After Ranvir Shorey, actor Abhay Deol has opened up about the reality of the Bollywood Award Shows. The actor explained how ‘shamelessly’ the award shows in Bollywood are manipulated.
Sharing his own experience, Abhay Deol spoke about how he along with co-actor Farhan Akhtar got ‘demoted’ at several award functions for their work in the hit film ‘Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara’.
“Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara, released in 2011.Need to chant this title to myself everyday nowadays! Also a great watch when anxious or stressed.
“I would like to mention that almost all the award functions demoted me and Farhan from main leads, and nominated us as ‘supporting actors’. Hrithik and Katrina were nominated as ‘actors in a leading role’. So by the industry’s own logic, this was a film about a man and a woman falling in love, with the man supported by his friends for whatever decisions he takes,”Abhay wrote.
Eventually because of such behavior, Abhay boycotted the awards.
“There are many covert and overt ways in which people in the industry lobby against you. In this case, it was shamelessly overt. I of course boycotted the awards but Farhan was ok with it,” he added.
The movie ‘Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara’ revolves around three friends, Arjun (Hrithik),Kabir (Abhay) and Imraan (Farhan) who discovers themselves and aspects of their relationships after they go on a road trip to Spain.
Abhay termed the award shows as, “Familyfareawards”.
Recently, Abhay also called out the Bollywood celebrities for not voicing problems in their own country, and coming out to support the enraged Black Lives Matter movement in the United States.
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