The Karbonn Mobile 17th Star Screen Awards organized at MMRDA Ground in Mumbai’s Bandra-Kurla Complex on January 6, 2011 has made one thing clear that only those films deserve an award that serves a meaningful cinema to the audience rather than big budget and big canvas.

If it wasn’t the case, Udaan couldn’t get the Best Film Award of the year and Vidya Balan begged Best Actress Award for her sensuous role in Ishqiya and Katrina Kaif went away with the Best actress popular choice Award for Rajneeti and Tees Maar Khan.

However, the most interesting award of the evening was the ‘Best Actor Award’ where the two Khan’s had a face-off but Shah Rukh Khan won the Screen Award for Best Actor Popular Choice for My Name Is Khan and Salman Khan too had his share with Screen Award for Best Actor Male for Jury choice for his Robin Hood character in Dabangg.

The most dominating film in the Karbonn Mobile 17th Star Screen Awards was Abhinav Khashyap’s ‘Dabangg’ with 7 Awards, including Screen Awards for Most Promising Newcomer Female Sonakshi Sinha. Dabangg was closely followed by two low budget films Udaan and Ishqiya with 4 awards each.

The List of The awards is given below:

• Screen Award for Best Film: Udaan
• Screen Award for Best Director: Vikramaditya Motwane (Udaan)
• Screen Award for Best Actor Popular Choice: Shahrukh Khan (My Name Is Khan)
• Screen Award for Best Actor Male for Jury choice: Salman Khan (Dabangg)
• Screen Award for Best Actor (Female): Vidya Balan (Ishqiya)
• Screen Award for Best Actor Female for popular choice: Katrina Kaif (Rajneeti, Tees Maar Khan)
• Screen Award for Most Promising Newcomer Male: Ranveer Singh (Band Baaja Baraat)
• Screen Awards Most Promising Newcomer Female: Sonakshi Sinha (Dabangg)
• Screen Most Promising Director: Maneesh Sharma (Band Baaja Baraat)
• Ramnath Goenka Memorial Award: My Name Is Khan
• Screen Award for Negative Role (Male/Female): Ronit Roy (Udaan)
• Screen Award for Best Actor in a Comic Role (Male/Female): Sanjay Mishra (Phas Gaye Re Obama)
• Screen Award for Best Supporting Actor Male: Arshad Warsi (Ishqiya)
• Screen Award for Best Supporting Actor Female: Shernaz Patel (Guzaarish)
• Screen Award for Best Child Artiste: Ayaan Barodia (Udaan)
• Screen Award for Best Dialogue: Habib Faisal (Band Baaja Baraat)
• Screen Award for Best Screenplay: Anjum Rajabali and Prakash Jha (Rajneeti)
• Screen Award for Best Story: Amit Rai (Road to Sangam)
• Screen Award for Best Performer: Ajay Devgn (Golmaal 3)
• Best Popular Music: Pritam (Once Upon a Time in Mumbai)
• Screen Award for Most Popular Music: Pritam (Once Upon a Time in Mumbai)
• Screen Award for Best New Talent in Music: Mamta Sharma for Munni Badnaam (Dabangg)
• Screen Award for Best Music: Sajid Wajid (Dabangg), Shankar Ehsan Loy (My Name Is Khan)
• Screen Award for Best Lyrics: Gulzar for Dil Toh Bachcha Hai Ji (Ishqiya)
• Screen Award for Best Playback Singer Male: Rahat Fateh Ali Khan for Dil Toh Bachcha Hai Ji (Ishqiya)
• Screen Award for Best playback singer female: Mamta Sharma for Munni Badnaam (Dabangg)
• Screen Award for Best Choreography: Farah Khan for Munni Badnaam (Dabangg)
• Screen Award for Best Cinematography: Sudeep Chatterji (Guzaarish)
• Screen Awards for Best Action: Master Vijayan (Dabangg)
• Star Screen Special Jury Award for spectacular cutting of age technology: Robot

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The year has seen some different Indian cinema from its usual masala pack films, although there was a pinch of spices – masala – but most of the films had an unusual story to tell and with cinema becoming bigger and budgets going higher the cinematography played an altogether big role. Let’s get into the nominations for the Karbonn Mobiles 17th Annual Star Screen Awards:

The nominations for the best films will surprise you after knowing that two Khan’s (Salman and Shah Rukh) are fighting for the ‘Best Actor’ trophy for their roles in Dabangg and My Name is Khan but these two films does not feature in the ‘Best Film Award’ category. The nominations for the best film of the year 2010 are Band Baaja Baraat, Love Sex Aur Dhoka, Once Upon A Time in Mumbai, Rajneeti and Udaan.

The Best Actor category of the year includes: Ranbir Kapoor, Salman Khan, Shah Rukh Khan, Naseeruddin Shah, Rishi Kapoor, Paresh Rawal, Hrithik Roshan and Ajay Devgn.

While the best actress category includes Anushka Sharma (Band Baaja Baraat), Kajol (My Name Is Khan), Vidya Balan (Ishqiya), Aishwarya Rai Bachchan (Guzaarish) and Neetu Singh (Do Dooni Chaar).

The films that got the most nominations in the Karbonn Mobiles 17th Annual Star Screen Awards consist of first time director Vikramaditya Motwane’s Udaan with 14 nominations, followed by Abhishek Chaubey’s ‘Ishqiya’ with 13 nominations while Dabangg got its share with 12 nominations.

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