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'Newton' Wins 'Best Film' National Award Proving That A Great Script Makes A Successful Movie

Apr 132018

We live in a world where a Dharma Productions movie or one by Rajshri Productions will pull people to the theatres like a magnet, but have you ever stopped to think what actually makes a movie worthy of a National Award? It’s the hard work of the team and offcourse, a great script. Rajkummar Rao’s ‘Newton’ has won the national award for the best film and it is deserving in every way.

Pankaj Tripathi, who played a pivotal role in the movie, got a special mention for his stellar acting.

Special mention award for actor Pankaj Tripathi for the movie Newton: Shekhar Kapur, chairman of the central panel of the 65th National Film Awards, in Delhi pic.twitter.com/V6ichCvaBk

— ANI (@ANI) April 13, 2018

The movie talks about elections being held in a Naxal-controlled environment. Pankaj played the character of Aatma Singh, who is a Central Reserve Police Force officer in the movie. The film was also sent as an entry for Oscars but lost the race to other movies. This win has united the internet unanimously about ‘Newton’ getting what it deserved.

Congratulation @RajkummarRao to won #nationalfilmfareaward for best movie #Newton

— mohd junaid (@mohdjunaid1962S) April 13, 2018

#Newton deserved the #BestHindiFilm award at #65thNationalAwards. Bollywood should make more movies like this!

— Sonal K (@sonalkhandelwal) April 13, 2018

Congratulations to the entire team of #newton for delivering such movies. Special thanks to @RajkummarRao for he chose to come in bollywood and made us experience some of the best cinema I’ve ever seen. Wayyy to goo mannn!! Keep up the stupendous work.

— Tanmay Tarun (@metanmay26) April 13, 2018

Besides ‘Newton’, the late Sridevi won the award for Best Actress for her performance in ‘Mom’, Riddhi Sen won the Best Actor award for ‘Nagarkirtan’. The 65th National Awards concluded today.

Winners of 63rd Jio Filmfare Awards 2018

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Jan 212018

Filfare2018 Members of the Hindi film industry came together to celebrate the best of Bollywood in the year 2017 at 63 rd Jio Filmfare Awards 2018, held on January 20 at the NSCI Dome in Worli, Mumbai. The starry night was hosted by Bollywood’s Baadshah Shah Rukh Khan, and his good friend and filmmaker Karan Johar provided him some company on the stage.

While ‘Hindi Medium’ bagged honours in the categories of Best Film and Best Actor in a Leading Role (Male) for Irrfan Khan’s impeccable performance. Vidya Balan won her career’s sixth Filmfare award for her passionate portrayal of a middle-aged homemaker who turns into a radio jockey in ‘Tumhari Sulu’ as she claimed the Black Lady for the Best Actor in a Leading Role (Female). Ashwiny Iyer Tiwari won the top award of the night as she won the Best Director award for ‘Bareilly Ki Barfi’.

Here is the complete list of those who won big at the 63rd Jio Filmfare Awards 2018.

Best Film: ‘Hindi Medium’

Critics’ Award for Best Film: ‘Newton’

Best Actor In A Leading Role (Female): Vidya Balan for ‘Tumhari Sulu’

Best Actor In A Leading Role (Male) : Irrfan Khan for ‘Hindi Medium’

Critics’ Award for Best Actor (Male): Rajkummar Rao for ‘Trapped’

Critics’ Award for Best Actor (Female): Zaira Wasim for ‘Secret Superstar’

Best Director: Ashwiny Iyer Tiwari for ‘Bareilly Ki Barfi’

Best Debut Director: Konkona Sensharma for ‘A Death in the Gunj’

Best Actor In A Supporting Role (Male): Rajkummar Rao for ‘Bareilly Ki Barfi’

Best Actor in a Supporting Role (Female): Meher Vij for ‘Secret Superstar’

Best Dialogue: Hitesh Kewalya for ‘Shubh Mangal Saavdhan’

Best Screenplay: Shubhashish Bhutiani for ‘Mukti Bhavan’

Best Original Story: Amit Masurkar for ‘Newton’

Best Actor (Male) in a Short Film: Jackie Shroff for ‘Khujli’

