As the Hollywood award season slowly winds down to a close with the Oscars, we here in Bollywood are just beginning our so called award seasons. So while the Oscars is all about critical acclamation and how well you can market your film to the Academy voters, here in India to win awards it's your last name that matters.
For the past many years the Oscar's have gone to movie you can slot at boring, because they are too slow and more the thinking masses, kind of our parallel cinema. Nice meaning full movie but for a niche audience. Apart from Titanic and Lord of the Rings: Return of the King, none of the movie's have been quite the box office money earners or you could say thorough entertainers. Even the people who act in them, not very often will you find an A-Lister winning the award. But eve then their characters are complicated, complex, well etched and beautifully created. And at times it does help them come in the spot light and give a boost to their movie careers.
And then you have the Indian movie awards. These couldn't been different from the spectrum compared to their Hollywood counterparts. The Indian awards are mostly given to people who have clout in the industry. To win an award it matters what your name is and who you associate it in the industry. That's why if you note the list of winners you just find the same names appearing over and over again. But do they deserve their win, the answer is no. These awards are only meant to stroke the egos of a few and keep them happy. And if the person can't get an award then you create a category for them. That's how the Indian awards work. Even if you see the padma shri awards, which are the highest civilian awards, they have gone to people who don't even deserve it.
Well if the Oscar need to lighten up then the Indian award show needs to get more critical and need to be given to deserving candidates. Hope this happens real soon.
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