2011 comes up with Star Screen Awards

Award function have always been a studded affair. The star screen awards are the most probable of all the Indian film awards. The fascinating screen awards came into existence in the year 1994. Since then Mr. Viveck Goenka of the Indian Express Group initiates all the screen award ceremonies.

The screen awards are the only Indian award ceremony which has deeply involved the Executive Director and the Governor of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. The star screen awards are given away to the winners on the basis of their excellent performance in the Bollywood. The nomination and selection is done by a panel of renowned personalities from the film fraternity itself.

Thus these awards are considered as one of the prestigious and toughest award to win in Bollywood. All the screen award functions are generally organized in Mumbai only. The exclusive feature of the screen awards is that it is presented to Hindi and Marathi movies, Television and Non-film Music in the month of January every year. To enhance their popularity, screen awards also held seven editions of 'Screen Awards for excellence in South Indian, to be acquainted with and reward regional movies of South India. The South Indian films which were awarded were in Malayalam, Kannada, Telugu and Tamil respectively.

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Paa & 3 Idiots glitz at Star Screen Awards

16th Annual Star Screen Awards, sponsored by Nokia was held on January 9th 2010 at the Mumbai Metropolitan Region Development Authority (MMRDA) grounds on Saturday. The star-studded mega event was a delight to watch for all movie-lovers. All bigwigs of Bollywood were present at the ceremony and it was a hard fight among the movies of 2009, as well as the actors. It was a close fight in various categories, but, Paa starring Amitabh Bachchan and Abhishek Bachchan and 3 Idiots starring Aamir Khan, Kareena Kapoor, R Madhavan, Sharman Joshi and Boman Irani -- won maximum awards.

The Bachchan family stole the show with their starry presence of Amitabh Bachchan, Abhishek Bachchan, Aishwarya and Jaya Bachchan al present to support their home production. Amitabh Bachchan won the best actor award for PAA. The movie also won 4 other awards under the Best Actress category bagged by Vidya Balan, Best Child Actor for Pratik and Best Supporting Actress for Arundhati Nag (who played Amitabh's grandmother in the film).

3 Idiots, a spectacular film that broke all records at the ticketing window this year, won the best film award. The film was recorded as the big hit of 2009 and won over other contenders like ‘Love Aaj Kal’ and Vishal Bhardwaj’s ‘Kaminey’.3 idiots bagged several wards under various other categories.

There were some obvious and some not-so obvious winners in the Music segment of the awards. Kavita Seth, the voice behind "Ore manva"from wake up sid won the award for the best female singer. Rahat Fateh Ali Khan trounced the competition in the best male playback category for his track "Aaj Din" from Love Aaj Kal. A.R.Rahman won the best music Director award for his mind blowing music in Delhi 6.

“Dev D’, supposed to be a modern retake on Devdas, won some awards too. The most promising new comer award was bagged by Mahi Gill. Firaaq, a movie directed by ace actress turned director Nandita Das, fetched her most promising debutante director award. However, it was quite obvious to conclude after the ceremony that PAA and 3 idiots stole the show and won big time in 16^th Annual Star Screen awards.

54 Filmfare Awards 2009 were Film Unfair Awards

The 54 Filmfare Awards 2009 considered to be the most prestigious award in Bollywood industry, with each passing year they are becoming unfair awards. Despite of this Star Screen Awards is gaining credibility in terms of giving awards to people who really matter. Let's have a look at the aspects of Filmfare Awards 2009, which made the awards look unfair:

A movie with much caliber 'A Wednesday' did not win a single Filmfare award; despite the fact that the film had a original story. The best male singer award which went to Sukhvinder Singh for 'Haule Haule' was a suspect. Songs like 'Zara Si dil mei' from K.K for Jannat, 'Pehli Nazar' from Atif Aslam for Race and 'Kabhi Kabhi Aditi' from Rashid Ali for Jaane Tu Ya Jaane Na were far more popular in terms of music and singing but were not even noticed.

Most popular performances were given by SRK in Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi and Aamir Khan in Ghajini. Both of them saved the industry from incurring huge losses at recession. But Hrithik Roshan was awarded the best actor award. Was it a fair poll?