Bollywood Wednesday May 13 Web Desk. Home Bollywood. Aamir Khan stopped attending award shows because of Shah Rukh Khan? By Web Desk. In comparison, our award- mela — which wraps up by mid-year — is often reduced to mockery.
The same, long, boring hi-voltage hamming by chosen anchors, energetic dance numbers by leading stars, gossip, bitching … and yet the shows — all — rock! The award phenomenon was formally launched 57 years ago in with the first Filmfare Award. Today, five decades and a zillion Award functions later the award show phenomenon has been reduced to a populist, glamor-driven farce catering to the lowest common denominator.
Diluted and devalued beyond imagination and solely engaged in the business of attracting TV ratings and grabbing eyeballs, most of these award shows seem to have totally lost the plot. But does anyone care or complain? Aamir Khan never attends, but the other two — Shah Rukh Khan and Salman Khan — are frequent participants, forever picking up awards at every show they grace!
To most of us Bollywood fans, the value or fairness of the awards — naturally we want our favorites to win — is less important than the action on the stage. Watching Ranbir Kapoor perform is like … wow! Anxious Pakistani fans in jitters over clash with Australia. Meet Asser Malik, the man Malala married. DG ISI, air chief discuss national security, tri-service synergy.
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A carat story. A gem of a screenplay and a sterling directorial debut. I think they are into silver. In fact, Sachin and his son Rahul Dev Burman hardly ever got awards. It lost all the awards. Unable to bear the snub to music composer Ghulam Mohamed, who had written the immortal melodies of Pakeezah , veteran actor Pran, who had won the Best Supporting Actor award for Beimaan , declined his award. That was 40 years ago. Today, actors protesting on behalf of their unjustly-treated colleagues is rare.
A couple of years ago, Aishwarya Rai Bachchan was informed she was getting the best actress award for Guzaarish. She was aghast when the name of the winner was changed at the last minute, on the insistence of a spiteful leading man if the word on the street is to be believed.
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