In 2014, Liar's Dice, the double National Film Award- winning film by director Geethu Mohandas, was chosen as India's official entry for the Oscars Foreign language film category.
The Hindi film, featuring Nawazuddin Siddiqui and Geetanjali Thapa in the lead roles, was based on the journey of a woman and her daughter in search of her missing husband.
Coming up: India's Oscar story, the films that were, the films that weren't and the films that could have been.