National Film Awards 2010 Scam

Bollywood has taken maximum National Film Awards ever in the 52 National Film Awards 2010. Priyanka Chopra won the National Award for the Best Actress while Kangana Ranaut won the Best Supporting Actress award. Arjun Rampal won the Best Supporting Actor award for Rock On. Oye Lucky! Lucky Oye has won the Popular Film National Award while Rock On won the Best Hindi Film Award. The Bengali movie 'Antaheen' won the best film award for 2008.

For the last few years, we have seen the quality of National Film Awards getting diluted. When genuinely great performances and excellent films were awarded at a point of time, now we have ‘just another noteworthy performance’ also winning national awards. By that context don’t you think some great performances in the earlier time(five-six years back) were denied the awards. A movie like Wednesday gets Indira Gandhi Award for a debut film, but why not a major award? You cannot give an excuse of a ‘debut award’ if it was a really good film.

Media critic Sudhish Pachauri who is the part of the panel that gives these awards admitted that participants contacted him.


He said, “Participants should refrain from calling jury members.'' When asked to specify if he or his colleagues had been contacted to influence their decision, Pachauri said, ``I am saying this because we have been contacted.” He has definitely made many people volte-faced with this remark. Though there are always remarks that National Film Awards are influenced, this is the first time someone from the jury has spoken about this in public. There have been attempts to swing the jury on their side.

The National Film Awards itself is no stranger to controversy. For the NFA 2007, the names were leaked by a jury member a week before the actual announcement was supposed to take place.