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Candid confession from SRK: Don't deserve a nomination for Happy New Year

Shah Rukh offers his take on the many award shows this year and suggests a solution to fighting over awards. Shah Rukh Khan says it would be unsporting of him to not attend award functions for selfish reasons

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The awards season is on and Shah Rukh Khan has already hosted two! He has also bagged the Best Actor award for his turn in the blockbuster Happy New Year. And, unlike his contemporaries, Aamir Khan and Salman Khan, who have stopped attending awards or being associated with them, SRK continues to make his presence felt in a big way. We asked the Badshah if awards still matter to him and does he support them.

Salman Khan and Aamir Khan have stopped going to awards' functions. But you clearly seem to support these functions...

The way I look at it is different. If you see it critically, I would say no support is needed. But in the larger context you have to see what is the parameter, the criteria. If you are judging by popularity, then only four or five actors will get because they are popular. If you are judging offbeat films which we may not have seen and don't fit in the popular culture, it's different. Award functions, not only here, but across the world, are televised events. Even TV actors are awarded at some. Now we don't question if the awards given (to TV actors) that are seasonal or yearly. We like the characters they play and of course they are fantastic actors. Then sometimes I am told that I am the most popular actor on the internet. That may be because I have a large number of followers. It's not honest or wrong or unsupported - it's a completely different category. At times, I may have acted better than others but then someone is more popular on the internet. You have to accept in that spirit. The criteria is too wide. It's not specific.

Go on..

Earlier there were some awards specifically about intense acting. When we went to these awards we would think this one was good in this film, it was a big hit also, so why didn't he get it. Then at a popular awards function, we felt isne itni acchi acting ki but he didn't get. Now, what they have started doing is mixing everything. There is a critics' award, and there is a popular award, plus there is jodi, tigdi, ensemble cast, etc. At yet another function, there are categories for Best Actor in a Thrilling Role, Comedy, Romantic, - in short, everybody is getting it! It also depends on the selection committee, jury, the media house associated with it, the TV channel that is connected to it - if you see it in that spirit, it's all right. Many a time, media houses have issues. If they have a good relationship with an actor and he is not getting the award, they try to remove the category as the relationship may get affected. If not, a new category is introduced! I have got several awards like that. One such award I remember getting, is Global International Icon Superstar of the Universe. Then there are the sponsors who have their own awards like Fair and Beautiful, Ttall award, Beauty award etc. There is a commercial aspect to it, not in terms of money, but in terms of popularity. So, item number hoga, bada star bhi hoga, six performances which will end in a climax. Uske baad marketing bhi hogi and the success will depend on the ratings it garners. One can't be too critical but enjoy it in that context. It's a commercial TV media house event at the end of the day. And I do commercial films, so can't question it.

So you are saying awards are important?

As far as I am concerned, I am very clear. I have got awards early in my career and at a time when these criteria were not there. Right or wrong is not the question, but I have got them. I feel it would be unsporting of me to say that I will not go now because everybody gets it or because I don't get it. So what I do is work around it. I go their professionally and personally my presence is there. Yes, but if professionally I have no time for it and personally I am not getting an award then like everybody else, I will think of doing something else and not go. But one can't become rigid, otherwise another award function will start! There are already so many. In my opinion all of them should get together apart from the National Award, which is very big and has a different importance - and without any fights have a singular award function. They should find a format and stick to it.

At an upcoming award event your name is missing from the nominations. What is your reaction?

I haven't acted well enough. I don't think I should be nominated. I did one film last year and since I have hosted two shows I know there are seven others or rather seventy other people who are better than me. I cannot be nominated for acting for Happy New Year. Yes, the film has done very well but as an actor I don't think I deserve to be nominated.

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