FilmFare Awards 2004
The much hyped FF awards are finally over! I was really surprised with the choice of winners. This article deals with the choices made by FF in major categories and not on how saif bored the audience or how SRK, rani rocked or how Abhi wished to receive his award or how Shatrughan Sinha praised SRK!
Lets start with the **Popular awards:
Shahrukh khan wins the best actor for Swades, I must say a good choice. He has given a stunning performance in this film for more info you can check out my Swades review.
Rani wins the best actress award for Hum Tum! Since this is a popular award, I feel she deserves. But if you see the quality of acting it was pathetic from her! I woulkd have given it for Urmila for Ek Hasina Thi.
Best Director Kunal Kohli for Hum Tum.Joke of the year!For a man who doesn?t even know the ABC of direction getting an award for a movie which was a remake of Hollywood film!(may be cos of yash chopra connection)
Best Film Veer Zaraa?huh! What can I say now? Popular Sh!t awards
Next comes some good decisions made by FF.
Rani was spectacular in Yuva and she rightly deserves the supporting actress award! And for Supporting Abhishek bachchan was the perfect choice! He gave an outstanding performance for more info. You can read my Yuva review!
Next comes the award for best comedian and once again FF messed up this award giving it to Saif for Hum Tum. Its really funny to see Rani winning best actress and Saif winning comedian award for the same film! Anyway, there were better choices like paresh rawal and arshad warsi! Dunno what FF saw in saif?
Best artist in a Villainous role for Priyanka Chopra in Aitraaz! She gave a wonderful performance but did she really deserve? I don?t think so! Saif in ek hasina thi and AB jr in Yuva were lot better!
Best Debutant Ayesha Takia for Tarzan the wonder Car! I never knew such film ever existed. Gayatri Joshi would have been better choice
Next comes the music awards! FF ruined it completely!
When one was wondering whether Late madan mohan will win or Rahman will receive his 18th filmfare, here comes FF with its crappy decision of awarding it to anu malik for main ho na! This is really pathetic!
Alka Yagnik for best female playback for Hum Tum title song. Did she deserve it? I agree its one of the most beautiful tracks composed last year but certainly not an award winning one!
Forget it, but it?s the male playback winner which shocks the most. Kunal wins for Bheegay Hont from the porn film Murder! I mean come on, Sonu had given a wonderful song in main ho na, udit in Swades from where does kunal score?
Finally the lyrics category provides some relief, as javed akthar bags for Tere Liye from Veer Zaraa. Decent choice I guess! Choreography goes to Prabu Deva for Lakshya any doubt?
Next comes the technical department which I guess is the best choice ever made by FF, barring few!
I said in my Yuva review how brilliant the film was in technical department. I wasn?t surprised to see Yuva scoring in this department!
Best Screenplay for Mani Ratnam, how can we forget who well he told the story, it was a novel concept!
Best action for Vikram Dharma for Yuva, how can we forget the climax action scene between Abhi, vivek and Ajay! It was magnificent. Art direction for Sabu Cyril for Yuva again? he also did a good job in main ho naa.
Cinematography goes to Christopper for Lakshya? did he really deserve the award?
BGM to rahman for Swades? he didn?t deserve this award. His BGM in Yuva was far better.
Best Story and dialogue Aditya Chopra for Veer Zaraa. Dialogue certainly yes. story? Was nothing but crap!
Critics award
Critics award was quite surprising. I must say most of the decisions were nothing but rubbish!
Like Kareena receiving for Dev, when we have wonderful performance from Tabu, Urmail and Shilpa.I dunno what did the jury see in her? She made a special appearance in the film!maybe her smooching did the trick!
Again Pankaj Kapoor receiving the award for Maqbool was quite bad. No doubt he gave a good performance but I still feel, Abhishek bachchan, SRK and hrithik were far better!
Best film for Yuva and Dev, both are good but Swades was far better!
This sums up FF award 2004. It was really surprising to see good films like Yuva receiving maximum awards, but again some bad decisions like Best direction and music awards spoiling the good atmosphere!