The 16th annual Nokia Star Screen Awards was held with usual glamour and glitter. Amitabh Bachchan won the award for best actor for his latest film “Paa”, and Vidya Balan won the best actress award for ‘Paa’ again. Best director award was won by Rajkumar Hirani and the best screenplay award was won by Abhijit Joshi each for the film “3 Idiots” which won the best film award.

The best female singer award was won by Kavita Sethi for her song “Ek tara” from “Wake Up Sid”, and the best male singer award was won by Rahat Fateh Ali Khan for “Aaj din chadeya” from movie “Love Aaj Kal”. Imitiaz Ali bagged the best story award for “Love Aaj Kal”. A.R. Rahman won the best music award for “Delhi 6?.

The award for the best performance in a comic role went to Omi Vaidya for “3 Idiots”, while the award for the best actor in a negative role went to Boman Irani for “3 idiots”.

‘3 Idiots’ was undoubtedly the star of the ceremony as it bagged the awards in most of the categories. Check out the stars as they dazzle in the Star Screen Awards 2010.

Last year, ace photographer Dabboo Ratnani had shot with 48 stars celebrating the completion of a decade of his calendar. This year he is back with usual count of 24 stars, but in black and white shades. Besides some of his old favorites, there are quite a few new names added to the list.

Talking about the calendar to NDTV.com, Dabboo says, “All the stars are comfortable with whatever I decide. They never question me, because we have faith in each other. So whenever I discuss a concept with them, they are happy to go along. I usually share three or four different ideas with the actor. If they are not convinced, we work on it. It is important to be confident about each other; only when the model is able to relate to the picture will he or she be able to give 100 per cent to it.

I have been doing the calendar for many years now. It makes me push myself to the next level. Way back in 2000 when I first shot the calendar, I gave away just a few to my close friends and people I worked with. But the response was so encouraging that I felt it was something I had to do on a regular basis. Every year the calendar pushes me to outdo my last year’s work. This also helps me evolve as a photographer. All through the year I am shooting for agencies, magazines and movies but the calendar is my creative outlet.

Our space had given you the pics of Deepika Padukone and Shahrukh Khan from the calendar. Now, we bring you some new pics of Priyanka Chopra, Katrina Kaif and Vidya Balan and what Dabboo has to say for each of them.

Ratnani is all praise for Katrina: “She is very attractive and photographs really well. She puts in a lot of effort for every picture she does. She will keep on giving the shot till it is completely done. Katrina will go to any extent to make the pic look stunning.”

He talks about Priyanka Chopra saying, “She is extremely photogenic. She gives her best in ever photoshoot and loves being in front of the camera. We have been working together since Priyanka’s modelling days and the chemistry we share is simply brilliant.”

Ratnani, who makes Vidya Balan too shed her inhibitions, says about the lady, “This is one of the hottest pictures of Vidya ever. I think she is always open to experiment. She trusts me completely and because of this trust she is very comfortable in my working environment.”

In Bollywood, the leading actresses always share a cat-fight with each other. Hardly do we see actresses sharing a comfortable vibe with her competitor. This time, the film magazine ‘Stardust’ has taken an initiative to make two hot Bollywood actresses share a single cover.

Before you wonder how this could be made possible by the magazine, let us tell you that the actresses haven’t shot together for the cover. This January issue of the magazine has actually merged two of their different images convincingly to bring out this unique cover with the title, ‘Kareena & Katrina: Bollywood queens race to the top.’

Temperatures are sure to be soaring with two most desirable ‘K’ ladies together vying for the reader’s attention!

Bipasha Basu was in Delhi for her birthday celebrations on January 7, but unfortunately without hubby John Abraham. Though John was in Delhi, but he preferred spending time with cars than her lady love on her birthday. However, the couple flew back together to Mumbai to be there for Bipasha’s special family birthday lunch.

Giving the details, the bong beauty says, “This was my first birthday in Delhi. I’ve very special links with that city. I was born in Delhi. So when I got a chance to be in the Capital for my birthday I grabbed it. To make it even better it was seriously cold in Delhi. I love the winter weather.

It was the Auto Expo and as you know John loves anything on wheels, but hates birthdays. So he was just happy being around some of the best cars in the world.”

However, Bipasha stands by her lover and explains, “John runs the other way when it comes to cutting cakes. I spent my whole birthday cutting cakes with different groups of family members and friends. I couldn’t take all the calls and sms. But I answered all of them on the day after my birthday.”

Talking about the family lunch on her birthday, Bips says, “It’s an annual ritual on my birthday, and one I won’t miss for the world. This time one of my sisters was not here for my birthday. She’s studying. We really missed her. But my parents and my other sister, brother-in-law and nephew were home for my birthday.

