Giving awards has become a catchy trend. Institute awards and give them amidst pre-scripted fanfare stretching into midnight, one award affair barely distinguishable from the other, including detail of where the lectern for the anchors is positioned. Carefully choreographed, nay cartographed as it is more of chess board PT than dance.
Multiple celebrity anchors, who bring in some wit and some humor ( not necessarily without stink), some rancour, some play, some frolic and some prank mostly imbued in imbecility.
The Khan clan usually outdoes others in this race. Shah Rukh is the front runner. The man has manic energy and has something that clicks with the common man. Intellectuals, find him just another freak case of success of probability or the probability of success.
The only one award function that I did the mistake of attending in person and not viewed on TV was the felicitation of the Sushmita and Aishwarya after they won the world beauty pageants in the mid 90s. Serpentine queues outside and euphoria brinking on madness inside. In fact a colleague of mine was so struck by the actual physical presence of these dames that he jumped the bamboo barricade, breached the security cordon and reached next to the jeep in which these women were riding and waving to the crowd. Of course in hot pursuit were the cops and he did get a lathi of a Mumbai police, but he was euphoric about being able to touch Sush’s hand and remained steeped in a blissful hypnagogic hallucination thereafter for many days.
Speaking of the Filmfare Awards of last week, many of the impromptu jokes and crowd interaction seemed pre-meditated, orchestrating a situation which sometimes can be actually more embarrassing than humorous.
If some of you would have seen the Filmfare awards, the chhota nawab joke was pretty much in poor taste. But the nymphs must giggle and the cameras must focus on them to complete the ritual.
Sometimes I feel, it may be wrong to be critical. You can admire the heavy stuff, but laugh only at buffoonery. That is what these stars are doing. Only that they take a fortune for that buffoonery.
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