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Bollywood Actor Unique Record: Actor has been playing small roles in films for decades, but left such a deep impression from those characters that every big director likes to take him in his film. His 8 films Oscar …Read more

The actors have been active in Bollywood for decades. (Photo courtesy: imDB)

New Delhi: The biggest reward of films is the Oscars. Not only Hollywood, foreign films are also honored through awards. Therefore, it is a big thing for any actor to choose your film for Oscar. Films of many Indian actors like Kamal Haasan and Aamir Khan have been sent for Oscars, but there are also an actor whose 8 films have so far made a place in the Oscars. These are the most films of any Indian artist.

These records are Raghuveer Yadav’s name, whose films like ‘Salaam Bombay’, ‘Rudali’, ‘Bandit Queen’, ‘1947 Earth’, ‘Lagaan’, ‘Water’, ‘Peepli Live’ and ‘Newton’ have been sent for Oscars. Of these, ‘Salaam Bombay’, ‘Lagaan’ and ‘Water’ were also included in the last five films in the ‘Best Foreign Film’ category, but could not win. ‘Water’ was sent from Canada, while the remaining seven films got an official entry from India.

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Kamal Haasan got another place
Kamal Haasan comes second in this list, whose seven films have been sent to the Oscars from India. ‘Sagar’, ‘Swati Muthyam’, ‘Nayakan’, ‘Thevar Magan’, ‘Kuruthipunal’, ‘Indian’ and ‘Hey Ram’. But none of these films ‘Best Foreign Language film’ could make it to the last five in the category.

Selected Indian films are nominated for Oscar
Apart from Meera Nair’s ‘Salaam Bombay’ and Ashutosh Gowariker’s ‘Lagaan’, Mehboob Khan’s ‘Mother India’ is the only Indian film that was nominated in the Oscar for ‘Best International Feature Film’. SS Rajamouli’s ‘RRR’, Ritesh Batra’s ‘The Lunchbox’ and Payal Kapadia’s ‘All V Imagine Age Light’ could also win the Oscars if they were sent from India.