Vijay Awards
2015 – 9th Annual Vijay TV awards – Criticism - Controversy
Vijay TV is
one of the Tamil channels, which has earned huge publicity in a short period of
time. Vijay TV introduced Vijay Awards which became popular among the film
fraternity. Vijay TV awarded many people from the film industry based on their
contribution. There were many categories of award which
included – Best hero, heroine, comedian, movie, art director, editor, dance
master, lyricist, music director etc. For the past few years there has been
controversy going around with Vijay awards stating that they are not genuinely
given. A lot of people from the film fraternity said that the awards were
biased. So, what is the actual controversy? Here are some of the points from
the critics,
1. The awards given were biased and did
not include deserving films. In the 9th Vijay awards, films like
pisasu weren’t recognized. There are arguments that the jury selected only
movies which were owned by Vijay TV (eg. Cuckoo)
2. The winners were informed about their
award beforehand and were pleaded to attend the function. It was also argued
that Dr.Ilaiyaraja (Music director) was given a special award but he left the
function without taking it because he had to sit there for a long time.
3. The viewers were not given anything
to drink or eat. The viewers were made to sit for more than six hours and
weren’t even offered water whereas stars in the floor were given juices and
other things to eat.
4. Important film stars like Vijay,
Surya, and Vijay Sethupathy did not attend the function. Critics say that they
didn’t attend the function because they thought the awards weren’t real.
5. The program was hosted for a very
long period of time and many stars left the place because they couldn’t stay
that long.
Here are
some of the points the defenders had to say for the criticism,
1. First of all, it requires great
credibility, network and ability to host a function of this cater and Vijay TV
has been doing it successfully for the past 9 years. It is not easy to gather
all the stars from the film unit and run a function like this.
2. There is no single person who is
giving these awards. There are jury members who take the decision. The decisions
taken by them cannot always satisfy the interest of the people.
3. Be it any function in the film
industry, the viewers are not given anything to eat or drink. This is mainly
because it is difficult to act on the dietary restrictions of all the
attenders.
4. The prolong duration of the function
was mainly due to the speech given by the awardees and other performances. All
these performances were done only to entertain the people. There might be few
hundreds who are watching the function in the place but there are lakhs and
lakhs of people who are watching it at home in the television at their homes
eagerly.
5. In any award function, encouragement
is necessary. If critics keep on posting negative reviews about the Vijay
awards function, then how will there be motivation for TV channels to entertain
people.
Let’s hope that 10th Vijay Awards comes out
without any criticism and entertains us to the core.
