There are no two doubts about the fact that Ajay is the real success story for 2010, what with RAAJNEETI, GOLMAAL-3 and AAKROSH etc. The diversified roles that he has enacted have made him darling of the masses. Ajay Devgan is the first actor in all probability who had the guts to play a character belonged to a low caste and carrying the role with aplomb, a sort of enactment of the role of the downtrodden who aspire to move up the social ladder but do not have the role models either through cinema or through any other medium to emulate. 

Indeed, if one were to do a disc scan of our memories, it would be difficult to find out from the current crop of actors, leaving aside Ajay Devgn who has portrayed characters that belong to those who live on the fringe of society. Ajay Devgn started this experimentation with LAJJA on a large scale and expanded his outreach by leaps and bounds.

Cinema can never continue to etch out characters that do not find connect in the real world. For that matter, if viewed from this perspective, even GOLMAAL-3 would also fall in the same category as Ajay Devgn plays the role of an orphan.

Incidentally, it was Big B who had cultivated and nurtured such characters through scores of his films, that were primarily responsible for making him what he is today, and Ajay Devgn also seems to have realized that this path is indeed the path that would provide longevity to his acting career.

But what comes as a surprise is why after giving so many blockbusters Devgn is always deprived of awards even if nominated he hardly gets his hands on them thats the reason Ajay has joined Aamir Khan in staying away from award ceremonies. Most functions just market themselves by wooing celebrities and awarding the nominees who agree to attend the events, says the actor.

"I don’t attend award ceremonies. The facts with award ceremonies are that you are called saying, ‘Please come for the awards, we are giving you the award’; when you don’t go, they say they had to give it to someone else. They also have to market it; they also have to sell their awards. So it’s a problem for them,” Ajay told us.

“They have to give awards to whoever attends the function. So they keep their options open,” said the 41-year-old who was won the National Award twice for “Zakhm” and “The Legend of Bhagat Singh”.

“It feels good when you receive an award. But there are small, small things that I have to keep in mind. If a couple of awards ceremonies are genuine and you attend them then you have to attend all the other award ceremonies. So it’s better that I don’t attend any of them,” he said.

He feels something similar happens while selecting movies for the Oscars. The actor maintains that Indian films have the potential to grab Oscars, provided the right film is sent for it.

“We can make it to the Oscars, but there are lots of politics behind it also. There are many big films, small films but they are good films, which are not sent to the Oscars. But I don’t understand why they cheat their own country. ‘Devdas’ and ‘Bhagat Singh..’ were made in the same year. Whose probability of winning an Oscar is more, a film on a drunkard or a freedom fighter?…Over the years many small good films, some of them by first time directors, have been made, but no one sends those films for Oscars,” Ajay said.

This year he has been nominated for all the three awards - Big Star Entertainment Award, Star Screen Awards and Apsara Awards - in the best actor category for the crime thriller “Once Upon A Time in Mumbaai”, but didn’t get any.