'Newton' becomes Raghubir Yadav's 8th film sent for Oscars

The Rajkummar Rao starrer 'Newton' has become Indian actor Raghubir Yadav's eighth film to be sent for the Oscars. 'Salaam Bombay!', 'Bandit Queen', 'Rudaali', '1947: Earth', 'Lagaan' and 'Peepli [Live]' were six of the other films, which were India's official entries. However, Yadav's Indo-Canadian film 'Water' was nominated by Canada in the 'Best Foreign Language Film' category at Oscars 2006.