HIndie Awards
What if?
So I thought about
this, since I'm anyways going crazier by making predictions for my blog's
HIndie Awards then why not go the whole way.
If you see a lot of
Oscar season predictions then the race generally bends to not only how good a
film or an aspect of it is, but who is behind the film; the backers that are
going to campaign the hell out of it to win. It's like any other dirty political
race.
So I decided; why
not utilize that-yes flawed but-fun method to cast my predictions for this
year's HIndie Award.
For that to happen,
it mean there is a need for a history to be built around the awards and since
it is in actuality only one year old; why not do a What if version like I did
for my Underdog Awards.
It'd be
fun...right?! RIGHT?!
Yeah, I'm going
nuts.
Anyways let's begin
with what if's going from 2013-2009 [Only this decade! and the one year which in my opinion cannot be missed since it was one of the best for modern Hindi cinema]
HIndie Awards 2010
So let's begin with what is now the actual first official HIndie Awards ceremony; the 2010 HIndie Awards, honoring the actual best of the best of Hindi films of 2009 [As well as I can remember and judge them].
So here is the nomination ballot...winners are highlighted in bold/italics.
I will make a few statements on the winners;
-Thanks to the new genre divide...both Kashyap films leave a mark and win, this was the year Anurag Kashyap became a juggernaut alternative to mainstream cinema. Also in favor UTV and Ronnie Screwala handled the production and distribution of Kashyap, heralding his entry into the big leagues.
-Since I didn't want to nominate him twice, Kashyap unofficially wins for both films though Dev D being the fresher of films [Gulaal was released in 2009 after much delay due to censorship] is much more technically crisp and presents a refined skill set of the director hence the actual champion
-Rajeev Ravi's lucid cinematography gives a brilliantly trippy vibe to the new age Devdas it trumps his own red tinged Gulaal.
-Written with a more complex bent and very raw issue at its core, Gulaal is where the drama screenplay award goes.
-Wake Up Sid's breezy style and from the heart musings of growing up and romance make it a winner for debutante Ayan Mukherjee
-Farhan Akhtar gives a stirringly nuanced subtle performance as a struggling actor in a massive ensemble piece while Abhay Deol knocks it out of the park in a career best performance. If I had begun a year prior then he would have struck gold for Oye Lucky as well.
-Much of Firaaq is underrated and the actors especially don't get their due, the ensemble cast is phenomenal especially in this case veteran Deepti Naval who's guilt ridden character is vulnerably and hauntingly performed. Mahi Gill also stands toe to toe with Deol as his Paro pulling off her breakthrough role with aplomb.
-Side Note; Some might be surprised by my inclusion of Gauhar Khan in a leading capacity, yes she is a supporting figure but she is also in a role and performance that truly lets her shine, being the second best behind a game Ranbir in a fascinating film.
-Piyush Mishra is equal parts hilarious and scary as the subjugated younger brother to KK Menon in Gulaal. Boman is the best thing of 3 Idiots, scenery chewing and an actual laugh riot with his reactions and physicality. Dimple Kapadia steals the film in a key scene highlighting something that is scarily emotionally raw and powerful. Kalki in a first time role is a beacon of light for Dev and a hell of a dark entertainer.
-Who can beat A.R. Rehman? Rehna Tu is so soothing. As trippy and slick the Dev D cinematography is, so is its hypnotic score.
Now onto the distribution models;
Reliance BIG Entertainment and UTV Motion Pictures were making huge splashes around this time, effectively controlling the market on some of the better films as such becoming their own competitions.
Ronnie Screwvala and UTV are probably like the Harvey Weinstein's of Bollywood and it shows. Dominant across the board, making Dev D a bumper success.
Here's the final tally of how many wins each film scored as well;
Best Motion Picture (Drama)
|
Best Motion Picture (Comedy/Romantic)
|
Farhan Akhtar and Ritesh Sidhwani for Luck By Chance [Reliance BIG Entertainment]
|
Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra and Ronnie Screwala for Delhi 6 [UTV Motion Pictures]
|
Deepak Sharma for Gulaal [Zee Limelight]
|
Anupam Mittal and Aditya Shastri for 99 [People Pictures]
|
Rahul Merchant, Shailendra Singh and Harindra Singh for Firaaq [Percept Picture Company]
|
Ronnie Screwvala for Dev
D [UTV Motion Pictures]
|
Vishal Bhardwaj and Ronnie Screwvala for Kaminey [UTV Motion Pictures]
|
Vidhu Vinod Chopra for 3 Idiots [Reliance BIG Entertainment]
|
Amitabh Bachchan, Abhishek Bachchan, Sunil Manchanda and Mahesh Ramanathan for Paa [Reliance BIG Entertainment]
|
Karan Johar for Wake Up Sid [Dharma Productions and UTV Motion Pictures]
|
Best Director
|
Best Cinematography
|
Anurag
Kashyap for Dev D
|
Binod Pradhan for Delhi 6
|
Rakeysh Omprakash
Mehra for Delhi 6
|
Rajeev Ravi for Dev
D
|
Vishal
Bhardwaj for Kaminey
|
Natarajan Subramaniam for Love Aaj Kal
|
Zoya Akhtar for Luck
By Chance
|
Anil Mehta for Wake Up Sid
|
Rajkumar Hirani for 3
Idiots
|
Tassaduq Hussain for Kaminey
|
Best Screenplay (Drama)
|
Best Screenplay (Comedy/Romantic)
|
Raj Singh Chaudhary and Anurag Kashyap for Gulaal
|
Anurag Kashyap and Vikramaditya Motwane for Dev D
|
Zoya Akhtar for Luck By Chance
|
Ayan Mukherjee for Wake
Up Sid
|
Nandita Das and Suchita Kothari for Firaaq
|
Sita Menon, Raj Nidhimoru and Krishna DK for 99
|
Vishal Bhardwaj, Sabrina Dhawan, Supratik Sen and Abhishek Chaubey for Kaminey
|
Jaideep Sahni for Rocket Singh:
Salesman of the Year
|
R. Balki for Paa
|
Abhijat Joshi, Rajkumar Hirani and Vidhu Vinod Chopra for 3 Idiots
|
Best Actor in A Leading Role Drama (Male)
|
Best Actor in A Leading Role Comedy/Romantic (Male)
|
Farhan
Akhtar as Vikram Jaisingh for Luck By Chance
|
Aamir Khan as Rancho/Phunsuk Wangdu for 3
Idiots
|
KK Menon as Dukey Bana for
Gulaal
|
Saif Ali Khan as Jaivardhan Singh/Veer Singh for
Love Aaj Kal
|
Naseeruddin Shah as Khan Saheb
for Firaaq
|
Abhay
Deol as Dev Singh Dhillon for Dev D
|
Shahid Kapoor as Guddu/Charlie for
Kaminey
|
Ranbir Kapoor as Siddharth 'Sid' Mehra for
Wake Up Sid
|
Amitabh Bachchan as Auro
for Paa
|
Ranbir Kapoor as Harpreet Singh Bedi for
Rocket Singh: Salesman of the Year
|
Best Actor in A Leading Role Drama (Female)
|
Best Actor in A Leading Role Comedy/Romantic
(Female)
|
Shahana Goswami as Muneera for Firaaq
|
Deepika Padukone as Meera Pandit
for Love Aaj Kal
|
Priyanka Chopra as Sweety
for Kaminey
|
Mahi
Gill as Parminder 'Paro' for Dev D
|
Deepti
Naval as Aarti for Firaaq
|
Konkona Sen Sharma as Aisha Banerjee
for Wake Up Sid
|
Konkona Sen Sharma as Sona Mishra
for Luck By Chance
|
Gauhar Khan as Koena Sheikh for
Rocket Singh: Salesman of the Year
|
Vidya Balan as Vidya for
Paa
|
Kareena Kapoor as Pia Sahastrabuddhe for 3
Idiots
|
Best Actor in A Supporting Role Drama (Male)
|
Best Actor in A Supporting Role Comedy/Romantic
(Male)
|
Rishi Kapoor Rommy Rolly for
Luck By Chance
|
Deepak Dobriyal as Mamdu
for Delhi 6
|
Abhimanyu Singh as Rananjay 'Ransa' Singh
for Gulaal
|
Boman
Irani as Viru Sahastrabuddhe for 3 Idiots
|
Paresh Rawal as Sanjay for
Firaaq
|
Madhavan as Farhan Qureshi for 3
Idiots
|
Piyush
Mishra as Prithvi Bana for Gulaal
|
Rishi Kapoor as Veer Singh for
Love Aaj Kal
|
Amole Gupte as Bhope Bhau for
Kaminey
|
Anupam Kher as Ram Mehra for
Wake Up Sid
|
Best Actor in A Supporting Role Drama (Female)
|
Best Actor in A Supporting Role
Comedy/Romantic(Female)
|
Jessie Randhawa as Anuja
for Gulaal
|
Kalki
Koechlin as Leni/Chanda for Dev D
|
Dimple
Kapadia as Neena Walia for Luck By Chance
|
Aditi Rao Hydari as Rama Bua
for Delhi 6
|
Tisca Chopra as Anuradha Desai for
Firaaq
|
Supriya Pathak as Sarita Mehra for
Wake Up Sid
|
Kirron Kher for
Kurbaan
|
Waheeda Rehman as Dadi for
Delhi 6
|
Arundhati Nag as Nani for
Paa
|
Divya Dutta as Jalebi for
Delhi 6
|
Best Original Song
|
Best Original Score
|
'Sapno Se Bhare
Naina', Shankar Mahadevan for Luck By Chance
|
Piyush Kanojia and Rajat Dholakia for Firaaq
|
'Iktara', Kavita Seth and Amitabh Bhattacharya Wake Up
Sid
|
Amit Trivedi for Dev
D
|
'Rehna
Tu', AR Rehman,Benny Dayal and Tanvi Shah for Delhi 6
|
Vishal Bhardwaj for Kaminey
|
'Main Kya Hoon', KK for
Love Aaj Kal
|
Piyush Mishra for Gulaal
|
'O Pardesi', Tochi Raina for Dev D
|
Shankar-Ehsaan-Loy for Luck By Chance
|
I will make a few statements on the winners;
-Thanks to the new genre divide...both Kashyap films leave a mark and win, this was the year Anurag Kashyap became a juggernaut alternative to mainstream cinema. Also in favor UTV and Ronnie Screwala handled the production and distribution of Kashyap, heralding his entry into the big leagues.
