Filmfare Awards 2018 – Filmfare Unfair.

The winners List

Where nominations itself were unfair how can one expect for the awards to be fair. India’s most popular awards are given away for quite unpopular films. Films that had a limited audience some of them didn’t even breakthrough. These were the films that were termed as art films more recently called as parallel cinema wins over the popular ones this season.

Most popular film of the year Box Office per se or for that matter entertainment per se that rides on the Man of the Industry Salman Khan who promises to rake in a mullah one can’t imagine even on a multi-starrer film or putting all these art films together cannot earn the magnum a Salman Khan film earns or promises. The film received the best action award but the Hero that executes the action is not in the nomination also.

They proved Kangana Ranaut wrong that if they ask you to perform they would give away the award to you. Poor Akshay Kumar the highest contender from the Nomination list loses on to winning this time too, whereas he is the only one actor who is consistent in delivering good films, variety of films, films on social cause, films that have feel of the country, films that consistently perform on Box Office. Coming so close this time to win his first Best Actor filmfare award loses this time in spite of performing live on Stage. Filmfare tries too hard to prove Kangana Ranaut wrong. So much so that in the films she appears are deprived of any awards which otherwise they would have won.

Best Costume goes to Rohit for A death in the Gunj than Kangana’s film Rangoon.

Best Cinematography goes to Sirsha Ray for A death in the Gunj than her film.

Best Production Design goes to Parul for Daddy than Rangoon. If out of the above nothing else, production design for sure Rangoon deserved than anybody else out of the nominees in this category.

The unfairness is just not here, as anticipated, they gave away the best actor female award to Vidya Balan and best actor female critics award to Zaira Wasim as anticipated rightly knowing filmfare. It could have been the other way round too.

Coming to the Musical awards, gone are those days where one song was the magnum, winning 3-4 categories of lyrics, music, playback singing, choreography. The best musical film of the year Secret Superstar doesn’t win the best music award. It goes to Jagga Jasoos for the best album. Lyrics goes to ullu ka pattha only shows who has played ullu ka pattha this season at the awards. Glad that they chose Meghna Mishra for Nachdi Phira best playback female; the only right thing that happened in this category. Pritam wins best background score too for Jagga Jasoos fine, but if Mom was spine chilling it was purely because of its background score created by none other than A.R. Rahman. Even for that matter best sound design didn’t happen to Mom.

To whom it happened doesn’t really matter much as the nominations itself weren’t great. Probably if 2017 would have had the films that were expected to roar or happen at the box office, things would have been different.

Salman Khan would have had the nomination for Tubelight or not sure with the practice of Filmfare he wouldn’t have still made it. Shahrukh Khan would have won or bribed his award for Jab Harry Met Sejal. Screenplay, direction would have gone to Sanjay Leela Bhansali for Padmavati then. Ranveer Singh would have been part of the competition and Vidya would have easily lost on Deepika Padukone if not anyone else.

The good thing is all that didn’t happen and made path for films getting closer to Filmfare awards that wouldn’t have been otherwise. Films like Trapped winning these many awards would probably not have seen nominations too.

Mukti Bhavan a great film, more of a festival film, wins the Best Screenplay Award in the popular category. At the same time, they missed out on Gurgaon big time that had a great story and a great role executed by Pankaj Tripathi; who also deserved a best supporting actor for Newton than Newton himself winning the best supporting actor for Baraeilly ki Barfi.

The Best Actor Award would have been Rajkumar Rao for Bareilly ki Barfi than Newton or Trapped considering the popular awards. But Rajkumar Rao didn’t even make it to the nominations list. He has won Best Actor Award Critic for Trapped.

They give the away the Best Original Story to Newton that probably would have been the best plagiarism award. Best debut direction goes to Konkana Sen for A death in the Gunj whereas the Secret Superstar Director Advait Chandan deserved it anytime better than losing out to A death in the Gunj. The list published had no debutant Director nominee list. A konkana sen Sharma was a give away award. Glad Advait had a nomination in the category of the Best Director which Konkana Sen didn’t have. Wonder how this works.

And no Debut popular awards this year best female debut, best male debut or is it considered only for Nepotism kids when next year we will have Jhanvi and Ishaan winning for Dhadak.

Best comedy and best villain awards are history but are we ensuring that these actors get covered in the popular award category. I guess not else there could have been nominations from Judwaa or Golmaal both were smash hits at box office. Oh but not original, oh best story can go to a film that gets copied from out side Bollywood but if you copy something or recreate your own thing, sorry you are sidelined.

