Shame on Amrita Rao, shame on Arshad Warsi!
Tadka question – At the 53rd Annual Filmfare Awards. two of our actors refused to do something – What and why?
Year 1999 – Saroj Khan aka “Materji”is handed the Filmfare Best Choreographer Award by MF Hussain and Naghma (song ‘Nimbooda’, movie – Hum Dil De Chuke Sanam)
Year 2002 - Rakesh Ranjan is handed the Filmfare Best Sound Recordist Award by Shyam Benegal and Sharmila Tagore (movie – Aks)
Year 2008 – Sujata Sharma Virk is given the Filmfare Best Costume Designer Award by Abbas-Mustaan (movie – Gandhi, My Father).
And here’s the sad part. At this year’s 53rd Annual Filmfare Awards, two of our stars simply refused to go on stage to hand over the technical awards. Why? Because they thought that this was beneath them!
Amrita Rao and Arshad Warsi, were requested by the Filmfare team to go on-stage and deliver the Technical Awards, which are also the first set of awards handed out each year, in the oldest and the most sought-after awards night of the Indian Film Industry. But when Amrita Rao was asked to do the honours, she refysed saying, “Send me up for something better na! Please!”.
Although it isn’t known what Read more
Flashback chartbuster lyrics – song ‘Barso re megha’ from the movie Guru
Movie – Guru
Cast – Aishwarya Rai, Abhishek Bachchan, Mithun Chakraborty, R. Madhavan, Vidya Balan
Director – Mani Ratnam
Music Director – A.R. Rahman
Song – ‘Barso re megha’
Lyrics – Gulzar
Singer – Shreya Ghoshal
Tadka spice – ‘Barso re’ from Guru has quite some Filmfare Awards associated with itself, but it’s charm goes much beyond that. Read more, to find out after the lyrics!
na re, na re… na re, na re…
n-n-na re, na re… na re, na re…
n-na re, n-na re, n-na re, na na re…
n-na re, n-na re, n-na re, na na re…
barso re megha megha, barso re megha megha
barso re megha , barso…
barso re megha megha, barso re megha megha
barso re megha , barso…
mitha hai, kosa hai, baarosh ka bosa hai…
kosa hai, kosa hai, baarish ka bosa hai…..
mitha hai, kosa hai, baarosh ka bosa hai…
kosa hai, kosa hai, baarish ka bosa hai…..
jal jal jal jal jal jal jal jal-thal
chal chal chal, chal chal chal, chal chal behta chal…
n-na re, n-na re, n-na re , na na re…
n-na re, n-na re, n-na re , na na re… Read more
Stars ka Tadka – Nitin Chandrakant Desai
Tadka trivia
Indian Film Industry is full of movies whose sets have caught on with not just Indian, but global audiences. Nitin Chandrakant Desai is one of the most popular art directors of Indian Film Industry today. Khamoshi, Hum Dil De Chuke Sanam, Devdas and Lagaan are some of his most popular works, barring the first of which got him a National Award each. He has four National Awards and four Fiilmfare Awards as well, and he continues to excell in taking the audiences to a visual tour of altogether different worlds. In fact, director Sanjay Leela Bhansali was so impressed with his work on the sets of his movie Hum Dil De Chuke Sanam, that after finishing the whole movie, he didn’t let the sets to be destroyed, and rather chose to stay there for a complete month itself! Needless to say, Nitin’s work on Bhansali’s Devdas and Ashutosh Gowariker’s Lagaan haunts the audiences till date and makes them wish, if only they could be there too…
Flashback chartbuster lyrics – song ‘Tinka tinka’ from the movie Karam
Movie – Karam
Cast – Priyanka Chopra, John Abraham
Director – Sanjay F. Gupta
Music Director – Vishal-Shekhar
Song – Tinka tinka
Lyrics – Dev Kohli
Singer – Alisha Chinoy
Tadka birthday – Alisha Chinoy turned 35 yesterday. Bollywood Tadka wishes her a very happy birthday, (a lil’ belated, of course!) 
Alisha Chinoy, the sensual and probably the sexiest voice in the Indian film music today. The ‘Made In India‘ star turned thirty five yesterday, and here’s presenting to you the lyrics of the song which is touted as her best, ‘Tinka tinka‘ from the movie Karam, even better than her Filmfare Award winning ‘Kajra re’ from Bunty Aur Babli!
tinka tinka… zaraa, zaraa…
hai raushni se…jaise bharaa…
tinka tinka… zaraa, zaraa…
hai raushni se… jaise bharaa…
har dil mein armaan… hote to hain…
har dil mein armaan… hote to hain…
bus koi… samjhe.. zaraa..
tinka tinka… zaraa, zaraa… Read more
Holi hai… Lyrics of the Holi song ‘Aaj na chodenge’ from the movie Kati Patang
Celebrating Holi with Bollywood Tadka!
