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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Allah Ke Banday as a film goes into the dark alleys of Juvenile crime, how it gets birth and who makes it flourish rather than crushing its head they make it to rise at a position from where only death is the end.

The film ‘Allah Ke Banday’ is directed by the first timer Faruk Kabir who has also acted in the film along Sharman Joshi and Naseeruddin Shah.

The story of the film brings forth the ugly face of crime when two kids are sent to the juvenile delinquency for a false charge of murder (which is if not common but rampant) only to see the ugly world of crime, where they find survival is possible only by asserting their power and their life changes forever. Eleven years under Juvenile detention they learn crime under the guidance of an abusive warden (Naseeruddin Shah) who knows the only language – violent and offensive.

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When Vijay (Sharman Joshi) and Yakub (Faruk Kabir) come out, they are without the infancy and childhood; it has died within the four walls of the jail and they enter the adulthood of crime. They come back to where they belonged after 11 years but only with the desire to dominate and aspiration to go and rule the muddle of criminal world.

‘Allah Ke Banday’ is an UNESCO approved project and is slotted for 22nd October release. We hope when the meaningful drama unfolds it may awake the people.