Kiran Rao says the lens with which West views our cinema, is entirely different

Akshay Acharya | October 21, 2025 1:04 PM

Mumbai, Oct 21 (IANS) It has been over 112 years and counting for Indian cinema yet we haven’t yet won the Oscar for any of our features. While the hopes are high this time around with ‘Homebound’ as India’s official entry to the Academy Award, filmmaker Kiran Rao feels while the west may not have a conscious bias towards Indian films, the lens with which it views our cinema is quite different.