New Delhi: Rupesh Paul’s Kamasutra 3D figures in the contention list of the 86th Academy Awards, with selection in the three categories – Best Motion Picture, Original Score and Original Song with five songs.
It is the only movie from India contending in the music category lists. The results were announced on yesterday by the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences on its official website.
Kamasutra 3D has been slated for a 23 May 2014 release after its premiere.
Presented by Dr George John (GJ Entertainments) and produced under the house of Rupesh Paul Productions (RPPL), in co-production and project design by Sohan Roy, Kamasutra 3D is the only movie with five songs after The Great Gatsby to be selected in the Original Song category. The songs include – Aygiri Nandini, Saawariya, I Felt, Of Soil and Har Har Mahadeva – composed by Chennai based music directors, Sachin and Sreejith while its lyrics are penned by Rupesh Paul and Pratyush Prakash.
Also scripted and penned by Rupesh Paul, the movie is set in the backdrop of the real historical milieu portraying the journey of a soulful love embodied with betrayal and war. It weaves the transformative changes in body, mind and soul by the forbidden world of sexual love and sensuality.
Recently, with the release of its work-in-progress trailer, Kamasutra 3D critically came out to be more of a Hollywood war based epic movie than a classic erotica, it hyped to be with the sensuous Sherlyn Chopra, initially.
Director Rupesh Paul, however, confirmed that he would not disappoint his viewers expecting the movie to be a classic erotica.
Speaking on the Oscar entry, he stated, “Probably now we have an answer for all of them who claimed the movie to be a soft porn. Hopefully, they know that soft porns are not eligible for the Academy Award nominations”. He would his movie to be considered a musical than epic or erotica as Kamasutra 3D is influenced with its melody over the drama.
After creating the best of pre sale records at the Cannes Film Festival 2013 and the American Film Market 2013 with its sale in most of the territories, Kamasutra 3D is all hopeful to make it in the final nominations of the categories in the 86th Academy Awards to be announced on 16 January, 2014 in the Academy’s Samuel Goldwyn Theater.