When I returned from Delhi my house was filled with flowers. You’ve no idea how wonderful flowers look in a newly-renovated house. My home was fragrant and attractive. My two sweet maidservants had arranged all the bouquets all over the house.”

2009, the year of recession has faded marking the arrival of 2010, the year which brings hopes and awaits the release of many big budgeted and mega releases. Let us take a look at the releases which await the forthcoming year:

Kites: Made under the direction of Anurag Basu, this film has been produced by Rakesh Roshan and has created a lot of buzz due to the alleged link up between the leading stars of the film, Hrithik Roshan and Barbara Mori from Hollywood. The film also has Kangana Ranaut in an important role.

Veer: After ‘3 Idiots’, ‘Wanted’ was by far the most successful movie of 2009 at the box-office. Salman Khan is ready with yet another mega project for ‘2010’ with ‘Veer’. The movie has been produced by Vijay Gilani and directed by Anil Sharma.

Raavan: Made under the direction of Mani Ratnam, the film stars Abhishek Bachchan and Aishwarya Rai Bachchan in the lead roles.

Rajniti: This movie has Ajay Devgan, Katrina Kaif, Ranbir Kapoor, Vivek Oberoi, Nana Patekar and Arjun Rampal in the lead roles. Made under the direction of Prakash Jha, this mega budget film is creating stirs because of the buzz that Katrina Kaif will sport the look of Sonia Gandhi in the film.

My Name is Khan: This much awaited film will re-create the magic of Shah Rukh Khan and Kajol after a long time.

Apart from these, other films which are expected to create magic at the box-office in 2010 include, ‘Patiala House’, ‘Rann’, ‘Ishquiya’, ‘Action Replay’, ‘Bhoot’, ‘Hook Ya Crook’, ‘Kajraare’, ‘Dulha Mil Gaya’, ‘Pyaar Impossible’, ‘Agent Vinod’ and many others.

It has been ten long years since the perfectionist Aamir Khan performed on stage, but if the sources are to be believed, this talented actor has given a nod to perform for the concert planned by Cine Artistes Association with the motive of improving the standard and generating funds for the junior artistes of Bollywood.

Johny Lever, the President of the Cine Artistes Association says, “Our association has completed 50 years. I have personally requested Shah Rukh Khan, Salman Khan, Saif Ali Khan, Akshay Kumar, Aamir Khan, Hrithik Roshan and several other Bollywood biggies to perform for us. We need funds to rehabilitate and provide resources to junior artistes who are finding it hard to make ends meet.”

Not only has Aamir agreed to perform, he has sent out personal text messages to all the big names in the business asking them to participate.

“SRK has agreed, so has Hrithik. The list is long but I must say that whoever we approached, has agreed to contribute personally. They have realised that the concert, which will later be televised on a satellite channel, is being done for a worthy cause,” said Johny.

Seems like RGV factory is bent on producing flops. He made much claims before the release of ‘Phoonk’ promising to reward anyone who could watch the movie alone in a theatre. However, all his claims went futile and ‘Phoonk’ did not succeed in scaring anyone much.

Now, Ram Gopal Varma is ready with ‘Phoonk 2’ and RGV looks confident once again about the terror quotient of the film. This is what he writes in his blog, “If the entire Phoonk story was about how this evil woman who practices black magic was bent upon torturing and killing a little girl in order to make her father suffer and how the father after desperately trying every measure manages to get a tantrik who kills the evil woman, Phoonk-2 starts off with the spirit of the evil woman coming back from the dead and brutally murdering the tantrik.

I think it is the scariest film Bollywood has ever made and it is miles above all my so-called scary films like Bhoot etc and I mean every word of it from my spine onwards….. Chilling!”

The movie will hit the theatres on April 9. and the director Milind Gadagkar who says, “If you have the fear of the dead … be warned that my intention in ‘Phoonk 2′ is to scare the death out of you and not let you REST IN PEACE!

The film-makers are trying out new promotion techniques these days. After Aamir Khan’s unique promotional tour across the seven cities of India, the makers of ‘Chance Pe Dance’ have come up with another novel idea for the promotion of the film. The film deals with the struggles of newcomers when they come to join the glamour and glitz of the tinsel town. In keeping with the spirit of the film, the leading stars spent a whole night sitting on the roof and bonnet of a car. They came at around midnight on Wednesday in T-shirts and track pants at the Kamalistan Studios in Mumbai. Vada pao and tea vendors were present along with khatiyas (string cot) nearby for the audience. Both Shahid and Genelia had tea together. This went on till 7 a.m Thursday.

