Funnily Deep

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That's what last night's Filmfare awards telecast on Sony was. It was also of course glamorous, sexy and entertaining. But that's the least you expect. What you don't expect is for humour to be delivered with so much élan that it permeates everybody, putting them in touch with their liberal, tolerant selves. Between Saif Ali Khan and Shah Rukh Khan, the hosts for the evening and two of the most sophisticated stars in the film industry, nothing remained sacred. So there was a blue ballad to Sanjay Leela Bhansali's Saawariya; Saif Ali Khan was ribbed about his tattoo screaming his new love for Kareena; Karan Johar acknowledged that women were safe from him; To turning off the music and challenging Akshay Kumar to live up to his new hit machine status in real life; To some provocative Hinglish that left no one in....