16th Annual Star Screen Awards (2010)

Overview:

It was a night high on anticipation as the who’s who of the film industry gathered to celebrate excellence in cinema at the Nokia 16th Annual STAR Screen Awards

From the time Shahid Kapoor was unceremoniously unbundled out from a white Maruti Omni that boldly came onto the stage at the Nokia 16th Annual Star Screen Awards at Mumbai’s MMRDA complex on Saturday evening and began lisping like Charlie from Kaminey, the celebrations had begun. Of a year during which it became cool to say, “Main fa ko fa bolta hoon”.

2009 was a brave year.

Though the formula kicked back and repackaged itself in shiny and seductive ways, the year ended with the story of the impostor who gave the nation its anthem to carry into the New Year: “All is well!” It was the story of the wrong guy with his heart in the right place. Accepting one of his several awards for 3 Idiots, Rajkumar Hirani, who had earlier made the two Munna Bhai films, which gave us the lovable tapori, who could teach the System a thing or two, dedicated it to “those teachers who teach from the heart rather than from the book”. It was the movie in which we all saw, or wanted to see, a bit of ourselves.

Accepting his award for Best Supporting Actor for Zoya Akhtar’s Luck By Chance, Rishi Kapoor declared, “I am the original idiot of their film.” The film also won the Best Ensemble Cast award.

About his award for Best Story for Love Aaj Kal, Imtiaz Ali said, “Raju, this one has come out of your kitty to mine.” Vidhu Vinod Chopra said that the biggest idiot is Dev Anand, who was also there, because “He keeps making films he believes in”. “What drives you, sir?” asked Chopra. “Be yourself,” said Anand simply.

2009 was the year when nominations for Best Director did not include a woman. But each of the five men who figured in it, were till five years ago, on the periphery of the Club – R. Balki, Anurag Kashyap, Rajkumar Hirani, Vishal Bhardwaj and Imtiaz Ali. None of them belongs to a “film family”. Each has broken the formula and taken liberties with the “mainstream” in terms of subject matter and storytelling.

Rajkumar Hirani got the award for Best Director for 3 Idiots, which was also judged the Best Film. It also picked up the award for Best Screenplay and Best Dialogue. Newcomer Omi Vaidya won the Most Promising Newcomer and Best Actor in a Comic Role awards for his portrayal as Chatur Ramalingam in the film, while Boman Irani won the Best Actor In A Negative Role. This was also the year when a director made an Amitabh Bachchan film and had the temerity to declare that he had set himself the challenge of making a film in which, as he put it, the audience didn’t see Amitabh Bachchan even in one frame of the film. And R. Balki got away with it for Paa was a success, Bachchan took second place to the child-man with a rare disease and a great sense of humour, Auro. Bachchan got the Best Actor award for the film. The movie, in fact, almost swept the acting categories with Vidya Balan winning the Best Actor (Female) award for her role as a beleaguered single mother, Arundhati Nag winning the Best Actor in a Supporting Role (Female) award and Pratik Katare the Best Child Artiste award. At the awards evening, Bachchan’s familiar baritone was reassuringly back. With his dialogues from his forthcoming Teen Patti filling the air, there he was, in a white suit with a red scarf, as giant cards turned and swayed—a king of diamonds, the queen of hearts… “Jo hai woh nahin hai, jo nahin hai woh ho sakta hai,” he said. We believed him. And we clapped for Shahid, when the lights dimmed for Dhan te nan. In pink light, with flames leaping from stage, accompanied by gun-toting dancers in dark uniforms, he danced in army fatigues and dark glasses, right till the time he sped off the stage on a motorbike. A few minutes later, the flames leapt up from the stage, this time for Kareena Kapoor. She received the Best Actress award in the popular category for 3 Idiots while Shahid got the Best Actor award in the popular category for Kaminey.

When Javed Akhtar received the Lifetime Achievement Award, it was a moment to freezeframe: He got it from Amitabh Bachchan and Yash Chopra—the three tasted success together in Deewaar and so many more. “A circle has been completed today,” he said. He recalled the time when he bought Screen magazine for 25 paise. “My relationship with Screen is older than my relationship with the film industry.”

Shah Rukh Khan and Shahid Kapoor conducted the show for the last segment, poking fun at each other and others, declaring themselves Jodi No 1, before announcing the award for Amitabh and Abhishek Bachchan. “I am a bit worried,” said Abhishek “This is my second consecutive Jodi No 1, and both times it has been with guys.” Last time, he got it with John Abraham.

Then came the most magical moment in the star-spangled evening: With Amitabh showing how, Shah Rukh, Amitabh, Abhishek and Shahid danced Auro’s dance in Paa. Could Amitabh please do it, said Shah Rukh, so that he could copy him better, and Shahid said he wanted to copy the copy.

The Ramnath Goenka Award went to Nandita Das for Firaaq, beating Sikandar, Gulaal and Rocket Singh – Salesman Of The Year. The consensus was on Firaaq, said The Indian Express Editor-in-Chief Shekhar Gupta, because it explored with sensitivity and grace the personal and collective guilt after Gujarat 2002. Das also won the best Debut Director award.

I am pretty convinced with this list. I think Vidya did deserve the best actress award.

Omi Vaidya or silencer from 3I won couple of awards. Priyanka did not win any while kareena and katrina did win.

