B.o.l.l.y.w.o.o.d ! Unravelled at the Filmfare Awards !
Really ?
Think again, Bollywood ravelled at the Film Unfair Awards !
This is what is being discussed in the Bollywood forums right now. People questioning the authenticity of the given awards , outnumber those actually appreciating it.
Surprisingly, I belong to the latter category, as I have been a vocal critic of the FilmFair Awards since the time I realised what awards mean in life. I appreciate the organizers and jury this time around, because they have shown an inkling of sanity in awarding the deserving candidates. Yes, I call it sanity because the past experiences have only exhibited extreme tomfoolery by them. It was like rubbing my palms in frustration, read anger, on watching the nepotism, read wrongness, going out there in the farcical opera on the stage. I was not alone ….
And so the debate continues.
While some of this debate stems from the fanaticism towards a particular individual or a cult, some is the outcome of the growing realization and discernment of the deserving candidates by the general public. Deserving candidates were there in the past too …..
Despite my new-found fondness for Shah Rukh Khan, I can not uphold the numerous awards bestowed upon him in the past. The case that still rankles me is his ‘Best Actor Award’ for Dil to Pagal Hai. How could you, my dear jury, for such a flat performance brodering on nausea; and how could you distribute the ‘Black Ladies’ as if they were the groceries for the same family. A good performance on one count in a film doesn’t guarantee the greatness of other aspects too in the film. So, the Best Film shouldn’t get Best Supporting Actor, Best Supporting Actress, Best Song.…keep on reading…. by sheer default. Sadly it happened umpteenth times in the nineties. It makes the other bigger half of Bollywood redundant and dispirited. An award is the paragon of excellence, and nobody knows its importance more than he or she holding it after years of toil. But what if it remained clinged to the same hand over the years?
That’s why I am more than happy with the distribution in the last few years, particularly this year, as they have tried to break that deplorable and detrimental monopoly. Johnny Gaddar – a movie of small budget- found a nomination and won it, while a child actor actually got the Best Actor award, even if Critics. The year’s small starrers like Bheja Fry, Gandhi My Father, Life in a Metro etc. had nominations and wins too. The top four awards were shared to almost different movies based on relevance and quality.
All was not well, but ‘all promises well, if it starts well.” I am giving the list of the winners, and try fitting a member from the biggest blockbuster of last year, ‘Om Shanti Om’, in each of the categories. If you are able to do so, you would have solved this riddle or mystery, whatever you call, of the FilmFare Awards in the nineties.
Filmfare Best Actor - Shahrukh Khan (Chak De India)
Really ?
Think again, Bollywood ravelled at the Film Unfair Awards !
This is what is being discussed in the Bollywood forums right now. People questioning the authenticity of the given awards , outnumber those actually appreciating it.
Surprisingly, I belong to the latter category, as I have been a vocal critic of the FilmFair Awards since the time I realised what awards mean in life. I appreciate the organizers and jury this time around, because they have shown an inkling of sanity in awarding the deserving candidates. Yes, I call it sanity because the past experiences have only exhibited extreme tomfoolery by them. It was like rubbing my palms in frustration, read anger, on watching the nepotism, read wrongness, going out there in the farcical opera on the stage. I was not alone ….
And so the debate continues.
While some of this debate stems from the fanaticism towards a particular individual or a cult, some is the outcome of the growing realization and discernment of the deserving candidates by the general public. Deserving candidates were there in the past too …..
Despite my new-found fondness for Shah Rukh Khan, I can not uphold the numerous awards bestowed upon him in the past. The case that still rankles me is his ‘Best Actor Award’ for Dil to Pagal Hai. How could you, my dear jury, for such a flat performance brodering on nausea; and how could you distribute the ‘Black Ladies’ as if they were the groceries for the same family. A good performance on one count in a film doesn’t guarantee the greatness of other aspects too in the film. So, the Best Film shouldn’t get Best Supporting Actor, Best Supporting Actress, Best Song.…keep on reading…. by sheer default. Sadly it happened umpteenth times in the nineties. It makes the other bigger half of Bollywood redundant and dispirited. An award is the paragon of excellence, and nobody knows its importance more than he or she holding it after years of toil. But what if it remained clinged to the same hand over the years?
That’s why I am more than happy with the distribution in the last few years, particularly this year, as they have tried to break that deplorable and detrimental monopoly. Johnny Gaddar – a movie of small budget- found a nomination and won it, while a child actor actually got the Best Actor award, even if Critics. The year’s small starrers like Bheja Fry, Gandhi My Father, Life in a Metro etc. had nominations and wins too. The top four awards were shared to almost different movies based on relevance and quality.
All was not well, but ‘all promises well, if it starts well.” I am giving the list of the winners, and try fitting a member from the biggest blockbuster of last year, ‘Om Shanti Om’, in each of the categories. If you are able to do so, you would have solved this riddle or mystery, whatever you call, of the FilmFare Awards in the nineties.
Filmfare Best Actor - Shahrukh Khan (Chak De India)
Filmfare Best Actress - Kareena Kapoor (Jab We Met)
Filmfare Best Film - Taare Zameen Par
Filmfare Best Director - Aamir Khan (Taare Zameen Par)
Filmfare Critics’ Award For Best Actor - Darsheel Safary (Taare Zameen Par)
Filmfare Critics’ Award For Best Actress - Tabu (Cheeni Kum)
Filmfare Critics’ Award For Best Film - Shimit Amin (Chak De India)
Filmfare Best Actor in a Supporting Role (Male) - Irrfan Khan (Life in a… Metro)
Filmfare Best Actor in a Supporting Role (Female) - Konkana Sen Sharma (Life in a… Metro)Filmfare Best Lyrics - Prasoon Joshi (Maa - Taare Zameen Par)
Filmfare Best Playback Singer (Male) - Shaan (Jab Se Tere Naina - Saawariya)
Filmfare Best Playback Singer (Female) - Shreya Ghosal (Barso Re - Guru)
Filmfare Best Music Director - A. R. Rahman (Guru)
Filmfare Best Story - Amol Gupte (Taare Zameen Par)
Filmfare Best Screenplay - Anurag Basu (Life in a… Metro)
Filmfare Best Dialogue - Imtiaz Ali (Jab We Met)
Filmfare R. D. Burman Award - Monty Sharma (Saawariya)
Filmfare Lifetime Achievement Award - Rishi Kapoor
Filmfare Power Awards - Yash Chopra & Aditya Chopra
Filmfare Best Debut (Male) - Ranbir Kapoor (Saawariya)
Filmfare Best Debut (Female) - Deepika Padukone (Om Shanti Om)
Filmfare Best Special Effects - Red Chillies Entertainment (Om Shanti Om)
Sony Head N Shoulders Fresh Face of the Year Award - Deepika Padukone
Filmfare Best Background Score - A. R. Rahman (Guru)
Filmfare Best Editing - Amitabh Shukla (Chak De India)
Filmfare Best Choreography - Saroj Khan (Barso Re Megha Re - Guru)
Filmfare Best Action - Rob Miller (Chak De India)
Filmfare Best Art Direction - Samir Chanda (Guru)
Filmfare Best Sound - Leslie Fernandes (Johnny Gaddaar)
Filmfare Best Cinematography - Sudhip Chatterjee
Filmfare Best Costumes - Sujata Sharma (Gandhi My Father)
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