We never expect Filmfare to recognise the real talent beyond the stars and the celebs. Because they are star-fuckers who sell stars, want to keep everyone happy and want them to show up at their annual award ceremony. Its a tv show after all. Needs trps, needs money! Its all about how Film-Un-fair they are. But this year it seems lil better than last few years. Here is the list of winners…
Popular Awards
Best Film: Vidhu Vinod Chopra for 3 Idiots
Best Director: Rajkumar Hirani for 3 Idiots
Best Actor in Leading Role (Male): Amitabh Bachchan for Paa
Best Actor in Leading Role (Female): Vidya Balan for Paa
Best Supporting Actor (Male): Boman Irani for 3 Idiots
Best Supporting Actor (Female): Kalki Koechlin for Dev D
Best Debutante Director (Male): Ayan Mukherjee for Wake Up Sid
Best Debutante Director (Female): Zoya Akhtar for Luck By Chance
Best Dialogue: Rajkumar Hirani and Vidhu Vinod Chopra for 3 idiots
Best Screenplay: Rajkumar Hirani, Vidhu Vinod Chopra and Abhijat Joshi for 3 Idiots
Best Story: Abhijat Joshi and Rajkumar Hirani for 3 Idiots
Filmfare Critics Award
Best Film: Firaaq
Best Actor (Female): Mahi Gill for Dev D
Best Actor (Male): Ranbir Kapoor for his consistently outstanding performances in 2009.
Filmfare Music Awards
Best Music: A R Rahman for Delhi 6
Best Lyrics: Irshad Kamil for ‘Aaj Din Chaddya’ (Love Aaj Kal)
Best Playback Singer (Female): Rekha Bharadwaj for Genda Phool (Delhi 6) and Kavita Seth for Iktara (Wake Up Sid)
Best Playback Singer (Male): Mohit Chauhan for Masakalli (Delhi 6)
RD Burman Music Award: Amit Trivedi
Filmfare Technical Awards:
Best Visual Effects: Kaminey
Best Choreography Award: Bosco-Ceasar, ‘Chor Bazaari’ from Love Aaj Kal
Best Production Design: Helen & Sukant for Dev D
Best Action: Vijayan Master for Wanted
Best Sound Design: Manas Chaudhury for Firaaq
Best Editing: Sreekar Prasad for Firaaq
Best Cinematographer: Rajeev Ravi for Dev D
Best Costume Design: Vaishali Menon for Firaaq
Best Background Score: Amit Trivedi for Dev D
Actor Shashi Kapoor and Music Director Khayyam were given the Lifetime Achievement Awards.
BTW, Bachchans didnt attend the Filmfare Award this year in protest against this story done by their sister publication Mumbai Mirror few days back. They have been demanding apology from Mirror. But so far, nothing.
PS – Here is goss of the day. It seems Riteish Deshmukh & Jacqueline Fernandez’s act was sponsored by the producer of their forthcoming film Jaane Kahan Se Aayi Hai. Remember last year Vashu Bhagnani paid a fat cheque to Filmfare for getting his son Jackie Bhagnani on stage for the promotion of his debut film. He happily informed all his family members, relatives and friends asking them to watch his son dance at the Filmfare Awards ceremony. Remote was kept aside and they waited and waited and waited for Jackie to show up on small screen. Surprise! There was no Jackie act when it was telecasted on Sony Tv. Why ? Because Filmfare never guaranteed them that the act will get tv play too. It was edited out. Aur bolo ?
Best Supporting Actor (Female): Kalki Koechlin for Dev D ..hahahhhhaha whatay FAIL! …
And how did Trivedi get an award for best background score for Dev D? As far as i remember, ALL the musical cues in Dev D were bits of the SONGS… someone please explain this to my numbheaded brain, saar…
Oh wait these are Filmfare awards….
Gotta agree that they’ve been surprisingly un-unfair this time.
Best supporting actress – Kalki. In the popular category. Are you kidding me? And you say it’s not unfair and not rigged? Wow.
Best debutante director – MALE and Best debutante director – FEMALE!!!! WTF!!
Talk about creating categories to give awards!!!!
@Nims – thats seriously WTF! but didnt mind it because both are great choice.
@Fatema – dev d guys CANT rig filmfare, that m sure about. also check out the nominations – Arundhati Nag for ‘Paa’, Divya Dutta for ‘Delhi 6 ‘, Dimple Kapadia for ‘Luck By Chance ‘, Kalki Koechlin for ‘Dev D ‘, Supriya Pathak for ‘Wake Up Sid’ and Goswami for ‘Firaaq‘. i think its nice choice as all the nominees are on same ground.
@mogambo – and the strange thing is screen didnt nominate him saying all the songs are in background. so how can they nominate him in best music! poor soul…where does he fit in ?strange are the ways.
Filmfare or not i’m just glad Trivedi got his big break. Great soundtrack album, Dev D.
But as ridiculous as the list is, Dimple and Shahana were so much better than Kalki. And they grossly excluded Deepti Naval for Firaaq. Oh well… awards shows suck anyway
So…UTV has managed to pull some strings. No doubt abt that. Their News channel was highlighting that both DevD and 3 Idiots have got 6 fimfares each. At least am happy for Anurag, good for him.