thought about a sequel, director vehemently said that she wants to explore a different realm and explore hip-hop genre furr. 

"We want to do something in hip-hop but we don't kw if we will have a part two. It will be ar chapter."
re were reports that Zoya h bought rights for Martin Scorsese's gangster movies " Departed" and "Gangs of New York" and h approached Ranveer for same.

Speaking about character, Zoya Akhtar said she looks at such characters as people who are broken and operate under a code that is sometimes stronger than one that society imposes.

"This is kind of a dual existence where you are harsh but at same time emotional. You are here because you have experienced trauma. It is a broken character but a very interesting and exciting one."

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Farhan Akhtar And Javed Akhtar Congratulate Zoya Akhtar

Following massive anuncement, Zoya's far and veteran playwright Javed Akhtar penned a heartfelt post on Twitter congratulating her. proud far who is overwhelmed by his daughter's achievement exuded his happiness on social media and wrote, "I am sure that fellow Indians will be happy and proud to kw that my daughter Zoya Akhtar who is a well-kwn writer-director has been offered membership of Oscar acemy which is rare hor."

t only her far but her bror and actor Farhan Akhtar also congratulated filmmaker for her new stint.
 

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(With inputs from PTI)