-Since I didn't want to nominate him twice, Kashyap unofficially wins for both films though Dev D being the fresher of films [Gulaal was released in 2009 after much delay due to censorship] is much more technically crisp and presents a refined skill set of the director hence the actual champion
-Rajeev Ravi's lucid cinematography gives a brilliantly trippy vibe to the new age Devdas it trumps his own red tinged Gulaal.
-Written with a more complex bent and very raw issue at its core, Gulaal is where the drama screenplay award goes.
-Wake Up Sid's breezy style and from the heart musings of growing up and romance make it a winner for debutante Ayan Mukherjee
-Farhan Akhtar gives a stirringly nuanced subtle performance as a struggling actor in a massive ensemble piece while Abhay Deol knocks it out of the park in a career best performance. If I had begun a year prior then he would have struck gold for Oye Lucky as well.
-Much of Firaaq is underrated and the actors especially don't get their due, the ensemble cast is phenomenal especially in this case veteran Deepti Naval who's guilt ridden character is vulnerably and hauntingly performed. Mahi Gill also stands toe to toe with Deol as his Paro pulling off her breakthrough role with aplomb.
-Side Note; Some might be surprised by my inclusion of Gauhar Khan in a leading capacity, yes she is a supporting figure but she is also in a role and performance that truly lets her shine, being the second best behind a game Ranbir in a fascinating film.
-Piyush Mishra is equal parts hilarious and scary as the subjugated younger brother to KK Menon in Gulaal. Boman is the best thing of 3 Idiots, scenery chewing and an actual laugh riot with his reactions and physicality. Dimple Kapadia steals the film in a key scene highlighting something that is scarily emotionally raw and powerful. Kalki in a first time role is a beacon of light for Dev and a hell of a dark entertainer.
-Who can beat A.R. Rehman? Rehna Tu is so soothing. As trippy and slick the Dev D cinematography is, so is its hypnotic score.
Now onto the distribution models;
Reliance BIG Entertainment and UTV Motion Pictures were making huge splashes around this time, effectively controlling the market on some of the better films as such becoming their own competitions.
Ronnie Screwvala and UTV are probably like the Harvey Weinstein's of Bollywood and it shows. Dominant across the board, making Dev D a bumper success.
Here's the final tally of how many wins each film scored as well;
Film
|
Nominations
|
Wins
|
Dev D
|
9
|
7
|
Luck By Chance
|
9
|
2
|
Gulaal
|
7
|
2
|
Delhi 6
|
9
|
1
|
Firaaq
|
8
|
1
|
Wake Up Sid
|
8
|
1
|
3 Idiots
|
7
|
1
|
Kaminey
|
7
|
0
|
Paa
|
5
|
0
|
Love Aaj Kal
|
5
|
0
|
Rocket Singh:
Salesman of the Year
|
3
|
0
|
99
|
2
|
0
|
Kurbaan
|
1
|
0
|
HIndie Awards 2011
As the previous awards season proved Reliance BIG Entertainment and especially UTV Motion Pictures are juggernauts when it comes to the awards season campaigns.
Films distributed by UTV took about 34 nominations with a total of 9 trophies home where as the other big distributor Reliance BIG Entertainment went home 3 trophies out of 21 with the rest distributed mostly between smaller independent productions.
It shows that the big fish still rule in terms of top notch content.
From here, it's onwards and upwards...so let's begin;
-The second editions marks another big one for UTV Motion Pictures as Screwvala takes two films to the top in both sections. Anurag Kashyap wins another biggie this time as producer where as Aamir Khan makes his strategic and smart producing capabilities felt with Udaan and Peepli Live respectively.
-Vikramaditya Motwane proves to make a stellar directorial debut in Udaan, furthering the Kashyap brand of proteges
-Andritsakis makes a huge splash in the Indian market with his sensational work in LSD that utilizes neat camera work to look like sting operations and spy cameras in this anthology tale
-Utilizing elements from his own life Kashyap and protege Motwane score another big one with the screenplay award. On the other side Rizvi secures the same for Peepli Live, proving without a shadow of a doubt who the two major picture winners will be.
-Hrithik Roshan shines in his most underrated and finest melodramatic performance, proving that the man packs a talent and capping off his cold box office but high caliber performance phase beautifully
-Side Note; This non-mainstream phase is littered with some of Roshan's finest/varied and nuanced performances as the stiff and majestic Akbar in Jodhaa Akbar, the subtly dark superstar Zafar in Luck By Chance, the heartbreaking Jai in Kites and the soul stirring Ethan in Guzaarish.
-To be honest apart from Rai, the nominees in leading female drama all fall under a supporting category and are elevated to fill the spaces [I know it's sad]...as such performance wise Aishwarya Rai is trumped by the little unknown Tannishta Chatterjee, who simply kills it as the Gypsy woman on the road trip.
-Of the comedic/romantic leading actors, I really take a shine to Vidya Balan's work as Krishna in Ishqiya...however both Rishi and Neetu Kapoor are in such form and so tethered together as a married couple in reel and real life that one cannot win without the other. They work well as a duet and give stellar showings.
-Every award show in the house that year gave Ronit Roy the statuette, then who am I to deny him one. To this day Roy is in typecast roles of the angry patriarch, all because he was so magnificant in Udaan. The fact that Pradhuman is a dead ringer for Bin Laden is true, but he also has the comedic chops to be the complete opposite of the dreaded man.
-Raima Sen gets the supporting nod over Konkona [who goes leading] simply on the basis of stature, it works in her favor because Sen is wickedly brilliant in Mirch compared to her other female counterparts who fall short of her sizzle. While Ira Dubey is the definition of snark, deadpan and all out emotionally stirring.
-Amit Trivedi strikes a chord with a great score but one cannot deny the power of Rahat Fateh Ali Khan's vocals.
Now let's have a peek at the success stories this year;
Once again Ronnie Screwvala and UTV Motion Pictures are at the top of their game. In the years awards season they have accumulated around 23 nominations of which they have 8 wins; 5 in the major technical categories and 2 in the acting categories.
UTV's recent success stories are due to the efforts of its collaborations with other smaller but revered production teams such as Aamir Khan's production house and the likes of Kashyap Films as well as Dharma and the efforts of its titan owner Ronnie Screwvala. If I were to have started a few years earlier, the imprint of his efforts would be detected from there.
In so far as two editions, the major studio in Bollywood; Yash Raj, has failed to leave a dent despite diversifying its content and breeding new powerful talents from Jaideep Sahni to Maneesh Sharma to Anushka Sharma.
The other big news is the piercing of international distrbutors/studios into the Indian market with Disney's first foray into Indian cinema that will bear fruit later on and also Warner Bros entry that would also open the eyes for a market of the likes of Fox 20th Century among others.
Here are the big winners of the night;
It might point out some bias of mine by saying so, but each HIndie Award year proves that despite the two big picture divide there is one film that simply dominates the ceremony.
HIndie Awards 2012
As the decade moves forward, each passing year becomes better and proves that the film industry and the audiences are craving for content.
