Is Shahrukh Khan Responsible for Downfall of Filmfare Awards??

Filmfare always had a very special place in the hearts of audience as well as the Stars just like Oscar's! It was regarded as a prestige issue to win at least 1 Filmfare Trophy in an actor's lifetime. Who can forget the famous Sanju Baba speech after receiving his first Best Actor award for Vaastav. There are many such instances associated with this ceremony since the famous golden days of Dilip Kumar, Raj Kapoor and Dev Anand!

 Dharmendra specially ordered a tailor made yellow suit for himself when he was confident of winning the award for Betaab as the Producer. Such was the charm and charisma of this event. Nobody from the film fraternity wanted to skip this extravaganza and always made a special effort to attend it, irrespective of the fact that whether they will win an award or not.

 Shahrukh Khan made his debut with Deewana for which he did win Sensational Debut Award (deservedly). In a year he had made brilliant PR skills to impress Big Banners like YRF and even with Sponsors of Filmfare awards. This gave birth to fixing of awards and as a result SRK was awarded best actor for Baazigar for which he was earlier nominated as a Villian but on the last minute changes were made so that Sanjay Dutt is deprived of his trophy(for Khalnayak).
This became a kind of trend and every year Shahrukh started winning non deserving awards and once when limits were crossed, Aamir Khan boycotted going to award shows(he was deprived of his deserving award for Rangeela).

    Today nobody respects Filmfare or any other award show as you already know that which ever big star is present and is seated in the front row is going to win an award for certain. Kangana Ranaut avoids all the award shows and only accepted National award from the President of India.

Today reality is in front of everybody that even for last 3 washout flops - Dilwale, Happy New Year and Fan - Shahrukh was nominated for the first two (if not won) and would get a certain nomination next year for the 3rd one?? Now the gap is so much widened between Megastars (Salman,Aamir) and ordinary star SRK that how much ever he lobbies, maximum he can win a nomination but can't win an award now.
Filmfare lost its charm which had a history of more than 60 years just for a very ordinary actor with a brilliant business mind.

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'The first real love story I watched unfold'

Love is something which is related a lot to movies. Since childhood the influence of cinema is so strong that most of the emotions are associated with it. But Reel life can never be anything what Real one can be. It was the Summer of 93 and i had just got through my 10th standard (some how). Excitement of holidays was all over my face! I straight away joined cricket coaching sessions as the game was my passion and more over the stadium was close enough to my house.
Here I met my coach 'Inderjeet' for the first time. He was a punctual and a strict person and the only time i used to see a smile on his face was when his girlfriend 'Nisha' used to bring home cooked food for him. This was a routine followed on a couple of days in a week. Nothing on my television or the cinema big screen but this was the first Real love story that i witnessed.
My coaching was 5 days a week and this was pretty new for me to understand that how those 2 days when Nisha used to come were totally different from the rest. Their comfort with each other and the love was there for everybody else to relish. From a distance i could still feel the warmth that both of them used to generate together. Watching them enjoy each and every moment of their company would make me jealous sometimes.
Once our coach got sick and the classes were taken by somebody else for a week and that was the time when I started missing those 2 days when the love birds were around. I used to think how would it be exactly to fall in love. The week passed and the coach was fit and back to stadium, so was his girlfriend! I knew both of them were missing their 'Tajmahal', the stadium of course!
Summer holidays got over soon and so the tryst with the stadium was over too. The lovers were still together but my movie was over. Witnessing a Real love story was an amazing experience for me. Movies will be made on various lovers but 'Inderjeet and Nisha' are going to stay in my conscience forever. I don't know what eventually was the ending of their love story but even after 2 decades, I remember them.

  This post was written for the 'The first real love story I watched unfold' blogging contest by http://www.bonobology.com/ and http://writersmelon.com/