The 60th Filmfare awards just went by. After weeks of tantalising promos showing a oh-so-classy Karan Johar and our country bumpkin Kapil Sharma promising:
Iss saal kuchh alag hoga
That it was being telecast on a Sunday evening was but a small glitch for me who allowed her offspring to stick around for half hour, till 8.30, and by then they were so tired that going to bed required just a small suggestion from my side. Not that the show was anything to argue or throw tantrums over.
So here's my two bits of review:
For the red carpet, they had VJ Andy. Fair enough. However, Andy escorted the unsuspecting guests right into the hands of the cast of the very annoying, yet very popular,
Tarak Mehta ka ooltah chashma The woman, whatever she is called, went: "
AAAIYYYE PADHAARIYE SO N SO JI" with whoever was at her mercy. Why o why?
Then, Kapil Sharma walked in with his 'Punjabi family' bhangra-ing to a dhol that they so thoughtfully had brought along. Stereotypes, anyone?
After a bit of quibbling over 'classy' and 'massy', KJO and KS kicked off the show with a lackadaisical performance from Ranbir Kapoor. To be followed by a
thakela performance by a notably bulky Arjun Kapoor. Is he missing his overweight teen years?
What bugs me is how Rekha chooses to wear
sindoor as a fashion accessory. Being a fellow woman, I am all for women wearing whatever they want to. But certain things, like sindoor, toe-rings, at least for us Indians, are worn by married women. So give yourself a break woman, and get on with your life! Your husband(s) died for no fault of yours, agreed, but you don't need a central-parting-full-of-sindoor to feel empowered. I expect better from women in Rekha's position, but guess I am asking for too much.
In fact, I was about to add that give me a woman who has aged gracefully anyday instead of a Rekha who seems to be stuck in the past, and then Jaya B came to my mind.
While on Jaya B, has anyone noticed how she wears an upside-down smile permanently. It's like Nita Ambani's botox job gone wrong. So Jaya B was honouring Kamini Kaushal with a lifetime achievement award and she went: "I congratulate you on behalf of my family(!) and the fraternity and etc." Did we shell out the trophy money from our deep pockets, eh, Ms B?
What really jarred, throughout the show, was the constant reminder or suggestion(!) of KJo's sexual orientation. OK so we have wondered about it and that's that. But did KJo think this was THE podium to come out on? There were constant references, like,
Kitne Aadmi the and I was glad my kids were fast asleep. Afterall, who wants to have such trash pass through one ear only to filter it and make it kid-worthy before blurting it out to 9-10 yr olds?
All in all, it wasn't funny, as Kapil Sharma could've made it, it wasn't classy, as KJo would've wanted it to be and it wasn't even 'massy' as most of the banter would've left the masses totally clueless as to what the joke was all about, I think. So, yes, it was
alag in that we didn't really know what it was. A comedy show? Or a Koffee with Karan? Let's just say that it left me so tired that I switched off the telly just before the two most popular awards were to be announced. By then, I couldn't care less.
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