2011 is another great year so to speak, and the campaigns get tougher as the competition from the independent circuit comes crawling out to face big studios looking to make a stamp with great works that straddle lines of mainstream and art.
Here are the nominees and winners;
-Side Note; I just realize some films are distributed by UTV Motion Pictures where as others by its subsidary UTV Spotboy. However I am unaware as to who heads the production of both instead producer is always listed as Ronnie Screwvala, so in this awards case the tag doesn't matter as long as both are part of UTV
-This year despite a large prescence once again, UTV is trumped by the dual works of Fox Star [the Indian 20th Century Fox subsidary] and Eros International [back in the game!] thanks to the wins for Stanley Ka Dabba and Rockstar respectively
-Imtiaz Ali's most passionate project to date may be flawed but evokes his heart and vision, through and through.
-Catalan capture Spain with such glory, you feel like you are on that road trip with the Zindagi boys
-Onir and his team are so insightful on human psychology, sexuality and issues they win. Gupte's Stanley Ka Dabba is lighthearted but touching.
-Ranbir Kapoor gives a career best, Partho Gupte proves to be a talent for the ages becoming possibly one of the finest actors of this generation at such a ripe age, Nandita Das as Afiaa strikes a chord with her touching showing and Priyanka gives her finest performance to date in an underrated gem; shouldering the film.
-Side Note; While it may seem odd, Saat Khoon Maaf is listed as a black comedy and is very much a odd sort of romantic tragedy at its core.
-Side, Side Note; Vidya Balan always the bridesmaid, never the bride. In the HIndie Awards case she is the Amy Adams. Once again two fine performances lose out to something more nuanced. She's still fantastic and highlighting the craziness of this all [She has actual awards to boast off]
-Naseer Saab is such malicious wicked brilliance in a film that isn't his. Deepak Dobriyal cracks the mainstream with a hilarious turn. Rani is a hardhitting show stealer amidst her career resurgence [IMO her best phase]. Kalki gives a moment of respite from the boys in a witty bitchy girlfriend turn.
-Rockstar dominates the song charts this year, so one of the compositions has to win. Heck why not score as well since AR Rahman is on top form.
Now to the distrbutors;
UTV loses out quite a bit this while, while EROS on the backs of UTV's later decade successful move of mixing top content with cast and crew and finances follows suit with some really craftily selected projects propelled to the top. Their collaborations with the Akhtar clans proving to be fruitful.
Fox Star also finally makes a big splash!
The amount of great content in the year proving that there is space for both new generation actors to shine and older ones to redefine themselves.
Here is the winners tally;
HIndie Awards 2013
Another year, another set of awards in a season filled with in my honest opinion, some of the finest Hindi films of modern times.
Indeed 2012 is a jam packed year with tough predictions to make on eventual winners.
The year also sees the acquisition of UTV Motion Pictures by Walt Disney Studios, making it a subsidary and an Indian market representation of the animation juggernaut. Well Disney as usual backs a winning horse.
So here goes;
-Siddharth Roy's first foray into big time productions yields positive results with a win for Barfi!. Anurag Kashyap carries his magnum opus Gangs of Wasseypur on the backs of Viacom 18, turning to be a champion distributor and strategist company.
-With a tough five man race; Sujoy etches out on the basis of Kahaani's technical finesse and the director's ability to take the usually melodramatically powerful Vidya Balan to a much more nuanced subtle performance win.
-Nikos Andritsakis bags his second cinematography win with another well shot films capturing the grim and grit of bharatnagar as well as dispalying an apptitude for capturing the psychological atmosphere of characters through lighting.
-A dense and large script carrying varied quirky characters with a dose of great humor, realism, action, drama and romance. True to form Gangs of Wasseypur is the finest masala film script in a long while [Yes, Masala!]. While Juhi Chaturvedi takes a taboo topic turning it into a witty comedy with a heart of gold.
-Irrfan Khan wins his first award in the leading drama category, in a tough congested competition. Ranbir Kapoor secures the other half of the leading man award, elevating his status to five nominations and two wins. Now the bride! Vidya Balan after toiling away with three nominations, finally secures the big win! Priyanka Chopra like her co-star Ranbir gets her second award in a row.
-Dhulia may have lost out on the big ones for his film Paan Singh Tomar but he clinches it for his gleeful vicious turn as the villain of Gangs of Wasseypur. Joining him is Richa Chadda from the same film as the venom spouting and vicious wife to determined lead Manoj Bajpai. On the other side, both Annu Kapoor and Dolly Ahluwalia secure victories for their hilarious parts in Vicky Donor.
-Ayushmann composes one hell of a romantic ballad with a breezy feel. Vishal-Shehkar thrilling score adds the spike of nerves and excitement to Kahaani.
With Disney's accquisition of UTV, Siddharth Roy Kapur makes a swift rise to producer. The mentor-protege team of Ronnie Screwvala and Kapur work wonders. Viacom 18 are also on their heels. These two distrbution companies prove they have the campaign strategy nailed down.
Here are the winners tally;
HIndie Awards 2014
As 2012 proved to be a stellar year, how could it be topped...well it was just the lull before the actual storm that was 2013. Films had multiple nominees, top categories are stacked and above all else even some mediocre and okay range of films could sneak in a nomination proving that they at least had a few well working parts.
So here is the ballot;
-Side Note; Lootera was Phantom Films [Anurag Kashyap, Vikramaditya Motwane, Vikas Bahl and Madhu Mantena] first production, though the all powerful Balaji was behind its distribution.
-Big obvious wins right of the bat for both The Lunchbox which went on to become an international phenomenon and Shahid, a national award winning well crafted biography. Top class wins for Anurag Kashyap on both fronts but also a statement of UTV's dominance on the landscape of Modern Hindi Cinema.
-Vikramaditya Motwane secures the directorial prize for the second time in his two film career proving his stature amidst stiff competition.
-Ajay Bahl's neon drenched and drab tinted cinematography captures the gruesome awakward underbelly of upper middle class Delhi.
-Both big picture winners can thank their assured writers and screenplays for the laurels.
-Post a National Award victory Rajkumar Rao score the leading man trophy cementing his legacy. The Romantic genre divide sees the sublime performance of Irrfan Khan and Nimrat Kaur score despite how close Ranveer Singh and Sonakshi Sinha were nipping at their feet. Finally the Leading Female Drama section require a huge save after the Romantic drenches most contendors; leaving Shilpa Shukla's masterful show stealing turn to be bumped up all the way to victory.
-Rishi Kapoor's Dawood act is both fearsome and oddly humorous, adding layers to the myth of Goldman. Siddiqui threatens to steal the show with his hilarious turn in the Lunchbox. Deepti Naval is elevated by the abscence of Rani and especially Shilpa Shukla, but is still giving a fine turn. Richa Chadda's mouthy pimp/drug dealer Bholi Punjaban is a riot.
-Amit Trivedi after a couple of nominations finally scores for the perfect song and caps it off with a double win for Original Score for Lootera.
Once again this year UTV [Now under Disney] proved to be a champion in getting its films and performers some huge wins. Content is king has been established this decade and at the fore is UTV's skills in finding that balance between good content in cinema and commmercial value of it as well.
So that's it, of course we also have last years HIndie Awards to consider where both UTV [Haider] and even Viacom 18 [Queen] struck big chords amidst some greater independent producers infiltrating the season [Aankhon Dekhi to Miss Lovely].
What does this then herald for the campaigns of the big films of this year?
Let's see through the lens of the top competing producers and the films they are backing in this horse race
[Note; this is solely based on the production company that distributes the film not produces it e.g. both UTV and Nadiawala and Grandson's produced Imtiaz Ali's Tamasha but only UTV is distributing the film in screens]
[Second Note; Films listed are those that will be the ones campaigned for HIndie Awards, not all the films the company distributes during the year]
UTV Motion Pictures: Phantom, Tamasha
Yash Raj Films: Piku, Detective Byomkesh Bakshi, Dum Laga Ke Haisha, Titli
EROS International: NH 10, Shamitabh, Badlapur, Tanu Weds Manu Returns, Bajrangi Bhaijaan, Bajirao Mastani, Dil Dhadakne Do
Viacom 18 Motion Pictures: Drishyam, Margarita With A Straw, Rahasya, Manjhi: The Mountain Man
Fox Star Studios: Bombay Velvet, Shaandaar, Brothers
While other films are backed by independent producers and smaller fixtures.
So that's it, what will this entail for the upcoming race...not just in terms of which Distributing Production company has the hold on the season but also what the record stands for certain film personalities and elements in the upcoming HIndie Awards 2016
e.g. is it third times the charm for Shoojit Sircar with Piku, after losing out twice?
