Oscars 2024: Priyanka Chopra backed documentary film, To Kill a Tiger, lost out on a win at the 96th Academy Awards. The film was nominated for Best Documentary Feature Film. The film lost out the Oscar award to Ukrainian film 20 Days in Mariupol. Priyanka had come on board of To Kill a Tiger just days before the Oscars ceremony. She signed on as an executive producer through her production house, Purple Pebble Pictures.
For the unversed, To Kill a Tiger was directed by Nisha Pahuja and revolved around a sexual assault survivor in rural India. Speaking with People Magazine, Priyanka Chopra opened up about backing the film. “I seek and attach myself to work that really pushes the conversations of issues that I feel close to or passionate about, and sexual violence against women definitely is one of them,” she said.
“In India, we say one-third of women in India have experienced sexual violence, and that statistic has to be higher because of underreporting,” she added. “The film speaks to not just survivors, but their allies as well, men supporting women. It’s very interesting to have a window into that and to see how a father fights his entire community, the justice system, against what he’s told is the norm for his daughter’s rights,” Priyanka said.
Meanwhile, filmmaker Mstyslav Chernov got emotional as he accepted the Best Documentary Feature. Emotional after the win, the filmmaker said, “I am honoured but I will probably be the first director on this stage to say that I wish I had never made this film.” He confessed he wished he could exchange the win with ‘Russia never attacking Ukraine, never invading our cities. I wish to be able to exchange this for Russian not killing 10,000 of my fellow Ukrainians.” He said he wished he could exchange the honour for ‘releasing the hostages’.
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