Before anyone stab me with a blunt object for not rooting for Shah Rukh as Best Actor, my defense is.. he may have played the character to perfection, but I don't think Suri/Raj is an award winning role. It might have been though, had the story concentrated on Suri. To be fair to Adityaji, it's a story he wanted to tell and he told it. I doubt he made it with the intention of winning awards. I love the story, I wish it had won some big awards, but in my heart I also know that there are others in 2008 which are more deserving. Hopefully he will come up with an excellent story with award-winning elements and cast Shah Rukh in it so they can make another clean sweep next time.
Here's the Filmfare result (link):
- Best Film - Jodha Akbar
- Best Director - Ashutosh Gowarikar (Jodha Akbar)
- Best Actor - Hritik Roshan - (Jodha Akbar)
- Best Actress - Priyanka Chopra - Best Actress (Fashion)
- Lifetime Achievement Award - Om Puri & Bhanu Athaiya
- Best Music Director - AR Rahman (Jaane Tu Ya Jaane Na)
- Best Story - Abhishek Kapoor (Rock On)
- Best Supporting Actor - Arjun Rampal (Rock On)
- Best Supporting Actress - Kangna Ranaut (Fashion)
- Best Playback Singer (Male) - Sukhwinder Singh (Haule Haule - Rab Ne Bana De Jodi)
- Best Playback Singer (Female) - Shreya Ghoshal (Singh is Kinng)
- Best Debut (Male) - Farhan Akhtar (Rock On) & Imraan Khan (Jaane Tu)
- Best Debut (Female) - Asin (Ghajini)
- RD Burman Upcoming Talent - Benny Dayal (Ghajini)
- Best Costumes - Oye Lucky! Lucky Oye!
- Best Background Score - AR Rahman (Jodha Akbar)
- Best Cinematography - Jason West (Rock On!)
- Best Editing - Amit Pawar (Mumbai Meri Jaan)
- Best Coreography - Longinus (Jaane Tu)
- Best Lyricist - Javed Akhtar (Jashn-e-Bahara, Jodha Akbar)
- Best Sound Design - Vinod Subramanyam (Rock On)
- Best Visual Effects - John Deitz (Love Story 2050)
- Best Action - Peter Heinn (Ghajini)
Here's the Star Screen result for comparison (link):
Best Background Music
A. R. Rahman - Jodhaa Akbar
Best Music
A. R. Rahman - Jaane Tu… Ya Jaane Na
Best Playback Singer (Male)
KK - Khuda Jaane (Bachna Ae Haseeno)
Best Playback Singer (Female)
Shilpa Rao - Khuda Jaane (Bachna Ae Haseeno)
Best Lyrics
Anvita Dutt Guptan - Khuda Jaane (Bachna Ae Haseeno)
Most Promising Newcomer (Male)
Farhan Akhtar - Rock On!!
Most Promising Newcomer (Female)
Asin Thottumkal - Ghajini
Best Story
Neeraj Pandey - A Wednesday!
Best Screenplay
Shiraz Ahmed - Race
Best Editing
Rock On!!
Best Art Direction
Rock On!!
Best Cinematography
Rock On!!
Best Animation Film
Roadside Romeo
Best Jodi
John Abraham - Abhishek Bachchan (Dostana)
Lifetime Achievement Award
Sanjay Khan
Ramnath Goenka Award
A Wednesday!
Best Popular Actor Award
Akshay Kumar - Singh Is Kinng
Best Popular Actress Award
Aishwarya Rai - Jodhaa Akbar
Best Actor in a Supporting Role (Male)
Arjun Rampal - Rock On!!
Best Actor in a Supporting Role (Female)
Shahana Goswami - Rock On!!
Best Actor in a Negative Role (Male/Female)
Akshaye Khanna - Race
Best Actor in a Comic Role (Male/Female)
Tusshar Kapoor - Golmaal Returns
Best Film
Jodhaa Akbar
Best Director
Ashutosh Gowarikar - Jodhaa Akbar
Neeraj Pandey - A Wednesday!
Best Actor (Female)
Priyanka Chopra - Fashion
Best Actor (Male)
Hrithik Roshan - Jodhaa Akbar
...notice the glaring similarities? I wonder if the juries are the same people for those categories. Another of my pet peeve is this double winners these award functions sometimes do. Can't you just choose one of them? It's called 'Best' so that there'll be just ONE person standing at the end of the day (or night, as we have it). This happened to SRK too when he had to share the Best Actor award with Ajay (link) and the industry was lucky he poked fun at it in a jovial manner instead of making it a mockery.
One thing I love about Shah Rukh (among the gajillion things I love about him) is he respects the awards he gets and is not shy to admit that he covets them as proof of recognition for his works. I like that bluntness more than all this talk about not caring about awards and yet submitting his name year after year to the same award functions he's never attended (I bet everyone knows who I'm talking about here). To 'that guy', I want to say that if the awards repel you so much.. take your name off the nomination list coz you're wasting everyone's time in the voting process. The whole of India and the world knows that you're No. 1 (...errr, because you told us so? Hmmph...) so what's the point in contesting anymore, right? Take an example from Lataji and make scarce.
I hope Shah Rukh win some Best Actor awards next year (altho I'm not quite sure about the films he's chosen to act in this year, actually ^^;). But looking at the 2008 trend, I'm seeing some interesting things occurring. It's the year of debutantes and acceptance to the popularity of different kinds of cinema. I'm writing this with full bias: I think Shah Rukh is the person who has affected the most changes that's happening in the Hindi Cinema industry today. Off the top of my head:
1. He's the first TV actor with no filmi family/political/financial backings who came to Mumbai and was awarded Best Debut for his first released film, Deewana. That was achieved all the while he was thinking he'd be in Mumbai for only a year. To all you struggling actors, top that before you whine so much.
2. He's the first Hindi film hero who plays villainous roles, not in just one film but three, and two of them became hit movies. Actually, there's another recent one.. Don. I'm looking forward to Don 2 where he's supposed to give the character its wholesome evil worth.
3. Correct me if I'm wrong but I think he's the first actor who got the Best Actor award for a villainous role. In fact that was his first Best Actor win.
3. He's done successful remakes of two of the most famous movies of yesteryears (and the legendary actors who played the central characters are still alive and kicking), Devdas and Don. Hmm, I just noticed that both the central characters's names start with a 'D'.
4. He made a 180deg turn after Anjaam (and Karan Arjun + several flop movies ^^;) and starred as a romantic hero in a movie that has made history as the longest running film in India (second longest in the world, I think), Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge.
5. His roles are so varied from movie to movie it makes your head spin: bad guy, comedian, gundaa, romantic hero, victim, patriotic sportsman, etc. Did you know that he filmed Darr and Baazigar in the same schedule (link)? And both are hits (by virtue of being a workaholic, he's always had 1 or 2 hit films almost every year). And he got away with Best Villain and Best Actor, one for each. Anyone else wants to argue that he can't act? In fact, I should list down some of his hit films that he made in the same schedule just so I can impress some people about this guy.
I'll stop here coz this post is getting too long and I haven't even touched the stuff he's affected outside of the film industry.. like ads, sports, overseas popularity, et cetera et cetera. I guess I'll pick up this topic in another post later.
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