Saif Ali Khant
National Awards got announced the other day. Quite stunning really. On one hand we have Surya in Ayutha Ezhuthu, we have Shah Rukh in Swades then on the other hand we have Saif Ali Khan in Hum Tum. Now don't get me wrong - Saif is an enjoyable actor and often brightens up the screen BUT a national award for that?
Hum Tum in enjoyable yet has none of the gravitas of either Swades or Ayutha Ezhuthu - in fact its probably the best masala flick to come in 2004. When Surya became Michael Vasant the student revolutionare and SRK wonderfully portrayed the returning Mohan Bhargava we see two stand out perfomances - 2 movies that are also incredibly well made. Hum Tum deals with no moral issues, has a generic story and half the movie is about Saif parading around with his "Tom Cruise look". A dubious decision - totally ignorant of Surya in Ayutha Ezhuthu who literally slammed the competition this year.
Page 3 - yeh its a good movie - but NOT a great one. Deals with some taboo issues so they gave it an award. Ayutha Ezhuthu dealt with taboo issues, dealt with important issues and didn't commercialise itself heavily - definitely a better film. Swades is another challenging the NRI mentality - how many movies do that?
Tara - I don't know anything about her so I won't comment.
Veer Zaara and Autograph both won it for best enjoyable movie... Justifiable choices I guess but this is where Hum Tum should have won. Veer Zaara was mediocre at best and Autograph is not really enjoyable its more a serious movie taken with a serious angle - what the adjudicators were thinking when they awarded these prizes God only knows.
At least next year 0ne can hope for rational choices. As of today the National Awards have a new name: The Irrational Awards!
Hum Tum in enjoyable yet has none of the gravitas of either Swades or Ayutha Ezhuthu - in fact its probably the best masala flick to come in 2004. When Surya became Michael Vasant the student revolutionare and SRK wonderfully portrayed the returning Mohan Bhargava we see two stand out perfomances - 2 movies that are also incredibly well made. Hum Tum deals with no moral issues, has a generic story and half the movie is about Saif parading around with his "Tom Cruise look". A dubious decision - totally ignorant of Surya in Ayutha Ezhuthu who literally slammed the competition this year.
Page 3 - yeh its a good movie - but NOT a great one. Deals with some taboo issues so they gave it an award. Ayutha Ezhuthu dealt with taboo issues, dealt with important issues and didn't commercialise itself heavily - definitely a better film. Swades is another challenging the NRI mentality - how many movies do that?
Tara - I don't know anything about her so I won't comment.
Veer Zaara and Autograph both won it for best enjoyable movie... Justifiable choices I guess but this is where Hum Tum should have won. Veer Zaara was mediocre at best and Autograph is not really enjoyable its more a serious movie taken with a serious angle - what the adjudicators were thinking when they awarded these prizes God only knows.
At least next year 0ne can hope for rational choices. As of today the National Awards have a new name: The Irrational Awards!
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