It started off fabulously with Lara Dutta looking gorgeous at the IIFA, Colombo in Sri Lanka in her Gustavo Cadile designed golden gown. The dress was quite low cut but Lara carried it off confidently as usual. Then it happened! As she was addressing her fans and signing autographs for them, the dainty strap of her gown slipped off thereby revealing more than what was intended. The camera person present there captured the moment instantly.
Everyone was shocked but Lara used her presence of mind, kept her cool, held on to the strap and suddenly went back stage to fix it. And then she was back to her role as host and even posed for pictures.
Despite controversies and boycotts, the 11th edition of the IIFA Weekend kick started in Sri Lanka with the host country rolling out the red carpet for glamorous Bollywood actors. The ceremony has been boycotted by the South Indian Film Chamber of Commerce as a mark of protest against the alleged mistreatment of the Tamils in the country. Bollywood biggies like the Bachchans and SRK are also giving the extravaganza a miss. While Big B is currently shooting in Gujarat, Abhishek is in Istanbul for a film shoot and daughter-in-law Aishwarya Rai is in Paris to promote a brand. SRK is busy with the post production details of his forthcoming ‘Ra 1’.
Stars such a Hrithik Roshan, Salman Khan, Saif Ali Khan, Bipasha, Lara, Neha, Kangana, Dia, Jacqueline, Riya, Sophie and many more were given a warm welcome by the Lankan fans as they arrived at the Bandarnaike International Airport.
Check out the glittering and dazzling stars as they attend IIFA red carpet on June 5, 2010.
Rekha Ganeshan and Saif Ali Khan received the much awaited Padmasree award by President Pratibha Patil at the Civil Investiture Ceremony-II at Rashtrapati Bhavan in New Delhi. Rekha looked gorgeous and elegant as ever draped in a saree where as Saif Ali Khan was accompanied by his lady love Kareena Kapoor who looked lovely in a while kurti.
Others who won the coveted award include sound technician and Oscar award winner Resul Pookutty, Prominent south Indian theatre personality Arundhati Nag, boxer Vijender Singh, and ace car racer Narain Karthikeyan.
Check out the pics as Rekha and Saif beam with their awards in their hands…..
In the style of Hollywood’s Razzies, the second Golden Kela awards was held this Friday night where actor Harman Baweja won the Worst Actor award for his performance in “What’s Your Raashee?” and Kareena Kapoor got the worst actress title for her role in “Kambakkht Ishq”. Interestingly, even Hollywood stars Sylvester Stallone and Denise Richards won the “Baawra Ho Gaya Hai Ke” (Have you gone muts) Award for participating in “Kambakkht Ishq” alongside Kareena and Akshay Kumar. The movie also won the worst film award, thus bagging in the highest number of ‘worst’ awards.
Abhishek Bachchan won the Dara Singh Award for worst accent in “Delhi-6″. Sporting as Abhishek is, he posted on twitter, “Another milestone in my career. I won the Golden Kela award for worst accent in ‘Delhi 6′. Chalo at least ‘Delhi-6′ won something. I’m overjoyed!”
The chief guest of the evening was Bollywood funnyman Cyrus Broacha, who was awarded the Cyrus Broacha Memorial Award. “It’s great. I’m thrilled. I hope to win this award every year,” Cyrus said.
Filmmaker Madhur Bhandarkar won the “Bas Kijiye Bahut Ho Gaya (Please stop its Enough) Award”!, asking him to stop making films. Ashutosh Gowariker was declared worst director for “What’s Your Raashee?” Jackky Bhagnani and Shruti Haasan were declared the worst newcomer actors for their roles in “Kal Kissne Dekha” and “Luck” respectively.
As expected, none of the stars named for the awards were present at the event.
The DNA After Hrs Style awards were held on Wednesday February 17th which witnessed the presence of the country’s beautiful people come together under one roof. The awards were presented by Volkswagen at The Intercontinental, the Lalit. The panel of judges comprised of filmmaker Karan Johar, designer Manish Malhotra, supermodel Ujjwala Raut and author and columnist Shobhaa De. There were over 20 awards in various categories.
The whos who of Bollywood fraternity attended the award function in their style quotient. Shilpa Shetty came attired in a silver and pink sari which she paired with a silver Leiber minaudiere. Sonam Kapoor wore a vintage Victor Costa dress along with ankle booties. Sushmita Sen who also won the style award stuck to her comfortable black zone. Shahid Kapoor sported a casual do and also swept away a style award for his fashion sense.
Check out Shilpa Shetty and Sushmita Sen beaming with smile with their awards in their hand!!
The most prestigious civilian awards, the Padma awards 2010, have been announced and Bollywood has indeed made its presence felt here too. Of the total 130 awardees, 6 are Padma Vibhushan, 43 Padma Bhushan, and 81 Padma Shri. The award winners include Ilayaraja, Aamir Khan and AR Rahman for Padma Bhushan, and Rekha, Arundhati Nag, Resul Pokutty and Saif Ali Khan for Padma Shri.
