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Razzies poke fun at ‘indulgent' Bollywood
- Reuters
- Published: 00:05 January 29, 2012
- Image Credit: Reuters
- Shah Rukh Khan (pictured) and Salman Khan are nominated in the worst actor categories at The Ghantas.
Movie fans in India are handing out their own version of the Razzies. The second Ghanta (bell) Awards and the fourth Golden Kela (golden banana) awards are doing the rounds of social media networks, with fans voting in various categories for the worst films of 2011.
This year, the Ghantas have a holier-than-thou film award, for "indulgent filmmakers".
"These are typically personal stories that do not cater to mass sensibilities," says Karan Anshuman, film critic and co-founder of The Ghanta Awards.
"Here, films are inspired by the grammar of world cinema and not so much Bollywood," says Anshuman.
"And while this is an encouraging step towards making available different cinemas to an audience, more often than not the movies are ineptly made and just plain bad and silly."
With categories like Most Atrocious lyrics, Worst Rip-Off and Worst Holier-than-thou films, fans can take potshots at the worst of Bollywood cinema from the past year.
Big-ticket stars Salman Khan and Shah Rukh Khan are nominated in the worst actor categories at The Ghantas while the Shah Rukh Khan caper Don 2 has been nominated in the Worst Rip-Off category for imitating "every Hollywood action film".
"Bollywood isn't really known for laughing at itself and frankly has zero sense of humour," says Anshuman. Organisers of the Golden Kela awards, which last year awarded the Worst Actor award to Shah Rukh Khan, say no Bollywood star or filmmaker shows up to claim their prizes.
This week, filmmaker Anurag Kashyap tweeted he would collect his Ghanta award in person if his film That Girl in Yellow Boots wins in the "holier-than-thou" category.
While the Ghantas will be announced in February in Mumbai, the Golden Kela award ceremony will be held in New Delhi in March.
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