Road to the HIndie Awards
2016
The road to the
Oscars has just picked up with the huge announcements from the SAG's and the
Golden Globes with some dazzling shockers;
Rocking and Rolling towards the Oscars!
GO MAD MAX!
So once again, I am
forced to think about our very own awards season
Yes I'm talking
about Hindi Cinema and yes I am saying our, because as my first year of film
school unwinds and I go to my path to become a filmmaker, I realize I am a part
of-for a lack of a more famous word-Bollywood!
So speaking of
awards seasons.
Hindi cinema has
one, but as you know from my previous entries; the Hindi awards season is
replete with pointless events scampering for TRP's and patting each other in
the backs without shame.
Hmm...No I'm not
talking about the Oscars.
Sure the prestige of
the Academy Awards are undeniable, but the Oscars are just a gold academy award
coated sham like the Hindi Awards I like to bark on.
But I'd be denying
my hypocrisy to the world if I didn't admit that the Oscar race is so much fun
to follow.
2 for 2 for Redmayne, or is it finally Leo's year?!
Just fixating on
what might make it this year and what might not adds a level of intrigue, hype
and yes in this internet age; prestige, to the Academy awards.
Something the Hindi
Film Industries so called "Big" Awards shows lack.
So I thought; why
not do something crazy for myself.
Much more crazier
than my very own HIndie Awards. Something that will send me rattling of the
brink and will make me derided among blog circles and never be taken seriously
as a writer.
Yay Career Suicide!
I'm thinking of
writing down my own Road to the HIndie Awards post;
Analyzing the
potential best films of this year and laying out For Your Consideration posters
as well as placing hair brained predictions on who will make it to the
nomination ballot.
Okay so first things
first I know what you're thinking;
Aneesh are you
crazy! You're the only one nominating the films and creating these awards so
then how does predictions and all that work.
Well for one I will
be looking at IMDB scores, reading up on both public and critical reviews as
well as truly insightfully looking at the predictions I'd made at the start of
the year but never shared.
See this way I will
be able to make a healthy based prediction for the road to HIndie Awards
depending on expectations of films and trust me it will work because a lot of
films this year haven't lived up to my renewed lofty standards.
At the end of the
day, this is just a fun exercise I want to do because I'm bored silly and
frustrated of the fact that nobody takes Hindi film awards seriously and they
are drab, dull and no fun.
So here goes anyway,
below you will find this years awards categories which I will also explain
further.
So enjoy, this years
road to the HIndie Awards 2016
Best Motion Picture (Drama)
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Best Motion Picture (Comedy/Romantic)
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Best Director
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Best Cinematography
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Best Screenplay (Drama)
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Best Screenplay (Comedy/Romantic)
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Best Actor in A Leading Role Drama (Male)
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Best Actor in A Leading Role Comedy/Romantic(Male)
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Best Actor in A Leading Role Drama (Female)
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Best Actor in A Leading Role Comedy/Romantic
(Female)
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Best Actor in A Supporting Role Drama (Male)
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Best Actor in A Supporting Role Comedy/Romantic
(Male)
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Best Actor in A Supporting Role Drama (Female)
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Best Actor in A Supporting Role Comedy/Romantic
(Female)
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Best Breakthrough Actor (Male)
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Best Breakthrough Actor (Female)
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Best Breakthrough Director
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Best Regional Language Film
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Best Director (Regional Film)
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Best Screenplay (Regional Film)
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Best Leading Actor in A Regional Film (Male)
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Best Leading Actor in A Regional Film (Female)
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Best Supporting Actor in A Regional Film (Male)
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Best Supporting Actor in A Regional Film (Female)
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Best Cinematography (Regional Film)
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Best Ensemble
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Best Editing (Regional Film)
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Best Documentary/Short Film
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Best Production Design
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Best Costume Design
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Best Editing
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Best VFX
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Best Original Song
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Best Original Score
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Let's start from the
top;
Radhika Apte has had one bumper year...spoiler alert!
Like the Golden
Globes, there is a genre divide for awards. Despite this being a weak year, it
allows me to at least give a modicum of acknowledgment to some films that
deserve it.
However instead of
Musical as genre this year, I have put Romantic. Why? Because most Hindi films
tend to be musicals in a sense; though that distinction is dying a slow and
somewhat sad death these days.
Also Romantic is an
important genre staple in the Hindi cinema and it allows some strong contenders
to be thrown out by the prowess of bigger and better dramatic films. It's
indeed a year for dramas.
Neither Breakthrough
Actors nor Directors can be nominated on any other list. I added Breakthrough
Director as a category with nominations this year because there was a great
expansion of brilliant directorial talent this year.
I was also going to
add a Regional Film award and this year with the number of multicultural and
multilingual films I've been able to catch; I did so. This however also
prompted me to consider a whole Regional cinema section because to be honest
most of the best Indian films this year have not been in Hindi.
Best Ensemble and
Best Documentary/Short film are there to fill out the gaps, though they are now
staple awards with their tough contenders.
Also instead of Best
Soundtrack; I have decided to go for the awards prestigious Best Original Song.
Original because there's quite a few that don't make that cut; a good example
being 'Fifi' from Bombay Velvet originally sung by Geeta Dutt in Mr. & Mrs.
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Now let me present
you the films of 2015 and what genre category they will be competing in.
Also remember these
selected films are a mix of those I felt would actually be great at the start
of the year and those films that people are critically acclaiming or had the
backing of a reliable filmmaker behind them.
And also like the
Globes, sometimes it is hard to decide which genre a certain film falls into
So here goes;
Drama: Baby,
Rahasya, Badlapur, NH 10, Detective Byomkesh Bakshi!, Margarita With A Straw,
Bombay Velvet, Masaan, Drishyam, Brothers, Gour Hari Dastaan, Manjhi-The
Mountain Man, Phantom, Talvar, Titli, Main aur Charles, X: Past is Present, Kajarya, *Angry Indian Goddesses
Comedy/Romantic:
Shamitabh, Roy, Dum Laga Ke Haisha, Coffee Bloom, Hunterrr, Piku, Tanu Weds
Manu Returns, Dil Dhadakne Do, Miss Tanakpur Haazir Ho, Guddu Rangeela,
Bajrangi Bhaijaan, Bangistan, All is Well, Kaun Kitne Paani Mein, Katti Batti,
Meeruthiya Gangsters, Shaandar, Yaara Silly Silly, Tamasha, Bajirao Mastani
So strap a rocket on
your backs because this will be a hell of a crazy ride.
*Angry Indian Goddesses-Proved to be more of a drama, then the comedy it was promoted as
*Angry Indian Goddesses-Proved to be more of a drama, then the comedy it was promoted as
The HIndie Awards
2016 are heating up and the road is as furious as Fury Road...MAD MAX FOR
OSCARS!
'Nuff Said
Aneesh Raikundalia