Next year filmfare would be unfair to all these art/parallel cinemas who made to the popular category. I doubt if we would see small films making big as this year.

For now, check out the winners in the below nominations list. And of course, some additional comments too.

Best Film

Badrinath Ki Dulhania

Bareilly Ki Barfi

Hindi Medium (winner)

Secret Superstar (Expected Winner)

Toilet: Ek Prem Katha

Best Director

Advait Chandan – Secret Superstar (Expected Winner)

Ashwin Iyer Tiwari – Bareilly Ki Barfi (winner)

Saket Chaudhary – Hindi Medium

Shashank Khaitan – Badrinath Ki Dulhania

Shree Narayan Singh – Toilet: Ek Prem Katha

Best Actor In A Leading Role (Male)

Akshay Kumar – Toilet: Ek Prem Katha (Expected Winner)

Ayushmann Khurrana – Shubh Mangal Saavdhan

Hrithik Roshan – Kaabil

Irrfan Khan – Hindi Medium(winner)

Shah Rukh Khan – Raees

Varun Dhawan – Badrinath Ki Dulhania

Best Actor In A Leading Role (Female)

Alia Bhatt – Badrinath Ki Dulhania

Bhumi Pednekar – Shubh Mangal Saavdhan

Saba Qamar – Hindi Medium

Sridevi – Mom

Vidya Balan – Tumhari Sulu (winner)

Zaira Wasim – Secret Superstar (Expected Winner)

Best Actor In A Supporting Role (Male)

Aamir Khan – Secret Superstar

Deepak Dobriyal – Hindi Medium

Manav Kaul – Tumhari Sulu

Nawazuddin Siddiqui – Mom

Pankaj Tripathi – Newton (Deserving)

Rajkummar Rao – Bareilly Ki Barfi (Expected Winner wins)

(Wrong nomination though. He could have won as best actor for this than Irfan Khan over Hindi Medium. A Nomination goof up followed by a vicious circle of goof-ups).

Best Actor In A Supporting Role (Female)

Meher Vij – Secret Superstar (Expected Winner wins)

Ratna Pathak Shah – Lipstick Under My Burkha

Seema Pahwa – Bareilly Ki Barfi

Seema Pahwa – Shubh Mangal Saavdhan

Tillotama Shome – A Death In The Gunj

Best Music Album

Badrinath Ki Dulhania

Bareilly Ki Barfi

Half Girlfriend

Jab Harry Met Sejal – Pritam

Jagga Jasoos – Pritam (Shocking Winner)

Secret Superstar – Amit Trivedi (Expected Winner)

Best Lyrics

Amitabh Bhattacharya – Galti Se Mistake (Jagga Jasoos)

Amitabh Bhattacharya – Ullu Ka Pattha (Jagga Jasoos) (Shocking Winner)

Arko Pravo Mukherjee – Nazm Nazm (Bareilly Ki Barfi)

Kausar Munir – Maana Ke Hum (Meri Pyaari Bindu)

Kausar Munir – Nachdi Phira Secret Superstar (Expected Winner)

Santanu Ghatak – Rafu (Tumhari Sulu)

Best Playback Singer (Male)

Akhil Sachdeva – Humsafar (Badrinath Ki Dulhania)

Arijit Singh – Roke Na Ruke Naina -Badrinath Ki Dulhania- (Winner)

Arijit Singh – Zaalima (Raees)

Arko Pravo Mukherjee – Nazm Nazm – Bareilly Ki Barfi (Expected Winner)

Baarish (Half Girlfriend)

Sachin Sanghvi – Kho Diya (Bhoomi)

Best Playback Singer (Female)

Meghna Mishra – Nachdi Phira (Secret Superstar) (Expected Winner wins)

Monali Thakur – Khol De Baahein (Meri Pyaari Bindu)

Nikhita Gandhi – Ghar (Jab Harry Met Sejal)

Ronkini Gupta – Rafu (Tumhari Sulu)

Shashaa Tirupati – Kanha (Shubh Mangal Saavdhan)

Shreya Ghoshal – Thodi Der (Half Girlfriend)

Best Action

Allan Amin – Jagga Jasoos

Franz Spilhaus – Commando 2

Harpal Singh Pali and Ravi Kumar – Rangoon

K Ravi Verma – Raees

Tom Struthers – Tiger Zinda Hai (Expected Winner wins)

