SAIF choice ?

After years and years of cringing every year seeing Shahrukh Khan carry away the best actor’s award at virtually all the award platforms I thought I was ready for anything. But no…………ppl in India have really unforeseen abilities to shock you out of your boring life once in a while. So as I woke up today and was looking at the various headlines of various dailies through my half shut eyes I was kinda zapped to read that Saif had picked up the best actor award at this year’s National Awards. I gave him the benefit of doubt initially thinking that he had probably been awarded for his role in Parineeta which I still haven’t caught this year. But imagine my surprise at having discovered that he wins the award for the movie ‘Hum Tum’. Now this movie even though wasn’t the worst to come out of the Bollywood stable last year wasn’t the kinda of movie that even gave anyone scope to perform well enough to be voted the best actor amongst the 1000 odd movies that were made in India last year. Besides being a blatant rip-off of one of the all time classics of Hollywood ‘When Harry met Sally’ it essentially showed Saif in an extension of his Dil Chahta Hai avatar which also made an appearance in Kal Ho Naa Ho. I can almost imagine Saif laughing his head off hearing the announcement along with millions of other Indians like me. Also odd was Page 3 bagging the Best Film award even though it was released this year (which puts BLACK in the running too then).
Wat next Mallika Sherawat bagging the thing next year?
The only silver lining: Best Male Playback singer award going to the underrated Udit Narayan for the song, Yeh tara in Swades, Ashutosh Gowariker's Swades winning won Mahesh Aney the Best Cinematographer's award and the Nargis Dutt Award for National Integration going to Shyam Benegal's Bose: The Forgotten Hero.