PS: Yes I still know that no one else is really taking part in this so called awards race, but if you want please do indulge my craziness.
'Nuff Said
Aneesh Raikundalia
As the previous awards season proved Reliance BIG Entertainment and especially UTV Motion Pictures are juggernauts when it comes to the awards season campaigns.
Films distributed by UTV took about 34 nominations with a total of 9 trophies home where as the other big distributor Reliance BIG Entertainment went home 3 trophies out of 21 with the rest distributed mostly between smaller independent productions.
It shows that the big fish still rule in terms of top notch content.
From here, it's onwards and upwards...so let's begin;
Best Motion Picture (Drama)
|
Best Motion Picture (Comedy/Musical)
|
Ross Katz and
Susan Landau for Road, Movie [Studio 18]
|
Arindam Chaudhari
for Do Dooni Chaar [Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures]
|
Sanjay Leela
Bhansali and Ronnie Screwvala for Guzaarish [UTV Motion Pictures]
|
Aamir Khan and Kiran Rao for Peepli Live [Aamir Khan
Productions and UTV Motion Pictures]
|
Sanjay Singh, Anurag Kashyap and Ronnie Screwvala for Udaan
[UTV Motion Pictures]
|
Ashok Pandey for
Phas Gaye Re Obama [Warner Bros. India PVT. LTD]
|
Ekta Kapoor,
Shobha Kapoor and Priya Sreedharan for Love Sex aur Dhokha [ALT Entertainment
and Balaji Motion Picture]
|
Raman Maroo and
Vishal Bhardwaj for Ishqiya [Shemaroo Entertainment]
|
Mahesh Ramanathan
for Mirch [Reliance BIG Pictures]
|
Pooja Shetty Deora
and Aarti Shetty for Tere Bin Laden [ShowMan Pictures]
|
Best Director
|
Best Cinematography
|
Abhishek Chaubey
for Ishqiya
|
Shanker Raman for
Peepli Live
|
Vikramaditya Motwane for Udaan
|
Michael Amathieu
for Road, Movie
|
Dibakar Banerjee
for Love Sex aur Dhokha
|
Sudeep Chatterjee
for Guzaarish
|
Sanjay Leela
Bhansali for Guzaarish
|
Nikos Andritsakis for Love Sex Aur Dhokha
|
Anusha Rizvi for
Peepli Live
|
Ayananka Bose for
Kites
|
Best Screenplay (Drama)
|
Best Screenplay (Comedy/Romantic)
|
Vikramaditya Motwane and Anurag Kashyap for Udaan
|
Anusha Rizvi for Peepli Live
|
Dev Benegal for
Road, Movie
|
Subash Kapoor for
Phas Gaye Re Obama
|
Dibakar Banerjee
and Kanu Behl for Love Sex Aur Dhoka
|
Habib Faisal and
Rahil Qazi for Do Dooni Chaar
|
Chandan Arora and
Sunita Rajwar for Striker
|
Vishal Bhardwaj,
Sabrina Dhawan, Abhishek Chaubey and Gulzar for Ishqiya
|
Vinay Shukla for
Mirch
|
Abhishek Sharma
and Mohammad Ahmed for Tere Bin Laden
|
Best Actor in A Leading Role Drama (Male)
|
Best Actor in A Leading Role Comedy/Romantic (Male)
|
Hrithik Roshan as Ethan Masacarenhas for Guzaarish
|
Omkar Das
Manikpuri as Natha for Peepli Live
|
Rajat Barmecha as
Rohan for Udaan
|
Boman Irani as
Arman Ali for Well Done Abba
|
Abhay Deol as
Vishnu for Road, Movie
|
Rajat Kapoor as Om
Shastri for Phas Gaye Re Obama
|
Ranbir Kapoor as
Samar Pratap for Raajneeti
|
Naseeruddin Shah
as Khalujan/Iftikhar for Ishqiya
|
Siddharth as
Suryakant Sarang for Striker
|
Rishi Kapoor as Santosh Duggal for Do Dooni Chaar
|
Best Actor in A Leading Role Drama (Female)
|
Best Actor in A Leading Role Comedy/Romantic
(Female)
|
Konkona Sen Sharma
as Anita/Lavni for Mirch
|
Vidya Balan as Krishna Verma for Ishqiya
|
Aishwarya Rai as
Sofia D'Souza for Guzaarish
|
Minnisha Lamba as
Muskaan Ali for Well Done Abba
|
Kangana Ranaut as
Rehana Shergill for Once Upon A Time in Mumbai
|
Anushka Sharma as
Shruti Kakkar for Band Baaja Baraat
|
Tannishta Chatterjee as The Woman for Road, Movie
|
Neetu Singh as
Kusum Duggal for Do Dooni Chaar
|
Nushrat Bharucha
as Shruti for Love Sex aur Dhokha
|
Raima Sen as
Sandhya for The Japanese Wife
|
Best Actor in A Supporting Role Drama (Male)
|
Best Actor in A Supporting Role Comedy/Romantic
(Male)
|
Emraan Hashmi as
Shoaib Khan for Once Upon A Time In Mumbai
|
Arshad Warsi as
Babban for Ishqiya
|
Ronit Roy as Bhairav for Udaan
|
Manu Rishi as Anni
for Phas Gaye Re Obama
|
Manoj Bajpai as
Veerendra Pratap for Raajneeti
|
Pradhuman Singh as Noora/Osama Bin Laden for Tere Bin Laden
|
Rajkumar Rao as
Adarsh for Love Sex aur Dhoka
|
Amole Gupte as
Dhananjay Singh for Phas Gaye Re Obama
|
Manjot Singh as
Maninder for Udaan
|
Nawazuddin
Siddiqui as Rakesh for Peepli Live
|
Best Actor in A Supporting Role Drama (Female)
|
Best Actor in A Supporting Role Comedy/Romantic
(Female)
|
Arya Banerjee as
Naina for Love Sex aur Dhokha
|
Ira Dubey as Pinky Bose for Aisha
|
Raima Sen as Maya/Manjula for Mirch
|
Aditi Vasudev as
Payal Duggal for Do Dooni Chaar
|
Prachi Desai as
Mumtaz for Once Upon A Time In Mumbai
|
Amrita Puri as
Shefali Thakur for Aisha
|
Shahana Goswami as
Ruchi for Mirch
|
Neha Dhupia for
Munni Gangster for Phas Gaye Re Obama
|
Kangna Ranaut as
Gina Grover for Kites
|
Sughanda Gharg as
Zoya Khan for Tere Bin Laden
|
Best Original Song
|
Best Original Score
|
'Madno', Kshithij
Tarey and Chinmayi for Lamhaa
|
Michael Brook for
Road, Movie
|
'Pee Loon', Mohit
Chauhan for Once Upon A Time in Mumbai
|
Sandeep Shirodkar
for Once Upon A Time In Mumbai
|
'Dil Toh Bachcha Hai Ji', Rahat Fateh Ali Khan for Ishqiya
|
Amit Trivedi for Udaan
|
'Kahaani', Amitabh
Bhattacharya, Joi Barua and Neuman Pinto for Udaan
|
Sanjay Leela
Bhansali for Guzaarish
|
'Zindagi', KK for
Kites
|
Indian Ocean and
Ram Sampath for Peepli Live
|
-The second editions marks another big one for UTV Motion Pictures as Screwvala takes two films to the top in both sections. Anurag Kashyap wins another biggie this time as producer where as Aamir Khan makes his strategic and smart producing capabilities felt with Udaan and Peepli Live respectively.
-Vikramaditya Motwane proves to make a stellar directorial debut in Udaan, furthering the Kashyap brand of proteges
-Andritsakis makes a huge splash in the Indian market with his sensational work in LSD that utilizes neat camera work to look like sting operations and spy cameras in this anthology tale
-Utilizing elements from his own life Kashyap and protege Motwane score another big one with the screenplay award. On the other side Rizvi secures the same for Peepli Live, proving without a shadow of a doubt who the two major picture winners will be.
-Hrithik Roshan shines in his most underrated and finest melodramatic performance, proving that the man packs a talent and capping off his cold box office but high caliber performance phase beautifully
-Side Note; This non-mainstream phase is littered with some of Roshan's finest/varied and nuanced performances as the stiff and majestic Akbar in Jodhaa Akbar, the subtly dark superstar Zafar in Luck By Chance, the heartbreaking Jai in Kites and the soul stirring Ethan in Guzaarish.
-To be honest apart from Rai, the nominees in leading female drama all fall under a supporting category and are elevated to fill the spaces [I know it's sad]...as such performance wise Aishwarya Rai is trumped by the little unknown Tannishta Chatterjee, who simply kills it as the Gypsy woman on the road trip.
