The most awaited award ceremony of Bollywood, the 55th Idea Filmfare Awards, has begun with Karan Johar, Shah Rukh Khan and Saif Ali Khan hosting the event.
And the Black Lady goes to...
Best Supporting Actor (Male): Boman Irani for 3 Idiots
Bipasha Basu and Ramesh Taurani were there on stage to present the award.
Best Supporting Actor (Female): Kalki Koechlin for Dev D
Neil Mukesh and Kunal Kohli gave the award to Kalki. She thanked everyone from the Dev D team and ended the speech by, I also want to thank the most important person in my life, Anurag Kashyap.
Best Debutante Director (Male): Ayan Mukherjee for Wake Up Sid
Deepika Padukone and Idea head honcho presented the award. Meanwhile, Karan Johar tweets, I feel like a proud parent.
Best Debutante Director (Female): Zoya Akhtar for Luck By Chance
Javed Akhtar and Farhan Akhtar presented the award to Zoya, making the moment more special for her.
Best Dialogue: Rajkumar Hirani and Vidhu Vinod Chopra for 3 idiots
Minissha Lamba presented the Best Dialogue Award. Vidhu Vinod Chopra is a happy man today, 3 Idiots has won three awards so far, but he is hungry for more.
Best Screenplay: Rajkumar Hirani, Vidhu Vinod Chopra and Abhijat Joshi for 3 Idiots
Urmila Matondkar and Abbas-Mastan presented the award to the duo.
Best Story: Abhijat Joshi and Rajkumar Hirani for 3 Idiots
Genelia D'Souza and Hurman Baweja gave the award.
Filmfare Music Awards
Best Music: A R Rahman for Delhi 6
Kajol and Tabu gave away the award to Rahman. Its his 25th Filmfare award.
Best Lyrics: Irshad Kamil for 'Aaj Din Chaddya' (Love Aaj Kal)
Prateik Babbar, Jonty Rhodes and Mugdha Godse presented the award.
Best Playback Singer (Female): Rekha Bharadwaj for Genda Phool (Delhi 6) and Kavita Seth for Iktara (Wake Up Sid)
Madhavan and Shahana Goswami presented the award.
Best Playback Singer (Male): Mohit Chauhan for Masakalli (Delhi 6)
Celina Jaitley and Chunky Pandey gave away the black lady to Mohit.
RD Burman Music Award: Amit Trivedi
Anu Malik and Sherlyn Chopra presented the award to Amit. After receiving the award he said, "I dedicate this award to my mother. This is the greatest achievement for any musician.
Yamma, Yamma.. Shashi gets Lifetime Achievement Award!
Shashi Kapoor received the Lifetime Achievement Award from Shabana Azmi, Yash Chopra, while the song Yamma Yamma from the evergreen movie Shaan played in the background. Shabana spoke a few words about Mr Kapoor, who in return only said Thank You. Shashi Kapoor holding and posing with his Lifetime Achievement Award trophy while sitting on a wheelchair was truly touching. He was accompanied by daughter Sanjana.
Nandita Das gets a Special Award for her film Firaaq
Filmfare Technical Awards:
Best Visual Effects: Kaminey
Best Choreography Award: Bosco-Ceasar, 'Chor Bazaari' from Love Aaj Kal
Best Production Design: Helen & Sukant for Dev D
Best Action: Vijayan Master for Wanted
With his hands around the black lady, Vijayan said, I dedicate this award to Boney Kapoor and my hero Salman Khan.
Best Sound Design: Manas Chaudhury for Firaaq
Best Editing: Sreekar Prasad for Firaaq
Best Cinematographer: Rajeev Ravi for Dev D
Anurag Kashyap received the award on his behalf.
Best Costume Design: Vaishali Menon for Firaaq
Best Background Score: Amit Trivedi for Dev D
Kabir Bedi and Mukesh Bhatt presented the award.
Amit Trivedi says I kept very quiet about my work. I would let my work do the talking. This my first Filmfare. I have fallen in love with this Black lady.
The hosts:
Actress Minissha Lamba tweeted on co-hosts Shah Rukh Khan and Saif Ali Khan, Show just started. SRK wearing red glasses that I love on him soooo much. Saif looking so dapper.. Mistook him for an Italian backstage!!
When Atul Kulkarni went up the stage to present a technical award, SRK pulled his leg saying, Atul ek smile toh kardo. Itne paise mein itna he milega kya?. To this Atul smiled and wished a Hi to both SRK and Saif.
