Life in a Metro finds place in Oscar library

Anurag Basu's take on love and longing in a city - Life in a Metro - has found a place in the Oscar Library, with the Academy asking for a copy of the screenplay for its record.

The film, which stars Shilpa Shetty, Konkona Sen Sharma, Kay Kay Menon and others, was released in theaters a couple of weeks ago.

"Life in a Metro , whose script too has been written by Basu, has been invited by the Motion Picture Academy's prestigious Margaret Herrick Library to be part of its sprawling script collection," a release from producers UTV said. Metro will be amongst the films like Finding Nemo, Million Dollar Baby and The Passion of the Christ that have got this honour, it said.


The library has collections of more than 32,000 books, 1,800 periodical titles, 60,000 screenplays, lobby cards, over 8 million photographs, more than 300 manuscript and other special collections relating to prominent industry individuals, studios and organisations, music scores and sound recordings, production and costume sketches, artifacts and oral histories.