-Of the comedic/romantic leading actors, I really take a shine to Vidya Balan's work as Krishna in Ishqiya...however both Rishi and Neetu Kapoor are in such form and so tethered together as a married couple in reel and real life that one cannot win without the other. They work well as a duet and give stellar showings.
-Every award show in the house that year gave Ronit Roy the statuette, then who am I to deny him one. To this day Roy is in typecast roles of the angry patriarch, all because he was so magnificant in Udaan. The fact that Pradhuman is a dead ringer for Bin Laden is true, but he also has the comedic chops to be the complete opposite of the dreaded man.
-Raima Sen gets the supporting nod over Konkona [who goes leading] simply on the basis of stature, it works in her favor because Sen is wickedly brilliant in Mirch compared to her other female counterparts who fall short of her sizzle. While Ira Dubey is the definition of snark, deadpan and all out emotionally stirring.
-Amit Trivedi strikes a chord with a great score but one cannot deny the power of Rahat Fateh Ali Khan's vocals.
Now let's have a peek at the success stories this year;
Once again Ronnie Screwvala and UTV Motion Pictures are at the top of their game. In the years awards season they have accumulated around 23 nominations of which they have 8 wins; 5 in the major technical categories and 2 in the acting categories.
UTV's recent success stories are due to the efforts of its collaborations with other smaller but revered production teams such as Aamir Khan's production house and the likes of Kashyap Films as well as Dharma and the efforts of its titan owner Ronnie Screwvala. If I were to have started a few years earlier, the imprint of his efforts would be detected from there.
In so far as two editions, the major studio in Bollywood; Yash Raj, has failed to leave a dent despite diversifying its content and breeding new powerful talents from Jaideep Sahni to Maneesh Sharma to Anushka Sharma.
The other big news is the piercing of international distrbutors/studios into the Indian market with Disney's first foray into Indian cinema that will bear fruit later on and also Warner Bros entry that would also open the eyes for a market of the likes of Fox 20th Century among others.
Here are the big winners of the night;
Film
|
Nominations
|
Wins
|
Udaan
|
8
|
5
|
Peepli Live
|
7
|
2
|
Do Dooni Chaar
|
5
|
2
|
Ishqiya
|
7
|
1
|
Love Sex aur
Dhokha
|
7
|
1
|
Road, Movie
|
6
|
1
|
Guzaarish
|
6
|
1
|
Mirch
|
5
|
1
|
Tere Bin Laden
|
4
|
1
|
Aisha PVR
|
2
|
1
|
Phas Gaye Re Obama
|
6
|
0
|
Once Upon A Time
In Mumbai BALAJI
|
5
|
0
|
Kites RELIANCE
|
3
|
0
|
Striker STUDIO 18
|
2
|
0
|
Raajneeti UTV
|
2
|
0
|
Well Done Abba
|
2
|
0
|
Band Baaja Baraat
YASH RAJ
|
1
|
0
|
The Japanese Wife
SAREGAMA
|
1
|
0
|
Lamhaa
|
1
|
0
|
It might point out some bias of mine by saying so, but each HIndie Award year proves that despite the two big picture divide there is one film that simply dominates the ceremony.
HIndie Awards 2012
As the decade moves forward, each passing year becomes better and proves that the film industry and the audiences are craving for content.
2011 is another great year so to speak, and the campaigns get tougher as the competition from the independent circuit comes crawling out to face big studios looking to make a stamp with great works that straddle lines of mainstream and art.
Here are the nominees and winners;
Best Motion Picture (Drama)
|
Best Motion Picture (Comedy/Romantic)
|
Ronnie Screwvala
for No One Killed Jessica [UTV Motion Pictures]
|
Vinod
Bachchan, Shailesh Singh and Surya
Singh for Tanu Weds Manu [Viacom 18 Motion Pictures]
|
Tshepel Namgyal,
Aamir Khan, Dhillin Mehta for Dhobi Ghat [Reliance BIG Entertainment]
|
Ronnie Screwvala
and Vishal Bhardwaj for 7 Khoon Maaf [UTV Motion Pictures]
|
Dhilin Mehta for Rockstar [Eros International and Shree
Asthavinayak Cine LTD.]
|
Farhan Akhtar and
Ritesh Sidhwani for Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara [Eros International]
|
Sanjay Suri and
Onir for I Am [Anticlock Films]
|
Amole Gupte for Stanley Ka Dabba [Fox Star Studios]
|
Rahul Mitra for
Saheb Biwi Aur Gangster [UTV Motion Pictures]
|
Aamir Khan, Kiran
Rao and Ronnie Screwvala for Delhi Belly [UTV Motion Pictures]
|
Best Director
|
Best Cinematography
|
Onir for I Am
|
Carlos Catalan for Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara
|
Imtiaz Ali for Rockstar
|
Anil Mehta for
Rockstar
|
Zoya Akhtar for
Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara
|
Tushar Kanti Ray
for Dhobi Ghat
|
Amole Gupte for
Stanley Ka Dabba
|
Anay Goswami for
No One Killed Jessica
|
Rajkumar Gupta for
No One Killed Jessica
|
Tushar Kanti Ray
for Shor in the City
|
Best Screenplay (Drama)
|
Best Screenplay (Comedy/Romantic)
|
Onir, Urmi Juvekar and Merle Kroeger for I Am
|
Sita Menon, Raj
Nidhimoru and Krishna DK for Shor in The City
|
Sanjay Chauhan for
I Am Kalam
|
Himanshu Sharma
for Tanu Weds Manu
|
Tigmanshu Dhulia
for Saheb Biwi Aur Gangster
|
Akshat Verma for
Delhi Belly
|
Anil Mehta and
Kiran Rao for Dhobi Ghat
|
Amole Gupte for Stanley Ka Dabba
|
Imtiaz Ali and
Muazzam Beg for Rockstar
|
Zoya Akhtar and
Reema Kagti for Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara
|
Best Actor in A Leading Role Drama (Male)
|
Best Actor in A Leading Role Comedy/Romantic (Male)
|
Rahul Bose as Jai
for I Am
|
R Madhavan as
Manoj 'Manu' Sharma for Tanu Weds Manu
|
Harsh Mayer as
Chhotu/Kalam for I Am Kalam
|
Abhay Deol as
Kabir Dewan for Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara
|
Ranbir Kapoor as Janardhan 'Jordan' Jakhar/JJ for Rockstar
|
Partho Gupte as Stanley Fernandez for Stanley Ka Dabba
|
Prateik Babbar as
Munna for Dhobi Ghat
|
Prateik Babbar as
Michael Pinto for My Friend Pinto
|
Gulshan Devaiya as
KC/Karan Chaudhary for Shaitan
|
Farhan Akhtar as
Imran Habib for Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara
|
Best Actor in A Leading Role Drama (Female)
|
Best Actor in A Leading Role Comedy/Musical
(Female)
|
Mahie Gill as
Madhavi Devi for Saheb Biwi Aur Gangster
|
Kangana Ranaut as
Tanuja 'Tanu' Trivedi for Tanu Weds Manu
|
Kalki Koechlin as
Amrita Jayshankar/Amy for Shaitan
|
Gul Panag as Naina
for Turning 30
|
Vidya Balan as
Reshma/Silk for The Dirty Picture
|
Priyanka Chopra as Susanna for 7 Khoon Maaf
|
Nandita Das as Afiaa for I Am
|
Chitrangada Singh
as Priti for Yeh Saali Zindagi
|
Vidya Balan as
Sabrina Lal for No One Killed Jessica
|
Kalki Koechlin as
Maggie for My Friend Pinto
|
Best Actor in A Supporting Role Drama (Male)
|
Best Actor in A Supporting Role
Comedy/Romantic(Male)
|
Kumud Mishra as
Khatana for Rockstar
|
Vijay Raaz as
Somayajulu for Delhi Belly
|
Rajesh Sharma as
N.K. for No One Killed Jessica
|
Deepak Dobriyal as Pappi for Tanu Weds Manu
|
Naseeruddin Shah as Suryakanth for The Dirty Picture
|
Divyendu Sharma as
Nishant Agarwal/Divyendu Sharma for Pyaar Ka Punchnama
|
Gulshan Grover as
Bhati for I Am Kalam
|
Amol Gupte as
Babubhai Verma/Khadoos for Stanley Ka Dabba
|
Jimmy Shergill as
Aditya Pratap Singh for Saheb Biwi Aur Gangster
|
Pitobash Tripathi
as Mandook for Shor in The City
|
Best Actor in A Supporting Role Drama (Female)
|
Best Actor in A Supporting Role Comedy/Romantic
(Female)
|
Aditi Rao Hydari
as Sheena for Rockstar
|
Kalki Koechlin as Natasha for Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara
|
Monica Dogra as
Shai for Dhobi Ghat
|
Swara Bhaskar as
Payal for Tanu Weds Manu
|
Rani Mukherjee as Meera Gaity for No One Killed Jessica
|
Parineeti Chopra
as Dimple Chaddha for Ladies vs. Ricky Bahl
|
Kriti Malhotra as
Yasmin for Dhobi Ghat
|
Poorna Jaganathan
as Menaka Vashisht for Delhi Belly
|
Manisha Koirala as
Rubina for I Am
|
Nushrat Barucha as
Neha for Pyaar Ka Punchnama
|
Best Original Song
|
Best Original Score
|
'Sooraj Ki Bahon
Mein', Loy Mendoza, Dominique and Clinton Cerejo for Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara
|
Hitesh Sonik and
Amol Gupte for Stanley Ka Dabba
|
'Tum Ho', Mohit
Chauhan and Suzanne D'Mello for Rockstar
|
Shankar-Ehsaan-Loy
for Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara
|
'Jo Bhi Main',
Mohit Chauhan for Rockstar
|
AR Rahman for Rockstar
|
'Saadi Gali', RDB
and Lehmber Hussainpuri for Tanu Weds Manu
|
Amit Trivedi for
No One Killed Jessica
|
'Nadaan Parinde', AR Rahman and Mohit Chauhan for Rockstar
|
Ram Sampath for
Delhi Belly
|
-Side Note; I just realize some films are distributed by UTV Motion Pictures where as others by its subsidary UTV Spotboy. However I am unaware as to who heads the production of both instead producer is always listed as Ronnie Screwvala, so in this awards case the tag doesn't matter as long as both are part of UTV
-This year despite a large prescence once again, UTV is trumped by the dual works of Fox Star [the Indian 20th Century Fox subsidary] and Eros International [back in the game!] thanks to the wins for Stanley Ka Dabba and Rockstar respectively
-Imtiaz Ali's most passionate project to date may be flawed but evokes his heart and vision, through and through.
