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TZP star refuses Screen Award
Darsheel Safary, who won many hearts with his endearing performance as a dyslexic child in the superhit, Taare Zameen Par, has created a flutter by refusing to accept the 'Best Child Actor' award at the 14th Annual Star Screen Awards.
In an interview with news channel 'Headlines Today', the young actor said he refused the nomination in the Best Child Actor category as he deserved to be in the Best Actor category in view of the fact that the movie centred around his character Ishan Awasthi and the fact that actor-director Aamir Khan himself was selected for the Best Supporting Actor for the same film. "I believe I should have been nominated for the Best Actor category," he told the channel.
In fact, Aamir Khan's directorial debut 'Taare Zameen Par' bagged six key awards at the Nokia 14th Annual Star Screen Awards. Aamir shared the best director award for the film with Shimit Amin for 'Chak De! India', which starred Shahrukh Khan. He additionally won awards as the Best Supporting Actor and for Best Dialogues at a function organsied in Mumbai on Wednesday night.
The three other awards won by Aamir's film were - Best Story (Amol Gupte), Best Child Actor (Darsheel Zafary) and Best Lyricist (Prasoon Joshi).
Shah Rukh was adjudged the best actor for his performance in 'Chak De! India'. The best actress award went to Kareena Kapoor for her performance in 'Jab We Met'.
A.R. Rahman's musical score for 'Guru' earned him the award for the Best Music Director. Shah Rukh and Deepika Padukone were named as the Best Pair onscreen in 'Om Shanti Om'.
Deepika was also adjudged the Best Newcomer (Female), while Ranbir Kapoor was adjudged the Best Newcomer (Male). Irrfan Khan bagged the Best Comedian Award for 'Life...In a Metro' while Anurag Basu won the Best Screenplay Award for the same film.
The Lifetime Achievement Award went to Manoj Kumar. Chak De! girls shared the honour for Best Supporting Role (female).
Singer Soham won the award for the Best Playback Singer (Male) for the film 'Life...In a Metro' while Priya Ghosal was adjudged Best Playback Singer (female) for Mani Ratnam's 'Guru'.
Source: IS and Hindustan Times
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