SHOCKING!!! Netizens Slam Filmfare Awards, Call It A Fixed Affair

Recently held 65th Amazon Filmfare Awards 2020 has received severe flak from the netizens. The awards function was held at Indira Gandhi Athletic Stadium in Guwahati at Assam. The entire award function was hosted by director-producer Karan Johar alongwith actors Varun Dhawan and Vicky Kaushal. Netizens went berserk after learning that Gully Boy won 13 awards at the Filmfare Awards 2020.

On several social media platforms #BoycottFilmfare trended almost for a week. Netizens also pointed out that Amazon Prime had backed Gully Boy as their digital partners and in the same sense were the prime sponsors for the Filmfare award functions. Aamir Khan since long time has continued to boycott award functions and had also announced that no organizers should even send him an invite for such events. Gully Boy overtook Rani Mukherji and Amitabh Bachchan's Black, which was honoured with eleven awards in 2006.

An angry netizen even went on to an extent and vandalized Wikipedia page of Filmfare and labelled Gully Boy's awards as paid. Similarly, Manoj Muntashir, lyricist of Teri Mitti from film Kesari announced that Apna Time Ayega got preference over his song Teri Mitti which touched the heart of millions. He said that he will no longer attend any award show till his last breathe. He termed the entire incident as an insult to his art if he continued to care for such award functions.

Gully Boy was at the centre stage and won best film, best director (Zoya Akhtar), best actor-male and female (Ranveer Singh and Alia Bhatt), best supporting actor-male and female (Siddhant Chaturvedi and Amruta Subhash), best screenplay (Reema Kagti and Zoya Akhtar), best dialogue (Vijay Maurya), best cinematography (Jay Oza), best production design (Suzanne Caplan Merwanji), best background score (Karsh Kale and The Salvage Audio Collective), best music album and best lyrics for 'Apna Time Aayega'.