<p>Criticising Bollywood's craze for Oscars, award-winning Australian filmmaker Paul Cox has described Indian films as a celebration of total madness with elements of fun, fantasy and innocence.<br /><br /></p>.<p>"Bollywood has a sense of fun, fantasy and also an element of innocence. It is a celebration of total madness. I would prefer a Bollywood film to a Hollywood one," said Cox, who is shooting his next film in Kerala with Shahana Goswami and Seema Biswas next year.<br /><br />The 73-year-old director said Bollywood should ignore the American dream of winning an Oscar.<br /><br />"It is nothing but the America's way to make money. Do you think they would like to see Bollywood a part of this? Oscars should be ignored by the rest of the world film industry including Bollywood. I do not understand this pathetic adulation about the American awards," he said.<br /><br />"Bollywood has been imitating this mad example of American dream and it is now out of reach," said Cox, who admires the works of Satyajit Ray and Mrinal Sen.<br />Cox is well known for his humanistic oriented films and is a cancer survivor. His latest project is a film on organ transplantation – "Force Of Destiny"- which will be shot in Kerala next year.<br /><br />"It is a story about a person with liver cancer. During this journey he meets an Indian woman with whom he falls in love. It is about a sense of loss and also survival. In the end he receives a liver transplant," Cox said.</p>
<p>Criticising Bollywood's craze for Oscars, award-winning Australian filmmaker Paul Cox has described Indian films as a celebration of total madness with elements of fun, fantasy and innocence.<br /><br /></p>.<p>"Bollywood has a sense of fun, fantasy and also an element of innocence. It is a celebration of total madness. I would prefer a Bollywood film to a Hollywood one," said Cox, who is shooting his next film in Kerala with Shahana Goswami and Seema Biswas next year.<br /><br />The 73-year-old director said Bollywood should ignore the American dream of winning an Oscar.<br /><br />"It is nothing but the America's way to make money. Do you think they would like to see Bollywood a part of this? Oscars should be ignored by the rest of the world film industry including Bollywood. I do not understand this pathetic adulation about the American awards," he said.<br /><br />"Bollywood has been imitating this mad example of American dream and it is now out of reach," said Cox, who admires the works of Satyajit Ray and Mrinal Sen.<br />Cox is well known for his humanistic oriented films and is a cancer survivor. His latest project is a film on organ transplantation – "Force Of Destiny"- which will be shot in Kerala next year.<br /><br />"It is a story about a person with liver cancer. During this journey he meets an Indian woman with whom he falls in love. It is about a sense of loss and also survival. In the end he receives a liver transplant," Cox said.</p>