Yesterday the 10th Lux Style Awards were held in Karachi. But I think it has lost all credibility due to its decade-old habit of being extremely biased.
The television category was very flawed…
- Bushra Ansari won her third LSA in the past 4 years. This time for role of Saima Chaudhry in DKAB. Although I am a big fan of the legend and her performances of Saima Ch., I think its safe to say that this nomination was insignificant compared to the powerhouse performances given by Sanam Baloch as Bano (Dastaan) and Samiya Mumtaz as Saba (MZZB).
- Interestignly such bias was shown in a previous year where Bushra got the award for drama Vaani over co-star Saba Hameed. Bushra pointed this out in her acceptance speech and gave all credit to Saba.
- The Ansari connection doesn’t end here, I have a suspicion that Bol Meri Machli won because Iqbal Ansari is the producer. Bol Meri Machli did not deserve a nomination, never mind an award for Best TV Serial!
- LSA should rename itself as GEO style awards as their dramas almost always bag majority of the wins. GEO is LSA’s media partner after all. If the LSA was true reflection of excellence in TV then I think HUM TV would be a dominant force with ARY not far behind.
- 2 great dramas were excluded from nominations this year: Daam and Kalmoohi…now thats just wrong.
- GS members had better knowledge on this matter: http://www.paklinks.com/gs/showbiz-pakistan/471477-top-10-dramas-in-pak-tevelvision-industry-of-2010-a.html
- It seems that to win an LSA you have to have been nominated a few times in the past which doesn’t make sense. If relatively new/young actors give amazing performances in a particular year then they should be rewarded accordingly.
- Having a public voting system for television category is wrong on many levels. This is the reason why Humayun Saeed and Faisal Qureshi win LSAs year in year out as girls and desperate housewives across the country vote for their favourite ‘hero’ obsessively.
- Is awarding Terrestrial TV necessary? They already have the PTV awards for that and I find most of the current PTV dramas to be rubbish compared to their Satellite rivals except for a few such as Kalmoohi.