While the movie buffs across the globe will fix their eyes to their television sets, newspapers and internet on February 27, 2011 to find out the winner of the Academy Awards 2011, an honor which an actor dreams as soon as he steps into the world of entertainment – Hollywood. Oscar Awards is no less than an honor and prestige for an actor in his/her career; it is so big that even the nominations fills an actor with the mist.
However, the question is not how fair or unfair the Hollywood awards are, but we are looking into the Bollywood awards with the perspective that how much an actor, director and technical department of our industry feel [honored or dishonored] with the awards bollywood strangely offers for the brilliant acting or films of the year, which on any scale discredits the performance to attendance.
Many bollywood actors in the past just shook away the idea of attending a bollywood award events like, Filmfare, Screen Awards, Stardust Awards, Apsara Awards and many others which are more or less has become a backstage fixing.
Aamir Khan, one of the most successful actors in Bollywood has long time back declined attending these awards claiming they are no more than a pre-planned listing where lobbying matters than the performance.
Recently, few other actors have joined Aamir by terming these awards as an exercise depending on the attendance. “Bahut baar aisa hua ki award function mein pehle bol dete hain, aap award function mein aao to aapko award diya jayega”, (It happens many time that you are asked that if you attend the function, you will get the award), said Madhur Bhandarkar, when he was asked about the award nights.
The National Award winner director gets voice in another National Award winner actor Ajay Devgan who also said, “If you attend the awards you get the awards”.
You can easily make out why these actors and directors are lambasting these events when you go through the nominations where even for the ‘Best Film’ awards they have at least three kinds of categories which make it a laughable material. In the words of Emraan Hashmi, “If you see any award ceremony, they are pleasing everyone. There are three categories for every actor… it’s ridiculous… and three awards given to music. I really don’t want to be part of the circus. The whole industry goes and claps for it but I don’t want to be part of it”.
There is no doubt that Bollywood awards are more or less influenced by some actors – biggies – like Shah Rukh Khan and Amitabh Bachchan to name a few, else Aishwarya Rai Bachchan (Zee Cine special jury award for ‘Guzaarish’) and SRK got Best Actor award for My Name is Khan, knowing the actor’s performance could have easily beaten by Hrithik Roshan (Guzaarish).
Now you have to think twice before clapping while watching a bollywood award ceremony.