Best Background Score

Alokananda Dasgupta – Trapped

A.R. Rahman – Mom (Expected Winner)

Naren Chandavarkar and Benedict Taylor – Daddy

Pritam – Jagga Jasoos (Shocking Winner)

Sagar Desai – A Death In The Gunj

Tajdar Junaid – Mukti Bhawan

Best Production Design

Anita Rajgopalan Lata, Donal Raegan Gracy – Raees

Parul Sondh – Daddy (Shocking Winner)

Siddharth Sirohi – A Death In The Gunj

Subrata Chakraborty and Amit Ray – Rangoon (Expected Winner)

Best Costume

Dolly Ahluwalia – Rangoon(Expected Winner)

Nidhi and Divya Gambhir – Daddy

Rohit Chaturvedi – A Death In The Gunj (Shocking Winner)

Best Sound Design

Anish John – Trapped (Winner)

Baylon Fonseca and Dhiman Karmakar – Raees

Nihar Ranjan Samal – Mom(Expected Winner)

Subhash Sahoo – Tumhari Sulu

Udit Duseja – Daddy

Best Editing

Aarif Sheikh and Manas Mittal – A Death In The Gunj (Winner)

Monisha R Baldawa – Mom(Expected Winner)

Nitin Baid – Trapped

Shweta Venkat Mathew – Newton

Best Choreography

Ganesh Acharya – (Badri Ki Dulhania – Badrinath Ki Dulhania)

Shiamak Davar – Ullu Ka Pattha – Jagga Jasoos – (Winner)

Sudesh Adhana – (Bloody Hell – Rangoon)

Vijay Ganguly – Ban Ja Rani – Tumhari Sulu – (Expected Winner)

Vijay Ganguly – (Khaana Khaake – Jagga Jasoos)

Vijay Ganguly and Ruel Dausan Varindani (Galti Se Mistake – Jagga Jasoos)

Best Original Story

Amit Joshi – Trapped

Amit V Masurkar – Newton (Winner)

Rahul Dahiya – G Kutta Se

Shanker Raman and Sourabh Ratnu – Gurgaon- (Expected Winner)

Shubhashish Bhutiani – Mukti Bhawan

Suresh Triveni – Tumhari Sulu

Best Dialogue

Hitesh Kewalya – Shubh Mangal Saavdhan(Expected Winner wins)

Mayank Tewari and Amit V Masurkar – Newton

Nitesh Tiwari and Shreyas Jain – Bareilly Ki Barfi

Subhash Kapoor – Jolly LLB 2

Suresh Triveni, Vijay Maurya – Tumhari Sulu

Best Screenplay

Advait Chandan – Secret Superstar (Expected Winner)

Amit Joshi and Hardik Mehta – Trapped

Mayank Tewari and Amit V Masurkar – Newton

Shubhashish Bhutiani – Mukti Bhawan (Winner)

Subhash Kapoor – Jolly Llb 2

Best Cinematography

Jessica Lee Gagne and Pankaj Kumar – Daddy

Pankaj Kumar – Rangoon (Expected Winner)

Ravi Varman – Jagga Jasoos

Sirsha Ray – A Death In The Gunj (Winner)

Swapnil S Sonawane – Newton

All the views are personal and does not intend to hurt anybody in person or any fraternity new or old, popular or unpopular.

Filmfare Awards 2018 – Filmfare Unfair.

The most prestigious Awards in the Bollywood fraternity – Filmfare seems to have lost popularity in the recent year’s. The Nepotism Roast Kangana Ranaut raised with the AIB team; filmfare only makes it real.
For those who missed; take a look at the video below and enjoy the sarcasm at its best.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a9ggjCbv5ck

The most popular Awards Filmfare has Trapped in the Best Film category but the only actor who made Trapped work has no nomination for the best actor category; that is Rajkumar Rao.

Tiger Zinda Hai the film that took the Box Office by Storm – numbers the film has gained breaking all records only suggest how many people have watched the film over and over again, fails to make it to the best Film category though. Forget Salman Khan’s nomination for the Best Actor; many would deny the fact of he winning the same, but nomination yes- he does deserve the nomination if Hrithik and Shahrukh gets nominated for Kaabil and Raees that failed any critical acclaim or met the box office results.

