Every time we are choosing wrong films…the musician who won 3 Grammy Awards got angry as ‘Missing Ladies’ was out of the Oscars. – Read

When the film Lapata Ladies, produced by Aamir Khan and directed by Kiran Rao, was shortlisted for Oscar 2025, there was a wave of happiness across the country. It came to the minds of Indians that now Bollywood can get an Oscar. But as soon as the news of this film being out of the race came, the hearts of the fans were broken. Meanwhile, the statement of Indian American music director Ricky Cage came out. He said that this was bound to happen.

A social media post of music director Ricky Cage is going viral after the film Missing Ladies was left out of the Oscars. Three-time Grammy Award winner Ricky Cage has written a long post on the film Missing Ladies being out of the race for Oscar 2025.

What did Ricky Cage say on ‘Missing Ladies’?

Ricky Jain wrote on X handle, ‘So the Academy Oscar shortlist has arrived. Missing Ladies is a very well made and entertaining film which I liked. But in terms of representing India in the Best International Feature Film category, it was a completely wrong choice. As I expected, it lost. When will we realize that we are choosing wrong films every year?

So, the @TheAcademy Oscars shortlist is out. #LaapataaaLadies is a very well made, entertaining movie (I enjoyed it), but was absolutely the wrong choice to represent India for the best #InternationalFeatureFilm category. As expected, it lost.
When are we going to realize..year pic.twitter.com/iWGpSXY1KD

— Ricky Kej (@rickykej) December 18, 2024

Ricky Cage further wrote in this post, ‘There are so many good films made here that we should win in the International Feature Film category every year. Unfortunately, we like to live in the bubble of mainstream Bollywood where we cannot watch films apart from those that can truly entertain us.

Ricky Cage further writes in the same post, ‘We should only look for films of those producers who do not compromise with their art. It doesn’t matter whether these films are of low budget or big budget. Whether the star in that film is big or small, we should just send the best films there. Here is the poster of the film Lapat Ladies and surely most of the members who voted in the Academy must have rejected it after seeing its poster.

Box office collection of ‘Missing Ladies’

This film, released on March 1, 2024, has been produced by Kiran Rao. Artists like Nitanshi Goyal, Pratibha Ranta, Sparsh Srivastava, Ravi Kishan and Chhaya Kadam were seen in the film. This film can be watched on Netflix. If we talk about the earnings of this film, it was also amazing. According to Sacnilk, the budget of the film Lappad Ladies was 5 crores while the film had a worldwide collection of 26.06 crores at the box office.