Cliched yeah, but tonight is the mother of all nights. It’s the 55th Idea-Filmfare Awards nite and Bollywood is in a state of tizzy.
Can’t blame them, the line-up of performers who’ll take centre-stage is so impressive, that you can’t help but feel weak-kneed.
Show director Mohammad Morani says, “Shah Rukh Khan and Saif Ali Khan will be anchoring the Filmfare Awards tonight. This is their fourth year together and everyone knows that with each passing year, this super-power combination only gets wiser and wittier.’’
This year livewires SRK and Saif are expected to outdo their own record of Bollywood’s best Khan couple in town because not only are they going to take centrestage from the beginning to the end, they also have a dozen gags planned to keep the powerful rolling in the aisles.
Okay, and it doesn’t all stop there. Riteish Deshmukh will serenade his current favourite, Jacqueline Fernandes, on stage for the first time ever. And they aren’t the only star couple who are going to be getting the temperature to rise. Bollywood’s best-looking superstar, and the one with the most chiselled abs, Salman Khan is dancing to a medlee of songs that include his all time favourites from Maine Pyar Kiya to Wanted. Starting with Kabootar Jaa, Jaa, Jaa to Love Me, Love Me ... Salman is naturally going to be the most loved guy this evening. Katrina Kaif, hmmm ... yes, she’s going to there too. Not only does Kat have a Best Actress nomination for New York, she’s also got new-found vigour to shake her leg to a combination of Indian and Western hits.
Choreographer-director Ganesh Hegde says Kareena Kapoor will definitely get temperatures soaring as she matches steps to her repertoire of super-hit songs including Zoobi-Doobi from 3 Idiots. And, Deepika Padukone will also shake a leg to her chartbusters from Karthik Calling Karthik and 2009’s best music track of Love Aaj Kal. Shahid Kapoor, who’s been on a media overdrive because of a lot of reasons, is going on stage at the Filmfare Awards paying obeisance to Michael Jackson. “I’m dancing to This Is It,’’ says Shahid, and he admits that though he is nervous as hell about the whole act, it has also got his adrenaline flowing.
Yes, the entertainment quotient is going to be so heady that no one is going to leave the venue complaining. The Lady in Black will accompany a chosen few home but even for the rest — it’s going to be a night they’ll want to relive again and again. There’s something about Filmfare ... that makes it so special
