The 65th Filmfare Awards will go down in history as one of the most controversial as it irked many well-deserving celebs, media personalities as well as the netizens. Zoya Akhtar’s Gully Boy bagged 13 awards including Best Actor, Best Actress, Best Supporting Actress, Best Director and Best Lyrics. At a time when the Academy Awards aka Oscars created history by breaking tradition and celebrating a non-English and non-Hollywood film, we had Filmfare Awards that celebrated mediocre talent and nepotism.
Kangana Ranaut’s sister Rangoli Chandel took to social media to slam Alia Bhatt, Ananya Panday, Zoya Akhtar and Karan Johar among others. She took a jibe at Alia, who won the Best Actress award for Gully Boy as well as Karan who was a jury member. She also targeted Ananya for winning Best Debut for Student of the Year 2 over Radhika Madan’s and Ankita Lokhande’s superlative performances. Check out her tweets below:
Alia got award for her mediocre performance last year, she has a long way to go but still she was in the lead role, how do you get lead role award in a supporting role is beyond me ..
— Rangoli Chandel (@Rangoli_A) February 16, 2020
Ankita as Jhalkari Bai was a supreme debut magar nepo ne prove kar diya, jab tak unki gandagi saaf nahin hogi tab tak industry mein real talent ko insaaf nahin milega https://t.co/maOxHlmMMC
— Rangoli Chandel (@Rangoli_A) February 16, 2020
Dhanya ho Papa Jo... jahan jayenge wahan sabko Kalankit kar denge, inhone bahut kuch band karvaya hai, Koffee with Karan, Netflix, Fox, ab inki nazar Filmfare pe hai.. dhanya ho Papa jo https://t.co/EITE6epzAi
— Rangoli Chandel (@Rangoli_A) February 16, 2020
Rangoli’s sentiments have been echoed by lyricist Manoj Muntashir who was snubbed for his heartrending song Teri Mitti from Kesari. He also wrote a scathing note to Filmfare and went as far as promising that he will not attend any award function ever.
Netizens were also irked by Filmfare’s choice of awardees and one user even changed its Wikipedia page and wrote ‘Paid Awards’ on the website next to Gully Boy. #BoycottFilmfare and #BoycottFilmfareAwards were trending as Twitterati expressed their anger at films like Kesari, Super 30, Chhichhore and performances like Akshay Kumar, Hrithik Roshan, Sushant Singh Rajput were overlooked.
(Source: Twitter)