Aamir Khan, who at present is in the US for the Sundance Film Festival, said it was “wonderful” to be chosen for the honour and thanked his fans and well wishers for their support.
He expressed his joy saying, “The first thing that comes to my mind is my mother’s smiling face. This has been a good day for me. My film ‘Peepli Live’ gets superb response at the Sundance Film Festival and then I receive this wonderful news of getting Padma Bhushan. I wish I was back home right now.”
The 56th National Film Awards on Saturday, handed over as many as 13 awards to Bollywood. However, the Bengali film ‘Antaheen’ stole the show by winning the best feature film award and three more awards.
Priyanka Chopra bagged in the best actress award and Kangana Ranaut got the best supporting actress honour, both for Madhur Bhandarkar’s ‘Fashion’. Farhan Akhtar’s ‘Rock On’ got the best Hindi film award and actor Arjun Rampal won the best supporting actor award for the same film.
The Indira Gandhi award for the Best debut film of a director went to Neeraj Pandey’s ‘A Wednesday’, Yash Raj Films’ ‘Roadside Romeo’ bagged award in the best animation film category. Dibakar Banerjee’s satirical ‘Oye Lucky! Lucky Oye!’ was awarded the best popular film award.
The award for best direction has gone to Bala for Tamil film Naan Kadauul, while the best actor is Upendra Limaye for Marathi film Jogva.
Hosted by Vivek Oberoi and very pretty Diya Mirza, the Max Stardust Awards show 2010 took place amidst much glamour and glitter witnessing the presence of who’s who of Bollywood. Adding to the attraction were dazzling performances from the likes of Katrina Kaif, Kareena Kapoor and Saif Ali Khan among others. The list of the winners in various categories are:
Superstar Of Tomorrow - Male
Ranbir Kapoor – Wake Up Sid & Ajab Prem Ki Ghazab Kahani
Breakthrough Performance – Male
Abhimanyu Singh – Gulaal
Breakthrough Performance - Female
Shahana Goswami – Firaaq
Hottest Film Of The Year
Love Aaj Kal
Hottest New Director
Ayaan Mukherjee – Wake Up Sid
Exciting New Face
Jacqueline Fernandez – Aladin
Best Actress
Preity Zinta – Videsh
Best Film
Chintuji
Best Director
Ranjit Kapoor – Chintuji
READERS CHOICE AWARDS
Dream Director
Imtiaz Ali – Love Aaj Kal
Best Film Of The Year – Comedy
All The Best
Best Film Of The Year – Action / Thriller
Wanted
Best Film Of The Year – Drama
3 Idiots
Star Of The Year – Male
Amitabh Bachchan – Paa
Star Of The Year – Female
Kareena Kapoor – Kurbaan & 3 Idiots
Best Actor In A Supporting Role
Abhishek Bachchan – Paa
Best Actress In A Supporting Role
Kirron Kher – Kurbaan
Best Actor In A Comedy Role
Ajay Devgn – All The Best
Best Actor – Popular
Akshay Kumar – Blue
Best Actress – Popular
Katrina Kaif – New York, Ajab Prem Ki Ghazab Kahani
Check out the exclusive pics from the event at Bollywood-stars.net.
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.
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.
There was a time when Rani Mukherjee was the reigning queen of Bollywood and any award function was incomplete without she bagging an award, but the scene is a bit different now and she has been missing critical acclaim for her performance since a long time. Even, ‘Dil Bole Hadippa’ could not do any magic to revive her sinking career. Nevertheless, she has bagged in the V Shantaram awards for best actress for ‘Dil Bole Haddipa’. Rani Mukherji said “Dil Bole Haddipa” was close to her heart because she had worked hard portraying a cricket crazy sikh boy and also learnt the sport. Check out Rani Mukherjee at the event.
APEX 2009 awards were based on excellence in graphic design, editorial content and the success of the entry — in the opinion of the judges — in achieving overall communications effectiveness and excellence.
Naturally, entries in design categories were judged solely on the basis of their graphic design, and writing entries were evaluated primarily on the basis of editorial quality.
A total of 100 APEX Grand Awards were presented in 11 major categories to honor the outstanding works in those categories. 1,158 APEX Awards of Excellence recognize excellence in 122 individual categories.
Adding the glamour quotient to the ceremony were the Big Boss (Season 3) inmates Claudia Ciesla & Sherlyn Chopra. The Sow started on 4th October 2009 on Colors and will continue to do so daily at 9 p.m. for 84 Days with Amitabh Bachchan as the host. Where Sherlyn was evicted quite early, Claudia was evicted after staying 10 weeks in the show on day 68.
