Not fair! 14 Nandi Awards for Bahubali: The Beginning, none for Prabhas – WHY??
Last
evening, the prestigious Nandi Awards for three consecutive years –
2014, 2015 and 2016 were announced. Rajinikanth, Mahesh Babu, Kamal
Haasan, Anushka Shetty, Jr NTR, Ritu Varma were among the many that
bagged honours for their performances. Unsurprisingly, Baahubali: The
Beginning that released in 2015 bagged 14 awards across different
categories.
SS
Rajamouli was honored with the best Director Award, Sivagami was
felicitated too in the best Supporting Actress category, Rana Daggubati
bagged the award for the Best Villain. Keeravani, the music composer and
KK Senthil Kumar also were part of the long winner’s list. Needless to
say, Baahubali also won in the Best Film category. To add to it, the
film won awards for special effects and dubbing as well. Anushka Shetty
might have not a won award for Baahubali but she did bag one for her
role in Rudramadevi. To be fair, her role in Part 1 was brief that
didn’t call for an award.
While the film winning a whopping 13 awards is not the least bit surprising, what is in fact surprising, rather shocking is – Prabhas NOT being honoured for Baahubali in a single category! Wait,
what?! The Telugu actor who transformed himself drastically for his
role in the magnum opus hasn’t been acknowledged yet again.
Interestingly,
the actor never won a SIIMA nor an IIFA for his performance. What’s
even weirder – Nandi Awards 2015 and SIIMA 2016 have both gone to Mahesh
Babu for Srimanthudu! While Mahesh Babu may have delivered a crackling
performance in the Koratala Siva actioner, it was Prabhas who sprung a
surprise on fans,critics by revealing a completely new avatar.
With
Baahubali, the already popular Telugu actor pushed the envelope and
how! Did you know, the actor weighed around 100kg as Amarendra Baahubali
while as Shivudu he weighed 85 kg. His workouts varied with respect to
the character he played, so did his diet. While his diet for Shivudu’s
role was high in protein, his role as Amrendra was high in carbs. The
actor actually bought gym equipment worth a crore for his workout. Mr
World Lakshman Reddy was the one who trained him. The actor made sure he
never missed a workout even if it meant working out at night! Apart
from working on his physique, Prabhas also grew his hair and he
maintained it for five years. The results were for us to see of course!
Apart from his drastic physical transformation,his performance was applause worthy as well.
The fictitious characters – Shivudu and Baahubali came to life,
courtesy Prabhas! If one found Shivudu’s mischievous ways adorable, one
was floored by Amarendra’s humility. It came to a point, one couldn’t
distinguish between Prabhas and the characters he played. The actor
became a global star after the movie’s release. He became a known face
across industries.
To top it all, he never signed on any other film from start to end! Which Telugu star can boast of any of the above? He has been lauded for his act time and again, but hasn’t won a single award. Why??
Credits : Bollywoodlife.com
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