A Quote by Rajinikanth

I am not doing films for awards. — © Rajinikanth
I am not doing films for awards.

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I say have the night and give people the awards, but why do people want to watch people win awards? What are they getting out of it? I don't quite get it. Because they have awards all the time; there's awards for butchers, the best meat served, but they don't televise it. I don't know why they do it for films or TV programs.
I don't do movies for the awards. The awards are made for the films. The films are not made for the awards.
Though I was nominated for awards for films like 'Tezaab' and 'Apna Sapna Money Money' but I never won an award. Now I am not even nominated for any awards but still I attend the award functions as I love being there despite figuring prominently in a lot of leg pulling that goes around in the award ceremonies.
Whether I am going in the right direction or not is determined not just by awards but also by the kind of films I do and their success.
I have done about 25 films in Malayalam and won awards for my performances in films like 'Nandanam' and 'Saira.'
I personally am not very interested in awards or the awards circuit.
In the 80s, parallel cinema gained momentum. So, I got back to films and won National awards for Maqbool' and other films.
I am never disappointed in life in not getting any awards: it is the movies which keep me going, not the awards.
After doing films like 'Mukkabaaz,' I feel I am finally getting films that I deserve.
So, 50 films, 3 National Awards, 74 plays and serials later, here I am playing Professor Das in JL50,' who understands time travel. When in reality, I'm not tech savvy at all.
I would like to address the issue of farmers through my craft - my films. But, the sad part is that such films win awards but don't get any rewards at the BO.
I am 100-films old. In my heyday, I have done a lot of commercial films, including dancing around the trees with the heroine. But after working with Rituparno Ghosh, my understanding of cinema changed. Whatever good I am doing, it is because of him. If I am being called a good actor, it is only because of him.
I'm doing things I had never imagined... and am working with people I had only seen on news and films... I think I am doing well.
For acting, once I am doing a movie, I am fully into that. But I am not one to chase films. When it comes, it comes.
For me, awards are a token of respect that people are giving me. So no matter how many awards I am receiving, I always feel emotional.
It is kind of nice for when people appreciate what you have done, but I would not base my career on awards because they are mostly popular awards and not talent-oriented awards.
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