Best Actor (Female) in a Short Film: Shefali Shah for ‘Juice’

People’s Choice Award for Best Short Film: ‘Anahut’

Best Short Film (Fiction) : ‘Juice’

Best Short Film (Non Fiction): ‘Invisible Wings’

Best Music Album: Pritam for ‘Jagga Jasoos’

Best Playback Singer (Male): Arijit Singh for ‘Roke na ruke naina’ – ‘Badrinath Ki Dulhania’

Best Playback Singer (Female): Meghna Mishra for ‘Nachdi phira’ – ‘Secret Superstar’

Best Lyrics: Amitabh Bhattacharya for ‘Ullu ka pattha’ – ‘Jagga Jasoos’

Lifetime Achievement A ward: Mala Sinha and Bappi Lahiri

Best Choreography: Vijay Ganguly and Ruel Dausan Varindani for ‘Galti se mistake’ – ‘Jagga Jasoos’

Best Background Score: Pritam for ‘Jagga Jasoos’

Best Action: Tom Struthers for ‘Tiger Zinda Hai’

Best Cinematography: Sirsha Ray for ‘A Death In The Gunj’

Best Editing: Nitin Baid for ‘Trapped’

Best Production Design: Parul Sondh for ‘Daddy’

Best Sound Design: Anish John for ‘Trapped’

Best Costume: Rohit Chaturvedi for ‘A Death In The Gunj’

63rd Jio Filmfare Awards 2018 Nominations

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Jan 182018

Filfare2018 The wait for the official nomination list for the 63 rd Jio Filmfare Awards 2018 is finally over. The annual gala which recognises the best talent in Indian cinema will be back for its 63 rd edition on January 20, 2018 in Mumbai. The event that will bring together the biggest names and brightest stars in the business under one roof, will be hosted by Bollywood’s Badshah Shah Rukh Khan.

The list of nominees presents a mixed bag of films: blockbusters like ‘Badrinath Ki Dulhania’ and ‘Toilet: Ek Prem Katha’, surprise packages ‘Bareilly Ki Barfi’ and ‘Hindi Medium’ in the Best Film category. Young stars like Ayushmann Khurrana and Varun Dhawan are pitted against veterans Shah Rukh Khan, Hrithik Roshan, Irrfan Khan and Akshay Kumar in the Best Actor in a Leading Role (Male) category, while the Best Actor in a Leading Role (Female) category slots new talent Zaira Wasim, Saba Qamar and Bhumi Pednekar against multiple award winners Alia Bhatt, Vidya Balan and Sridevi.

Here’s the complete list of nominees:

Best Film
Badrinath Ki Dulhania
Bareilly Ki Barfi
Hindi Medium
Secret Superstar
Toilet: Ek Prem Katha

Best Director
Advait Chandan – Secret Superstar
Ashwin Iyer Tiwari – Bareilly Ki Barfi
Saket Chaudhary – Hindi Medium
Shashank Khaitan – Badrinath Ki Dulhania
Shree Narayan Singh – Toilet: Ek Prem Katha

Best Actor In A Leading Role (Male)
Akshay Kumar – Toilet: Ek Prem Katha
Ayushmann Khurrana – Shubh Mangal Saavdhan
Hrithik Roshan – Kaabil
Irrfan Khan – Hindi Medium
Shah Rukh Khan – Raees
Varun Dhawan – Badrinath Ki Dulhania

Best Actor In A Leading Role (Female)
Alia Bhatt – Badrinath Ki Dulhania
Bhumi Pednekar – Shubh Mangal Saavdhan
Saba Qamar – Hindi Medium
Sridevi – Mom
Vidya Balan – Tumhari Sulu
Zaira Wasim – Secret Superstar

Best Actor In A Supporting Role (Male)
Aamir Khan – Secret Superstar
Deepak Dobriyal – Hindi Medium
Manav Kaul – Tumhari Sulu
Nawazuddin Siddiqui – Mom
Pankaj Tripathi – Newton
Rajkummar Rao – Bareilly Ki Barfi

