Golden Globes to have 'Best Bollywood Film' category

The Indo-Americans asked Hollywood Foreign Press Association (HFPA) to introduce a new award category in Golden Globe Awards which will start in 2011 of "Best Bollywood Film" for films made in India.

India has the largest film industry in the world and thus the country deserves at least one category in Golden Globes where it's films could compete among themselves. This kind of gesture would bring more credibility to Golden Globes in the international arena too.

Rajan Zed, the Chairman of Indo-American Leadership Confederation, while talking about this move by Golden Globes said that cinema in India, based in Mumbai and various other regional centers, produced much more movies and drew much larger audience globally than Hollywood. Rajan Zed also accepted that the Best Foreign Language Film Award at Golden Globes didn't do any justice to such a large industry.

The Golden Globes recognize achievements in 25 categories. There will be 14 in motion pictures and 11 in television. The 67th Annual Golden Globe Awards will be organized at Beverly Hilton in Beverly Hills California, USA on January 17, 2010.

Tamanna was nominated for V Shantaram Awards

Film actress Tamanna has been nominated for the Best Actress for the prestigious V Shantaram Awards 2009 for the Telugu film "Koncham Ishtam Koncham Kashtam". This award enables the entire Indian cinema with a cross-section of languages to compete on a single platform.

The Rajkamal Academy of Cinematic Excellence (RACE), which has been annually presenting the awards for the last fifteen years after legendary filmmaker V. Shantaram who made movies like like Duniya Na Mane (1937), Dr. Kotnis Ki Amar Kahani (1946), Amar Bhoopali (1951), Jhanak Jhanak Payal Baje (1955), Do Aankhen Barah Haath (1957) Navrang (1959) and many more.

V Shantatram won the Filmfare Best Director Award for Jhanak Jhanak Payal Baaje and National Film Award for Best Film for Do Aankhen Barah Haath. Shantatram was awarded the Dadasaheb Phalke Award in 1985, the Indian film industry’s highest award and the GoI’s Padma Vibhushan in 1992.

Indian Music Awards

In the first quarter of 2010 there will be a lot of excitement for the Indian music industry as three music awards will be scheduled in Mumbai. The 'Mirchi Music Awards', 'Indian Music Academy Awards' and 'Indian Music Awards' have all announced they will honour talent in various genres of Indian music.

The Indian Music Awards that were started by a group of four media professionals have received positive feedback for their step after they announced the awards at the Goa Film Festival.

Pranayy J Anthwal, Indian Music Awards director feels for any initiative step such as Indian Music Awards there is a genuine and important need for strong partnerships with both brand sponsors as well as other stakeholders of the music industry.

Stars felicitated with V Shantaram awards

At the 50th Anniversary of V Shantaram's classic Navrang, several stars were felicitated with the V Shantaram annual film awards. Shahrukh Khan for Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi, Saif Ali Khan for Love Aaj Kal, John Abraham for New York, Mohanlal for Bhramaram, Prakash Raj for Kanchivaram and Upendra Limaye for Jogva, Marathi were nominated for best actor category. Whereas, Rani Mukherjee won the Best Actress V Shantaram award for her film Dil Bole Haddipa.

The V Shantaram Awards are basically instituted in honor of the legendary "Dr. V. Shantaram" to award cinematic excellence by V Shantaram Foundation.
Sandhya, the legendary actress who acted as the lead heroine of V Shantaram's classics including Navrang, Do Ankhen Barah Hath and Jhanak Jhanak Payal Baje, was also honoured at the function.

Bollywood producer and director Yash Chopra alongwith Kiran Shantaram graced the V Shantaram Awards 2009 ceremony here in Mumbai. Kanchivaram that depicted the story of a silk weaver, received the best film Gold award and Priyadarshan bagged the Best director Gold prize for the same flick. Altogether it was a great eve to be remebered!!! Know more about Rani Mukherjee's horoscope.

PETA awards

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It was PETA's 10th anniversary bash where the celebrities from the tinsel town had gathered to be honoured with humanitarian awards. It was held at the Trident Hotel at Bandra kurla Complex, in Mumbai.

It was a great time for Shahid Kapoor as he was honoured with the PETA Asia Sexiest Vegetarian Award. Receiving the award, actress Celine Jaitley said, "Animals are my first love, getting PETA's award motivates me to do more work for animals."

Raveena Tandon feels great after being honoured. She says, "Animals need us to speak for them. Let's stop the cruelty and let us make a difference."

John Abraham hosted the event. He was the one who had campaigned for PETA for caged birds. He however could not be contacted for comment.

'Best Bollywood Film' category at Golden Globes

News is that a 'Best Bollywood Film' category needs to be introduced at the International awards ceremony the Golden Globes. Through the Hollywood Foreign Press Association hundreds of Indo-Americans have called on to instate the new category for the 2011 awards.

According to Rajan Zed, chairperson of the Indo-American Leadership Confederation, India has the largest film industry in the world. Therefore he believes that there should be at least one category where Indian movies could compete among themselves.

Currently the Golden Globes recognizes achievements in 25 categories, 14 in motion pictures and 11 in television. On television it is one of the three most watched awards shows.

Indian Music awards

Very soon India too will have its own music awards which will be on the lines of the Grammys. The news is that Hub Entertainment has been formed to host the Indian Music Awards, as initiated by four men-Pranay Anthwal ,Jatish Varma, Sameer Dixit and UK-based Shokat Babul.

Apart from bollywood film music, the awards will recognize several categories and all genres. It will range from Sufi, Carnatic, folk music to Rabindra Sangeet.

"Music is only a part of any film award - say a category among many others." Also Anthwal said, "We have met several organizations who have been working in a particular genre for years together and with their help we will set up the categories and nominations."