Sunday, February 26, 2006


The Flimflam Awards

On Saturday night, I watched the Filmfare Awards after many years. There was a time when Filmfares were a must-watch event like the Oscars. But given the predictability and the plethora of Indian awards shows, I lost all interest. After all these years, not much has changed except that the present crop of female actors is doing the Hollywood-ishtyle cocktail dress thingie instead of the black\white sari routine. Filmfares continue to be long-winded, mismanaged, dreary and utterly predictable affairs. This time I also noticed the Filmfares do not seem to have enough categories to really recognise the entire gamut of contribution to Indian cinema. So, I decided to go ahead and hand out some award to the deserving few.
Abhi Tak Maintain Hai Award: …goes to the one and only Madhuri Dixit. Neither matrimony, nor maternity seems to have robbed her off her oomph. When she launched into her “Dola re, dola re” number from Devdas at the awards, there was a collective roar from the crowd. The other nominees in this category were Rekha and Hema Malini. Rekha has been winning this award for the last 10 years, so the jury decided to award it to Madhuri this time.
The KLPD Award: No marks for guessing. Aishwarya Rai’s on-stage performance of “Kajra re” was good enough to make a one-horned rhino’s libido wilt.
The Lost In Translation Award: … to Hollywood motor mouth Will Smith for mangling the Mukherjee part of Rani’s name.
The Orbit Chewing Gum Award: Javed Akhtar was the hands-down winner for imperturbably masticating on God knows what, even when they were announcing that his wife Shabana had been awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award. Shahrukh Khan has won this award the most number of times, but was thankfully absent this time.
Khali Pate ka Sawaal Hai Award: Baldhead baddy Prem Chopra has stepped into the void created by Amrish Puri’s demise. Rakesh Roshan award bal-bal mis kar gaye.
The Mr Anderson Lookalike Award: Shiamak Davar, in his black suite, shades and earpiece, looked exactly like Hugo Weaving’s memorable character in Matrix. The fact that he did some very robotic dance movements also seemed to help his cause.
The Sahara Parivar, Sukhi Parivar Award: Abhishek Bachchan was the proud winner. After winning the Best Supporting Actor Award for Sarkar, he thanked not only his father, mother, sister, brother-in-law, but also AMAR SINGH JI!
Lifetime Achievement Award: …has to go to the TV production chappies for the Filmfare functions. Year in, year out, these guy have unfailingly cut away to Rekha the moment Amitabh has gone up on stage to receive some award or the other. This time, they made sure that whenever Abhishek was in the spotlight, they turned around to pick up Ash’s reactions.

(Photo: Courtesy http://cinema.sholay.com)




Comments:
The three months spent breathlessly awaiting your next post have been worth it, I must say, you funny person, you.
 
I agree with Marauder, the wait was worth it. extremely hilarious post!! I didnt,no sorry, make that couldnt bring myself, to watch the entire show, but Aishwarya Rai was sooooooo horrible!! Cant believe abhishek bachchan has such poor taste in women! and I totally agree with giving the lifetime achievement award to the Filmfare production team for knowing who to focus on at exactly the right moments!!

Post more often na please.
 
Ha Ha Ha

And the award for tolerance goes the author of this post.. I cant believe it.. You sat through the award..
 
Marauder: Even though I notice a hint of sarcasm, I think I will let it pass.
Ron: Thanks. And about that Abhishek-Ash hook-up, I have a theory, which I hope to blog about soon.
Kaushik: Tolerance, you bet! And that too with Sony inundatng the proceedings with 15-min-long ad breaks.
 
hi tridib,
nice to know you are alive and kicking. and kicking hard.

wasn't there any award for back-stage technicians, who made this award possible (i mean economically viable). it should have gone to the cable-wallahs.
 
What about Chitrangda? She deserved an award. In fact, she deserved all the awards, including the one for best lyrics. How could they not have her in their list and still be considered worthy.
 
Ghetufool: Yes, Ghetu I get to kick around only when the rest of the world takes a breather from kicking my a**e.
Boat: Yes, it was shocking. Not a mention of Hazaaron... except for an apology of an award to Shiney Ahuja. And Vidya Balan over Chitrangada for both face of the year award and also the award for the best newcomer female. PREPOSTEROUS! This stupid industry doesn't deserve Chitrangada. Nor do those moronic voters who make these choices!
 
It's all been said already - long wait, great return, Ash is creepy as a zombie.

Best Robot Impersonation Award for Ash?

J.A.P.
 
J.A.P.: Guess, Will Smith must have been happy to meet Ash 'I, Robot' Rai at the awards show.
Fernandes: Hi, Falsie. Great to have you here. Keep track of us, and you'll keep track of what's happening (in India!). Remember, News Track?!
 
Great post, dude! *doffs hat* Warrants your take on the Orc-ar awards!
 
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