Stardust Awards Night 2009

The Stardust Awards Night 2009 was held at Bandra MMRDA grounds, Mumbai, on Feb 15. The show was hosted by Tusshar Kapoor and Minissha Lamba, and was attended by most if not all the Bollywood's fraternity.

The award nite featured performances by Salman Khan , Anil Kapoor, Ameesha Patel, Priyanka Chopra and Minissha Lamba.

Amitabh Bachchan , who has completed 40 years in Bollywood, was given the lifetime achievement award, while Saif and Kareena walked away with the award for "the most stylish B'wood couple".


The complete list of the Max Stardust awards winners:
Superstar of Tomorrow - Male: Farhan Akhtar ("Rock On!")


Superstar of Tomorrow - Female: Asin ("Ghajini")



Hottest New Filmmaker: A.R. Murugadoss ("Ghajini")

Hottest New Film: Ghajini

Breakthrough Performance - Male: Prateik Babbar ("Jaane Tu…Ya Jaane Na")

Breakthrough Performance - Female: Manjari Phadnis ("Jaane Tu…Ya Jaane Na")

Standout Performance by a music director: Dhruv Ghanekar ("Drona")

Standout Performance by a Lyricist: Kausar Munir ("Falak tak chal"/"Tashan")

New Musical Sensation - Male: Benny Dayal ("Pappu can’t dance saala”/“Jaane Tu…Ya Jaane Na”)

New Musical Sensation - Female: Anmol Malik (“Talli”/“Ugly Aur Pagli”)

Exciting New Face: Shriya Saran (“Mission Istanbul”)

The New Menace: Nikitin Dheer (“Jodhaa Akbar”)

Editor’s choice award for most promising director: Abhishek Kapoor (“Rock On!”)

Outstanding contribution to Indian cinema: Dev Anand

Pride of the industry: Feroz Khan

Special award to Anil Kapoor: For being the first mainstream Indian actor to take India to Hollywood and winning global recognition

Stardust Searchlight awards winners:

Best Actor: Amitabh Bachchan (The Last Lear)

Best Actress: Amrita Rao (“Welcome To Sajjanpur”)

Best Film: A Wednesday (Anjum Rizvi)

Best Director: Neeraj Pandey (“A Wednesday”)

Reader’s choice awards

Star of the year - Male: Hrithik Roshan (“Jodhaa Akbar”)

Star of the year - Female: Priyanka Chopra (“Fashion”)

Dream Director: Ashutosh Gowariker (“Jodhaa Akbar”)

Best Film: Singh is Kingg (Akshay Kumar and Vipul Shah)

Best actor in a supporting role: Tusshar Kapoor (“Golmaal Returns”)

Best Actress in a supporting role: Kangana Ranaut (“Fashion”)

Best Actor in a negative role: Anil Kapoor (“Tashan”)

Style Icon of the year - Male: Saif Ali Khan

Style Icon of the year - Female: Kareena Kapoor

Yash Chopra won Golden Peacock Award 09

Our Indian Films are getting recognition worldwide. Over the years, Yash Raj Films has given the Indian movie audiences some of the best films that still continue to delight the cine goers.

Indian Film Industry’s ever-leading producer Yash Chopra was recently felicitated with Golden Peacock Award. For his par excellence in Corporate World, the most honorable man in Bollywood was picked as the recipient. 

The Golden Peacock Award is presented for excellence in quality, corporate governance, corporate social responsibility, innovation, training, environment management, ecological leadership and business leadership.

This year, Yash Chopra was presented with this prestigious award for his invaluable contribution to the Indian Cinema.

Stardust Awards nominations 2009

The Star Screen Awards first began in 2003 under the sponsership of annual Stardust movie magazine. The awards celebrate new talent in the industry as well as congratulate the current stars. The nomination of a crap film like Yuvraaj definitely is disappointing and raises question on the authencity of the awards, Abbas Tyrewala deserved it more for romantic comedy JTYJN. They have spared A.R.Rehman too from Music Director's nominees list...sounds strange!!!
The Special Awards will be announced on the event night itself and hope brings applause.

Reader's choice awards

DREAM DIRECTOR
Ashutosh Gowarikar ( Jodha Akbar )
Subhash Ghai (Yuvvraaj)
Anees Bazmee (Singh Is Kinng)
Madhur Bhandarkar (Fashion)
Aditya Chopra (Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi)
Ram Gopal Varma (Sarkar Raj)
Abbas-Mustan (Race)

STAR OF THE YEAR - MALE
Hrithik Roshan (Jodhaa Akbar)
Saif Ali Khan (Race)
Abhishek Bachchan (Sarkar Raj / Dostana)
Akshay Kumar (Singh Is Kinng)
John Abraham (Dostana)
Salman Khan (Heroes / Yuvvraaj)
Ranbir Kapoor (Bachna Ae Haseeno)
Aamir Khan (Ghajini)
Shahrukh Khan (Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi)
Amitabh Bachchan (Sarkar Raj)

