Award Nights – How much is too much?

Last night I watched the Star Screen Award night. It has been a long time since I watched one of these awards shows as I was at home and on the Republic Day eve, I did not have anything better to do. So I thought let’s give this award shows one more chance. There are quite a few reasons for not watching these shows. First, I feel these awards shows are all fixed. One can easily make out by seeing that some of the well deserved people never get the awards and all the stars (yes I m not talking of actors here) get the award not for their acting but for being popular. Second reason being, over the past few years the standard of the jokes in these awards ceremony has gone from bad to worse. And yesterday I was appalled to see the standard of the jokes. Sajid, Farha and Shreyas co-hosted the evening. The whole evening the trio made fun of movies like Dostana and Fashion. It’s not that I liked these movies but then there is a limit upto which you can take any jokes. And most of the time the jokes were below the belt. Finally Ashutosh Gowarikar got chance and he spoke his mind condemning the way the award ceremony was being hosted. I feel that only those people have right to make fun of others who have the courage to face the criticism. The response from Sajid after the backlash of Ashutosh was uncalled for. It showed he couldn’t take the criticism.

But it’s not that all the non-deserving people received the award. Some of the excellent performances did not go unnoticed. A special mention to the movie “A Wednesday” should be given. This is the kind of movie which you normally won’t except to take any award because Indian awards shows are not for talent but for popular. Still it managed to receive some of the better awards offered during the night. But one thing I could still connect to my rationality of not seeing the awards ceremony for the above mentioned reasons. And after seeing the ceremony I have decided I would not see these awards ceremony again (Until or unless I am bored to death and have nothing else to do).