Movie – Kati Patang
Cast – Asha Parekh ,Rajesh Khanna ,Prem Chopra ,Bindu ,Nasir Husain
Director – Shakti Samanta
Music Director – RD Burman
Song – Aaj na chodenge
Lyrics – Anand Bakshi
Singer – Kishore Kumar, Lata Mangeshkar
Tadka spice – RD Burman’s roping in Kishore Kumar for the songs of Kati Patang not only made him Rajesh Khanna’s voice, but also gave us the hit Holi song ‘Aaj na chodenge’.
oye babua…
holi hai…..
oye sa ra ra ra ra…
hoye hoye hoye hoye..
oye sa ra ra ra ra…
hoye hoye hoye hoye..
hey…
aaj na chodenge…
dhipakk, dhi dhipakk, dhi dhipakk, dhi dhipakk
haan, aaj na chodenge bas humjoli..
khelenge hum holi…
khelenge hum holi…
chaahe bheege…
dhipakk, dhi dhipakk, dhi dhi…
chaahe bheeg re teri chunariyaa
chaahe bheege re choli… Read more
Dharm and Parzania disrespected at Filmfare Awards
Tadka question – For long, parallel cinema wasn’t featured in mainstream award shows like the reputed Filmfare Awards, but why were they nominated this year, only to draw a blank?
‘English, dubbed and foriegn movies are not to be nominated for any of the awards.’ Or so used to read one of the many lines of the Filmfare Awards advertisements, asking the general public to nominate their previous year’s favourite performances. And any viewer, not just a fan of Filmfare, could have easily guessed that hard hitting movies like Dharm and Parzania would not be nominated in any of the categories.
But this year, all that changed. Gems of 2007, from Indian Cinema, Dharm and Parzania were not only nominated in at least two categories, at the 53rd Annual Filmfare Awards, but drew a blank when it came to collect the most-sought after award, the black statuette at the ceremony. This is perhaps the first time that Filmfare has nominated two off-beat multiplex movies in the popular awards categories, and also gone ahead to Read more
Don’t miss it!
Don’t forget to watch the biggest and the most respected awards, of the Indian Film Industry, in a few minutes from now. Watch the 53rd Annual Filmfare Awards, on Sony Entertainment Channel, tonight at 8 - don’t miss it!
Filmfare Awards trivia
Tadka trivia
The Filmfare Awards are an experience which one cherishes forever. And what makes them defintely unforgettable are the special moments, with the millions watching them. Here’s a flashback on some of them:
1954 – The Metro Cinema in Mumbai hosted the first-ever Filmfare Awards. Gregory Peck was delayed and attended the bouqet later.
1956 - Bimal Roy’s first hat-trick completed in the Best Director category: Do Bigha Zameen(1953), Parineeta(1954), and Biraj Bahu(1955)
1957 - Vyjanthimala refused to accept the Supporting Actress award for Devdas.
1963 – Helen, the golden girl made her debut on stage.
1966 - Tony Randall, as the chief guest, left the audiences in splits with his humour-cum-entertainment speech, and gave the Best Actress trophy to Meena Kumari for Kaajal.
More coming soon…
1 day to go… don’t miss the 53rd Annual Filmfare Awards-2008, on Sony Entertainment Television, tommorow ( 2nd March ), 8:00 p.m.
Filmfare Awards trivia
Tadka trivia
If there are casting coups which directors try for all the time, then there are certain things which can happen only at Filmfare Awards.
The year was 1999, and at the 44tn Annual Filmfare Awards – 1999, Kajol was the eye of the storm. She had just delivered her nth hit in Karan Johar’s Kuch Kuch Hota Hai, and along with Shah Rukh Khan winning the Best Actor award for KKHH, she too was declared the Best Actress. Wearing a light brown ensemble, she was shimmering with her soon to be bridal status, as she was to marry Ajay Devgan a few days later. And it was a moment which everyone saw with bated breath, as Shah Rukh Khan hugged Kajol, virtually for the last time, as speculation of the SRK-Devgan feud was at an all time high. Needless to say, the picture was at the front page of each national daily, the following morning.
But if there are sights which enthrall you for years to come, then there are other things which can make it not so rocking. Last year, when the Filmfare Awards guest list was trimmed heavily pertaining to the number of seats in Yash Raj Studios, sisters Karisma Kapoor and Kareena Kapoor were forced to sit behind, guess who… Abhishek Bachchan and Aishwarya Rai, as these were the only two seats that were vacant by the time the Kapoor sisters came to find some. Karisma was once the fiance of Abhishek, and the relations went sour after the break off during engagement, with Kareena Kapoor rumoured to have been badmouthing Jaya Bachchan to one and all, and blaming her for her sister’s broken alliance. Abhishek and Aishwarya married a few days later!
2 days to go… don’t miss the 53rd Annual Filmfare Awards-2008, on Sony Entertainment Television, 2nd March, 8:00 p.m.
Filmfare Awards trivia
Tadka trivia
When he passed away on January 4, 1994, he left the whole Indian Film Industry in grief and sorrow. R D Burman was a legend whose loss could never be compensated for.
In the same year, the Filmfare R D Burman Award for Excellence in Music was introduced in his honour and memory. And what could have been better than the fact that the very first recipient of the award was A R Rahman, who had just stepped inside the industry with Rangeela.
The other winners of this award were:
Mehboob – 1995
Vishal Bhardwaj – 1996
Karthik Raja – 1997
Kamaal Khan – 1998
Ismail Durbar – 1999
Sunidhi Chauhan – 2000
Shankar-Ehsaan-Loy – 2001
Shreya Ghoshal – 2002
Vishal-Shekhar – 2003
Kunal Ganjawala – 2004
Shantanu Moitra – 2005
Naresh Iyer – 2006
Monty Sharma – 2007
3 days to go… don’t miss the 53rd Annual Filmfare Awards-2008, on Sony Entertainment Television, 2nd March, 8:00 p.m.
