The jury that decides the entrants to the Oscars are either corrupt or inept or both. I have not seen either film that are in question, so cannot objectively comment to the decision made this year. But in years past the films selected for contention were questionable in terms of aesthetic or artistic merits.
Mr. Batra's apology is justified. He is, after all, a debutant filmmaker who is being bullied by a government bureaucracy that lack the ba11s to go after bigger guys like Karan Johar who openly criticized the decision. This silly letter sent to the fillmaker shows that incompetence and cowardice spectacularly!
