This yr’s Kerala State Movie Awards had been chosen by a jury, headed by Prakash Raj. In a shocking transfer, the actor introduced on Monday that no person within the kids’s movie and actors class has received an award. Youngster actor Deva Nandha took to Instagram to name him out on his choice.
Deva Nandha slams Prakash Raj for ignoring kids
On Deva’s Instagram, which is managed by her mother and father, she posted a clip of Prakash talking concerning the kids’s classes on the press convention following the announcement of the state awards. The clip is interspersed with scenes from Manu Radhakrishnan’s 2024 movie Gu, which starred her and Saiju Kurup.
Slamming Prakash for his choice, she wrote, “You’ll be able to shut your eyes to children, however don’t say it’s all darkish right here. Youngsters are additionally part of this society; the jury closed its eyes with the announcement of the 2024 Malayalam Movie Awards towards the upcoming technology.” She then supplied examples of how kids have acted in movies comparable to Sthanarthi Sreekuttan, Gu, Phoenix, and ARM in 2024.
“It’s not by denying awards to 2 kids that one ought to attempt to say extra kids’s movies must be made. When you had given awards to 2 kids, it might have grow to be an inspiration for a lot of others,” she wrote, including, “I categorical my sturdy resentment in direction of the jury chairman, who stated kids ought to get extra alternatives and that also they are a part of society, however ignored kids’s rights. It’s not by denying rights that reforms must be ushered in; rights must also be protected alongside reforms.”
Filmmaker Vinesh Viswanath and actor Anand Manmadhan additionally voiced their frustration concerning the transfer on social media.
What did Prakash Raj say?
Prakash Raj famous on the press convention that, whereas six movies had been submitted for the Finest Youngsters’s Movie class, the jury determined that none of them met the standards. He said that the identical applies to the actors as effectively. “We didn’t discover a single movie or try and make a kids’s movie. Administrators and writers ought to realise that it’s not simply the elders and children, however kids are a part of society,” he stated.
Prakash additionally added, “What kids suppose, what they perceive, and their world must be made into cinema. Simply by casting kids, it received’t routinely grow to be kids’s cinema. We have to know what kids suppose; they’re a significant a part of this evolution. Not one of the movies speak about kids’s notion. Or a couple of little one actors weren’t talking their age.” Nonetheless, the actor has been receiving flak for his assertion on social media.