Awards are not that important

I'd like to confess that I was wrong with my evaluation of singers. I valued awards too highly. Everyone else was right on that, I was wrong.

I realized this after,

• I took a closer look at the past winners and the past great performances that didn't even get nominated. Believe it or not, Shankar Mahadevan doesn't even have 1 Filmfare NOMINATION. (I think)
  
• Risingabove's contest, made me pay close attention to the singing, and realize, that yes truly, listen to someone sing and most questions are answered by then.
• Mohit Chauhan won filmfare award 😆

And let's be honest, the person who receives the playback singer of the year, didn't actually sing the best in many cases.
.The award goes to the person who sang the best, mixed with how big a hit the song was. Just like the actor of the year is who acted well mixed with how big a hit the film was.
And there is also other factors such as, giving it to someone new rather than the person who already has an award. Hype is also involved. So there are definitely other factors involved besides singing.


With all that said, I still think they give you valuable insight and are still a strong argument outside your opinion of singing. If someone wins a prestigious award, I still will consider them a very good singer. (Maybe not elite anymore). It is still very difficult to do. It is still a goal of many singers. It still brings happiness to all the winners of the award because they desire winning the award. Though it might not make someone elite, it does make them a very good singer.

Waah SSK bhai waah. Chahe aapne thoda U turn le liya. But I am glad you had the guts to make a separate thread. For the first time I would like to do this. 👏

Filmfare awards didn't give away best comic role, best villian, best debut actor and actress this time around!!! Of course if Saawariya had been released in 2009 I am sure Ranbir would have won an award.
Every year or so they come up with new categories to give away awards to a star son or daughter or a big celebrity. Like this year they had Best debut director both in male and female category. Reason: Because Zoya Akhtar, daughter of Javed Akhtar was to be given a award.
Few years back they started a new category called the Filmfare Power Award. Only 4 people have won this award till now...Shahrukh Khan, Amitabh Bachchan, Aditya Chopra, Yash Chopra. The biggies of Bollywood. This award is nowhere to be seen now.
Since Bachchans boycotted Filmfare awards, to impress Big B they hand him the best actor trophy this year.
Best Supporting Actress...Kalki Koechlin...wow...a lady who can't even speak proper Hindi.

Originally posted by: brahmabul

Waah SSK bhai waah. Chahe aapne thoda U turn le liya. But I am glad you had the guts to make a separate thread. For the first time I would like to do this. 👏

I just wanted to get that out of my way, so slumdog doesn't keep irritating me with it.


But no really, awards had more flaws than I had thought after taking a closer look at them and singing in general. But nonetheless, it's still a great accomplishment for a singer.


And I'll even congrats Mohit Chauhan for winning one.

Originally posted by: ssk13809

I just wanted to get that out of my way, so slumdog doesn't keep irritating me with it.


But no really, awards had more flaws than I had thought after taking a closer look at them and singing in general. But nonetheless, it's still a great accomplishment for a singer.


And I'll even congrats Mohit Chauhan for winning one.

Der se sahi aqal to ayi. Frankly speaking I dont think Mohit deserver Filmfare award for Masakali. It wasnt the best performance of the year. I like his most of songs , I like him as a singer but I m not the one who support blindly for undeserved award.

Originally posted by: slumdog

Der se sahi aqal to ayi. Frankly speaking I dont think Mohit deserver Filmfare award for Masakali. It wasnt the best performance of the year. I like his most of songs , I like him as a singer but I m not the one who support blindly for undeserved award.

I don't think it was the best performance of the year either. Probably not even close. But, I'll still give him credit for winning, and have respect for his accomplishment. I'm not going to just dismiss it like you guys do just because YOU thought he didn't deserve it at all. I mean, I don't think he deserves it either, but I still give him respect for winning it.

Originally posted by: ssk13809

I don't think it was the best performance of the year either. Probably not even close. But, I'll still give him credit for winning, and have respect for his accomplishment. I'm not going to just dismiss it like you guys do just because YOU thought he didn't deserve it at all. I mean, I don't think he deserves it either, but I still give him respect for winning it.

Had Mohit won this award two months earlier the whole discussion on Himmesh being anelite on the basis of the awards won would have never happened.😊

Originally posted by: slumdog

Had Mohit won this award two months earlier the whole discussion on Himmesh being anelite on the basis of the awards won would have never happened.😊

You're probably right. But there were other factors like I named that made me change my mind and realize I was wrong.

AWESOME THREAD!

A HUGE round of applause for ssk for accepting that awards are not everything. The one thing that has been, and will be, used to evaluate singing is the gift of human hearing!

And I completely agree with ssk, that an award is an accomplishment. They don't just choose any singer at random. There are things in a song and the singing that make it stand out somehow, leading to an award. So we shouldn't underestimate awards as a measure of success. They are a feather in anybody's cap.

BUT awards are a very crude measure of quality of singing. The best way to measure singing quality is through the power of the ears.

This theory has been put to the test by risingabove (one of the most brilliant members of IF) in the wonderful IF's MkMM, where ordinary people have come together to evaluate vocal music using objective and non-award based analysis.

Kudos to ssk, for having the courage to accept that he was wrong at times. This will only make it easier for the rest of us to appreciate you when you are right!

Originally posted by: xobile

And I completely agree with ssk, that an award is an accomplishment. They don't just choose any singer at random. There are things in a song and the singing that make it stand out somehow, leading to an award. So we shouldn't underestimate awards as a measure of success. They are a feather in anybody's cap.

BUT awards are a very crude measure of quality of singing. The best way to measure singing quality is through the power of the ears.

This theory has been put to the test by risingabove (one of the most brilliant members of IF) in the wonderful IF's MkMM, where ordinary people have come together to evaluate vocal music using objective and non-award based analysis.

I agree with this 100%. All of this is absolutely true. I'm quoting it because it is the truth.