Best Actor In A Supporting Role (Female)
Meher Vij – Secret Superstar
Ratna Pathak Shah – Lipstick Under My Burkha
Seema Pahwa – Bareilly Ki Barfi
Seema Pahwa – Shubh Mangal Saavdhan
Tillotama Shome – A Death In The Gunj

Best Music Album
Badrinath Ki Dulhania – Amaal Mallik, Tanishk Bagchi and Akhil Sachdeva
Bareilly Ki Barfi – Arko, Tanishk Bagchi, Samira Koppikar, Sameer Uddin and Vayu
Half Girlfriend – Mithoon, Tanishk Bagchi, Rishi Rich, Farhan Saeed, Rahul Mishra, Ami Mishra
Jab Harry Met Sejal – Pritam
Jagga Jasoos – Pritam
Secret Superstar – Amit Trivedi

Best Lyrics
Amitabh Bhattacharya – Galti Se Mistake (Jagga Jasoos)
Amitabh Bhattacharya – Ullu Ka Pattha (Jagga Jasoos)
Arko Pravo Mukherjee – Nazm Nazm (Bareilly Ki Barfi)
Kausar Munir – Maana Ke Hum (Meri Pyaari Bindu)
Kausar Munir – Nachdi Phira (Secret Superstar)
Santanu Ghatak – Rafu (Tumhari Sulu)

Best Playback Singer (Male)
Akhil Sachdeva – Humsafar (Badrinath Ki Dulhania)
Arijit Singh – Roke Na Ruke Naina (Badrinath Ki Dulhania)
Arijit Singh – Zaalima (Raees)
Arko Pravo Mukherjee – Nazm Nazm (Bareilly Ki Barfi)
Ash King – Baarish (Half Girlfriend)
Sachin Sanghvi – Kho Diya (Bhoomi)

Best Playback Singer (Female)
Meghna Mishra – Nachdi Phira (Secret Superstar)
Monali Thakur – Khol De Baahein (Meri Pyaari Bindu)
Nikhita Gandhi – Ghar (Jab Harry Met Sejal)
Ronkini Gupta – Rafu (Tumhari Sulu)
Shashaa Tirupati – Kanha (Shubh Mangal Saavdhan)
Shreya Ghoshal – Thodi Der (Half Girlfriend)

Best Action
Allan Amin – Jagga Jasoos
Franz Spilhaus – Commando 2
Harpal Singh Pali and Ravi Kumar – Rangoon
K Ravi Verma – Raees
Tom Struthers – Tiger Zinda Hai

Best Background Score
Alokananda Dasgupta – Trapped
A.R. Rahman – Mom
Naren Chandavarkar and Benedict Taylor – Daddy
Pritam – Jagga Jasoos
Sagar Desai – A Death In The Gunj
Tajdar Junaid – Mukti Bhawan

Best Production Design
Anita Rajgopalan Lata, Donal Raegan Gracy – Raees
Parul Sondh – Daddy
Siddharth Sirohi – A Death In The Gunj
Subrata Chakraborty and Amit Ray – Rangoon

Best Costume
Dolly Ahluwalia – Rangoon
Nidhi and Divya Gambhir – Daddy
Rohit Chaturvedi – A Death In The Gunj

Best Sound Design
Anish John – Trapped
Baylon Fonseca and Dhiman Karmakar – Raees
Nihar Ranjan Samal – Mom
Subhash Sahoo – Tumhari Sulu
Udit Duseja – Daddy

Best Editing
Aarif Sheikh and Manas Mittal – A Death In The Gunj
Monisha R Baldawa – Mom
Nitin Baid – Trapped
Shweta Venkat Mathew – Newton

Best Choreography
Ganesh Acharya – (Badri Ki Dulhania – Badrinath Ki Dulhania)
Shiamak Davar (Ullu Ka Pattha – Jagga Jasoos)
Sudesh Adhana – (Bloody Hell – Rangoon)
Vijay Ganguly – (Ban Ja Rani – Tumhari Sulu)
Vijay Ganguly – (Khaana Khaake – Jagga Jasoos)
Vijay Ganguly and Ruel Dausan Varindani (Galti Se Mistake – Jagga Jasoos)

