β’ Legendary actress Mala Sinha, who not only wowed Indian viewers but also impressed Hollywood so much that they offered her roles in the 1960s, is upset with the committee that has just bestowed the Dadasaheb Phalke Academy Award upon her.
β’ The award function was held on April 30. She said: "I won't accept the Phalke award. They have been discourteous and insulting to me. Is this any way to treat an artiste?"
β’ "They've done grave injustice to me. They haven't even mentioned my name on the invitation card! When members of the Phalke committee, including their chairperson, came home to request me to take the award for being what they called a legendary artiste, I was happy to accept it. But when I saw the invitation card for the event, I was shocked. My name was not there with the other winners of the award," she said.
β’ βAsha Bhosle and Pam Chopra (who was to receive the award on behalf of her late husband Yash Chopra)... This is insulting. It would be better if they had straightaway slapped me physically instead of insulting me in this way," she added.
β’ Mala Sinha regaled generations of Hindi cineastes with her powerhouse performance in Guru Dutt's Pyasa, BR Chopra's Dhool Ka Phool and Gumrah and Ramanand Sagar's Geet
β’ "They had informed me that I was to get the award a month ago. Though I don't go out too much these days, I did agree to come. They had a press conference in a small restaurant on Linking Road to announce the awards. None of their winners - not Ashaji, not Pam Chopra - came to the press conference. I went. They came home with the invitation last week. Only to insult me in this way."
β’ βForget my picture, they haven't even put my name in the invitation card. I told them to pick up their invitation cards and leave. I don't want their award. This is an insult to me as an artiste. I can't tell you how upset I am about it. I agree Asha Bhosle and Yash Chopra are great artists. But am I so small an artiste that my name should be left out? Then don't give me the award. I don't want it."
β’ Looking back on her career, Mala Sinha says, "Just the other day I was watching 'Dhool Ka Phool' and I was quite impressed by how ahead of its times it was...I've done some notable films... aur mere saath aisa anyaay! I've been around from the 1950s and I did films till the end of the 1990s."
β’ "Do you know I got two offers from Hollywood in the 1960s as the main lead? My father, who looked after my work, refused, saying, 'Our culture doesn't all
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In Malayalam cinema, Mohanlal won the Most Versatile Actor award. Uyare bagged the Best Film award and its actor, while Parvathy Thiruvothu won Best Actress for her performance in the film. Suraj Venjaramoodu won the Best Actor award for his performance in Android Kunjappan Ver 5.25. Madhu C Narayanan bagged the Best Director award for Kumbalangi Nights, and Deepak Dev bagged the Best Music Director award.
(more via TNM)
Are we seriously going to argue who had a more lasting impact on Bollywood between Vinod Khanna and Meena Kumari ? Vyjayantimala and Pran ? Nutan and Manoj Kumar ?
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The Dadasaheb Phalke Award is considered to be the highest honour in Indian cinema conferred at the National Film Awards for "outstanding contribution to the growth and development of Indian cinema". Instituted in 1969 by the govt to commemorate Phalke's contribution to Indian cinema, it has a legacy which makes it very prestigious in the consciousness of the public.
So I was extremely confused when I started seeing news articles about "Vicky Kaushal wins Dadasaheb Phalke Award for Best Performance in a Leading Role". Followed by a Dadasaheb Phalke Award for RJ of the year category. The most bizarre development was seeing Amit Bhadana celebrating his win for the Dadasaheb Phalke Award for "Best YouTuber". But on closely checking I noticed it's actually the "Dadasaheb Phalke International Film Festival Awards". This is not affiliated with the Directorate of Film Festivals (responsible for the National Film Awards and the International Film Festival of India) but a new festival created by a private entity. Since a lot of news sites have not bothered to list it correctly- many of them shorten the title so it is easily confused with the most prestigious film award in the country.
I was curious to see if it's out of ignorance and for the sake of convenience or an intentional push by the organizers to confuse it with the original award. And it seems to be a bit of both.
On their official verified Instagram account- they directly refer to their own awards as Dadasaheb Phalke Awards. On checking out their website the first thing you would notice is their tagline- "India's Most Prestigious Awards Night". On their About page they actually carry an endorsement by our hon'ble PM Narendra Modi. It is very obvious they're trying to make it look as official/govt backed as possible. A lot of thought has gone into making this look legitimately like the "official" award. After this I decided to check up the Ministry of Commerce's public list of trademarks and to my surprise they had actually attempted to register Dadasaheb Phalke International Film Festival as a trademark. Since the current status is abandoned- it is possible the appl
... keep reading on reddit β‘The Dadasaheb Phalke Award is considered to be the highest honour in Indian cinema conferred at the National Film Awards for "outstanding contribution to the growth and development of Indian cinema". Instituted in 1969 by the govt to commemorate Phalke's contribution to Indian cinema, it has a legacy which makes it very prestigious in the consciousness of the public.
So I was extremely confused when I started seeing news articles about "Vicky Kaushal wins Dadasaheb Phalke Award for Best Performance in a Leading Role". Followed by a Dadasaheb Phalke Award for RJ of the year category. The most bizarre development was seeing Amit Bhadana celebrating his win for the Dadasaheb Phalke Award for "Best YouTuber". But on closely checking I noticed it's actually the "Dadasaheb Phalke International Film Festival Awards". This is not affiliated with the Directorate of Film Festivals (responsible for the National Film Awards and the International Film Festival of India) but a new festival created by a private entity. Since a lot of news sites have not bothered to list it correctly- many of them shorten the title so it is easily confused with the most prestigious film award in the country.
I was curious to see if it's out of ignorance and for the sake of convenience or an intentional push by the organizers to confuse it with the original award. And it seems to be a bit of both.
On their official verified Instagram account- they directly refer to their own awards as Dadasaheb Phalke Awards. On checking out their website the first thing you would notice is their tagline- "India's Most Prestigious Awards Night". On their About page they actually carry an endorsement by our hon'ble PM Narendra Modi. It is very obvious they're trying to make it look as official/govt backed as possible. A lot of thought has gone into making this look legitimately like the "official" award. After this I decided to check up the Ministry of Commerce's public list of trademarks and to my surprise they had actually attempted to register Dadasaheb Phalke International Film Festival as a trademark. Since the current status is abandoned- it is possible the applicant did not follow through with more formalities with
... keep reading on reddit β‘
