However, Udaan swept the award night with 7 awards in its kitty including Best Supporting Actor (Male), Best Film (Critics), Best Story, Cinematography, Screenplay, Best Background Music and Best Sound Design Award. While Shah Rukh Khan Starrer My Name is Khan made a good representation by winning the most popular awards-Best Director, Best Actor (Male), Best Actor (Female), and Arbaaz’s production Dabangg won six.

The 56th Idea Filmfare Awards took place with the glitz and glitterati at the Yash-Raj Studios; it was a tribute to Yash Chopra who has been into filmmaking from the last 51 years.

As soon as the darkness enveloped the evening [lights], the milky lights found its way to the Yash-Raj Studios and a sea of celebrities started walking into the arena.

The Red carpet is rolled out, laid for the stars to walk into the night of glamour, glitz, glitterati, lights and sound but no action voice heard. Soon Bollywood biggies started coming in herds to the Yash-Raj studios for most awaited Filmfare Awards – how fair, even God don’t know.

However, the 56th Idea Filmfare Awards was one of the most glamorous and gritty affair as always [better than other awards], Shah Rukh Khan performed with Madhuri Dixit and set ablaze the stage but the speculated drama between SRK and Salman Khan never happened as the later didn’t come to the award ceremony [he is on shoot]. Salman starrer ‘Dabangg’ and he himself was nominated in the Best Actor and Best Film category against head down ‘SRK’ who found his name for ‘My Name is Khan’.

The evening began with extremely beautiful faces and gorgeous curves. Of course they would have put all their makeup men busy whole day but it was worth a day, after we looked at their striking glow.

But, the most enthralling moment of night came when the announcement for awards began and it was ‘Udaan’ all over, making everyone feel the uneasiness. Although it swept most of the Critic Awards of the night but the ‘Popular Choice’ Awards went to the usual heroes and films like SRK, Kajol and Dabangg.

Here is the list of the Awards:

Best Actor: Shah Rukh Khan (My Name is Khan)

Best Actress: Kajol (My Name is Khan)

Best Film: Dabangg

Best Director Award: Karan Johar (My Name is Khan)

Best Debut Director: Manish Sharma (Band Baaja Baraat)

Best Debut (Male): Ranveer Singh (Band Baaja Baraat)

Best Debut (Female): Sonakshi Sinha (Dabangg)

Best Supporting Actor (Male): Ronit Roy (Udaan)

Best Supporting Actor (Female): Kareena Kapoor (We Are Family)

FILMFARE CRITICS AWARDS

Best Actor (Critics): Rishi Kapoor (Do Dooni Chaar)

Best Actress (Critics): Vidya Balan (Ishqiya)

Best Film (Critics): Vikramaditya Motwane and Sanjay Singh (Udaan)

SPECIAL AWARDS

Amitabh Bachchan for completing 40 years in the film industry

Madhuri Dixit for completing 25 years in the film industry

LIFE TIME ACHIVEMENT AWARD

Prabodh Chandra Dey (Manna Dey)

BEST SCENE OF THE YEAR AWARD

Golmaal 3

FILMFARE MUSIC AWARDS

Best Music Composer: Sajid Wajid (Dabangg)

Best Lyrics: Gulzar (Ibn-e-Batuta (Ishqiya)

Most Promising Talent in Music: Sneha Khanwalkar (Love Sex aur Dhokha)

Best Playback Singer (Male): Rahat Fateh Ali Khan (Dil Toh Bachcha Hai Ji (Ishqiya)

Best Playback Singer (Female): Shared between Mamta Sharma (Munni Badnaam Hui (Dabangg) and Sunidhi Chauhan (Sheila Ki Jawani (Tees Maar Khan)

FILMFARE TECHNICAL AWARDS

Best Choreography: Farah Khan (Sheila Ki Jawani (Tees Maar Khan)

Best Dialogue: Habib Faisal (Do Dooni Chaar)

Best Screenplay: Anurag Kashyap and Vikramaditya Motwane (Udaan)

Best Story: Anurag Kashyap and Vikramaditya Motwane (Udaan)

Best Background Music: Amit Trivedi (Udaan)

Best Action Director: Vijayan Master (Dabangg)

Best Cinematography: Mahendra Shetty (Udaan)

Best Action Sequence: Vijayan Master (Dabangg)

Best Editing Award: Namrata Rao (Love Sex aur Dhoka)

Best Production Design Award: Mukund Gupta (Do Dooni Chaar)

Best Sound Design Award: Shared between Pritam Das (Love Sex Aur Dhoka) and Kunal Sharma (Udaan)

Best Costume Design Award: Varsha and Shilpa (Do Dooni Chaar)

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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