Naseeruddin Shah, who is known for being vocal about his opinions, recently expressed his thoughts on the concept of awards and what he did with the ones that were presented to him.
In an interview with The Lallantop, when the veteran actor was asked about the rumour that he uses his Filmfare Awards to craft the door handles for his farmhouse near Mumbai, he admitted doing so.
Shah told The Lallantop, "I don’t find any value in these trophies. I was happy when I received the initial ones. But then, trophies started piling up around me. Sooner or later I understood that these awards are a result of lobbying. One is receiving these awards not necessarily because of their merit. So I started leaving them behind. After that, when I received Padma Shri and Padma Bhushan, it reminded me of my deceased father who used to always be worried about my job and said things like ‘if you do this useless work, you will become a fool’. So, when I went to Rashtrapati Bhavan to collect the awards, I looked up and asked my dad if he was seeing all this… He was… and I am sure he was happy… I was happy to receive those awards. But I can’t stand these competitive awards."
"Any actor who has put their life and effort into portraying a role is a good actor. If you just pick one person from the lot and say that ‘this is the best actor of the year’, how’s it fair? I am not proud of those awards. I did not even go collect the last two awards I received. So, when I built a farmhouse I decided to put these awards there. Whoever goes to the washroom will get two awards each as the handles are made of the Filmfare awards," Shah further told the publication.
On the work front, Shah was last seen in Zee5's periodical drama series, Taj: Divided By Blood.
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