The Chimerian Lady Awards 2010-Part 1

They say that images on the celluloid are mouthpieces to a director’s creativity, an actor’s workmanship & a viewer’s entertainment diet . Right from its advent , when a person intending to watch a movie had to look through a slit made in a motion picture camera to its current ubiquitous 3d PVRs ,movies have survived as one of the most trusted accompaniment of man. Be it the end of a semester paper for Rahul & his college friends or the start of the married life of Mr & Mrs Jacob, watching movies is a default stressbuster & a perfect merriment for all. Some prefer watching “Raj” & “Simran” dancing in the scenic beauty of Switzerland , Some find Quentin Tarantino’s cinematic geniuses appealing to purchase a movie ticket & for many in the crowd movies give them a joyful ride to the 3^rd world. It gives Sanjana,a mere receptionist, to explore the interiors of “Titanic”, It presents the hardship’s of the American soldiers in Iraq through the “HURT LOCKER” & gives a Rizwan a platform to say,”My name is Khan & I am not a Terrorist”….They say,”India mein do he cheeze sabse jyada pyaari hoti hai ek MAA aur doosri CINEMA”.

The last season witnessed some of the most varied works in the art of film-making.With distinguished film geniuses such as James Cameroon giving the world a stupendous blend of technical asset’s & an appaling direction through his 3-d movie,”AVATAR”.This was followed by Cameroon’s ex-wife directorial venture , “HURT LOCKER” where she gives the life of a regular bomb-squad to the silver screen .An enterprise for which the movie grabbed 6 Oscars this year.Tarantino’s endeavour to replicate the times of Hitler’s regime & the Jews vengeance in his movie,“THE INGLORIOUS BASTERDS” was a grand success.Jeff Bridges & Morgan Freeman gave their career best performances in “CRAZY HEART” & “INVICTUS” respectively, for which Bridges got this year’s Best Actor at the Oscars.Some spectacular adapted screenplay were written in Sandra Bullock starrer “BLIND SIDE” & “PRECIOUS”.Merly Streeps again proved her mettle by showcasing her brilliant acting in “JULIE & JULIA”.Regarded as amongst the most versatile actors across the globe Robert Downey Jr. pulled a great feat by playing the protagonist in “SHERLOCK HOLMES”……

For such gifted chimerians, “Chimera” comes up with the CHIMERIAN LADY AWARDS which acknowledges achivements in the field of film-making.The arena of movie-making being vast , a proper reviewing analysis was done & user ratings for different ratings was compared along with the box-office turnovers.The awards are authentic & serious effort’s have gone into selecting the best amongst the best……..Her are our gifted chimerian lady bearers:

a)THE CHIMERIAN LADY FOR BEST PICTURE>>>

“THE HURT LOCKER”

b) THE CHIMERIAN LADY FOR BEST DIRECTION>>>

JAMES CAMEROON FOR “AVATAR”

c) THE CHIMERIAN LADY FOR BEST ACTOR>>>

JEFF BRIDGES FOR “CRAZY HEART”

d) THE CHIMERIAN LADY FOR BEST ACTRESS >>>

MERYL STREEP for “JULIE & JULIA”

e)THE CHIMERIAN LADY FOR BEST SCREENPLAY>>

QUENTIN TARANTINO FOR “THE INGLORIOUS BASTERDS”

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The Chimerian Lady Awards 2010-Part 2