Best Editing Results – Raju Hirani ( 3 Idiots )

Best Special Effects – Aladin

Best Action – Vijayan ( Wanted )

Best Cinematographer – Rajiv Ravi ( Dev D)

Best Choreographer – Bosco Ceaser ( 3 Idiots )

Best Story – Imtiaz Ali ( Love Aaj Kal)

Best Screenplay – AbhijatJoshi, Raju hirani ( 3 idiots )

Best Dialogues – AbhijatJoshi, Raju hirani ( 3 idiots )

Best Child Artist – Pratik Katari ( Paa)

Best Cast- Luck By Chance

Best Lyricist – Irshad Kamil For Choor Bazari ( Love Aaj Kal)

Best Playback Singer ( Female ) – Kavita Seth For Ore Manva ( Wake up sid )

Best Playback Singer (Male ) Rahat Fateh Ali Khan For Aaj Din Chaya ( Love Aaj Kal)

Best Music Director – A R Rahman ( Delhi 6 )

Ramnath Goenka memorial award: Nandita Das for ‘Firaaq’

Most Promising Newcome ( Female ) Mahi Gill ( Dev D)

Most Promising Newcomer (Male): Omi Vaidya (Aka Silencer) ( 3 Idiots )

Most Promising Debutante Director: Nandita Das (Firaaq)

Best Supporting Actress: Arundhati Nag (Paa)

Best Supporting Actor: Rishi Kapoor (Love Aaj Kal)

Star plus jodi award: Amitabh and Abhishek Bachchan

Lifetime Achievement Award: Javed Akhtar

Best Actor in a negative role:Boman Irani. (3I)

Best Actress Most Popular Category- Kareena Kapoor ( 3I )

Best Actor for Most Popular Category: Shahid Kapoor (Kaminey)

Best Actor in a comic role: Omi Vaidya (3I)

Best Jodi of the decade: Shahrukh Khan and Kajol

Best Entertainer of the year: Katrina Kaif

Best Film: 3 Idiots

Best Director: Rajkumar Hirani (3 Idiots)

Best Actress: Vidya Balan (Paa)

Best Actor: Amitabh Bachchan (Paa)

Aamir to take a break from acting this year!

Aamir Khan is known to strive for perfection. He now plans to take a break from acting this year as he wants to concentrate on his role as the producer of “Delhi Belly”, “Peepli Live” and “Dhobi Ghat”.

“I want to take a break from acting this year. So no shootings for me. I would like to concentrate more as a producer,” Aamir said at a press conference in Big Cinemas here late Friday.

“I will be reading scripts as an actor but I am not sure whether I would be saying yes to acting. I would like to market my films internationally as I personally feel that our films have potential in the international market,” he pointed out.

This year, Aamir will be seen in home production “Dhobi Ghat”, which has been directed by his wife Kiran Rao.

With his ‘one-year-one-movie’ plan, Aamir has managed to deliver superhits one after another and says he has been lucky in terms of directors and scripts.

“I try to pick up films that I love or which move me emotionally. I have been lucky in the last 10 years to be successful. It’s because I have been lucky enough to work with directors who are very very good,” Aamir maintained.

Shahrukh Khan makes his Twitter debut

King Khan SRK made his debut on social networking site Twitter yesterday and on his very first day at the microblogging site he had more than 11,000 followers.

SRK tweeted, “Being extremely shy, I never thought I would be here (on Twitter). But my friend Karan Johar insisted that I should learn to share my life.”

“Thanks everyone, this is really sweet…didn’t expect such a warm welcome. Love to you all.”

SRK shared his routine with his followers by regularly tweeting “kids and life calling.. watching tim burton’s 9 with them, last holiday…so up late…catch up later. sleep or be awake well.love to all(sic).”

He also tweeted about his huge abscence in the year 2009, “Injury has kept me away from making more films, will work my back off to be around more, the shoulder feels strong and so do I.”

SRK’s twitted id is IamSRK.

Kareena: Aamir and I look great together

Kareena Kapoor is basking in the glory of 3 Idiots, although her role was very limited in the movie.

Kareena says, “Who says I’ve nothing to do? I’m very much part of the main drama. Would the story move forward if you remove my character?”Everywhere I go, I am swamped by compliments for the role. The length of the role didn’t matter. I’m just glad to be part of a historic happening.”

Talking about her chemistry with Aamir she says, “Everyone in one voice thinks we look good together. I think Aamir and I make a fantastic pair. I’d love to do another film with him immediately, this time I don’t want share him with other pivotal characters.”

“When Rajkumar Hirani and Aamir asked me to be part of their film, I jumped at it. I knew the film would be special because of Raju and Aamir, and I was right. As far as our cinema is concerned, Aamir is god.”

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You have been voted as the sexiest man alive. How does it feel?

There is nothing sexy about me. I have a long nose; big cheeks, long face, broad forehead and my legs are too thin. So I am anything but sexy. But I believe that handsome is as a handsome does. See, in my field you have to blank out all these things. I am an actor and the sole reason of my being is to act and give good performances. I try not to get carried away with such things.

Your towel-dropping scene in ‘Saawariya’ generated a huge controversy. So were you wearing anything under the towel?

No. I was absolutely naked. And fortunately or unfortunately the censor board edited it. Mr Bhansali had a concept that when a young man would fall in love he would act in a certain way. And the towel dropping act was a guy’s private moment.

So did you drop the towel when you fell in love for the first time?

No. There is nothing like that or else I will have to drop the towel everyday. I fall in love everyday.

So, are you single?

See if I am not married it means that I am single. But if you ask me whether I am in a relationship or not then I feel that I am not a reality TV star and my personal life is something I don’t want to talk about. I am an actor and I would like if people would only talk about my films and my work.

But have you and Deepika broken up?

If I will say ‘yes’ to you, then tomorrow ten other people will ask me ten other odd questions. Thousand of stories will be generated and that will just create more misunderstanding.

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