Govind Nihalani's film 'Ardh Satya' sweeps five Filmfare awards
Balding director-cameramen Govind Nihalani virtually stole the show at the annual ceremony of the prestigious Filmfare awards with his compelling smash-hit Ardh Satya sweeping five awards.
- While Oscars were being distributed in Hollywood, Bombay stars were chewing their fingernails with equal anxiety at the annual ceremony of the prestigious Filmfare awards last fortnight. Balding director-cameramen Govind Nihalani virtually stole the show with his compelling smash-hit Ardh Satya sweeping five awards including one for the exceptionally talented Sadashiv Amrapurkar who played the hypnotic gang leader Rama Shetty in the film. The best actress and best actor awards went, predictably enough, to the talented twosome Shabana Azmi and Naseeruddin Shah for Arth and Masoom respectively. Vijay Tendulkar, the Marathi playwright, who has been providing the fodder for scripts for most middle-road cinema, walked off with the best screenplay writer award. Among other award winners at the glittering ceremony were Rohini Hattangady (best supporting actress in Arth); Mahesh Bhatt (best dialogue writer) and Kishore Kumar (best playback singer).(From left) Filmfare award winners Naseeruddin Shah, Shabana Azmi, Govind Nihalani and Vijay Tendulkar: Off the beaten track
- The song has turned sour. The svelte and exuberant Bangladeshi singer Runa Laila, who created a sensation in India in the mid '70s was last fortnight back in the news after former hubby Khwaja Javed Kaiser wrathfully accused her of having wrecked their marriage. The accusations were not one-sided. The couple were married in 1978 and last year, the singer started a legal battle, seeking divorce from her husband and accusing him among other things of being an alcoholic and gambler - and irresponsible to her as well as to her daughter. In a petition Runa had also stated that Kaiser used to physically assault her after his drunken sprees. In the course of the hearing Kaiser gave Runa a taste of her own medicine and threatened to "prove Runa's gambling and alcohol drinking with photographic documents". He also claimed that he was driven to live abroad because he was shocked by his wife's "vulgar activities with her boy friends and her incorrigibly reckless and shameful life style". With so much dirty linen hung out in the open, the sultry singer's career is bound to take a beating as well.Runa Laila: Marital blues
- In terms of popularity the veteran actor could easily be, called the Marathi cinema's Amitabh Bachchan. Dada Kondke, Marathi actor and film producer proved that he could break records doing his thing in the Hindi film world as well. The Guinness world record holder of nine successive golden jubilee film hits did not venture into politics and add tinsel to the Congress(I) as was speculated but emerged with his maiden Hindi film Tere Mere Beech Mein which was released in Bombay with the first week's tickets sold out in advance in all the 23 cinemas. Infused with enough bawdiness, every gimmick in the book and large doses of vulgarity, the film has parallels of the political kind as well - a naked villager is christened Charan Singh and potential leaders in prison include George Fernandes and Sarojini Naidu. But Khondke's horseplay and titillation has obviously not offended the censors - there are no ruling party representatives in the film!Dada Kondke: Bold, bawdy debut
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