STAR OF THE YEAR - FEMALE
Katrina Kaif (Singh Is Kinng)
Aishwarya Rai (Jodhaa Akbar / Sarkar Raj)
Priyanka Chopra (Fashion / Dostana)
Kareena Kapoor (Golmaal Retunes)

BEST ACTOR IN SUPPORTING ROLE - MALE
Arjun Rampal (Rock On!!)
Shreyas Talpade (Golmaal Returns)
Anil Kapoor (Race / Yuvvraaj)
Tusshar Kapoor (Golmaal Returns)
Bobby Deol (Dostana)

BEST ACTRESS IN SUPPORTING ROLE - FEMALE
Kangna Ranaut (Fashion)
Gul Panag (Hello)
Sushmita Mukherjee (Dostana)
Bipasha Basu (Bachna Ae Haseeno)
Neha Dhupia (Singh Is Kinng)
Amisha Patel (Thoda Pyaar Thoda Magic)
Divya Dutta (U Me Aur Hum)
Kirron Kher (Dostana)

Jury's choice

SUPERSTAR OF TOMORROW - MALE
Nikhil Dwivedi (My Name Is Anthony Gonsalves)
Adhyayan Suman (Haal-E-Dil)
Harman Baweja (Love Story 2050)
Farhan Akhtar (Rock On!!)
Sikander Kher (Woodstock Villa)
Imran Khan (Jaane Tu… Ya Jaane Na)

SUPERSTAR OF TOMORROW - FEMALE
Sonal Chauhan (Jannat)
Genelia Dsouza (Jaane Tu… Ya Jaane Na)
Prachi Desai (Rock On!!)
Anushka Sharma (Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi)
Chitrangda Singh (Sorry Bhai!)
Asin (Ghajini)Superstar of Tomorrow - Male

HOTTEST NEW FILMMAKER
Rohit Shetty (Golmaal Returns)
Sachin Khot (Ugly Aur Pagli)
Samir Karnik (Heroes)
A.R. Murugadoss (Ghajini)
Tarun Mansukhani (Dostana)
Kunal Deshmukh (Jannat)
Abhishek Kapoor (Rock On!!)
Siddharth Anand (Bachna Ae Haseeno)
Abbas Tyrewala (Jaane Tu… Ya Jaane Na)

EXCITING NEW FACE - FEMALE
Adah Sharma (1920)
Shreya Saran (Mission Istaanbul)
Neha Uberoi (Woodstock Villa)
Amruta Khanvilkar (Phoonk)
Aushima Sawhney (Yuvvraaj)

EXCITING NEW FACE - MALE
Rajneesh Duggal (1920)

THE NEW MENACE
Imran Khan (Kidnap)
Nikitin Dheer (Jodhaa Akbar)
Anurag Sinha (Black & White)
Rajesh Shringapure (Sarkar Raj)

BREAKTHROUGH PERFORMANCE - FEMALE
Shahana Goswami (Rock On!!)
Vidya Malvade (Kidnap)
Mugdha Godse (Fashion)
Sheetal Menon (Bhram)
Manjari Phadnis (Jaane Tu… Ya Jaane Na)

BREAKTHROUGH PERFORMANCE - MALE
Sonu Sood (Jodhaa Akbar)
Sumeet Raghavan (U Me Aur Hum)
Samir Kochhar (Jannat)
Prateik Babbar (Jaane Tu… Ya Jaane Na)
Purab Kohli (Rock On!!)
Vatsal Sheth (Heroes)
Arjan Bajwa (Fashion)

STANDOUT PERFORMANCE BY A MUSIC DIRECTOR
Kailash Kher, Naresh & Paresh (Dasvidaniya / Pranali)
Raghav Sachar (One Two Three)
Justin - Uday (Hijack)
Dhruv Ghanekar (Drona)
Vidyasagar (Mere Baap Pehle Aap)

STANDOUT PERFORMANCE BY A LYRICIST
Kausar Munir (Falak Tak / Tashan)
Kashif (Khwaja Mere Khwaja / Jodhaa Akbar)
Ashok Mishra (Sita Ram Sita Ram / Welcome To Sajjanpur)
Kailash Kher (Muskura / Dasvidaniya)

NEW MUSICAL SENSATION - FEMALE
Shilpa Rao (Khuda Jaane / Bachna Ae Haseeno)
Bela Shende (Mann Mohanaa / Jodhaa Akbar)
Monali (Zara Zara Touch Me / Race)
Anusha Mani (Lazy Lamhe / Thoda Pyaar Thoda Magic)
Dominique Cerejo (Ye Tumhari Meri Baatein / Rock On!!)
Anmol Malik (Talli / Ugly Aur Pagli)

