As far as my memory takes me, I remember waiting all year long for the one special day that the Filmfare awards would be broadcasted. It was the one day the entire film industry got together and u could see all your favorite stars decked out, performing live, mingling with each other and just plain "being themselves". Especially back in the days, when there was 1 television channel, Filmfare was the only Award Show, Internet didn't exist and gossip was only available through magazines like Stardust and Filmfare but not everyone subscribed to them. I used to adore the star dance performances and speeches and acts. It was a fun-filled-film affair to be longed for all year.
These days, I don't know if its the over-abundance of award shows, or that everything u wanna know about Bollywood is easily available online, or there's just one too many actors to keep track of, or the fact that I was watching these online in a low quality video, or perhaps that I now have a more mature expectation of the quality of these shows since viewing the American Award shows .. whatever the cause the result was the same ... I have never felt less interested in and more annoyed by the Filmfare Awards.
The dance performances seemed endless and unoriginal. There were a total of 7 (Emraan Hashmi/Neha Dhupia/Udita Goswami, Shamita Shetty, Lara Dutta, Madhuri Dixit, Aishwarya Rai, Abhishek Bachchan, Shiamak Davar) but I really feel like 3 would have sufficed. Madhuri's performance was one that along with all of India I was anxiously awaiting. 3 songs from Devdas that sound very similar and seemed to never end made Madhuri's mildly exciting medley very disappointing for me. I'm sure I'll get beat up by Madhuri fans for saying this but I really was just NOT impressed. Aish's was the same. Lacking originality but atleast hers was short which made it sweet. Abhishek .. well .. I guess he's atleast always good to look at and with his exponentially growing popularity you can never get enough of him. The rest I really could've done without.
The EmCee's attempts at comedy were making me laugh AT them rather than with them. The entire production seemed very unprofessional and poorly managed. The other thing is, I knew Will Smith was attending this year's Filmfare Awards. I know he's used to a much higher quality show and I couldn't help but feel embarrassed, wishing ours were produced better.
India has come a LONG way and I'm sure with time, things will change and with it the quality of these shows. Despite the 100 other award shows and despite my annoyances with this year's show, I still can't help but feel attached to the one and only Filmfare Awards.
Here's a link to the list of winners if u're interested in finding out Overall Black took majority of the awards ... no surprise there!!!
--Bulbuli =)
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