Director Hemanth M Rao.
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Director Hemanth M Rao slammed the organisers of Worldwide Indian Movie Academy Awards (IIFA) for being “extraordinarily disrespectful”. Calling his expertise on the awards ceremony a “large inconvenience”, the Kannada filmmaker stated that he was upset that he waited until wee hours within the morning, solely to understand he hadn’t received an award. Furthermore, the director felt that the nominees weren’t given their due respect.
Held on the Etihad Enviornment in Abu Dhabi, the IIFA Utsavam — the awards ceremony to honour the artistes from throughout the 4 southern movie industries — befell on September 27, 2024. Hemanth’s movie, Sapta Sagaradaache Ello, was the most important winner within the Kannada cinema class, taking residence 5 awards.
Rakshit Shetty and Rukmini Vasanth had been adjudged greatest actors whereas Gopalkrishna Deshpande bagged the most effective performer in a supporting function award. Dhananjay Ranjan was adjudged the most effective lyricist and MC Bijju received the most effective playback singer award.
Commenting that not successful an award wasn’t his concern, Hemanth posted on X that he felt the organisers did not respect the nominees. “It’s your award. You may give it to whoever you need to. That’s your alternative. I haven’t received many awards and haven’t misplaced sleep over it. So these grapes aren’t bitter. If all the opposite nominees had been invited and one winner emerged out of it, I wouldn’t hassle getting irritated. Additionally, the format this yr was simply at hand out the award. The nominees weren’t even talked about,” he wrote.
The IIFA Utsavam started late night and the awards for the most effective Kannada artistes got put up 1:00 am. The occasion went on to complete by round 3:00 am. “I’ve been on this enterprise for a decade and this wasn’t my first stint on the award exhibits. It’s at all times the case the place the winners are flown in and hosted for the occasion. For context, I sat until 3:00 am within the morning, solely to understand there was no award. The identical occurred to my music composter, Charan Raj,” wrote Hemanth.
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The filmmaker added, “Perhaps it’s been some time for you and your group to understand it that your awards present run on the expertise that you just placed on stage. It’s not the opposite means spherical.”
In the meantime, on the work entrance, Hemanth is working with veteran director Shivarajkumar. Titled Bhairavana Kone Paata, the movie is produced by Dr Vaishak J Gowda. The film is touted to be an motion drama set within the 14th century.
Revealed – September 29, 2024 09:52 pm IST