NEW MUSICAL SENSATION - MALE
Benny Dayal (Pappu Can’t Dance / Jaane Tu… Ya Jaane Na)
Wajid (Bang Bang Bang / Hello)
Vijay Prakash (Manmohini Morey / Yuvvraaj)
Farhan Akhtar (Tum Ho Toh / Rock On!!)
Dhruv Ghanekar (Drona / Drona)
Rashid Ali (Kabhi Kabhi Aditi Zindagi / Jaane Tu… Ya Jaane Na)

Idea Filmfare Awards 2009

The Filmfare Awards are the 'Indian Oscars' as they are considered to be the most prestigious and popular of all the various Indian Film Awards.They are given for Hindi films in India .The Filmfare awards were first introduced in 1954, the same year as the National Film Awards and was initially referred to as the 'Clare Awards' after the name of magazine's editor. Filmfare is a fortnightly publishing film magazine.

A dual voting system was developed in 1956. Under this system,in contrast to the National Film Awards, which are decided by a panel appointed by Indian Government, the Filmfare Awards are voted for by both the public and a committee of experts.

Idea Filmfare Awards Press Meet
The 54th Filmfare awards ceremony will take place in Mumbai on February 28, 2009. Tarun Rai, chief executive officer of the Worldwide Media Private Limited, announced the date in the presence of Bollywood actress Deepika Padukone on 6th Feb-09.



We will be witness to the various kinds of Bollywood awards in months to come viz. Filmfare Awards,Zee Cine Awards, Sansui Awards, Stardust award, IIFA Awards. Star Screen awards have already taken place in January.

We all are looking forward to Filmfare Awards 2009 most anxiously. Why not...they are the most prestigious and well attended of the lot(though it had a poor attendance last year in 2008).

Filmfare Awards are also generous of the lot, if they cannot fit an actor in their list, they make a special category for him/her with flashy names like 'special award' ' outstanding performer' etc. Last year, in 2008, we had Shahrukh Khan facing the heat from the child prodigy Darsheel Safary.This time in 2009 Bollywood awards, SRK's fantastic act in Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi has intense competition from his favorite rivals: Hrithik Roshan and Aamir Khan.

Hold on to your cot in your living room, get the popcorn out,switch on your television sets and go through Filmfare Awards 2009. Though it is a tad early, here is a calculated prediction on the Filmsfare Award 2009 and many other awards that will precede or follow it. You are free to argue on our choice of Filmfare Awards and other Bollywood awards.


Speculations for 2009: Expected winners!!!

Best Bollywood movie of 2008: (Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi). Shahrukh Khan weaves magic again

Best Director: Abbas Tyrewala (Jaane Tu Ya Jaane Na) Lyrics, direction and dialogues were contemporary.

Best Actor: Aamir Khan (Ghajini) Aamir has believably given a classic performance.

Best Actress: Priyanka Chopra (Fashion) Priyanka Chopra is so inconsistent, some time she can give the worst performance and
sometimes she can knock you out with her histrionics. In Fashion, Priyanka was great.

Best actor critics awards: Hrithik Roshan (Jodhaa Akbar) Akbar couldn't be more good-looking

Best actress critics award: Aishwarya Rai Bachchan (Jodhaa Akbar) The sword fight was brave and poised.

Best movie critics award: A Wednesday. The dark horse movie of the year, the super success, and critically acclaimed movie even stunned its director.

Best supporting actor award: Arjun Rampal (Rock On).Strongest and probably the only contender.

Best supporting actress award: Kangana Ranaut (Fashion) Kangana's eccentric personality act is well practiced now.

Best actor in comic role: Abhishek Bachchan (Dostana). Watch the scene in Dostana, where Abhi tells how he and John fell in love,
and you know you have got to hand it over to him.

Best actor in a villain's role: Naseerudin Shah(A Wednesday) Powerful performance, a special award can definitely be given.

Best male debut award: Imran Khan(Jaane Tu Ya Jaane Na).

Best female debutant: Asin Thottumkal (Ghajini) We would have considered Genelia, but she had already appeared in Masti.

Best story: Rock On

Best screenplay: Rock On

Best choreography: Jaane Tu Ya Jaane Na (remember the cute 'Pappu' dance?)

Best cinematography: Aamir

Best editing: Ghajini

Best sound: Jodhaa Akbar

Best action: Race

Best dialogue: A Wednesday (haven't heard such powerful dialogues in the climax for quite a while)

R.D.Burman award for upcoming talent: Rashid Ali (Kabhi Kabhi Aditi)

Best male playback singer: K.K for Zara Sa (Jannat)

Best female playback singer: Shreya Goshal (Teri Ore) Singh is Kinng

Best lyrics: Javed Akhtar for Jashn-e-bahara(Jodhaa Akbar)

Best music: A.R.Rahman (Jaane Tu Ya Jaane NA) melodious year with songs of Jodhaa Akbar, Yuvvraaj and Ghajini apart from JTYJN