Zee Cine Awards
Most Hongkongers have never heard of Shah Rukh Khan, but for over a billion people, he’s King Khan, the Badshah of Bollywood, the greatest star on Earth. And this weekend, he was in the sparkling city of Macau, celebrating the Hindi film industry as host of the “world’s largest viewers choice awards,” The Zee Cine Awards.
The Venetian Macau, with its mix of genuine glitz and cheese, is a venue well suited to the Zee Cine Awards. A glamorous mix of Bollywood stars gathered on the Venetian’s red carpet, alongside men on stilts, gold-plated human statues, and a singing troupe. We spotted the rakish Ritesh Deshmukh, the colorful playback singer Bapi Lahiri, and Bollywood’s latest princess, Katrina Kaif.
Before the awards, we sat down with Shah Rukh Khan (who is also the Awards’ all-time biggest winner at six Best Actors) and asked him whom he was routing for. “I really like to selfishly think that I’ll get one of the awards, and I have no compunction stating that I come with full greed and full desire. My kids don’t treat me well at home if I go back empty-handed from an awards function.”
Bollywood is the world’s largest entertainment industry, and the show didn’t fail to entertain. Sure, there were the long stretches of minor awards announcements and the boring speeches, but these were punctuated by full-out productions the likes of which Hollywood has never met. The highlight was a pyrotechnic dance extravaganza, featuring the handsome and acrobatic actor Shahid Kapoor, who declared, “I’m sexy and I know it.”
Shah Rukh Khan told us, “The thing about the Zee Cinema Awards…you feel like you’re coming to a family reunion, and we participate like a happy family, and hope that each one of us does well. As a host, I wish everyone the best, and I hope that all of them get awards, but first and foremost I should get one.”
And the winner is? Well, we can’t tell you. You’ll just have to tune in and find out.
Maddie Gressel
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