There many chances of Balu Mahendra being misunderstood here. >From what i heard, BM refrained from voting, because he was a close friend of >Ilaiyaraaja who was also among contenders (Thevar Magan) and he felt it would >be morally unethical to take part in any voting in such circumstance. He was >right, from his perspective. Lets not view things negatively, especially because it doesnt make any difference now, except that we would be wasting time exchanging thoughts on emails.
Regards Kamal Aakarsh Vishnubhotla. http://kamal-aakarsh.blogspot.com --- On Thu, 2/26/09, Sath Murthy <[email protected]> wrote: From: Sath Murthy <[email protected]> Subject: [arr] Did Balu Mahendra really do this? To: [email protected] Date: Thursday, February 26, 2009, 10:12 AM There is an post on sify titled "Everyone wants a piece of ARR" http://sify. com/movies/ tamil/fullstory. php?id=14861752 In that they mentioned that : " Balu Mahendra said as the jury chairman of National Award committee, it was his casting vote that got Rahman the award for the best music director for Roja over Ilayaraja for Thevar Magan in the same year!" Is this true? If so, why is he revealing it after 16 years? why didn't he share this before? Hopefully, the others from that particular year's jury come out and clarify this. Sath Murthy.
