Saif Ali Khan has never hesitates to speak out what’s on his mind.
Recently in an interview, the actor called out Indian Award Shows & stated how he does not believe in them anymore.
Speaking to Bollywood Hungama, Saif opened up about how his National Award for Hum Tum was considered undeserving. He stated, “Yes, I was seen to be undeserving of the few awards that I received earlier in my career, including the National award for Hum Tum. But I think over the years I’ve proven myself to be more worthy of recognition.”
Recalling an old personal experience Saif said, “To be honest, I don’t believe in them. Some years ago I was called for an awards function. When I got there someone higher up in the organization told me, ‘We wanted to give you the Best Actor award. But you know how it is. We’ll give you the award for Best Actor in a comic role’.”
When he was asked what does it mean by ‘You know how it is’? He said “I think he implied there’s a certain amount of politics and manipulation in giving the awards. It (awards functions) is a TV show, yaar! It’s a TV show. You have to go on the stage and perform. It is no longer about going on stage, taking your award and mumbling your ‘thank you’ speech. Now it’s a whole big tamasha on stage. Initially, it was a good idea, then the commercial aspect was introduced and that gobbled up the entire credibility of awards.”
Talking more about the commercial aspect of award shows he added, “As I see them, awards functions are an excuse to make some money by performing on stage. If you have the intelligence,then you spend the money well. That’s what awards are worth as far as I can see. It’s not about pretending to be an art of a community.”
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