On September 23, 2013, Anurag Kashyap deleted his Twitter account. The reason behind this abrupt act wasn’t publicly explained but the root cause boiled down to The Lunchbox’s failure at becoming India’s official entry for Oscars. As a co-producer, his passion for the acclaimed film was understandable and so was his sheer disappointment — expressed through uncharacteristically angry tweets — on being overlooked by the Film Federation of India (FFI). Instead of debutant Ritesh Batra’s directorial venture, a Gujarati film named The Good Road was selected. A controversy of sorts ensued and the brouhaha continued for about a week. That’s about it.

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Fast forward to December 20, 2013. The nine shortlisted films in the Best Foreign Film category were announced and Gyan Correa’s road endeavour was missing from the list. Not surprising. The last time an Indian film managed a berth in the Best Foreign Film category was 12 years ago when it starred Aamir Khan.