Hi everyone,
After last year, seeing Shah Rukh Khan win the best actor award for ChakDe! India...I thought Filmfare was gaining back the credibility that they lost a few years ago by giving the best actor award to Hrithik Roshan for Dhoom 2 and ignoring SRKs Kabhi Alvida Na Kehna and Don – The Chase Begins.
This year, I was lucky enough to watch Jodhaa Akbar, Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi and Ghajini. All three films had exceptional performances at the very least. Respectively, Hrithik Roshan for Jodhaa Akbar, Shah Rukh Khan for Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi and Aamir Khan for Ghajini. Now, out of these three performances, Hrithik wins the Best Actor award for Jodhaa Akbar...but was he good enough or even better than the other two actors?
Jodhaa Akbar won the majority of the awards but definitely was no where near being worthy of it. I found Jodhaa Akbar to be a great movie to fall asleep to. A film that would definitely be good for treating insomnia. Hrithik's performance was average. In some scenes, he was brilliant and showed us why he is one of the biggest superstars in the industry. However, in several scenes I could see an over-acting performance. There was scenes where he lacked intensity and it was no where near a top performance that was even credible to be nominated. However, if Akshay Kumar for Singh is Kinng can be nominated then Hrithik for Jodhaa Akbar definitely deserves to be nominated.
Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi, the biggest grossing film overseas and a blockbuster in India. Which clearly makes this film...an all-time blockbuster. Shah Rukh Khan, who played the lead in this film gave one of the best performances not only of his career but one of the best ever performances given by any actor in the Hindi Film Industry. Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi, was an interesting film, a film which spoke of simplicity and a story that only true romantics would appreciate. Shah Rukh Khan excelled in every scene, whether he played the simpleton Suri or the over the top romantic Raj. He swapped from each character easily but still making us aware that he is Suri. He could have been Raj, his alter-ego but his eyes would speak like Suri. This performance could not be repeated by anyone else, only Shah Rukh Khan could do such a role and give justice. He certainly proved to be India's top actor and also the person that deserved the award by miles.
Ghajini, the biggest grossing film in India today and rightly so, Aamir Khan not only gave a good performance in this remake from the Tamil movie of the same name, but he cleverly marketed the film to a new level. You could even say he used Shah Rukh Khan to sell his film because he spoke more of Shah Rukh Khan than he did of his own film, Ghajini. Coming to the performance, Aamir repeated what many actors did before, to play a man that is destroyed because his love has been killed. He had acted excellently in some scenes, for example when he looks at the sight of his girlfriend, who is being britually murdered by the villain. His expressions in that one scene was brilliant. However, in the rest of the scenes, he gave a good performance than kept the audience engaged in the film. However, I would admit that Aamir deserved to be nominated but he did not deserve the award for a performance that was done by his peers before. Note down, Darr for Shah Rukh Khan.
My other concern is why is Aamir Khan even nominated for any Indian award show? Everyone knows that he does not accept awards so why even nominate him? If he won, would you give the award to a man that doesn't respect the awards and calls them flawed? It is stupid and silly, only nominate those people that respect awards from everywhere. If Aamir only prefers the Oscars, then let him keep running for them, if he only goes to the Oscars then frankly, he doesn't deserve any award from any award ceremonies.
I can now say that this year, yet again, FilmFare loses its credibility. Jodhaa Akbar did not deserve most of the awards and it certainly sounds like the jury suffered with short-term memory loss and forget about two performances that were clearly better than Hrithik's for Jodhaa Akbar. No matter what people say or think, or what the Industry says or thinks, or what critics say or think...Shah Rukh Khan is the deserving person for his perfect performance for Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi. The bottom line is...FilmFare is definitely not FilmFAIR!
I hope everyone is fine and had a good weekend. Write to you again tomorrow!
Lots of love,
Rahul N. Singh
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