While hosting, SRK and Saif called Deepika Padukone on stage for an act and while at that, their pants just came off giving full view of their boxer shorts, making it a real funny act at that!
Karan Johar and Siddharth are hosting the show now and SRK introduced K Jo as sexy and gorgeous. To that Karan replied, With a beautiful ladies like Gauri and Kareena, I am sure SRK and Saif are not getting time to look at other girls and so they are noticing me.
SRK, Saif salute Sachin
Hosts Shah Rukh and Saif saluted Sachin Tendulkar for his amazing 200 score at the Gauhati ODI against South Africa.
Shruti Haasan and Siddharth takes over from SRK-Saif to host the next set of awards.
Saif turns a chicken!
Saif is back after a costume change. Wearing a white feather outfit, Saif is looking cute, somewhat like a chicken. Next gag is going to be interesting...
SRK goes Blue!
SRK became a shark from BLUE while Saif became masakalli from Delhi-6 for a skit.
When Bipasha Basu came up to present an award, SRK asked her to do some aerobics and to everyones surprise she did do some of the fitness acts with SRK and Saif trying hard to cope up with her.
Saif fills in for Bebo
SRK announced that heres presenting Kareena. Instead of Kareena, beau Saif Ali Khan played the lovely actress by doing a little jig on the song San Sana San from the movie Asoka.
The Buzz off-stage...
Jonty Rhodes sitting backstage between two hot Marathi girls - Mugdha Godse and Urmila Matondkar, who were wearing beautiful saris. The two ladies were trying to get very friendly with the South African cricketer while Jonty was blushing non-stop.
Kajol and Urmila are bonding like a house on fire
Sizzling Performances...
Riteish Deshmukh and Jacqueline Fernandez, the Jaane Kahan Se Aayi Hai pair set the stage on fire, with a rocking performance.
A tribute to MJ...
Karan Johar talks about the King of Pop...Shahids performance follows...
Shahid Moonwalked...
When Shahid Kapoor performed a tribute to Michael Jackson the audience went into a frenzy. Shahid did each and every step of MJ including the trademark moonwalk with great ease. He performed on the songs Jam and Smooth Criminal. Farhan Akhtar and Kunal Kapoor looked quite impressed with Shahids act.
Biding adieu...
Filmfare also paid tribute to people who passed away last year. Bina Rai, Shakti Samanta, Feroze Khan, Prakash Mehra, Gulshan Kumar Mehta, Simple Kapadia, Joginder, Leela Naidu, Sujit Kumar, Tahir Hussain and Nirmal Pandey.
Red Carpet : The stars started arriving at the appointed hour at the famous Yash Raj Studio, Mumbai. Riteish Desumukh, Sanjay Gadhvi, Shahid Kapoor, Shah Rukh Khan were among the first ones to reach the venue.
Divya Dutta, who has been nominated in the Best Supporting Actress Category for Delhi-6, arrives at the red carpet. The stunning lady says, The competition is really tough. I am looking forward to SRK-Saif's kick-*** chemistry.
SRK and Saif were spotted rehearsing backstage. SRK looked amazing in his red glasses and Saif exuded cool in his usual trademark bandana, t-shirt and denims.
Kaveeta Seth is nominated in the Best Playback Singer category for the song Iktara from Wake Up Sid. The newbie says, "I am nervous since the competition is with all established singers. But even if I don't win, I would consider being nominated as an achievement".
Imtiaz Ali who has been nominated in the Best Director category for Love Aaj Kal looked pretty chilled out while walking the red carpet with his parents and wife. He says, I love being at the Filmfare awards. This is a time where all the friends can meet and party after the awards to celebrate each others win
Imtiaz also walked the ramp at the Manish Malhotras show at the Filmfare pre-event party that was held on Thursday night.
Other B-Town celebs are also on the way! Minissha Lamba has decided on a hot pink gown and is running late, Dino Morea is also suiting up, and Neil Nitin Mukesh is on his way and remarks, Lets pray! Filmmaker Tarun Mansukhani is rooting for Wake Up Sid director Ayan Mukherji, who is nominated for Best Debut Director and says, Please pray he wins.... !
Others in the house are Silencer Omi, the funny man, Simi Garewal wearing a little black with her usual white and yes... the reclusive Shashi Kapoor! The excitement is definitely building up!
