i dont think the oscars are only for western ppl, the term western is used just for the so called Americas - US,Canada etc..Oscars are universal, when we have mexican directors,colombian actors, spanish, german ppl winning , why cant Indians?? IN the end its our problem and no ones elses..Water was supposed to be an Indian film but so called " Indians " refused to let them direct it here,so it became a Canadian film..and reached the last round whereas RDB and Munnabhai didnt even make it.. I think we need to get rid of this mindset that the Western world wrt movies are diff from us..movies are universal, if others can win, y cant v ??