Well Vidya! Laggan got several awards and the biggest achievement for the movie is it was nominated for the Academy Awards!
Here are the awards won by the movie LAGAAN.
In 2002, it won Filmfare Awards for the music director, lyricist, male singer (Udit Narayan for Mitwa), female singer (Alka Yagnik for O Rey Chhori), story, lead actor, director and for the film.[54] In the same year's IIFA Awards, it won the best music director, best female singer (Asha Bhosle for Radha Kaise Na Jale), best actor, best director and the best film awards in the ceremony held in Malaysia.[55] It won the National Film Awards for art direction, costume design, audiography, lyrics, male singer (Udit Narayan for Mitwa), music director and the film for providing wholesome entertainment[56] Apart from these major awards, it also won awards in the Star Screen Awards and Zee Cine Awards ceremonies.
Apart from being a nominee at the 74th Academy Awards, it was also a nominee for the Screen International Award at the 2002 European Film Awards.[57] Besides these, it was also nominated for several Bollywood awards.
The Oscar nomination
Aamir Khan and Ashutosh Gowariker, went to Los Angeles to generate publicity for the Academy Awards. Khan said, "We just started showing it to whoever we could, even the hotel staff."[58] About India's official entry to the 2002 Oscars, British daily, The Telegraph said, "A Bollywood film that portrays the British in India as ruthless sadists and Mafia-style crooks has been chosen as Delhi's official entry to the Academy Awards in America."[59] It, however, added saying that the film was expected to win the nomination.[59]
On February 12, 2002, Lagaan was nominated for the best foreign language film at the Academy Award nominations ceremony.[60] After the nomination, Khan reacted by saying, "To see the name of the film and actually hear it being nominated was very satisfying".[61]
Post-nominat ion reactions poured in from several parts of the world. USA Today said "Hooray for Bollywood, and India's Lagaan".[58] With Sony Pictures Classics distributing the film and Baz Luhrmann, director of award-winning Moulin Rouge!, raving about Lagaan, it gave Lagaan a chance to win.[58][62] The BBC said, the nomination raises Bollywood hopes that Indian films will become more popular in the US.[63] While in India, the nomination was celebrated with news reports about a win bringing in "a great boost for the Indian film industry"[64] and "a Bharat Ratna for Aamir Khan and the status of a ‘national film’ for Lagaan".[65
After No Man's Land won the Academy Award for the best foreign language film,[66] there was widespread disappointment in India. Aamir Khan said, "Certainly we were disappointed. But the thing that really kept us in our spirits was that the entire country was behind us".[67]
There was criticism about the Oscars after the ceremony. One film maker, Mahesh Bhatt said that the "American film industry was insular and the foreign category awards were given just for the sake of it."[67] Gowarikar added by saying, "Americans must learn to like our films".
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