Newton the film that was just average gets nominated for the Oscars but doesn’t make it to the Best Film category at Filmfare Awards neither RajKumar Rao is nominated as the best actor for the same film. Infact, he gets nominated for one of the best films Bareilly Ki Barfi as a supporting cast wherein he was as good as the second lead than the supporting cast in the film. Indeed, he was the Man of 2018 for Bollywood.

Badrinath ki Dulhania is nominated under the Best Film category shows the awards are driven by some Production houses and nepotism is here to stay. YRF’s Tiger Zinda Hai blockbuster of the industry doesn’t get place in the popular award category. They miss out on Pankaj Tripathi as the best actor in “Gurgaon” who delivered and the film was great too. They chop Pakistani actor roles but they nominate Saba Qamar for Best female lead for Hindi Medium though she was nice but a nomination is little too much when Swara Bhaskar is left out for a stellar performance in a great film “Anarkali of Aarah”. It is fine to have just 2-3 nominations that are deserving than just filling the numbers.

The film that is nominated for Best Screenplay is not nominated in the Best ORIGINAL story category “Secret Superstar” neither the film is nominated in the best dialogue category which indeed had lines that motivated many to pursue their dreams.

Newton is nominated in the Best ORIGINAL story when the world came to know the film was inspired if not copied from the Iranian film “secret ballot” that’s why probably Rajkumar Rao has no nomination for the best actor for Newton but the story has a nomination.
Waah Re Filmfare – very unfair.

Checkout the Nomination List below and stay amazed.
Checkout our Anticipated Winners from the selected lot of the same highlighted in bold.

Here’s the complete list of nominees:

Best Film
Badrinath Ki Dulhania
Bareilly Ki Barfi
Hindi Medium
Secret Superstar
Toilet: Ek Prem Katha

However, it wouldn’t be a surprise if it loses to Badrinath ki Dulhania.

Best Director
Advait Chandan – Secret Superstar
Ashwin Iyer Tiwari – Bareilly Ki Barfi
Saket Chaudhary – Hindi Medium
Shashank Khaitan – Badrinath Ki Dulhania
Shree Narayan Singh – Toilet: Ek Prem Katha

Best Actor In A Leading Role (Male)
Akshay Kumar – Toilet: Ek Prem Katha
Ayushmann Khurrana – Shubh Mangal Saavdhan
Hrithik Roshan – Kaabil
Irrfan Khan – Hindi Medium
Shah Rukh Khan – Raees
Varun Dhawan – Badrinath Ki Dulhania

Best Actor In A Leading Role (Female)
Alia Bhatt – Badrinath Ki Dulhania
Bhumi Pednekar – Shubh Mangal Saavdhan
Saba Qamar – Hindi Medium
Sridevi – Mom
Vidya Balan – Tumhari Sulu
Zaira Wasim – Secret Superstar

However, it wouldn’t be a surprise if she loses to Vidya Balan for Tumhari Sulu.
Best Actor In A Supporting Role (Male)
Aamir Khan – Secret Superstar
Deepak Dobriyal – Hindi Medium
Manav Kaul – Tumhari Sulu
Nawazuddin Siddiqui – Mom
Pankaj Tripathi – Newton
Rajkummar Rao – Bareilly Ki Barfi

Best Actor In A Supporting Role (Female)
Meher Vij – Secret Superstar
Ratna Pathak Shah – Lipstick Under My Burkha
Seema Pahwa – Bareilly Ki Barfi
Seema Pahwa – Shubh Mangal Saavdhan
Tillotama Shome – A Death In The Gunj

Best Music Album
Badrinath Ki Dulhania – Amaal Mallik, Tanishk Bagchi and Akhil Sachdeva
Bareilly Ki Barfi – Arko, Tanishk Bagchi, Samira Koppikar, Sameer Uddin and Vayu
Half Girlfriend – Mithoon, Tanishk Bagchi, Rishi Rich, Farhan Saeed, Rahul Mishra, Ami Mishra
Jab Harry Met Sejal – Pritam
Jagga Jasoos – Pritam
Secret Superstar – Amit Trivedi

Best Lyrics
Amitabh Bhattacharya – Galti Se Mistake (Jagga Jasoos)
Amitabh Bhattacharya – Ullu Ka Pattha (Jagga Jasoos)
Arko Pravo Mukherjee – Nazm Nazm (Bareilly Ki Barfi)
Kausar Munir – Maana Ke Hum (Meri Pyaari Bindu)
Kausar Munir – Nachdi Phira (Secret Superstar)
Santanu Ghatak – Rafu (Tumhari Sulu)