-Catalan capture Spain with such glory, you feel like you are on that road trip with the Zindagi boys
-Onir and his team are so insightful on human psychology, sexuality and issues they win. Gupte's Stanley Ka Dabba is lighthearted but touching.
-Ranbir Kapoor gives a career best, Partho Gupte proves to be a talent for the ages becoming possibly one of the finest actors of this generation at such a ripe age, Nandita Das as Afiaa strikes a chord with her touching showing and Priyanka gives her finest performance to date in an underrated gem; shouldering the film.
-Side Note; While it may seem odd, Saat Khoon Maaf is listed as a black comedy and is very much a odd sort of romantic tragedy at its core.
-Side, Side Note; Vidya Balan always the bridesmaid, never the bride. In the HIndie Awards case she is the Amy Adams. Once again two fine performances lose out to something more nuanced. She's still fantastic and highlighting the craziness of this all [She has actual awards to boast off]
-Naseer Saab is such malicious wicked brilliance in a film that isn't his. Deepak Dobriyal cracks the mainstream with a hilarious turn. Rani is a hardhitting show stealer amidst her career resurgence [IMO her best phase]. Kalki gives a moment of respite from the boys in a witty bitchy girlfriend turn.
-Rockstar dominates the song charts this year, so one of the compositions has to win. Heck why not score as well since AR Rahman is on top form.
Now to the distrbutors;
UTV loses out quite a bit this while, while EROS on the backs of UTV's later decade successful move of mixing top content with cast and crew and finances follows suit with some really craftily selected projects propelled to the top. Their collaborations with the Akhtar clans proving to be fruitful.
Fox Star also finally makes a big splash!
The amount of great content in the year proving that there is space for both new generation actors to shine and older ones to redefine themselves.
Here is the winners tally;
Film
|
Nominations
|
Wins
|
Rockstar
|
11
|
5
|
Stanley Ka Dabba
|
6
|
3
|
I Am
|
6
|
2
|
Zindagi Na Milegi
Dobara
|
9
|
2
|
No One Killed
Jessica
|
7
|
1
|
Tanu Weds Manu
|
7
|
1
|
7 Khoon Maaf
|
2
|
1
|
The Dirty Picture
|
2
|
1
|
Dhobi Ghat
|
6
|
0
|
Saheb Biwi Aur
Gangster
|
4
|
0
|
Delhi Belly
|
5
|
0
|
Shor in the City
|
3
|
0
|
I Am Kalam
|
3
|
0
|
Shaitan
|
2
|
0
|
My Friend Pinto
|
2
|
0
|
Pyaar Ka Punchnama
|
2
|
0
|
Turning 30
|
1
|
0
|
Yeh Saali Zindagi
|
1
|
0
|
Ladies vs. Ricky
Bahl
|
1
|
0
|
HIndie Awards 2013
Another year, another set of awards in a season filled with in my honest opinion, some of the finest Hindi films of modern times.
Indeed 2012 is a jam packed year with tough predictions to make on eventual winners.
The year also sees the acquisition of UTV Motion Pictures by Walt Disney Studios, making it a subsidary and an Indian market representation of the animation juggernaut. Well Disney as usual backs a winning horse.
So here goes;
|
Best Motion Picture (Drama)
|
Best Motion Picture (Comedy/Romantic)
|
|
Priya Sreedharan,
Dibakar Banerjee, Ajay and Sanjay Bijli for Shanghai [PVR Pictures]
|
Ronnie Screwvala and Siddharth Roy Kapur for Barfi! [UTV
Motion Pictures]
|
|
Ronnie Screwvala
for Paan Singh Tomar [UTV Motion Pictures]
|
John Abraham and
Ronnie Lahiri for Vicky Donor [John Abraham Entertainment and EROS
International]
|
|
Atul Sukhla, Anurag Kashyap and Sunil Bohra for Gangs of
Wasseypur [Viacom 18 Motion Pictures]
|
Karan Johar and
Ronnie Screwvala for Ek Main Aur Ekk Tu [UTV Motion Pictures]
|
|
Sujoy Ghosh and
Kushal Kantilal Gada for Kahaani [Viacom 18 Motion Pictures and Pen India
Pvt. Ltd.]
|
Sunil Lulla, R.
Balki, Rakesh Jhunjhunwala and RK Damani for English Vinglish [EROS
International]
|
|
Bedabrata Pain for
Chittagong [Bohra Bros. Productions]
|
Akshay Kumar,
Paresh Rawal and Ashvini Yardi for OMG!: Oh My God [Viacom 18 Motion
Pictures]
|
|
|
|
|
Best Director
|
Best Cinematography
|
|
Anurag Kashyap for
Gangs of Wasseypur
|
Ravi Varman for
Barfi!
|
|
Sujoy Ghosh for Kahaani
|
Eric Zimmerman for
Chittagong
|
|
Dibakar Banerjee
for Shanghai
|
Setu for Kahaani
|
|
Anurag Basu for
Barfi!
|
Nikos Andritsakis for Shanghai
|
|
Tigmanshu Dhulia
for Paan Singh Tomar
|
C.K. Muraleedharan
for Agent Vinod
|
|
|
|
|
Best Screenplay (Drama)
|
Best Screenplay (Comedy/Romantic)
|
|
Urmi Juvekar and
Dibakar Banerjee for Shanghai
|
Juhi Chaturvedi for Vicky Donor
|
|
Zeishan Quadri, Anurag Kashyap, Akhilesh and Sachin Ladia
for Gangs of Wasseypur
|
Akshay Kumar and
Umesh Shukla for OMG!: Oh My God
|
|
Sujoy Ghosh,
Suresh Nair, Nikhil Vyas for Kahaani
|
Gauri Shinde for
English Vinglish
|
|
Tigmanshu Dhulia
and Sanjay Chauhan for Paan Singh Tomar
|
Sameer Sharma and
Sumeet Bhateja for Luv Shuv Tey Chicken Khurrana
|
|
Bedabrata Pain and
Shonali Bose for Chittagong
|
Ayesha Devitre and
Shakun Batra for Ek Main Aur Ekk Tu
|
|
|
|
|
Best Actor in A Leading Role Drama (Male)
|
Best Actor in A Leading Role Comedy/Romantic(Male)
|
|
Emraan Hashmi as
Joginder Parmar for Shanghai
|
Paresh Rawal as
Kanji Lalji Mehta for OMG!: Oh My God
|
|
Irrfan Khan as Paan Singh Tomar for Paan Singh Tomar
|
Ayushman Khurrana
as Vicky Arora for Vicky Donor
|
|
Manoj Bajpai as
Sardar Khan for Gangs of Wasseypur
|
Sharman Joshi as
Rustam Deboo for Ferrari Ki Sawaari
|
|
Aamir Khan as
Surjan Sekhawat for Talaash
|
Imran Khan as
Rahul Kapoor for Ek Main Aur Ekk Tu
|
|
Nawazuddin
Siddiqui as Faizal Khan for Gangs of Wasseypur
|
Ranbir Kapoor as Murphy 'Barfi' Johnson for Barfi!
