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Bit of India in China's Oscar choice

There's been little evidence of such cooperation in the past. Even the celebrated Hong Kong-based filmmaker Wong Kar-wai put his weight behind the film.

I asked Tan Fei, the president of Eracme Culture & Media Co Ltd, a company in Beijing that makes films and TV series, for his thoughts on Xuanzang.

"It symbolizes not only film links but also the historical origins of the two countries," he said.

The monk, who was born in Shaanxi province when Chang'an (present-day Xi'an) was the capital of imperial China, later wrote about his 7th-century trips to India in Great Tang Records on the Western Regions, which historians think formed the basis of the Chinese classic Journey to the West.

The film was probably chosen for the Oscars because of its "historical significance" in the light of the Belt and Road Initiative, Tan said of China's transnational economic vision.

The film was shot in the provinces of Bihar, Maharashtra and Karnataka in India, and in Xinjiang, Tibet and Gansu in China, the director Huo Jianqi told an Indian newspaper earlier. Among members of the cast, Indian actor Sonu Sood played Harshavardhana, an emperor in northern India at the time of Hiuen Tsang's visits.

The next coproduction is Kung Fu Yoga, starring Jackie Chan as "Chinese archeology professor Jack who teams up with beautiful Indian professor Ashmita and assistant Kyra to locate lost Magadha treasure(s)", according to the Amazon-owned IMBd. Magadha was a powerful kingdom in ancient India.