Post by achitturi on Apr 25, 2017 0:19:24 GMT
www.khaleejtimes.com/citytimes/bollywood/are-indias-national-awards--becoming-a-bit-of-a-joke
Following the announcement of one of the year's most-anticipated honour list, this year's jury chairman - senior and once-prolific filmmaker Priyadarshan - stated that Aamir Khan in Dangal wasn't considered for the Best Actor Award. The reason? I quote, "Aamir recently said that he wouldn't personally accept the award if he is given one. He didn't attend the ceremony when he won the award for Taare Zameen Par (adjudged the Best Film on Family Welfare in 2007). So, why spoil it for some other actor who stood as good a chance of winning the award?"
The statement about Aamir Khan's exclusion purely because of his political incorrectness is a lamentable one. Not even the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences have dared to make a winner's presence at the ceremony a pre-condition to receiving an award.
Among those who did not fetch up to
receive their Oscar trophies in person on stage include Marlon Brando (The Godfather), Woody Allen (Annie Hall), Paul Newman (The Color of Money), George C Scott (Patton) and Katharine Hepburn (Morning Glory, Guess Who's Coming to Dinner, The Lion in Winter, On Golden Pond). And if renowned musician Bob Dylan stayed away from attending the Nobel Prize ceremony, was it denied to him? No way.
Also, Priyadarshan and his jury have been criticised strongly for ignoring the widely-lauded Aligarh. Its director Hansal Mehta actually took to Twitter to assert that he had no grouses on being left out in the cold, but he did have objections to the chairman going on record to say that, of late, many films made in Bollywood harped on the same issue as Aligarh did, while "regional films were themed around fantastic social issues".
Again, the word "fantastic" was left to arbitrary interpretation.
The statement about Aamir Khan's exclusion purely because of his political incorrectness is a lamentable one. Not even the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences have dared to make a winner's presence at the ceremony a pre-condition to receiving an award.
Among those who did not fetch up to
receive their Oscar trophies in person on stage include Marlon Brando (The Godfather), Woody Allen (Annie Hall), Paul Newman (The Color of Money), George C Scott (Patton) and Katharine Hepburn (Morning Glory, Guess Who's Coming to Dinner, The Lion in Winter, On Golden Pond). And if renowned musician Bob Dylan stayed away from attending the Nobel Prize ceremony, was it denied to him? No way.
Also, Priyadarshan and his jury have been criticised strongly for ignoring the widely-lauded Aligarh. Its director Hansal Mehta actually took to Twitter to assert that he had no grouses on being left out in the cold, but he did have objections to the chairman going on record to say that, of late, many films made in Bollywood harped on the same issue as Aligarh did, while "regional films were themed around fantastic social issues".
Again, the word "fantastic" was left to arbitrary interpretation.