Vasay Chaudhry is recently appointed as the Vice Chairman of the Punjab Film Censor Board. In an interview when asked about the public’s role in selecting winners at award shows, Chaudhry spilled the beans that that there is no public voting in award shows, only jury can decide.
He said, “I’ve been nominated a couple of times and been part of a jury for two years. The time I’m talking about is before social media and I’ve been clear about one thing; there’s no such thing as public voting. It’s the biggest black-hole you can jump into. There’s no such thing as public voting because only the jury can decide.”
The Jawani Phir Nahi Aani actor labelled the whole public voting process as “not-so-Pakistani yet a Pakistani invention” and “all rubbish”.
Comparing Pakistani awards to Oscars, he said, “It’s like the Oscars, if Leonardo DiCaprio was nominated, he would’ve gotten an award years ago because no fan club is bigger than his and he won just now, like two or three years ago. He should’ve won one for his film Titanic. Tom Cruise would’ve won an Oscar every single time because he has a fan club of his own as well. Same goes for Brad Pitt. Conclusion: there’s no such thing as online viewing or polling.”
Chaudhry also called the online polling a “stupid concept.”
He further added, “Fans can help their stars break viewing records by watching their films again and again at cinemas or otherwise. But that’s that. At awards, it will not matter if I have two fans or Fawad Khan has 20 million fans. Our skill-set will be prioritised and presented to a jury which will then decide whether an actor, director, writer should win.”
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