Film federation includes two Tamil movies in Oscar race

In a good news to the fans of Tamil movies, two Tolywood films -- AR Murugadoss’7aum Arivuand Balaji Sakthivel’sVazhakku Enn 18/9--have been selected by the Film Federation Of India (FFI) to be sent for the Oscars.

These films along with other 8 movies in various other Indian languages, including Hindi, Telugu and Malayalam, will be screened to the 16-member jury of the Academy Awards, who will shortlist one film as the India’s official entry to be nominated in the Best Foreign Language Film Category. Other strong competitors in this category areKahaani,The Dirty PictureandBarfi.