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 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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