Rajkummar Rao's Newton beats Baahubali 2 in Oscar race—Here's how

New Delhi: Talented B-Town actor Rajkummar Rao has had a terrific 2017 so far. After Bareilly Ki Barfi hit the bull's eye and his latest release Newton has been selected as the official entry for Oscars this year.

Rajkummar took to Twitter and shared the great news with everyone. He wrote:

Very happy to share this news that #NEWTON is India's official entry to the #OSCARS this year. Congratulations team. — Rajkummar Rao (@RajkummarRao) September 22, 2017

As soon as the news broke out, the entire B-Town thronged the micro-blogging site to congratulate Team Newton.

Now, there is another bit of news about India's official entry for Oscars. According to BollywoodLife.com, SS Rajamouli's Baahubali 2 too was in the race for being selected for the Academy. Yes! How can we forget the magnum opus which earned huge moolah at the Box Office worldwide.

The report quotes a jury member as saying, “About 26 entries come from different languages. 12 from Hindi, 5 from Marathi, 5 from Telugu, Kannada, Malayalam and Bengali. One film from Tamil comes to entry. Baahubali 2 in Telugu comes to Satakarni. We have seen movies of all languages till 16th of this month. After looking at them, Newton was selected considering all angles.”

Now, Newton will compete to get into the top 5 nominees for the Best Foreign Language Film at the Oscars. So far, only three Indian movies—Mother India, Salaam Bombay and Lagaan have managed to get into the slot.