Long time no see!
The first superstar of Hindi cinema makes an appearance at IIFA, to receive the lifetime achievement award. In his acceptance speech Khanna mentioned It took me 40 years and 180 films to get this IIFA Life time Achievement award-along journey. I must say, I am very grateful to IIFA, (the event organisers) Wizcraft, committee members and to ‘babumoshai’. Babumoshai, thank you very, very much, ” (for those who came in late, Babumoshai is Amitabh Bachchan, in ref. to Anand). It is after 16 years later that we are together on a stage.I thank him from the bottom of my heart, he added.
Anurag Kashyap
Abhay Deol
Dibakar Banerjee
Hansal Mehta
Khalid Mohamed
Kundan Shah
Anish Kuruvilla
Jaideep Verma
Manish Gupta
Navdeep Singh
Bhavani Iyer
D. Santosh
Onir
Ashvin Kumar
Ramu Ramanathan
Sudhir Mishra
Pankaj Advani
Revathy
Saurabh Shukla
Shilpa Shukla
Sujoy Ghosh
Suparn Verma
Santosh Sivan
Shashank Ghosh
Shivajee
Pavan Kaul
Partho Sen-Gupta
Prroshant Naryannan
Sam Langoria
Satish Kasetty
An extremely emotional moment for Kaka a.k.a Rajesh Khanna, he more than deserves the award.That he received it from the hands of his babu moshai makes it even special for him.Though they only did 2 movies together- Anand and Namak Haraam, both were a treat to watch.
Congratulations Kaka ji…Hope to see you more often…Thanks PFC for this…..we need more write up on his movies…..
Whilst Rajesh Khanna may more than deserve his award I’m surprised that no one here has criticised these IIFA awards.
They are geared for the celebration of the Bachchan family. More so since the “Star of the Decade” joined their little Kingdom. If they didn’t have just a tiny bit of shame/embarrasment, they would have given the Best Actress award to daughter-in-law Aish, making it a clean sweep for JA. Was it really THAT good?
Nobody here want to offend THE GREAT MR AMITABH BACHCHAN!!!
@Alysha, give it a rest with the Bachchan bashing. You can’t have it both ways where you claim the awards are biased and yet neither Abhishek or Aishwarya won an award for Guru last year. And Aishwarya did not win for JA this year. How is that biased?
BTW, the nomination are decided by industry voting and the winners by internet voting administered by PriceWaterhouseCoopers. So if not happy with the winners, then blame the common folks who do the voting.
At least IFFA tries for some credibility whereas Filmfare is all about YRF and Dharma. How many Filmfare awards have been given to SRK?
Congrats to Rajesh Khanna. Now I hope he stays away from doing anymore sleazy movies like Waafa.
@Lee, why should I give it a rest?
If you actually believe in the voting system that is administered by PWC then you must be living in cloud cuckoo-land.
Why should Aishwarya have won for JA. She was part of the decoration after all. If Guru was that good and worthy why didn’t people vote for them to win, if voting is what decides it?
IIFA credible? You must be joking. At every opportunity and at even the slightest chance of getting away with it, it awards mostly the Bachchan’s.
I thought you lot LOVED A Wednesday, OLLO, Dev D. No disappointment then? Fashion and JA were that good? Rakesh Roshan – KNPH, KMG, Krrish – Director of the Decade. I can’t stop laughing! Though I must say we should be grateful for small mercies. Why you may ask? Well let’s hope Jaya or one of the other members of this illustrious family don’t take up Direction. Otherwise nobody else will get a look in.
See, the last but one point you make about YRF and Dharma is why I wrote in. This board wastes no time criticising those lot, plus the other useless Award Functions but discreetly omits IIFA. Therefore I can only conclude that though many who write in are brave, they are not brave enough to face the wrath of the Bachchans.
Perhaps aspiring directors here are looking to cast one or may all the Bachchan in some future enterprise? Hey c’est la vie!
Alysha, you are spot on, but dealing the issue in a little too microscopic fashion. If you look at the larger case, talent, cinematic or otherwise is not honoured properly in India. It is biased…IIFA has ‘India’ only in its name, and does not cover 80% of Indian cinema…what about that fact ( 450 odd regional movies that get churned out every year)…So Bachchan’s are too small a issue when you consider a gigantic injustice being paraded in the name of ‘Indian Film Awards’ internationally by these mediocre people…IIFA is a mediocre award function on mediocre cinema by a mediocre industry for its medocre audience…
@Ram V
I agree with your general point but the Bachchans are not “too small a issue”. YRF, Dharma, Screen, Filmfare and Zee awards fall into that “too small a issue” but when the need arises I see no restraint where they are concerned.
Contrary to what you may think I am not particularly partial to those who I seem to defend. I just don’t like hypocrisy.
However I am part of that “mediocre” audience. Perhaps I’m just not as intelligent as some of you are.
Alysha…both the issues are one and the same..Nepotism, Favoritism and Lobbying has replaced actual recognition of talent in this industry long ago…So the right question is ‘When Bollywood cannot impartially recognize the talent within its own dominion…how will it recognize the rest of Indian cinema?’…Maybe I am expecting too much…What we both see is the manifestation of this sham at different levels…
Alysha and Ram V-
You appear to be arguing on a trivial issue. If you take a step back and look at all these awards that are given out each year, do you see any intention of artistic merit in any of them? I include the National awards in the same category, the only difference there being they actually include a few regional films in their list!!
These awards are designed to patronize the Bacchans and the Khan’s and the Johar’s of this world and a deviation from that (towards any semblance of artistic excellence) will throw the TRP’s off the charts!! So I would take this for pure “adult entertainment” and nothing more.
Very soon you may see a PFC-International award… but we all know who’s going to walk the red carpet there
these are popular awards given to popular stars….
i bet alysha u dont doubt Ash’s and srk’s popularity over the last decade……
Savio…the points you have written is true..that does not mean we should sit back and keep quite…
Ashwini..In that case the award should read ‘Most Popular Actor’ and ‘Most Popular Film’ and so on…not the ‘Best Actor’, ‘Best Film’…that also in ‘Best in India’..absolute nonsense
@10
I agree with SRK being the “star of the decade” due to his “popularity” for his films at home and abroad.
As for Aishwariya being “star of the decade”, I accept only that she may be so for her celebrity status – nothing to do with acting – in Indian or International cinema.
@Alysha
I am tempted to think that you are saying that SRK deserves “star of the decade” for his acting ability. Atleast, Aishwarya has tried acting in different genres and languages. The fact that a mediocre movie making industry cannot get the best out of Aishwarya does not make her a bad actress. You only have to look at some of her initial movies to understand that…
It is a shame that majority of movie industry in India is not represented/considered in the so called “Indian International” awards… Better name these as Hindi Masala Movie International awards…