Best Original Story
Amit Joshi – Trapped
Amit V Masurkar – Newton
Rahul Dahiya – G Kutta Se
Shanker Raman and Sourabh Ratnu – Gurgaon
Shubhashish Bhutiani – Mukti Bhawan
Suresh Triveni – Tumhari Sulu

Best Dialogue
Hitesh Kewalya – Shubh Mangal Saavdhan
Mayank Tewari and Amit V Masurkar – Newton
Nitesh Tiwari and Shreyas Jain – Bareilly Ki Barfi
Subhash Kapoor – Jolly LLB 2
Suresh Triveni, Vijay Maurya – Tumhari Sulu

Best Screenplay
Advait Chandan – Secret Superstar
Amit Joshi and Hardik Mehta – Trapped
Mayank Tewari and Amit V Masurkar – Newton
Shubhashish Bhutiani – Mukti Bhawan
Subhash Kapoor – Jolly Llb 2

Best Cinematography
Jessica Lee Gagne and Pankaj Kumar – Daddy
Pankaj Kumar – Rangoon
Ravi Varman – Jagga Jasoos
Sirsha Ray – A Death In The Gunj
Swapnil S Sonawane – Newton

1995 Oscars Changed The Fate Of 'Forrest Gump', 'Pulp Fiction' & 'The Shawshank Redemption

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Oct 232017

Year after year movies set new heights, unveil new themes and give us thought provoking storylines to be cherished forever. In February, the Oscar telecast is viewed by millions of movie lovers around the world, as the star-studded ceremony is one of the most anticipated events in the entertainment industry. People wait for the entire year to watch their favorite films and artists winning the golden trophy.

However, at several instances in the history of Academy Awards, questions have been raised on the winners and those nominated.

It was 1995, when three of the most watched cult classics in the history of cinema, competed for Best Film category. The night of March 27, 1995 changed the fate of the then three best film nominees and the final winner. It was Quentin Tarantino’s ‘Pulp Fiction’, Robert Zemeckis’s ‘Forrest Gump’ and Frank Darabont’s ‘The Shawshank Redemption’ – films that stood in the toughest face-off against each other. Let’s take a look at what makes these three films special keeping in mind that no arguments since last 22 years have been able to create a dent in the individual popularity of each of these films.

Starting from ‘Forrest Gump’, the film took away six Oscars out of thirteen nominations. Tom Hanks, who later became popular by the name of the most memorable role he has ever done – ‘Forrest’, carried the film solely on his shoulders. Critics defined this film as “a heart-breaker of oddball wit and startling grace”, in no time after the film’s release, people started believing that ‘Forrest Gump’ is one movie titled ‘constitutive’, when it comes to the list of films one must watch in their lifetime. The film not only had the grace to transport one into a new world, but also stood strong with a remarkable performance not often available to the audience.

When Al Pacino and Robert De Niro announced the Best Film (1995) winner, it left viewers watching the telecast throughout the world disappointed as ‘Pulp Fiction’ lost the award to ‘Forrest Gump’.

People have always known Quentin Tarantino as a film-maker with an exceptional vision. No director or film-maker in Hollywood has been able to knit stories of hatred and bloodshed like Tarantino. With his second attempt in aestheticizing violence through ‘Pulp Fiction’, Quentin succeeded in building his own audience. ‘Pulp Fiction’ not only garnered critical acclaim at various film festivals during 1994, its very unsympathetic and exhilarating shrewdness hit the most unexplored areas of cinema. Even after receiving seven Oscar nominations, not winning the most deserved one would always remain an unfulfilled dream for ‘Pulp Fiction’ fans.

‘The Shawshank Redemption’ slowly became a worldwide phenomenon, years after critics called it a film which “stands the test of time and still resonates with viewers.” A simple humane story of survival over the years became the most loved film ever. ‘The Shawshank Redemption’ won no Academy Award that night, but still maintains its stronghold as the highest rated film on IMDb.

The night of March 27, 1995 is still a mystery, as for many it was the most significant event of their careers, while for others the most life transforming. Beyond awards and recognitions, the path-breaking stories of each of these three films not only made them the best of cult classics but timeless epics of Hollywood.