Boxer Vijay and Shuttler Sayna are angry. And this time they're not acting. The jury was out, and literally, till midnight, at Cannes. It's not every day that they get a million sms's.
There have been rumours in the weeks leading up to the awards this year, that Vijay was not entirely happy that his bravura performance as himself (without the boxing stuff) in Fu.gly was ignored completely in the Palme d'Or category for best international film. Sayna Naiwal, not to be left behind, wrote a letter to the Cannes Lions jury demanding an explanation for not nominating her disturbingly brilliant portrayal of a pained athlete in the Iodex gel advertisement. The two of them launched an sms voting campaign asking for the people of India to vote for their favourite film 'in which a sports star tries to enhance his or her income by trying to act' but that backfired with Sachein winning top honours, and he wasn't even a nominee.
Not the ones to give up, in sport or in life, the second phase of the campaign was launched - 'we cannes do this' which was a plea to sms the jury members directly - CJ0001 for Vijay and CJ0002 for Sayna. These are being counted and the results will be out tomorrow. Sachein might just come up trumps once again.
There have been rumours in the weeks leading up to the awards this year, that Vijay was not entirely happy that his bravura performance as himself (without the boxing stuff) in Fu.gly was ignored completely in the Palme d'Or category for best international film. Sayna Naiwal, not to be left behind, wrote a letter to the Cannes Lions jury demanding an explanation for not nominating her disturbingly brilliant portrayal of a pained athlete in the Iodex gel advertisement. The two of them launched an sms voting campaign asking for the people of India to vote for their favourite film 'in which a sports star tries to enhance his or her income by trying to act' but that backfired with Sachein winning top honours, and he wasn't even a nominee.
Not the ones to give up, in sport or in life, the second phase of the campaign was launched - 'we cannes do this' which was a plea to sms the jury members directly - CJ0001 for Vijay and CJ0002 for Sayna. These are being counted and the results will be out tomorrow. Sachein might just come up trumps once again.