Best Playback Singer (Male)
Akhil Sachdeva – Humsafar (Badrinath Ki Dulhania)
Arijit Singh – Roke Na Ruke Naina (Badrinath Ki Dulhania)
Arijit Singh – Zaalima (Raees)
Arko Pravo Mukherjee – Nazm Nazm (Bareilly Ki Barfi)
Ash King – Baarish (Half Girlfriend)
Sachin Sanghvi – Kho Diya (Bhoomi)

Best Playback Singer (Female)
Meghna Mishra – Nachdi Phira (Secret Superstar)
Monali Thakur – Khol De Baahein (Meri Pyaari Bindu)
Nikhita Gandhi – Ghar (Jab Harry Met Sejal)
Ronkini Gupta – Rafu (Tumhari Sulu)
Shashaa Tirupati – Kanha (Shubh Mangal Saavdhan)
Shreya Ghoshal – Thodi Der (Half Girlfriend)

Best Action
Allan Amin – Jagga Jasoos
Franz Spilhaus – Commando 2
Harpal Singh Pali and Ravi Kumar – Rangoon
K Ravi Verma – Raees
Tom Struthers – Tiger Zinda Hai

Best Background Score
Alokananda Dasgupta – Trapped
A.R. Rahman – Mom
Naren Chandavarkar and Benedict Taylor – Daddy
Pritam – Jagga Jasoos
Sagar Desai – A Death In The Gunj
Tajdar Junaid – Mukti Bhawan

Best Production Design
Anita Rajgopalan Lata, Donal Raegan Gracy – Raees
Parul Sondh – Daddy
Siddharth Sirohi – A Death In The Gunj
Subrata Chakraborty and Amit Ray – Rangoon

Best Costume
Dolly Ahluwalia – Rangoon
Nidhi and Divya Gambhir – Daddy
Rohit Chaturvedi – A Death In The Gunj

However, it wouldn’t be a surprise if they giveaway someone else as in Rangoon it was Kangana Ranaut that was dressed.

Best Sound Design
Anish John – Trapped
Baylon Fonseca and Dhiman Karmakar – Raees
Nihar Ranjan Samal – Mom
Subhash Sahoo – Tumhari Sulu
Udit Duseja – Daddy

Best Editing
Aarif Sheikh and Manas Mittal – A Death In The Gunj
Monisha R Baldawa – Mom
Nitin Baid – Trapped
Shweta Venkat Mathew – Newton

Best Choreography
Ganesh Acharya – (Badri Ki Dulhania – Badrinath Ki Dulhania)
Shiamak Davar (Ullu Ka Pattha – Jagga Jasoos)
Sudesh Adhana – (Bloody Hell – Rangoon)
Vijay Ganguly – (Ban Ja Rani – Tumhari Sulu)
Vijay Ganguly – (Khaana Khaake – Jagga Jasoos)
Vijay Ganguly and Ruel Dausan Varindani (Galti Se Mistake – Jagga Jasoos)

Best Original Story
Amit Joshi – Trapped
Amit V Masurkar – Newton
Rahul Dahiya – G Kutta Se
Shanker Raman and Sourabh Ratnu – Gurgaon
Shubhashish Bhutiani – Mukti Bhawan
Suresh Triveni – Tumhari Sulu

Popularity wise may got to Tumhari Sulu.

Best Dialogue
Hitesh Kewalya – Shubh Mangal Saavdhan
Mayank Tewari and Amit V Masurkar – Newton
Nitesh Tiwari and Shreyas Jain – Bareilly Ki Barfi
Subhash Kapoor – Jolly LLB 2
Suresh Triveni, Vijay Maurya – Tumhari Sulu

Best Screenplay
Advait Chandan – Secret Superstar
Amit Joshi and Hardik Mehta – Trapped
Mayank Tewari and Amit V Masurkar – Newton
Shubhashish Bhutiani – Mukti Bhawan
Subhash Kapoor – Jolly Llb 2

Best Cinematography
Jessica Lee Gagne and Pankaj Kumar – Daddy
Pankaj Kumar – Rangoon
Ravi Varman – Jagga Jasoos
Sirsha Ray – A Death In The Gunj
Swapnil S Sonawane – Newton