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{{short description|2013 Indian drama film}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2020}}
{{Infobox film
| name = The Good Road
| image = The_Good_Road_Gujarati_Movie_Poster.jpg
| caption = Film poster
| director = Gyan Correa
| producer = [[National Film Development Corporation of India]] Rohandeep Singh
| writer = Gyan Correa
| starring = Ajay Gehi<br>[[Sonali Kulkarni]]
| music = [[Rajat Dholakia]]
| cinematography = [[Amitabha Singh]]
| studio = [[National Film Development Corporation of India]]
| released = {{Film date|2013|7|19|df=yes}}
| runtime = 92 minutes
| country = India
| language = Gujarati
| budget = {{INR}} 2.25 [[crore]]<ref name="Pathak 2013">{{cite web | last=Pathak | first=Maulik | title=The Good Road: Footloose in Kutch | website=livemint.com/ | date=20 July 2013 | url=http://www.livemint.com/Leisure/3jWCRU1meqvviSVV9dq0SI/The-Good-Road-Footloose-in-Kutch.html | access-date=15 July 2015}}</ref>
}}

'''''The Good Road''''' is a 2013 Indian [[Gujarati Language|Gujarati]]-language [[drama film]] written and directed by Gyan Correa. It was selected as the Indian entry for the [[Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film|Best Foreign Language Film]] at the [[86th Academy Awards]],<ref name="India">{{cite web |url=http://www.indiaglitz.com/channels/telugu/article/97808.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130922204824/http://www.indiaglitz.com/channels/telugu/article/97808.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=22 September 2013 |title='The Good Road' Selected As The Official Indian Entry For Oscars |access-date=21 September 2013|work=India Glitz}}</ref><ref name="bp">{{cite web|title=India nominates The Good Road for Oscars in Best Foreign Film Category |url=http://news.biharprabha.com/2013/09/india-nominates-the-good-road-for-oscars-in-best-foreign-film-category/|access-date=21 September 2013}}</ref> but it was not nominated. The film won the award for [[Discontinued and Intermittent National Film Awards#Best Feature Film in Gujarati|Best Gujarati film]] at the [[60th National Film Awards]]. It is told in a [[Hyperlink cinema|hyperlink format]], where several stories are intertwined, with the center of the action being a highway in the rural lands of [[Gujarat]] near a town in [[Kutch]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://ibnlive.in.com/news/gujarati-film-the-good-road-to-represent-india-at-the-oscars/423659-8-66.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130923044315/http://ibnlive.in.com/news/gujarati-film-the-good-road-to-represent-india-at-the-oscars/423659-8-66.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=23 September 2013|title=News18.com: CNN News18 Latest News, Breaking News India, Current News Headlines|website=News18|access-date=27 October 2017}}</ref> The film is the first [[Gujarati film]] ever selected to represent India at the Oscars.<ref>{{cite web|author=IndiaTimes |url=http://www.indiatimes.com/entertainment/gujarati-film-the-good-road-is-indias-entry-for-oscar-102581.html |title=Gujarati Film 'The Good Road' is India's Entry for Oscar | Entertainment |publisher=www.indiatimes.com |date= 21 September 2013|access-date=21 September 2013}}</ref>

==Cast==
* Shamji Dhana Kerasia as Pappu
* [[Sonali Kulkarni]] as Kiran
* Ajay Gehi as David
* Keval Katrodia as Aditya
* Poonam Kesar Singh as Poonam
* Priyank Upadhyay as Shaukat

==Awards==
The film won the [[Discontinued and Intermittent National Film Awards#Best Feature Film in Gujarati|Best Gujarati film]] award at the [[60th National Film Awards]] for "capturing the flavor of the never-ending and undulating highways of the other India and its hidden facets."<ref name="60thaward">{{cite press release|title=60th National Film Awards Announced|url=http://pib.nic.in/archieve/others/2013/mar/d2013031801.pdf|publisher=Press Information Bureau (PIB), India|access-date=18 March 2013}}</ref> The film won the Best Feature Film Jury Award at the Indian Film Festival, Houston in October 2013.<ref>{{cite web|title= 'The Good Road' wins Houston (IFFH) Award!|url= https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/nri/cinema/The-Good-Road-wins-Houston-IFFH-Award/articleshow/23986304.cms|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20131016071109/http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2013-10-11/cinema/42940036_1_indian-film-festival-festival-director-ritu-sarin|url-status= live|archive-date= 16 October 2013|work= [[The Times of India]]|access-date= 23 November 2013}}</ref>

===Oscar selection===
The film was selected out of 20 films initially submitted to the [[Film Federation of India]] for consideration for the Oscars. Ritesh Batra's film ''[[The Lunchbox]]'' was considered to be the frontrunner and certain lock for India's Oscar selection, with many critics unanimously praising it and voting for it to be the representative film. Director [[Karan Johar]] also put his support behind the film saying "All kinds of audience can connect with it and yet within the parameters of love story it is completely unusual. You feel all the love in the world for the protagonists and the unusual aspect of it is they haven't met."<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.hindustantimes.com/Entertainment/Bollywood/Hope-The-Lunchbox-wins-an-Oscar-Karan-Johar/Article1-1123347.aspx |title=Hope The Lunchbox wins an Oscar: Karan Johar |publisher=Hindustan Times |date=17 September 2013 |access-date=21 September 2013 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130918033407/http://www.hindustantimes.com/Entertainment/Bollywood/Hope-The-Lunchbox-wins-an-Oscar-Karan-Johar/Article1-1123347.aspx |archive-date=18 September 2013 }}</ref>

However, the selection committee, which deliberated on 17 September 2013, unanimously decided that ''The Good Road'' was the perfect film to represent India. Head of the committee was award-winning filmmaker [[Gautam Ghose]], who said, "This is a new film but ''The Good Road'' surprises as it shows the unknown India through the story of a boy who is lost and then found while his family is on a holiday trip to Kutch".<ref>{{cite web|author=PTI |url=http://www.thehindu.com/features/cinema/the-good-road-nominated-as-indias-entry-for-oscars/article5153986.ece?homepage=true |title='The Good Road' nominated as India's entry for Oscars |work=The Hindu |date=4 September 2013 |access-date=21 September 2013}}</ref>

The [[Chief Minister]] of Gujarat at that time, [[Narendra Modi]] tweeted that he was proud that a Gujarati film was selected for the Oscars for the first time.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://twitter.com/narendramodi/status/381389443849932800 |title=Twitter / narendramodi: Delighted to know that Gujarati |publisher=Twitter.com |date= |access-date=21 September 2013}}</ref>

==See also==
* [[List of submissions to the 86th Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film]]
* [[List of Indian submissions for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film]]
* [[Gujarati cinema]]
* [[List of Gujarati films]]

==References==
{{reflist}}

==External links==
* {{IMDb title|3037260|The Good Road}}

{{Indian submission for Academy Awards |state=collapsed}}

{{DEFAULTSORT:Good Road}}
[[Category:2013 films]]
[[Category:2013 drama films]]
[[Category:2010s drama road movies]]
[[Category:2010s avant-garde and experimental films]]
[[Category:2010s Gujarati-language films]]
[[Category:Indian drama road movies]]
[[Category:Indian avant-garde and experimental films]]

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