What all was wrong with the 52nd Filmfare Awards?

Kangana Ranaut getting the Face of the Year takes the cake for me. You know guys, we are a star-starved society, we crave for icons...and Hrithik Roshan with his gymn-toned body and chiselled looks is the perfect candidate for the title…at least for the unhappy millions for whom movies are a way of getting away from daily drudgery. So Hrithik did not get the award for his performance (or should I say non-performance) in Dhoom 2 (such a bad film, it was funny to see it getting nominated). The man got the award precisely because we are slaves of the star-system in Bollywood and will do everything to keep things the way they are. So year after year, the Roshans, the Bachchans and the Kapoors will keep getting undeserved awards.
Though Fanaa was a crappy film, Kajol’s performance was above-average, if not one of her best. Deserved the award? I don’t know…
Has anyone ever considered the fact that the awards only reinforce stereotypes about actors? How many average-looking actors have won awards in the past many years? It’s all about looks in Bollywood. Or so it seems. A Deepak Dobriyal would never be nominated for the Best Supporting Actor category, would he? Such a pity. Abhishek Bachchan for KANK. Well, that movie was so bad that it being on the nominations list is the saddest day for cinema and art. It does not deserve to be called a film. And so, anyone getting an ‘award’ for that bakwaas film has got to be a case of ‘aur koi nahin mila to isko de diya’. Then again it sepaks volumes for the value we attach to art and commerce in cinema. Karan Johar is the prince of moolah and lo and behold, his movie however pathetic will end up getting nominations if not awards. And those who missed out on the Ash-wiping-her-tears act when would be mom-in-law Jaya Bachchan received some special award (yawn!), you missed the farce of the year. The fakeness of the whole act makes me cringe. It was disgustingly phony, so hypocritical that I was guffawing my guts out. I don’t know about you guys but that woman (Aish) is the epitome of pretence.