Bollywood award functions - Bogus!

Goodbye 2005, welcome 2006. New year, new films, new hits, new flops and not to forget, new awards. Year after year, we watch different award functions to see which movie or actor will win and most of the times, the answers are predictable. This isn’t because a certain movie or performance was so mind blowing that it deserves a certain award but because some notable producer and/or director has made that movie or a veteran actor has given that performance. Whatever happened to keeping it fair?

If there is a movie by one of the leading makers of the Indian Film Industry, then the award, without a thought, goes to that movie and not just for the best movie but also for the best director, best actor, best actress, best supporting actor, best supporting actress, best villain, best comedian, best pet (if there is a pet in the film). Whatever happened to recognizing actual talent?

Almost every year, there are categories that are invented in these award functions. If there is just one ‘big’ film of the year, great, but if there are more than one ‘big’ films by ‘big’ directors/producers, then there is a need for creating award titles that have never existed before. They might as well have a category to please every ‘big’ name. And ‘the award for the film that had the most number of guest appearances’ goes to… or the award for ‘the most experienced producer whose films aren’t doing very well at the box office these days’ goes to…. Adding and taking away categories makes the award shows unreliable, thus lessening the credibility. On the other hand, if these shows had a standard list of categories that were followed strictly every year, it would make them more realistic and believable. Whatever happened to awarding the deserving candidate?

 

Aainaism Awards - Keepin’ it real! 

Best Film
Black

Best Director
Sanjay Leela Bhansali (Black)

Best Actor
Abhishek Bachchan (Bunty Aur Babli)

Best Actress
Rani Mukherjee (Black)

Best Actor in a supporting role
Abhishek Bachchan (Sarkar)

Best Actress in a supporting role
Ayesha Kapoor (Black)

Best Actor in comic role
Javed Jaffery (Salaam Namaste)

Best Actor in negative role
Ajay Devgan (Kaal)

Best Music
Himesh Reshammiya (Aashiq Banaya Apne)

Best Lyrics
Asim Raza - Jiya Dhadak Dhadak Jaaye (Kalyug)

Best Male Playback Singer
Himesh Reshammiya (Aashiq Banaya Apne)

Best Female Playback Singer
Alisha Chinai (Kajra Re - Bunty aur Babli)

Best Screenplay
Bluffmaster

Best Choreography
Farah Khan – Right Here Right Now (Bluffmaster)

Best Story
Manoj Tyagi (Page 3)

Best Dialogues
Shridhar Raghavan and Rajat Arora (Bluffmaster)

Best Editing
Bela Segal (Black)

Best Art Direction
Keshto Mondal, Tanushree Sarkar, Pradeep Sarkar (Parineeta)

Best Special Effects
V. G. Samant (Hanuman)

Best Sound Recording
Robert Taylor (Mangal Pandey- The Rising)

Best Cinematography
Abhik Mukhopadhyay (Bunty Aur Babli)

Best Costume Design
Lovleen Bains (Mangal Pandey - The Rising)