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Award functions have become very shallow: Nawazuddin Siddiqui

Nawazuddin's grouse against popular award shows...

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A tribute was paid to Om Puri, who passed away earlier this year at the 89th Academy Awards, earlier this week. Soon, actor Nawazuddin Siddiqui criticised popular award functions here in India for not doing the same. When asked what made him tweet the way he did, Nawazuddin told HT, "After Omji’s death, whichever award function happened, his name wasn’t even mentioned. Though I must admit that I don’t know how many of them took place (after Om Puri’s demise). As an actor, you feel bad because he was a legend, who made a huge contribution to not only Indian but also world cinema, if not more. As they say, ‘two words’ could have been spoken about him as a tribute."

So, are award functions only the ones, he has an axe to grind with? "Yes, that’s true. In fact, I want to clarify that my emphasis is only on popular award functions and not the country or the film industry. They have become very shallow. Sometimes, I feel that they should shut down," he explains. 

But Nawazuddin is one who seldom attends popular award functions, to which he responded, "Yes, I don’t. In fact, I have requested them not to nominate me in any of their categories. I get irritated if I get nominated."

And his reason for not doing so, Nawaz says, "They have lost their seriousness and credibility. Not just me, everyone has now started saying the same thing. It would be better if they shut down such functions and have a song-and-dance evening to create an episode (for TV) where all the celebrities also converge. But let’s not call them award functions because awards are supposed to be prestigious. Upcoming actors and even general public look up to them. But actually, no one is bothered about them now and nobody even remembers who all got the awards last year." 

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