|
|
|
|
|
Best Actor in A Leading Role Drama (Female)
|
Best Actor in A Leading Role
Comedy/Romantic(Female)
|
|
Kareena Kapoor as
Rosie/Simran for Talaash
|
Deepika Padukone
as Veronica for Cocktail
|
|
Kalki Koechlin as
Shalini Sahay for Shanghai
|
Kareena Kapoor as
Riana Briganza for Ek Main Aur Ekk Tu
|
|
Kareena Kapoor as
Mahi Arora for Heroine
|
Priyanka Chopra as Jhilmil Chatterjee for Barfi!
|
|
Vidya Balan as Vidya Bagchi
for Kahaani
|
Sridevi as Shashi
Godbole for English Vinglish
|
|
Parineeti Chopra
as Zoya Qureshi for Ishaqzaade
|
Rani Mukherjee as
Meenakshi for Aiyaa
|
|
|
|
|
Best Actor in A Supporting Role Drama (Male)
|
Best Actor in A Supporting Role Comedy/Romantic
(Male)
|
|
Tigmanshu Dhulia as Ramadhir Singh for Gangs of Wasseypur
|
Boman Irani as
Behram Deboo for Feraari Ki Sawaari
|
|
Abhay Deol as TA
Krishnan for Shanghai
|
Rajesh Sharma as
Titu Mama for Luv Shuv Tey Chicken Khurrana
|
|
Nawazuddin
Siddiqui as Tehmur for Talaash
|
Adil Hussain as
Satish Godbole for English Vinglish
|
|
Prosenjit
Chatterjee as Dr. Ahmadi for Shanghai
|
Annu Kapoor as Dr. Baldev Chaddha for Vicky Donor
|
|
Saswata Chatterjee
as Bob Biswas for Kahaani
|
Akshay Kumar as
Krishna for OMG!: Oh My God
|
|
|
|
|
Best Actor in A Supporting Role Drama (Female)
|
Best Actor in A Supporting Role Comedy/Romantic
(Female)
|
|
Rani Mukherjee as
Roshni Shekhawat for Talaash
|
Priya Anand as
Radha for English Vinglish
|
|
Richa Chadda as Nagma Khatoon for Gangs of Wasseypur
|
Dolly Ahluwalia as Mrs. Arora for Vicky Donor
|
|
Tillotama Shome as
Aruna Ahmadi for Shanghai
|
Ratna Pathak Shah
as Rahul's Mother for Ek Main aur Ekk Tu
|
|
Mahie Gill as
Indira for Paan Singh Tomar
|
Illeana D'Cruz for
Shruti Ghosh Sengupta for Barfi!
|
|
Huma Qureshi as
Mohsina for Gangs of Wasseypur
|
Kamlesh Gill as
Biji for Vicky Donor
|
|
|
|
|
Best Original Song
|
Best Original Score
|
|
'Ik Bagal', Piyush
Mishra for Gangs of Wasseypur
|
Pritam for Barfi!
|
|
'Rabta', Aditi
Sharma and Arijit Singh for Agent Vinod
|
G.V. Prakash Kumar
for Gangs of Wasseypur
|
|
'Pani Da Rang', Ayushmann Khurrana for Vicky Donor
|
Pritam for Agent
Vinod
|
|
'Aashiyan', Shreya
Ghoshal and Nikhil Paul George for Barfi!
|
Vishal-Shehkar for Kahaani
|
|
'Gubbare', Amit
Trivedi, Shilpa Rao and Nikhil D'Souza for Ek Main Aur Ekk Tu
|
Amit Trivedi for
English Vinglish
|
-Siddharth Roy's first foray into big time productions yields positive results with a win for Barfi!. Anurag Kashyap carries his magnum opus Gangs of Wasseypur on the backs of Viacom 18, turning to be a champion distributor and strategist company.
-With a tough five man race; Sujoy etches out on the basis of Kahaani's technical finesse and the director's ability to take the usually melodramatically powerful Vidya Balan to a much more nuanced subtle performance win.
-Nikos Andritsakis bags his second cinematography win with another well shot films capturing the grim and grit of bharatnagar as well as dispalying an apptitude for capturing the psychological atmosphere of characters through lighting.
-A dense and large script carrying varied quirky characters with a dose of great humor, realism, action, drama and romance. True to form Gangs of Wasseypur is the finest masala film script in a long while [Yes, Masala!]. While Juhi Chaturvedi takes a taboo topic turning it into a witty comedy with a heart of gold.
-Irrfan Khan wins his first award in the leading drama category, in a tough congested competition. Ranbir Kapoor secures the other half of the leading man award, elevating his status to five nominations and two wins. Now the bride! Vidya Balan after toiling away with three nominations, finally secures the big win! Priyanka Chopra like her co-star Ranbir gets her second award in a row.
-Dhulia may have lost out on the big ones for his film Paan Singh Tomar but he clinches it for his gleeful vicious turn as the villain of Gangs of Wasseypur. Joining him is Richa Chadda from the same film as the venom spouting and vicious wife to determined lead Manoj Bajpai. On the other side, both Annu Kapoor and Dolly Ahluwalia secure victories for their hilarious parts in Vicky Donor.
-Ayushmann composes one hell of a romantic ballad with a breezy feel. Vishal-Shehkar thrilling score adds the spike of nerves and excitement to Kahaani.
With Disney's accquisition of UTV, Siddharth Roy Kapur makes a swift rise to producer. The mentor-protege team of Ronnie Screwvala and Kapur work wonders. Viacom 18 are also on their heels. These two distrbution companies prove they have the campaign strategy nailed down.
Here are the winners tally;
|
Films
|
Nominations
|
Wins
|
|
Gangs of Wasseypur
|
10
|
4
|
|
Vicky Donor
|
7
|
4
|
|
Barfi!
|
8
|
3
|
|
Kahaani
|
7
|
3
|
|
Shanghai
|
9
|
1
|
|
Paan Singh Tomar
|
5
|
1
|
|
Ek Main Aur Ekk Tu
|
6
|
0
|
|
English Vinglish
|
6
|
0
|
|
OMG!: Oh My God
|
4
|
0
|
|
Talaash
|
4
|
0
|
|
Chittagong
|
3
|
0
|
|
Agent Vinod
|
3
|
0
|
|
Luv Shuv Tey
Chicken Khurana
|
2
|
0
|
|
Ferrari Ki Sawaari
|
2
|
0
|
|
Heroine
|
1
|
0
|
|
Ishaqzaade
|
1
|
0
|
|
Aiyaa
|
1
|
0
|
|
Cocktail
|
1
|
0
|
HIndie Awards 2014
As 2012 proved to be a stellar year, how could it be topped...well it was just the lull before the actual storm that was 2013. Films had multiple nominees, top categories are stacked and above all else even some mediocre and okay range of films could sneak in a nomination proving that they at least had a few well working parts.
