In the sixties and seventies Fimlfare and National awards carried a lot of prestige and were genuine.But of late especially after the nineties they have become a place where stars come to get photographed and spoken about and catch the eye of some film maker, more like a social event, after which they get written about and may end up with some roles...Oscar awards too have undergone a lot of changes but not so drastically as Indian ones..

In the sixties and seventies Fimlfare and National awards carried a lot of prestige and were genuine.But of late especially after the nineties they have become a place where stars come to get photographed and spoken about and catch the eye of some film maker, more like a social event, after which they get written about and may end up with some roles...Oscar awards too have undergone a lot of changes but not so drastically as Indian ones..

Indian awards are now copying the foreign awards in every which way they can and frankly making a mess of it except National awards which at least look dignified, but the selection process is of course never clear....It would be so much better if we stuck to our own traditional way of doing things which we are good at rather than do some hotch potch that is neither here nor there...Everybody speaks in English mostly ungrammatical and broken and with fake accents that cannot be identified, instead why not speak in Hindi or any one of the constitutional languages ? Even some gestures that are typical of Western actors are followed here which looks laughable in our context...

Indian awards are now copying the foreign awards in every which way they can and frankly making a mess of it except National awards which at least look dignified, but the selection process is of course never clear....It would be so much better if we stuck to our own traditional way of doing things which we are good at rather than do some hotch potch that is neither here nor there...Everybody speaks in English mostly ungrammatical and broken and with fake accents that cannot be identified, instead why not speak in Hindi or any one of the constitutional languages ? Even some gestures that are typical of Western actors are followed here which looks laughable in our context...

That all and also the fact that there are now more than at least 10 different organizations giving the awards at the same time. One organization gives the Best Film, Best Actor, Best Actress to a certain set of people while the other gives to another. In the end, in any given year, almost all featured films get Best Film awards and almost all actors and actresses get best actor awards. It really makes me wonder whether there is any real criteria of being the BEST!! :blink: