Deepika Padukone, Ranbir Kapoor among the few presented with special awards at this year’s IIFA

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September 22, 2019

By: Talat Mohsin

The International Indian Film Academy Awards (IIFA) celebrated its two-decade journey by giving out special awards this year. Deepika Padukone was awarded with the best actress award for her role in the 2013 action-comedy “Chennai express” while Ranbir Kapoor won the best actor award for the drama movie “Barfi”.

The best film of the last twenty year’s award went to the Hritik Roshan starrer “Kaho Na Pyaar Hai”. Rajkumar Hirani was conferred with the award for his movie “3 idiots”, Pritam won it for “Ae Dil Hai Mushkil”, while the award for outstanding contribution to Indian Cinema was given to choreographer Saroj Khan. The award presented to her by Madhuri Dixit, who also paid attribute to the choreographer by performing on some of her famous songs. The comedian Syed Ishtiaq Ahmed, also known as Jagdeep, was also presented with this award.

These awards display the kind of favoritism that persists in the glittering life of Bollywood. Rani Mukherjee in “black”, Aishwarya Rai in “raincoat”, Alia Bhatt in “Highway”, Priyanka Chopra in “Barfi”, Tabu in “Maqbool”, Ratna Pathak Shah in “Lipstick under my burkha”, Vidya Balan in “the dirty picture” and “Kahani”, Konkona Sen Sharma in “page 3”, Kalki Koechlin in “Margarita with a Straw” and the list continues. Was Deepika’s performance in the comedy better than all of their performances? Or was it just another instance of the elaborate favoritism in Bollywood.

The belief is further strengthened by the choice of best movie made in Bollywood in the last 20 years. Surely, one would think that the award would go to a movie that broke barriers and stereotypes or had a good message.

At least a movie with a good storyline. The likes of movies such as “My name is Khan”, “Udaan”, “Queen”, “Dor”, “Rang De Basanti”, “Amir”, “Gangs of Wasseypur” did not find any mention on the platform. Is it still a competition if the winners are not chosen fairly?

This year the IIFA for the best actress was won by Alia Bhatt for her role in the spy-thriller “Raazi”, while the best actor award for won by Ranveer Singh for his role in the period movie “Padmaavat”. Raazi won the award for the best film of the year.

Gully boy- How real is the Gully Hip-hop

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Sharad Tripathi

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February 16, 2019

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The movie’s opening says that it’s a shout out to the artists Naezy and Divine. But, Naezy does not share the screen with Divine in the film. I doubt that how is it a shout out? In an interview, Naezy said, “It’s too early to make a movie about us.”

https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=naezy+interview.

The film has seen adaptions from the film 8 miles and West’s Hip-Hop, where the name of Movie remains ‘Gully boy’ that means the boy from the street.

In a Beats interview, Divine has said that the movie is not based on his life purely. Still, the movie has certain life events of the rapper of both Naezy and Divine.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c6cdd-ax4bM

Naezy isn’t very happy with the film and his importance. The film also has a glance of North India (Delhi) hip-hop through a rap battle. You may Google the Indian hip-hop scene and you won’t find any instance of such scenes as projected in the movie. No-rap battle video other than the video of Ranveer Singh, the lead, involved himself in the rap-cipher is the only video available on youtube from Bombay scene.

About HIP-HOP: It has always been a way of expression, presenting one’s ideas, thoughts, skills through rhymes and flow sometimes (not necessarily required). This film does not provide justice to the hardcore hip-hop scenes as it is only inspired by the hip-hop artist’s life events but not Hip-hop truly. The director ‘Zoya Akhtar’ had her own way of presenting Hip-hop as per her understanding not as per the Hip-Hop. It had the appearance of another rapper ‘Raja Kumari’ who did show up very late in the movie same as she has debuted herself late in the Mumbai hip-hop scene. The very base of the city, slums of Dharavi, Naezy’s life situation has been framed through direction.

Definitely, the film has opened doors for budding rappers for Mumbai’s unprivileged artists. The film has now given identification to that artist and they have made people foot-tap on the hip-hop beat.

A nice film, and recognition to underground Artists, but not a true hip-hop film. Why? because when the Artists on whom the film is based aren’t satisfied or given justice, how can we be positive about the movie? It is said cinema is the portrayal of the society which has not been true.

‘Aamir’ The New Face Of Vivo, Ranveer is Down From The Hoardings

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Sharad Tripathi

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March 23, 2018

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Aamir is known for his perfection in making films and dedication towards the films. With time he has also understood the importance of promotion. It is not so common to see Aamir doing promotions directly. He let’s media talk about his work, He is in the news because of his hard work and preparation news in the market. Remember Ghajini?

Aamir was talk in the business, He has teased the audience just by the poster alone by achieving 8 pack abs at the age of 43.

Let me give you a fresh example-

This time it was “Dangal’ He was in the news because of his drastic transformation. Let’s talk about Aamir’s upcoming movie “THUGS of HINDOSTAN’

This time the news is quite competitive with the star who has been in the news after the achievement for a long time Padmavat’s ‘Ranveer singh’.

Aamir is now the new poster boy of VIVO. Think thats not a news? Aamir has been the brand ambassador of Samsung for a long time, promoting ‘Next is what?_ Samsung’

Well this move, even Samsung wouldn’t have guessed. Next is VIVO.

Well you have achieved it Aamir, you are already in news, let’s see whats the next move. We expect the movie to be a good one.

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Deepika Padukone, Ranbir Kapoor among the few presented with special awards at this year’s IIFA

Gully boy- How real is the Gully Hip-hop

‘Aamir’ The New Face Of Vivo, Ranveer is Down From The Hoardings