Farhan Akhtar is accompanied by his sister Zoya Akhtar for the ceremony. Farhans film Luck By Chance has earned several nominations, when we asked him about his chances of winning he said, I think we have good chance.
Ayan Mukherjee wants Ranbir Kapoor to win the Best Actor award for Wake Up Sid but he knows Amitabh Bachchan will take that one away for Paa.
Shruti Haasan chose to wear beige colour outfit designed by Christion Dior for the event, but she failed to impress. Shruti will also play the host for a while and says, I am very excited as this is the first time I will be compering for Filmfare.
Ritesh Sidhwani, Farhan Akhtar, Zoya Akhtar have come in together. Yash Chopra, Padmini Kholapure and Shivangi Kapoor are also at the venue.
Sunidhi Chauhan, who has nominated in the Best singer category for her song Chor Bazaari' from the movie Love Aaj Kal has also arrived. May the best contender win, was all she said.
Hottie Sherlyn Chopra whos attending the filmfare awards for the first time says, I am looking for Khan and Khans (SRK and Saif) double meaning jokes the lady showed up wearing a gorgeous Black strapless gown.
Mahie Gill is wearing a Black and Golden gown. She is looking very stunning. I have no idea if I have been nominated for the award. But I am very excited as this is my first Filmfare night. Nandita Das has just come in with her husband.
SRK who is hosting the event with Saif is really excited and says, This time we will be poking fun at ourselves rather than the others.
Karan Johar just cant stop talking about debutant Director Ayan Mukherjee. Its a matter of pride because it belongs to my production house. The film has received several nominations. May the best man win. Karan who showed up wearing his own creations in association with Varun Bahl, cant wait to see Saif-SRK chemistry revive.
Boman Irani has arrived at the Red carpet. He has a nomination for Best Supporting Actor for 3 idiots.
Man of the moment, Raju Hirani, director of 3 Idiots is in the house. He said, The award is a celebration for ones hard work. If you start competition its not fun, its unhappy then. Anyway I wish we take away at least 10 awards. We will miss Aamir tonight, but what to do he doesnt attend award function. To that Vidhu Vinod Chopra added, Actually I hope we take as many as our hands can carry.
Director of Dev D Anurag Kashyap walks in with his girlfriend Kalki Koechlin. Anurag has been nominated in the Best Director category but thinks 3 Idiots will take away the Best Film award. Kalki has also earned a nomination in Best debut actress category. The lovely lady said, This is my first nomination, I am really, really happy. It is a huge thing for me."
Bollywood divas Deepika Padukone, Celina Jaitly, Sameera Reddy arrive at the venue. Celina Jaitley is looking awesome in her Cavalli gown, she said Im definitely rooting for Paa. Deepika whos dressed in a black Shantanu-and-Nikhil, is looking one of the best dressed at the event.
Music mogul A R Rahman has just entered.
Tabu who is looking pretty in a Anita Dongre outfit, said she is here to have fun and is not rooting for anyone.
Interestingly, Harman Baweja roots for Priyanka and says Priyanka will bag the best actress award for Kaminey.
Urmila walks in with designer Manish Malhotra. Dressed in a green saree by Manish, the lady looks nice.
Lara Dutta, Mahesh Bhupati who are rumoured to be dating, walked in together holding hands. It is their first public appearance together. Lara and Mahesh said, We are each others dates tonight. About whether we are officially seeing each other, you just have to wait and watch.
The entire Roshan family has just entered. Arjun Rampal has come with his wife.
Dia Mirza slipped into a beige dress by Dress Circle for the event, whereas Mugdha Gode chose to dress in a lavender saree.
Hrithik has come in carrying a Kite in his hands and says that he will promote his forthcoming film Kites at the award night. He said, Filmfare should give an award to every nominee, not just the winners."
Bollywood diva Rekha has just entered looking stunning as ever in her Golden saree.
Kajol has entered with Tanisha wearing what she says is her Blackberry. About SRK-Saif, Kajol said, They are crazy and have forced me to come here.
Bipasha Basu just walked in looking gorgeous in a Black off shoulder gown, minus beau John Abraham. Dino Morea too walked in alone.
Kangana stepped in a white Christian Dior gown and is rooting for everyone because theyre all friends. The actress who took ten minutes flat to get ready said ,It doesnt take me more time. I am born beautiful.
Katrina made her red carpet entry in a Gauri and Nainika gown looking like the starlet she is.
