Filmmaker Sudipto Sen, who recently won the National Award for his film The Kerala Story (2024), has taken a swipe at this year’s Filmfare Awards for naming Laapataa Ladies Best Film. In his latest Instagram post, he described the awards show as a “tamasha in the name of cinema.”

Taking to his Instagram handle, Sen posted a long note on the awards show, which read, “This year Filmfare truly is an expose of Indian ‘nouvelle vague’… A blatantly plagiarised film… a film which is a tutorial of brutality and a film which did not survive the box office for more than 72 hours took away most of the crowns. As expected the best work of 2024 remain elusive. Realised, why Filmfare was so vocal against The Kerala Story receiving National Awards. I am happy that this ‘wood’ community does not recogn

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