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| THE YEAR has barely begun
and we have the first film awards awaiting us. The star screen awards are
the first ones to arrive every year. It’s another thing to watch an edited
awards show on television and another to watch it live with all the glitter,
goof ups and the drama. Perhaps that’s the reason why several TV channels
have stopped relaying the live telecast of the award shows. And so much
so that the 15th annual star screen awards show will be telecast on Star
Plus only on the 24th thus giving the editors ten days to chop the awards
ceremony and give us the best shoot possible. The star screen annual awards
were a star studded event with big names like Hrithik Roshan, Akshay Kumar,
Aishwarya Rai, Priyanka Chopra, Katrina Kaif and John Abaraham all making
their presence felt. The noticeable absentees were the four khans of Bollywood.
Aamir was never expected to be there. Salman had a horrible year at the
box office and had no nomination to show for it. Saif chose to skip the
show probably because Bebo had pulled out of the awards show and refused
to dance on stage and Shahrukh Khan would have known that he was not in
contention for the best actor award and hence justified his absence. The
male Bachchans were missing despite being nominated in categories.
The stage was set on fire with an opening performance by the gorgeous Deepika Padukone who danced on tunes from Bachna ae haseeno and songs from Om Shanti Om. The theme was dedicated to the girls of Bollywood and the other performances were by Katrina Kaif, Anushka Sharma, Priyanka Chopra and Arjun Rampal. Arjun Rampal did the climax act dancing with the remaining girls. Or was it an anti climax? Who really expected Arjun Rampal to do the final act? Couldn’t they get hold of Hrithik, Akshay or even Aishwarya. The show was hosted by Sajad Khan, Farah Khan and Shreyas Talpade who tried to put humour in every sentence. Sajid was more often rubbing people the wrong way and his funny sarcastic comments did not go too well with a lot of people and he had to pay for it at the end. Now, if you are going to be watching the telecast on TV then here is something that you won’t get to see. The Ashutosh Sajid verbal duel: Sajid’s tongue and cheek comments did not go down too well with Ashutosh Gowarikar, who while receiving his award for the best film made his feelings clear by saying that Sajid Khan had no right to demean or make fun of anyone and nor was the show made for him that most of the telecast time would be devoted to Sajid Khan and the winners were being asked to cut short their speeches. It only got worse when Amar Singh came and saluted Ashutosh Gowarikar for having the courage to stand up and speak his mind. Sajid Khan on the other hand defended himself by saying that the audience is the biggest factor and in order to increase the TRPs, they have to have a good time by making fun of people. Clearly some of Sajid Khan’s comments had not gone too well with the audience. Sajid’s comment on the shirt worn by Neeraj Pandey who won the best director and the best story award was in bad taste. Farah Khan further came and said that they treat the industry as a family and hence make fun of each other but have no intentions to hurt any one but will not apologise. The show hence ended at a bitter note. Akshay Kumar received the best actor in the popular category but returned it. Yes the same Akshay Kumar who is known to have edited the roles of other actors in films and is believed to be charging several crores for his films returned his best actor award for he felt that Aamir Khan had a brilliant performance in Ghajini and was more deserving of it. Akshay went on to add that he hoped some day he would win this award when he actually deserved it but Aamir’s performance in Ghajini was better than his performance. The popular category of awards was decided by the number of votes. Aishwarya Rai won it for her performance in Jodha Akbar. The fortunate ones will get to see Bipasha’s performance on television telecast for she arrived late for the show and hence her performance will be recorded after the awards and will be added in the television telecast. Believe it or not, there were several other gaffes and goof ups which happened on stage with people some times having to wait till eternity till the envelopes carrying the names of the winners reached them! All in all, the show was put together well by the creative team despite the goof ups and will be edited to perfection for the television viewers. Here are some of the popular category awards. Best female singer: Shilpa
Rao (Khuda Jaane- Bachna ae haseeno)
Best dialogue: Ashok Mitra
(Welcome to Sajjanpur).
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