NOW THAT THAT OTHER SHOW IS OVER

After months of speculation, the Filmfare nominations are finally out.

As discredited as they are, they are still the best of the worst.

And its not the Nobel so lets just have fun with them…. Below are my picks of who will win and who should win.

THE NOMINATIONS ARE...

BEST FILM
Dostana
Ghajini
Jaane Tu... Ya Jaane Na
Jodhaa Akbar
Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi
Rock On!!

Who will win: Jodha Akbar. Simply because of the minuses of the others. Ghajini was not critically acclaimed and the fact that Aamir doesn’t attend awards makes it a weakness. Jaana Tu was a great film but too young to be taken seriously + the Aamir factor again. Dostana is nominated because of the producer (KJo) not because of the movie. Rab Ne was good but awarding it would make the YashRaj+Filmfare nexus too obvious (but since its being held at YR Studios don’t count it out as yet. Adi Chopra is known to be a controlling megalomaniac)

Who Should Win: Rock On! Not the greatest film but definitely the best of the lot here. The really great ones weren’t even nominated like Aamir, A Wednesday etc…

BEST DIRECTOR

A.R. Murugadoss: Ghajini
Abhishek Kapoor: Rock On!!
Aditya Chopra: Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi
Ashutosh Gowariker: Jodhaa Akbar
Madhur Bhandarkar: Fashion
Neeraj Pandey: A Wednesday

Who will win: Ashutosh for Jodha Akbar. Accept it. Bollywood likes nothing more than big films pretending to be good films.

Who Should Win: Abhishek Kapoor because his films (from the list above) was the best of the lot and quite frankly it’s a HUGE improvement on his first snoozefest called Aryan.

BEST ACTOR (MALE)

Aamir Khan: Ghajini
Abhishek Bachchan: Dostana
Akshay Kumar: Singh Is Kinng
Hrithik Roshan: Jodhaa Akbar
Shah Rukh Khan: Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi
Naseeruddin Shah: A Wednesday

Who will win: Hrithik Roshan. Aamir was too Rajnikant in this cheesy B grade wannabe and while AB Jr. was in great form in Dostana the movie in itself wasn’t serious enough to warrant a best actor. Comedians rarely win with the exception being Bebo in last year’s delightful Jab We Met.

Who Should Win: Hrithik Roshan. He was the only good thing in this 3 ½ hr jewelry ad. Perfectly in love as his character demanded but also wonderfully composed as you would expect from a born emperor.

BEST ACTOR (FEMALE)

Aishwarya Rai Bachchan: Jodhaa Akbar
Anushka Sharma: Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi
Asin Thottumkal: Ghajini
Kajol: U Me Aur Hum
Priyanka Chopra: Fashion

Who Will Win: Priyanka Chopra coz this was the ‘acted’ role of the year. Ash was just eye candy (isn’t she always) and Asin was frankly irritating after some time and Kajol, while a great actress, had a crappy film this time.

Who Should Win: Anushka Sharma. 19 yrs old, first film and to hold your own against SRK. That alone should be enough.

BEST ACTOR IN A SUPPORTING ROLE (MALE )

Abhishek Bachchan: Sarkar Raj
Arjun Rampal: Rock On!!
Prateik Babbar: Jaane Tu... Ya Jaane Na
Sonu Sood: Jodha Akbar
Tushar Kapoor: Golmaal Returns
Vinay Pathak: Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi

Who Will Win: Arjun Rampal for his well deserved turn in Rock On. He Finally gets to shine.

Who Should Win: Prateik Babbar. In an infectiously bubbly film like Jaane Tu… if you can stand out with just 3 scenes (and what scenes) you definitely deserve to win. Acting prowess shouldn’t be based on the length of the role as Dame Judi Dench showed with her Oscar win with just 3 scenes too.



BEST ACTOR IN A SUPPORTING ROLE (FEMALE )

Bipasha Basu: Bachna Ae Haseeno
Kangna Ranaut: Fashion
Kirron Kher: Dostana
Ratna Pathak Shah: Jaane Tu... Ya Jaane Na
Shahana Goswami: Rock On!!

Who Will Win: Shahana Goswami. Again very well deserved. Watch her moisturize her hands before bed and sneak a quick sniff to check if the fish is still smelling…

Who Should Win: Ratna Pathak Shah. The hindi film mother finally come of age. No Gajar-ka-halwa and infact she almost says the F word… what more can we hope for.


BEST MUSIC DIRECTOR

A R Rahman: Ghajini
A R Rahman: Jaane Tu... Ya Jaane Na
A R Rahman: Jodhaa Akbar
Pritam Chakraborty: Race
Shankar-Ehsaan-Loy: Rock On!!
Vishal-Shekhar: Dostana

Why are we even debating this after the Oscar double whammy. But ideally it should be for Jodha Akbar for that haunting Khwaja Mere Khwaja but then again maybe it should be for that brilliant Jazz number from Jaane Tu or the haunting Kaise Mujhe from Ghajini….. oh hell just give it to him for life

BEST LYRICS

Abbas Tyrewala: Kabhi kabhi Aditi (Jaane Tu... Ya Jaane Na)
Gulzar: Tu meri dost hai (Yuvvraaj)
Jaideep Sahni: Haul –haule (Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi)
Javed Akhtar: Jashn-e-bahara (Jodhaa Akbar)
Javed Akhtar: Socha hai (Rock On!!)
Prasoon Joshi: Guzarish (Ghajini)

Who Will Win: Javed Akhtar for Jashn-e-bahara because it was the kind of song Filmfare loves.

Who Should Win: Jaideep Sahni. Haule Haule was beautifully written. Love indeed does come haule haule…. Its lust that comes on like a ton of bricks.

BEST PLAYBACK (MALE)

Farhan Akhtar: Socha hai (Rock On!!)
KK: Khuda jaane (Bachna Ae Haseeno)
KK: Zara si dil mein (Jannat)
Rashid Ali: Kabhi kabhi Aditi (Jaane Tu... Ya Jaane Na)
Sonu Nigam: Inn lamhon ke daaman mein (Jodhaa Akbar)
Sukhwinder Singh: Haule haule (Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi)

Who Will Win: Rashid Ali for that Aditi chart-topper but why wasn’t Mohit Chauhan nominated for Khuch Khaas. Never mind he has next year’s award wrapped up for Masakali.

Who Should Win: Sonu. He may be shooting his mouth off like crazy and still harbouring dreams of being an actor but when he does get to singing he can knock the socks off anyone.

BEST PLAYBACK (FEMALE)

Alka Yagnik: Tu muskura (Yuvvraaj)
Neha Bhasin: Kuch khaas hai (Fashion)
Shilpa Rao: Khuda jaane (Bachna Ae Haseeno)
Shreya Ghoshal: Teri ore (Singh is Kinng)
Shruti Pathak: Marjaawa (Fashion)
Sunidhi Chauhan: Dance pe chance (Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi)

Who Will Win: Alka simply becoz that Ghosal girl has been winning too many lately.

Who Should Win: Shruti Pathak for that haunting song in Fashion. A resplendently neurotic Kangana on the ramp and Marjaawa playing in the back. You can feel the downfall coming even as she’s the showstopper right there.

But then this is just my views....

Feel free to digress.

Ciao

Vish