My amblings are amiable this week. Mourning Michael's memory not only mellows my mood, but my musings, too. This week Bollywood's mentionables will not be massacred, er, messed with. And we return this week to Priyanka Chopra...
That said, Jin Jue! Or may the Best in Film walk away with the Shanghai International Film Festivals' Golden Goblet award.
And Priyanka Chopra did...
Her hard work has paid off, and this week she drank from, I mean walked away with, the Golden Goblet in hand. The Jin Jue or Golden Goblet/Cup award is reputedly the top award of the Shanghai Festival.
This is a coup for Ms. Chopra in light of last week's insult: Director Ashutosh Gowariker charged that perhaps Priyanka Chopra was not the most "natural" winner of the Best Actress Award at the Indian Film Academy Awards, but only a candidate due to her "hard work." Let us recall Gowariker's unfortunate public reflection on Priyanka's win, and Aishwarya Rai's loss: "Maybe it is because you are very hard-working and she is a natural..."
It appears that loads of others disagree: Priyanka Chopra has won ten awards in the past six months alone. The Shanghai International Film Festival is known as one of the largest film festivals in Asia, making it clear that her talent is recognized far and wide. Even Danny Boyle, astonishingly astute director of Slumdog Millionaire and 2009's president of the Shanghai jury competition, believed in Priyanka's natural and hardworking abilities.
I only hope that all of this attention doesn't lead to jealousies among her peers - those possessing natural talents as well as the simply hardworking. After all Priyanka herself passed on the opportunity to pop a revenge jab at Gowariker in her acceptance speech. This is the knowing nuance that distinguishes the desiring from the deserving, in my opinion.
Ms. Chopra not only deserved, and won, the most desired award
of the evening, but also became the first Indian to do so. Kudos!
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