With the hollywood scaling new heights in the art of movie making, the Indian film industry was also not far behind.With Anurag Kashyap’s contemporary Devdas storyline in “DevD” was termed as a mind-bogling effort by film gurus.Regarded as India’s answer to Tarantino, Vishal Bhardwaj’s Kaminey opened doors to a totally new & unconventional form of Indian cinema.These guys earlier planted Gandhigiri in the minds of every Munaa-Circuit duo fan,for Hirani & Chopra it was now “Aal Ezz Well” that every person was found humming after watching “3 IDIOTS”.Ranbir Kapoor breathe new life into the character of SID in “WAKE-UP SID” & managed to entertain us as a young Sikh aspiring employee in “ROCKET SINGH”. The trio of Karan,Kajol & SRK yet again spelled their charm making “MY NAME IS KHAN” ,a cornerstone in Indian Cinema.Apart from the showbizz limelight realistic cinema also flourished,With movies like,”YEH MERA INDIA” & “FIRAAQ” pulling decent recognition from the movie pundits.The season ended with Indian cinema’s most unprecented piece of work,”PAA”, which won accolades from every corner,be it Auro played by Amitabh or the direction of Balki,”Paa” goes down as Indian Cinema’s most innovative acts ever picturized.”Chimera” salutes the pool of such talented geniuses & awaits many more such endeavours..

Gustaakhi Maaf

Apart from the Chimerian Lady awards for excellence in the art of film-making, “Chimera” also comes up with an allround different set of awards for artists who contributed to Cinema in their own way.The categories to these awards cater to the unnoticed & conceled efforts that went into the making of many production in the last season.Thus,”Chimera” proudly announces the “Gustaakhi Maaf” awards:

1) “Shut Up….Its Original” award:=> This Honour goes to Vidhu Vinod Chopra for shutting the mouth of every person who thinks that “3 IDIOTS” was adapted from Chetan Bhagat’s “5 point Some1”.The echoing of his voice at the film’s post release press conference proved to everyone that if you have not read the book then the movie is surely an original 1…Vidhu Is Aal Welll!!!!!

2) “Wear your Seatbelt” award:=>The movie was undoubtedly gazab,but it seems that Santoshi’s fast written dialogues to Ranbir fast dance mooves & rapid changing scenes all made,”AJAB PREM KI GAZAB KAHANI”,a ride to watch for…..

3) “Bijli ka Bill Nahi Bhara …”award:=>Dark,Dark,Dark,more Dark & the movie ends….yes its KAMINEY’s Director Vishal Bhardwaj who forgot to pay the electricity bills & thus ended up shooting the movie in darkness.His frustration for the electricity board is visible from the film’s title…..

4) “Baap ka bhi Baap….”award:=>The proud recipient of this honour is the Junior B for playing the character of the father of his offscreen father in T.Balki’s “Paa”……Waat en Idea Sir ji!!!

5) “ Best Chemistry of the year” award:=>The award is given to Abhishek Chaubey ,director of “ISHQIA”, for formulating a totally new chemical compound->ch**ium sulphate<- ,derivable product from sodium sulphate which has found extensive application in the field of describing exotica & other day to day proceeding of a college student…

6) “Did you only made it” award:=>This award incorporates the year’s most unthinkable undertaking by an oscar nominated movie’s director,the “Did you only made it” award 2010 goes to Ashutosh Gowariker for “What ur rashee”....12 “types” of Priyanka Chopra,accepted,3:30 hrs of a movie,accepted,....but Harman Baweja is where the slag lies..Ashu, did you actually made the movie because unlike all other DVDs of your movies, “Whats Ur Rashee” has no “Making of the Movie” section.......

7) “Khatrein mein Khiladi” award:=>The real action hero of Bollywood might not have got any award nomination this year but the “Khatrein mein Khiladi” award 2010 goes to Akshay Kumar for his continous failure at the Box office this year.Blue, 8x10 tasveer & de dana dan all fall flat....

8) “Best Distributor/Promotors” award:=>The Thackeray regime are year’s best promotors of movies this year, by promoting “My Name Is Khan”,”Wake Up Sid” through their official mouthpiece,”Saamna”,through rallies & TV interviews......For such effective promotion contact the thackeray's or try using words such as “Bombay”,”Khan”,”Terrorism” etc. anywhere & in any form in your movie & enjoy the T-Company’s distribuitional assests.....

These were this year’s Gustaakhi Maaf award....do send your suggestions for more categories & updates.