Hey Filmfare! You Just Missed Out These INCREDIBLE Performances In Your 2017 Awards Nominations

If you ever thought that the film awards in India were sold, manipulated or biased this year the award shows for 2016 will confirm your fears! If you were astonished at the series of awards that were given out in the Screen Awards or the Star Dust Awards that were held recently, then won’t be very pleased with the Filmfare Awards nominations that were announced today.

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2016 saw some spectacular films and great performances that set us thinking and were much talked about all though the year. But some of these good performances have sadly found no place in the Filmfare nominations and that has led to much noise being made on the social media, especially on behalf of actors and films that deserved recognition like Akshay Kumar and his two much appreciated films from 2016 including Rustom and Airlift.

If you scan through all categories of nominations you certainly won’t be surprised to find only a handful of big film contending in this very limited race. Films like Udta Punjab, Ae Dil Hai Mushkil, Kapoor and Sons, Sultan, Dangal, Neerja and Pink to be more specific are ruling all the sections. Not that these films were not the most popular or the biggest highlights of 2016, but there are so many of the big and popular films that went entirely neglected this year.

Films like M.S. Dhoni: The Untold Story, Aligarh, Rustom and Airlift are either nowhere to be seen in the nominations or simply have a blink and miss mention, where as they were so incredible films of the past year that were perfectly worthy of nominations if not the awards.

So many of Akshay Kumar fans took to Twitter to condemn the Filmare nominations as they were declared and we can say that they had all the right reasons to be disappointed.  The fans are calling the awards paid and circulating so many trolls over twitter.

If these trends are not enough to suggest that the Bollywood awards are entirely unfair and fixed we don’t know what else is. The organizers and jury of award show in India desperately need to understand that recognition of good performances and creative output in Bollywood goes beyond the assessment of the highest grossing films!

Take a look at the nominations for Filmfare 2017 here -

Best Director

Abhishek Chaubey - Udta Punjab
Ali Abbas Zafar – Sultan
Karan Johar – Ae Dil Hai Mushkil
Nitesh Tiwari – Dangal
Ram Madhvani – Neerja
Shakun Batra – Kapoor & Sons

Best Actor In A Leading Role (Male)

Aamir Khan – Dangal
Amitabh Bachchan – Pink
Ranbir Kapoor – Ae Dil Hai Mushkil
Salman Khan – Sultan
Shah Rukh Khan – Fan
Shahid Kapoor – Udta Punjab
Sushant Singh Rajput – MS Dhoni: The Untold Story

Best Actor In A Leading Role (Female)

Aishwarya Rai Bachchan – Sarbjit
Alia Bhatt – Dear Zindagi
Alia Bhatt – Udta Punjab
Anushka Sharma – Ae Dil Hai Mushkil
Sonam Kapoor – Neerja
Vidya Balan – Kahaani 2

Best Actor In A Supporting Role (Male)

Diljit Dosanjh – Udta Punjab
Fawad Khan – Kapoor And Sons
Jim Sarbh – Neerja
Rajat Kapoor – Kapoor & Sons 
Rajkummar Rao – Aligarh 
Rishi Kapoor – Kapoor And Sons

Best Actor In A Supporting Role (Female)

Kareena Kapoor Khan – Udta Punjab
Kirti Kulhari – Pink
Ratna Pathak Shah – Kapoor And Sons
Richa Chadda – Sarbjit
Shabana Azmi – Neerja

Best Music Album

Amaal Mallik, Badshah, Arko, Tanishk Bagchi, Benny Dayal and Nucleya – Kapoor & Sons
Amit Trivedi – Udta Punjab
Meet Bros, Amaal Mallik, Ankit Tiwari & Manj Musik – Baaghi
Pritam – Ae Dil Hai Mushkil
Shankar-Ehsaan-Loy – Mirzya
Vishal-Shekhar – Sultan

Best Lyrics

Amitabh Bhattacharya – Channa mereya (Ae Dil Hai Mushkil)
Gulzar – Aave re hitchki (Mirzya)
Gulzar – Mirzya (Mirzya)
Irshad Kamil – Jag ghoomeya (Sultan)
Kausar Munir – Love you zindagi (Dear Zindagi)
Late Shiv Kumar Batalvi – Ikk kudi (Udta Punjab)

Best Playback Singer (Male)

Amit Mishra – Bulleya (Ae Dil Hai Mushkil)
Arijit Singh – Ae dil hai mushkil (Ae Dil Hai Mushkil)
Arijit Singh – Channa mereya (Ae Dil Hai Mushkil)
Atif Aslam – Tere sang yara (Rustom)
Rahat Fateh Ali Khan – Jag ghoomeya (Sultan)

Best Playback Singer (Female)

Kanika Kapoor – Da da dasse (Udta Punjab)
Jonita Gandhi – Break up song (Ae Dil Hai Mushkil)
Neeti Mohan – Sau aasman (Baar Baar Dekho)
Neha Bhasin – Jag ghoomeya (Sultan)
Palak Mucchal – Kaun Tujhe (MS Dhoni: The Untold Story)
Qurat-ul-Ain Balouch – Kari kari (Pink)

No woder so many celebs and audiences are incresing losing faith in the award culture of Bollywood!

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