AMITABH BACHCHAN, PRIYANKA CHOPRA, AAMIR KHAN INVITED TO JOIN OSCAR ACADEMY

In some major news for Bollywood, celebrities Amitabh Bachchan, Aamir Khan, Priyanka Chopra, Aishwarya Rai, filmmakers Goutam Ghose and Buddhadeb Dasgupta are among the 774 people, who have been invited to join the prestigious Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and vote in the Oscars.

According to The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences website, the 2017 invitees come from 57 countries, and the list comprises of 39 per cent female and 30 per cent people of colour.

According to a report in Hindustan Times, Salman Khan, Irrfan Khan, Deepika Padukone, Monsoon Wedding costume designer Arjun Bhasin, writer Sooni Taraporevala and documentary filmmaker Anand Patwardhan are among the other invitees from India. “We’re proud to invite our newest class to the Academy. The entire motion picture community is what we make of it,” Cheryl Boone Isaacs, Academy President, said in a statement.

Another global step for Bollywood. What do you think?