56th Filmfare Awards

Katrina giving theBest Director Award to Karan Johar

 Ranveer getting his Best Debut Actor Award

 Preity Zinta gave Sonakshi The Best Female Debut Award

 Priyanka Chopra performing on the stage

 Elegant Rekha gave Kajol a not very deserving Best Actress Award. Kajol looks so fat in front of Rekha.

 Shahrukh Khan received his Best Actor Award from Rekha

 Sonakshi looks nothing less than some very fat Pushto heroine here. Disastrous pose I must say.

Sonakshi continues with those jhatkas

The 56th Filmfare Awards have of course taken place. Udaan, it seemed was the limelight of the night. I am happy that Ronit Roy won the Best Supporting Actor Award. That is the only happy news for me because I really like this guy and his acting skills were quite obvious ever since I saw him playing the role of Mr. Bajaj in Kasauti Zindagi Ki. The man has struggled for the longest time and in Udaan his acting outshines everybody else's performance.

Apart from that it was quite obvious that sifarshi Sonaksi Sinha would win the Best Female Debut award while Ranveer Singh would take the Best Male Debut award. Although Dabangg did take 5 awards, it was clearly Udaan's night. Salman Khan couldn't get the Best Actor award and lost it to his ex-best friend Shahrukh Khan who got it for his exceptional acting in My Name Is Khan. What majorly disappointed me and may be a few others was that Kajol out of nowhere won the Best Female Award for her very regular performance in My Name Is Khan. I think this time round Vidya Balan totally deserved an award for Ishqiya. 

And yes Kareena Kapoor also got a Supporting Actress Award for a very ridiculous and unnecessary movie - We Are Family.

‘Raajneeti’, ‘Udaan’ & ‘Peepli [Live]’ nominated

Not one or two, but three out of the six films nominated for the Best Film Category’ at the prestigious Star Screen Awards are from the UTV stable. The movies nominated in this category are ‘Raajneeti’, ‘Udaan’ and ‘Peepli [Live]’.

‘Raajneeti’, the multi-starrer blockbuster of 2010, directed by Prakash Jha and co-produced by Prakash Jha, Walkwater media and UTV Motion Pictures is the 5th biggest Hindi film of all times.

‘Udaan’, directed by Vikram Aditya Motwane, and produced by Sanjay Singh, Anurag Kashyap and UTV Motion Pictures, was a fantastic example of a small film which received overwhelming recognition worldwide. The film competed in the Un-Certain Regard category at the 2010 Cannes Film Festival and was first Indian film to be part of this section in seven years.

Directed by Anusha Rizvi and produced by Aamir Khan Productions and UTV Motion Pictures, ‘Peepli [Live]’ was another critically acclaimed film and classic example of how a small film was made big. A brilliant storyline coupled with a talented folklore star cast from the locales, to aggressive marketing and phenomenal distribution got the film its due recognition and acclaim from the critics and the audiences across the globe.

“It’s a great way to start the year with three of our films nominated at one of the most prestigious awards in the country. Raajneeti, Udaan and Peepli Live are movies which have scored at the box office, and at the same time received tremendous critical acclaim. We are really proud to have backed the vision of these film makers and this recognition gives us the encouragement to continue in the same vein in the years to come,” said Siddharth Roy Kapur, CEO-Motion Pictures, UTV.