<P> On 12 February 2002, Lagaan was nominated for the best foreign language film at the Academy Award nominations ceremony . After the nomination, Khan reacted by saying, "To see the name of the film and actually hear it being nominated was very satisfying". Post-nomination reactions poured in from several parts of the world . The USA Today wrote "Hooray for Bollywood, and India's Lagaan". With Sony Pictures Classics distributing the film and Oscar - winning director Baz Luhrmann praising it, Lagaan had a chance to win . The BBC commented that the nomination raised Bollywood hopes that Indian films would become more popular in the US . In India, the nomination was celebrated with news reports about a win bringing in "a great boost for the Indian film industry" and "a Bharat Ratna for Aamir Khan and the status of a' national film' for Lagaan". </P> <P> When Lagaan lost the award to the Bosnian film No Man's Land, there was disappointment in India . Khan said, "Certainly we were disappointed . But the thing that really kept us in our spirits was that the entire country was behind us ." Filmmaker Mahesh Bhatt criticised the "American film industry" as "insular and the foreign category awards were given just for the sake of it ." Gowariker added that "Americans must learn to like our films". </P> <P> The film won a number of national awards including eight National Film Awards, nine Filmfare Awards, nine Screen Awards and ten IIFA Awards . Apart from these major awards, it also won awards at other national and international ceremonies . </P> <P> There were two releases for the DVD . The first, as a 2 - DVD set, was released on 27 May 2002 in limited regions . It contained subtitles in Arabic, English, Hebrew, Hindi, Turkish and several European languages . It is available in 16: 9 Anamorphic widescreen, Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround, progressive 24 frame / s, widescreen and NTSC format . It carried an additional fifteen minutes of deleted scenes, filmographies and trailers . </P>

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