Abhay Deol criticises award functions

Sushant Singh Rajput’s suicide has created a wave in Bollywood against nepotism, groupism and all the suppressive behaviour by the biggies of the industry. One by one, artistes have confessed to facing biases.

A few days back, Ranvir Shorey shared an incident about nepotism. Now, we have Abhay Deol, who has come out to explain how absurdly award shows operate in Bollywood. Sharing his personal experience, Abhay spoke about how he and his co-actor Farhan Akhtar got side-lined at several award functions for their work in the classic film, Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara.

The actor wrote, “Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara released in 2011. Need to chant this title to myself everyday nowadays! Also a great watch when anxious or stressed. I would like to mention that almost all the award functions demoted me and Farhan from main leads, and nominated us as ‘supporting actors’. Hrithik and Katrina were nominated as ‘actors in a leading role’. There are many covert and overt ways in which people in the industry lobby against you. In this case it was overt. I of course boycotted the awards but Farhan was ok with it.”