Nitanshi Goel On Laapataa Ladies Getting Into Oscar Race: “Going To Make Kalakand For Everyone”

Kiran Rao’s Laapataa Ladies is India’s official entry for the 2025 Academy Awards for the Finest Worldwide Characteristic Movie class. The movie will compete for the Finest Worldwide Characteristic Movie Oscar, a class which was beforehand known as Finest Overseas Movie. Actress Nitanshi Goel, who famously starred as Phool within the movie, shared a put up with the movie’s director Kiran Rao on Instagram. Taking a leaf from the movie’s dialogue, the actress wrote in her caption, “Phool, English mein bataayein? Feeling very completely happy and grateful that Laapataa Girls is India’s official entry for Oscars 2025! Kalaakand banaane ja rahi hun aap sab ke liye. Aapki Phool.”

After the unintentional swap in Laapataa Ladies, Nitanshi’s character Phool begins working at a rail platform tea and snacks kiosk run by Manju Maai (Chhaya Kadam). Hesitant to work at first, Phool begins to experiment and her Kalakand recipe turns into an on the spot hit with the locals. Through the course of, she rediscovers herself. See Nitanshi Goel’s put up here.

In an exclusive interview with NDTV’s Hardika Gupta, the actress mentioned, “I am simply tremendous completely happy now. The information has taken away all of the sickness and made me dance throughout my room. It was a shock for me. It was a wonderful shock. I used to be like ‘oh my god, is that this actually taking place?’ after which the messages began pouring in. The DMs began pouring in. And the second I learn it, I used to be like ‘omg, that is taking place. Laapataa Girls is trending throughout.”

“Everyone is celebrating this. Itna pyaara second lag raha hai. It is like a surreal dream. Mumma and I learn it collectively, and the second we learn it, we had our fingers crossed. We wished that our movie can be chosen for the Oscars and now that we see that it’s actually taking place, we each shed some completely happy tears,” Nitanshi instructed NDTV.