While several critics have questioned the choice of Paheli as India's entry for the Oscars, Bollywood superstar Shah Rukh Khan, who has produced the film and stars in it, says it has ‘all the colours of India' and is a ‘forward thinking film for women'. "In one line: it is the most interesting story I've heard in my whole career. A married woman falls in love with a ghost and then does she stay with the ghost or go with the husband? A choice she has to make," Khan said in an interview to BBC World's Talking Movies programme. He described the Amol Palekar-directed movie as a ‘very forward thinking film for women'. "If you are unhappy in love or in a relationship, are you going to stick to it or are you going to make a choice even if it happens to be a ghost?" Khan, who was interviewed by BBC presenter Tom Brook, said. The king Khan said it has ‘all the colours of India, all the elements about what plagues India and what is wonderful about India'. "So, I feel very nice that it is representative of cinema from our country for the Oscars," he said. Describing the Oscars as the greatest award for filmmakers, Khan said, "It is something that all of us would wish that we get the Oscar also". About the documentary made on his reel as well as real life by a London-based filmmaker, he said it felt a little odd ‘selling his life'.