A 12 year Hindian Itch

Indian or Hindian?

IIFA recently announced winners of some of its annual awardees. And just how it has been in the last 11 years, this year too, this award ceremony is going to project a grand illusion that equates Hindi cinema to Indian cinema. As though they (Indian and Hindian) are not two different things, year after year this body called International Indian Film Academy (IIFA) claims great cinema being produced in India, but continues to recognize only movies made in the Hindi language. But to anyone who knows which number is bigger and which number is smaller, it is clear that there are a huge number of movies made in India that are not in Hindi; and to our ghastly surprise, IIFA in its 12 year history has never recognized a single non-Hindi 'Indian film'. And the less talked about the IIFA advisory board the better - what with the whos-who of Hindi cinema industry warming those chairs from long. How convenient to slight away all the thousands of other Indian language movies?

With all these gray facts to it, how can the IIFA still claim to be an academy of Indian Film and that too at an international level where it is that much more important to make sure India's rich diversity in its film culture gets represented in all its virginity?! In that sense IIFA has truly been polluting international opinion about the real Indian cinema industry, apart from of course plain lying to the entire world.

A lot more important and grave facts about IIFA are unraveled here on my friend's Facebook note.

Yenka says:
- ಕನ್ನಡ ಚಿತ್ರರಂಗ: ಇಲ್ಲಿ ಆಟಕ್ಕೂ ಇಲ್ಲಾ, ಲೆಕ್ಕಕ್ಕೂ ಇಲ್ಲಾ!
- ಇದುನ್ನ "ಇಂಟರ್ ನ್ಯಾಷನಲ್ ಹಿಂದೀ ಫಿಲ್ಮ್ ಅಕಾಡಮಿ" ಅನ್ನೋದೇ ಸರಿ!