For a long, there are accusations that award functions are fixed and the organizers only present awards to actors and actresses who curry favor with them. SIIMA 2022 awards were celebrated in an extravagant manner and it is known that in Telugu, Allu Arjun bagged the best actor award for Pushpa The Rise while Pooja Hegde bagged the best actress award for Most Eligible Bachelor for the year 2021.
But movie lovers and right-thinking people are of the opinion that the organizers of SIIMA did a gross injustice to talented actress Sai Pallavi and many are fuming that they indeed insulted her. They point out that Sai Pallavi came up with stellar performances in Naga Chaitanya's Love Story and Nani's Shyam Singha Roy and the organizers conveniently ignored her performances to give the award to Pooja Hegde.
They say that if the SIIMA jury feels that Shyam Singha Roy was not a commercial entertainer, they cannot ignore Love Story which has all commercial elements like romance and Sai Pallavi's humor, dances, etc.