Actor Shahid Kapoor said that this reminded him of his struggle period which included renting a number of houses to spending a night in a second hand Maruti 800 to giving 100s of auditions and getting rejected.

“All these things are a memory. I am very happy and proud of the fact that God has been so kind to me and given me so much. I am glad that I was able to get through all those difficulties in my life,” said Shahid

Shahid said that this resembled a real-life incident with him. “We always lived in a rented flat and we had to shift from one flat to the other and my family was not in town. Due to some reason we had to leave the flat a day before and I had to spent the night in the car.”

Sometime back, Abbas-Mastaan had expressed their intentions of doing the remake of the popular Hollywood movie ‘The Italian Job’. The rumor mills churned out that the flick would star Abhishek Bachchan and Kareena Kapoor together, along with Neil Mukesh and Katrina Kaif.

Now, the news is back in circulation again with some changes which include that the remake would not star Kareena and will also have Priyanka Chopra, Akshay Khanna and Kunal Kapoor. The script has been penned down by Rohit Jugraj with a lot of changes from the original one. However, the producers and Abbas-Mastaan have already bought the remake rights.

“For one, the stakes for the heist are much higher. The situations, fights and adventures are all different – and so are the characters,” said Jugraj. Revealing about the casting, the duo stated that they have not yet locked in the entire cast, but are indeed in talks to rope in the above mentioned stars. “It’s a very big project and we need to get the biggest names in place before we start,” said the filmmakers.

The hot item girl of Bollywood, Koena Mitra, celebrated her 31st birthday with her friends and colleagues at Kir in Mumbai. Koena Mitra has come a long way since she made her entry in Bollywood with the trendsetter item number ‘Khullam Khulla’ in Ram Gopal Verma’s ‘Road’.

Born in Kolkata on 7th January, Koena always wanted to make her career in modeling and glamour world. She did her schooling from South Point High School in Kolkata and then passed out from Lady Brabourne College. Venturing into the modeling industry at a very young age, she started with some big endorsements like Clinic All Clear, Maruti Alto and Mirinda. She had her first brush with fame after winning the Gladrags Mega Model, 2002 title. Then came her music videos like Stereo Nation’s Ishq and Channo by Jassi.

She started in the tinsel town with small appearances in films like Musafir, Dhool etc. Her first film as a lead actress was Suparn Verma’s Ek Khiladi Ek Haseena opposite Fardeen Khan in this film. Now, she has already done a couple of good films like Apna Sapna Money Money, Cash, Heyy Babyy, Agar, and Anamika but she still has a long way to go in Bollywood.

They got married two months back. They had a long honeymoon at the Bahamas and yet an extended one at the yacht, but the celebrations do not end year for the celebrity couple- Shilpa Shetty and Raj Kundra.

A grand reception was hosted at the House of Commons in London for the couple by a star struck British MP Kieth Vaz. “We are celebrating our wedding and the honeymoon just continues. I am very happy,” an elated Shilpa said adding that looking at the kind of enjoyment they are having, she should have gotten “married earlier”.

Speaking from London, Shilpa said, “I don’t know why I didn’t get married earlier! Marriage is wonderful when the man whom you marry is good, and mine is wonderful! Touch wood, I’m loving every minute of the marriage.”

Shilpa had informed about this reception much earlier saying, “The House of Commons reception is being thrown for Raj and me by British MP Keith Vaz who’s a dear friend of ours.”

Shilpa also added that she is eager to get back to Mumbai on Jan 8. “I’m missing Mumbai and can’t wait to get back.”

Much awaited star studded annual calendar of the renowned photographer Daboo Ratnani for 2010 has been out and this year it features Amitabh Bachchan, Aishwarya Rai, Deepika Padukone, Priyanka Chopra, Hrithik Roshan, Salman Khan, Kangna Ranaut, Saif Ali Khan, Kareena Kapoor, Kajol, Akshay Kumar, John Abraham, Katrina Kaif and Sonam Kapoor. Imran Khan, Genelia D’Souza and Asin have also posed for the first time in Daboo Ratnani’s calendar which has only black and white pics this year.

The photo which is creating buzz this year is that of the bold and beautiful Deepika Padukone whose pose in the sofa gives an illusion that she is wearing nothing. Last year, Deepika had appeared in the calendar with a saree.

“I wanted to make her look sensual, but aesthetic. Last year, I had shot her in a sari, so this is in total contrast. She strikes a thinking, dreamy pose, and I have used lighting to match her mood,” said Ratnani.