Marathi film 'Dashavatar,' produced by Ajit Bhure, has been selected for the Academy Awards' Contention List. Bhure, a theater producer with decades of industry experience, believes the film's core message of environmental protection and its depiction of a local movement against mining resonated with the selection committee. The film, shot in rural Maharashtra, features the traditional Dashavatar folk art and tells the story of an actor fighting to save his village and forest.