Excerpt from a feature originally published in Open magazine back in 2009, how Amitabh Bachchan and Sridevi lost the Best Actor and Best Actress award.
"In an earlier interview, producer Manoj Desai told me, almost casually, about the time when his film Khuda Gawah bagged seven Filmfare awards. “It should have won nine. But I could not purchase the other two awards. Someone highly placed in Filmfare told me that Amitabh and Sridevi would get the awards if some pending bills in the Centaur Hotel could be taken care of.” After this story was published in Outlook, there was no reaction at all. Not a single call, not a single letter from any reader. Nobody cared, or everybody except the reporter knew it already. It was a flop story...."
From The Power of Nonsense by Manu Joseph.
From The Power of Nonsense by Manu Joseph.
03 Jun, 2009
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