After many years, this time around I got to watch the Filmfare awards show. I initially was delighted at the idea that it was a live telecast(rather a live, recorded telecast on the same day, US time). Durga burst my bubble, come Friday night by saying it was just a delayed telecast and the event was over. Anyway watch it I did, come Sunday night. I even threw in a siesta for the afternoon, all my chores done, so I could be ready for it.
So some very noticeably absent people(either that or the cameras werent doing a good job) were- the Bachchan khandaan, Salman, Javed Akhtar-Shabana Azmi, Gulzar, Aamir(well he NEVER shows up, anyway) and though Kareena and Karishma were seen- I was surprised her parents werent.
Taare Zameen Par won best film, totally concur. Kareena won best actress for Jab we met. SRK for Chak De. Best Debutante(Female) and Sony face of the year, both went to Deepika Padukone. I'd expected Best Debutante(Male) would go to Neil Nitin Mukesh for Johny Gaddar, it went to Ranbir Kapoor for Saawariya. Critics award for best actor went to Darsheel Zafary of Taare Zameen Par. His victory speech was cute, as cute can be and so down to earth. Best director went to Aamir for TZP and Best Music to ARR for Guru.
Most deserved was Best lyricist to Prasoon Joshi for Maa from TZP. Wonderful composition. Best playback singer- Male went to Shaan for Jab se tere naina from Saawariya and Female went to Shreya Ghoshal(looking so cute and young) for Barso re Megha from Guru.
TZP won one more award, Amol Gupte won best story for TZP, again well deserved. What was a surprise was Monty Sharma for Saawariya got the RD Burman music award. I'd have picked Vishal-Shekar for OSO but whatever). Lifetime award went to Rishi Kapoor. Neetu looks so trim and svelte, she could pass for a 30 yr old, easily!
Some eye-candy : Bipasha Basu looked like a million bucks. Neil Nitin Mukesh has the raw looks of a dashing newcomer. Deepika Padukone, while she looks ravishing, is not at all approachable. This is the first time I watched the Khan duo(SRK and SAK-Shah Rukh and Saif) with their host act. Their outrageous jokes and digs, while predictable, must be quite a welcome change, given the history of Filmfare awards hosting. The Na-real awards were quite tongue-in-cheek! It was good to see Rekha and the Sippys and Chopras on awards night.
Alright, one more weekend gone.
Coming up next : Book review of Palace of Illusions, by CBD(Chitra Banerjee Diwakaruni).
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Monday, March 03, 2008Posted by Altoid at 3:05 PM
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Cool! I saw some photos in Star Dust magazines. Bipasha is beautiful indeed but I think Kajol is a typical Indian beauty and a great actress too. I saw her in a new film on B4U with Ajay Devgan, she looks fab!:))
I watched it too - because i had slept that afternoon and couldn't sleep. I thought that SRK and SAK did a good job- I didn't think this day would come but I even found myself liking SRK. For a change there wasn't that cloying politeness trying to please all the big names - they were irreverent and nasty which was good. But I thought the way they acted with Akshay after his performance was a bit childish - they could have used some mature humor there too rather than acting like school boys.Too much to ask huh?
For a change the awards seemed totally fair -thank god SRK was voted for Chak de and not OSO.
RDB Music award is for up coming musical talent - remember Sunidhi won it in her younger days and so did Shreya, so since its Monty's debut attempt and a good one at that... so guess it was a natural choice.
I caught Neetu Singh at the music release of Saawariya some time back on SOny - she looked thin yes, but she looked SICK - like as if shez suffering from a very bad painful disease.. arthritis??
This is the third year in a row where I'm seeing Karan Johar/SRK/Saif host this show - yeah they are funny, sometimes childish but do a good job.
Whats different since 2007 is, they changed the venue to this small Yash Raj studio instead of the usual huge open ground in Goregaon, Mumbai. Back in Goregoan days, public could attend, they'd be lot of halla gulla, ab is studio mein it feels like its someone's first budday party.
Anyways, guess it helps keep costs down, and less haatha pai, so less chinta for Mumbai Police..
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