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DELHI: ‘Ra. One’, one of the most expensive
films in Bollywood, has been voted the worst film of
2011 and its director Anubhav Sinha has been named worst
director.
In an event held on All Fools Day, Imran Khan and Deepika
Padukone received the notorious worst actor awards for
‘Mere Brother ki Dulhan’ and ‘Aarakshan’
respectively in the fourth annual Golden Kela awards
which marked the culmination of the first-ever Comedy
Festival held in the capital.
Jatin Verma, head of Twenty Onwards Media which organises
the annual event on the lines of the Golden Raspberry
Awards given in Hollywood every year, said a total of
around 700,000 votes were received for the awards. The
programme was presented by Anant Singh.
Pratiek Babbar – son of Raj Babbar and the late
Smita Patil – was named worst supporting actor
for ‘Dum Maaro Dum’ and ‘Aarakshan’,
while Chirag Paswan was named the worst debutante for
‘Miley Na Miley Hum’.
The veteran Pankaj Kapoor won the ‘Bawra Ho Gaya
Kay’ award for the film ‘Mausam’, while
the film ‘Pyar ka Panchnama’ was named for
the Shakti kapoor award for misogyny (which literally
means “man’s hatred for women”).
One
of the most interesting awards was for the music director
Preetam, who won the ‘Bas kijiye bahaut ho gaya’
award for freely copying tunes from different countries
for his songs. Around 20 songs composed by him were
played along with the originals, which showed he had
taken tunes from music as far away as the Middle East,
North Africa and Latin America, and even based on
songs tuned some years earlier by Anu Malik. In fact,
the songs played included one copied by Preetam on
one of his own tunes that came a few years earlier.
The lyrics named as the Most Irritating Song was ‘Teri
Meri’ from the Salman Khan-Kareen Kapoor starrer
‘Bodyguard’.
Ironically. Amitabh Bhattacharyya who won the National
Award for best lyrics for penning the song ‘Agar
zindagi’ in the film ‘I Am...’ was
named for the Most Atrocious Lyrics – ‘Pyar
Do Pyar Lo’ (‘Thank You’), ‘Jigar
ka Tukda’ (‘Ladies Vs Ricky Bahl’),
and the Mutton Song (‘Luv ka the End’).
The ‘Aaja Nach Le Award’ for Worst Attempt
at Comeback was given to Esha Deol for ‘Tell
me O Kkhuda’, while the Lajja Award for the Worst
treatment of a serious issue was given to Prakash
Jha’s ‘Aarakshan’. The F.A.L.T.U award
for most aptly named film went to ‘F.A.L.T.U’.
Interestingly, filmmaker Kanti Shah was present personally
to receive a Platinum Kela special award excellence
in cinema. He has been making B-Grade movies over
the past two decades, but the organizers said he had
always given the audiences what they wanted. "I'm
feeling good at being invited at the event. It’s
special because it has been organised by true fans
of my style of movie-making. I have been to other
award shows as well, but this definitely is special
being solely driven by fans of my movies," said
Shah.
Best
known for the cult film ‘Gunda’ in 1998
(Starring Mithun Da!) and such classics as Loha, Duplicate
Sholay, Shaadi Basanti ki Honeymoon Gabbar ka, and
Sheela Ki Jawani, Kanti Shah is perhaps the only director
worthy of the title ‘So Bad It’s Good’.
Also
present was Arunoday Singh, who accepted the Anti-Kela
award on behalf of the team of Yeh Saali Zindagi.
The Trophy was presented to him by last year’s
winner, Abhishek Sharma (Director, Tere Bin Laden).
"I think Sudhir Mishra should be the one accepting
this. I'm quite honoured and amused to accept this
award. It is good to see this movie getting some recognition.
And you guys obviously have a great choice,"
Singh said.
Other recipients of the Anti-Kela award were ‘Saheb,
Biwi Aur Gangster’,’ Shaitan’ and ‘Shor
in the City’, who managed to please the Kela
Committee.
The Golden Kela awards came at the end of the Comedy
Festival during which iconic comedy films like ‘Jaane
bhi do yaaro’, ‘Andaz Apna Apna’ and
‘Tere Bin Laden’ were screened.
There
was a competition on Standup Comedy as part of the
Indian Comedy Festival for the ‘Comedy Central’
TV channel and Maheep Singh and Zakir Khan shared
the top prize of Rs 1,00,000 along with the chance
to be featured on Comedy Central.
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