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The 9 films that will advance to the to the next round of voting in the Foreign Language Film category include: 'Revanche' (Austria), 'The Necessities of Life' (Canada), 'The Class' (France), 'The Baader Meinhof Complex' (Germany), 'Waltz with Bashir' (Israel), 'Departures' (Japan), 'Tear This Heart Out' (Mexico), 'Everlasting Moments' (Sweden) and '3 Monkeys' (Turkey).
This is actually the second time that Aamir has lost out in the race to the Oscars, the first time being 'Lagaan', though back then the film had reach the final round. One just hopes that the saying of 'third time lucky' really rubs off on Bollywood's very own 'prized possession' Aamir Khan!
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They treat India as third grade country as projected in so called award winning moving.So they can not digest TZP as their contender.
There are two salient features of the TIM (Typical indian mentality) - 1. An inflated sense of your worth2. A paranoia of western hatred of us. Raj - is it possible that the film, though great and pathbreaking from indian standard is just up to the snuff when pitted against the greatest movies in the world ?