Barfi is out of the race from the Oscars. Sooner or later it had to be. As they call them inspired movies in the Bollywood, it was copied from various sources. So, some credits due that were missing in the movies go to Notebook (Nick Cassavetes), Koshish (Sanjeev Kumar) and many Charlie Chaplin movies.
Probably juries could not digest so much of very visible deja vu inspiration when there must be many other original creative works in line from all over the world.
In fact, there were some other movies which could easily score over Barfi even if not worth sending to Oscars - Chaalis Chaurasi, Kahaani, Vicky Donor, Gangs of Wasseypur, Gangs of Wasseypur 2, OMG Oh My God, English Vinglish etc. And that is only Hindi Cinema. Scores of good movies are there in regional cinema as well.
India has no dearth of stories. Bollywood needs to look around the real India itself for inspirations.
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