So here is the ballot;
|
Best Motion Picture (Drama)
|
Best Motion Picture (Comedy/Romantic)
|
|
Ajay Bahl for BA
Pass [VIP Films]
|
Shital Bhatia and
Kumar Mangat for Special 26 [Viacom 18 Pictures]
|
|
Anurag Kashyap, Sunil Bohra, Ronnie Screwvala, Siddharth
Roy Kapur and Shailesh Singh for Shahid [UTV Motion Pictures]
|
Aditya Chopra for
Shuddh Desi Romance [Yash Raj Films]
|
|
Ronnie Screwvala
and Siddharth Roy Kapur for Kai Po Che [UTV Motion Pictures]
|
Arun Rangachari, Anurag Kashyap and Guneet Monga for The
Lunchbox [UTV Motion Pictures]
|
|
Arun Rangachari
and Monisha Advani for D-Day [DAR Motion Pictures and Yash Raj Films]
|
Krishika Lulla for
Raanjhanaa [EROS International]
|
|
John Abraham,
Shoojit Sircar and Ronnie Lahiri for Madras Café [Viacom 18 Motion Pictures
and JA Entertainment]
|
Anurag Kashyap,
Vikas Bahl, Ekta Kapoor and Shobha Kapoor for Lootera [Balaji Motion
Pictures]
|
|
|
|
|
Best Director
|
Best Cinematography
|
|
Shoojit Sircar for
Madras Café
|
Mahendra Shetty
for Lootera
|
|
Vikramaditya Motwane for Lootera
|
Tushar Kanti Ray
for D Day
|
|
Riteish Batra for
The Lunchbox
|
Kamaljeet Negi for
Madras Cafe
|
|
Neeraj Pandey for
Special 26
|
Ajay Bahl for BA Pass
|
|
Hansal Mehta for
Shahid
|
Anay Goswamy for
Kai Po Che
|
|
|
|
|
Best Screenplay (Drama)
|
Best Screenplay (Comedy/Romantic)
|
|
Ritesh Shah for BA
Pass
|
Ritesh Batra for The Lunchbox
|
|
Pubali Chaudhari,
Supratik Sen, Chetan Bhagat and Abhishek Kapoor for Kai Po Che
|
Jaideep Sahni for
Shuddh Desi Romance
|
|
Sameer Gautam Singh for Shahid
|
Subash Kapoor for
Jolly LLB
|
|
Sumit Saxena and
Ashish Shukla for Prague
|
Bhavani Iyer and
Vikramaditya Motwane for Lootera
|
|
Somnath Dey and
Shubendu Bhattacharya for Madras Café
|
Neeraj Pandey for
Special 26
|
|
|
|
|
Best Actor in A Leading Role Drama (Male)
|
Best Actor in A Leading Role Comedy/Romantic (Male)
|
|
Chandan Roy Sanyal
as Chandan for Prague
|
Arshad Warsi as
Jolly for Jolly LLB
|
|
Farhan Akhtar as
Milkha Singh for Bhaag Milkha Bhaag
|
Irrfan Khan as Sajan Fernandez for The Lunchbox
|
|
Shadab Kamal as
Mukesh for BA Pass
|
Sushant Singh
Rajput as Raghu for Shuddh Desi Romance
|
|
Rajkumar Rao as Shahid Azmi for Shahid
|
Dhanush as Kundan
for Raanjhanaa
|
|
Saqib Saleem as
Avinash for 'Ajeeb Dastan...' Bombay Talkies
|
Ranveer Singh as
Varun Srivastav for Lootera
|
|
|
|
|
Best Actor in A Leading Role Drama (Female)
|
Best Actor in A Leading Role Comedy/Romantic
(Female)
|
|
Rani Mukherjee as
Gayatri for 'Ajeeb Dastan...' Bombay Talkies
|
Sonakshi Sinha as
Pakhi for Lootera
|
|
Chitrangada Singh
as Maya Luthra for Inkaar
|
Nimrat Kaur as Ila for The Lunchbox
|
|
Mahi Gill as
Madhavi Devi for Saheb, Biwi aur Gangster Returns
|
Parineeti Chopra
as Gayatri for Shuddh Desi Romance
|
|
Shilpa Shukla as Sarika for BA Pass
|
Sonam Kapoor as
Zoya for Raanjhanaa
|
|
Swara Bhaskar as
Amaya for Listen...Amaya
|
Riya Vij as
Gurpreet Kaur/Gippi for Gippi
|
|
|
|
|
Best Actor in A Supporting Role Drama (Male)
|
Best Actor in A Supporting Role Comedy/Romantic
(Male)
|
|
Amit Sadh as Omi
for Kai Po Che
|
Anupam Kher as PK
Sharma for Special 26
|
|
Farooq Sheikh as
Jayant for Listen...Amaya
|
Mohammed Zeeshan
Ayub as Murari for Raanjhanaa
|
|
Rishi Kapoor as Goldman for D Day
|
Nawazzudin Siddiqui as Shaikh for The Lunchbox
|
|
Rajkumar Rao as
Govind for Kai Po Che
|
Varun Sharma as
Choocha for Fukrey
|
|
Arfi Lamba as Arfi
for Prague
|
Rishi Kapoor as
Goyal for Shuddh Desi Romance
|
|
|
|
|
Best Actor in A Supporting Role Drama (Female)
|
Best Actor in A Supporting Role Comedy/Romantic
(Female)
|
|
Shriswara as
Nafisa for D Day
|
Supriya Pathak as
Dankhor Baa for Ram-Leela
|
|
Elena Kazan as
Elena for Prague
|
Divya Dutta as
Pappi Kaur for Gippi
|
|
Divya Dutta as
Isri Kaur for Bhaag Milkha Bhaag
|
Richa Chadda as Bholi Punjaban for Fukrey
|
|
Deepti Naval as Leela for Listen...Amaya
|
Kalki Koechlin as
Aditi for Yeh Jawaani Hai Deewani
|
|
Konkona Sen Sharma
as Diana for Ek Thi Dayaan
|
Swara Bhaskar as
Bindiya for Raanjhanaa
|
|
|
|
|
Best Original Song
|
Best Original Score
|
|
'Tum Hi Ho',
Mithoon for Aashiqui 2
|
AR Rahman for
Raanjhanaa
|
|
'Laal Ishq',
Arijit Singh for Ram-Leela
|
Karan Kulkarni for
Shahid
|
|
'Zinda', Amit Trivedi for Lootera
|
Max Ritcher for
The Lunchbox
|
|
'Aise Na Dekho',
AR Rahman and Karthik for Raanjhanaa
|
Amit Trivedi for Lootera
|
|
'Meethi
Bholiyaan', Amit Trivedi and Mili Nair for Kai Po Che
|
Shankar-Ehsaan-Loy
for D Day
|
-Side Note; Lootera was Phantom Films [Anurag Kashyap, Vikramaditya Motwane, Vikas Bahl and Madhu Mantena] first production, though the all powerful Balaji was behind its distribution.
-Big obvious wins right of the bat for both The Lunchbox which went on to become an international phenomenon and Shahid, a national award winning well crafted biography. Top class wins for Anurag Kashyap on both fronts but also a statement of UTV's dominance on the landscape of Modern Hindi Cinema.
-Vikramaditya Motwane secures the directorial prize for the second time in his two film career proving his stature amidst stiff competition.
-Ajay Bahl's neon drenched and drab tinted cinematography captures the gruesome awakward underbelly of upper middle class Delhi.
-Both big picture winners can thank their assured writers and screenplays for the laurels.
-Post a National Award victory Rajkumar Rao score the leading man trophy cementing his legacy. The Romantic genre divide sees the sublime performance of Irrfan Khan and Nimrat Kaur score despite how close Ranveer Singh and Sonakshi Sinha were nipping at their feet. Finally the Leading Female Drama section require a huge save after the Romantic drenches most contendors; leaving Shilpa Shukla's masterful show stealing turn to be bumped up all the way to victory.
-Rishi Kapoor's Dawood act is both fearsome and oddly humorous, adding layers to the myth of Goldman. Siddiqui threatens to steal the show with his hilarious turn in the Lunchbox. Deepti Naval is elevated by the abscence of Rani and especially Shilpa Shukla, but is still giving a fine turn. Richa Chadda's mouthy pimp/drug dealer Bholi Punjaban is a riot.
-Amit Trivedi after a couple of nominations finally scores for the perfect song and caps it off with a double win for Original Score for Lootera.
Once again this year UTV [Now under Disney] proved to be a champion in getting its films and performers some huge wins. Content is king has been established this decade and at the fore is UTV's skills in finding that balance between good content in cinema and commmercial value of it as well.
So that's it, of course we also have last years HIndie Awards to consider where both UTV [Haider] and even Viacom 18 [Queen] struck big chords amidst some greater independent producers infiltrating the season [Aankhon Dekhi to Miss Lovely].
What does this then herald for the campaigns of the big films of this year?
Let's see through the lens of the top competing producers and the films they are backing in this horse race
[Note; this is solely based on the production company that distributes the film not produces it e.g. both UTV and Nadiawala and Grandson's produced Imtiaz Ali's Tamasha but only UTV is distributing the film in screens]
[Second Note; Films listed are those that will be the ones campaigned for HIndie Awards, not all the films the company distributes during the year]
UTV Motion Pictures: Phantom, Tamasha
Yash Raj Films: Piku, Detective Byomkesh Bakshi, Dum Laga Ke Haisha, Titli
EROS International: NH 10, Shamitabh, Badlapur, Tanu Weds Manu Returns, Bajrangi Bhaijaan, Bajirao Mastani, Dil Dhadakne Do
Viacom 18 Motion Pictures: Drishyam, Margarita With A Straw, Rahasya, Manjhi: The Mountain Man
Fox Star Studios: Bombay Velvet, Shaandaar, Brothers
While other films are backed by independent producers and smaller fixtures.
So that's it, what will this entail for the upcoming race...not just in terms of which Distributing Production company has the hold on the season but also what the record stands for certain film personalities and elements in the upcoming HIndie Awards 2016
e.g. is it third times the charm for Shoojit Sircar with Piku, after losing out twice?
PS: Yes I still know that no one else is really taking part in this so called awards race, but if you want please do indulge my craziness.
'Nuff Said
Aneesh Raikundalia
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