The red carpet of the Academy Awards was not the only place last night to laugh at Zoe Saldana or drool over Taylor Lautner.
Following the ceremony, anyone who is anyone – and even anyone who is slowly becoming no one (hi, Jessica Simpson!) – stopped by the Vanity Fair Oscar Party.
From award winners to former American Idol finalists, we’ve posted photos of the stars at this annual shindig below.
Bollywood ruled the 56th National Film Awards Saturday, bagging as many as 13 awards, with films like ‘Fashion’, ‘Rock On!!’, ‘Firaaq’ and ‘Jodha Akbar’ winning two awards each in various categories. But Bengali film ‘Antaheen’ won the best feature film award and three more.
While Madhur Bhandarkar’s ‘Fashion’, a dark tale about the Indian fashion industry, won its heroine Priyanka Chopra the best actress award and got Kangana Ranaut the best supporting actress honour, Farhan Akhtar’s cult music-based film ‘Rock On!!’ got the best Hindi film award. Actor Arjun Rampal won the best supporting actor for the film too.
Ashutosh Gowariker’s epic ‘Jodha Akbar’ won Chinni Prakash and his wife Rekha Prakash the best choreography award for the song ‘Azeem-o-shaan shehenshah’, a number that depicts dance forms of different Indian states. Fashion designer Neeta Lulla, who styled actress Aishwarya Rai in the film, has won the best costume designer award.
Even though Aamir Khan’s comedy-drama ’3 Idiots’ was the biggest hit of 2009, filmmaker Vishal Bhardwaj’s crime caper ‘Kaminey’ has surpassed it in bagging the maximum nominations for the 55th Idea Filmfare Awards.
3 Idiots,’ starring Aamir, R. Madhavan, Sharman Joshi and Kareena Kapoor, was highly appreciated by viewers and critics alike but it managed to get only seven nominations in comparison to the nine nominations bagged by ‘Kaminey’ and eight by Saif Ali Khan’s debut production venture ‘Love Aaj Kal’.
The Filmfare Awards are presented annually by The Times Group to honour both artistic and technical excellence of professionals in the Hindi language film industry of India. The Filmfare ceremony is one of the oldest and most prominent film events given for Hindi films in India. The awards were first introduced in 1954, the same year as the National Film Awards and were initially referred to as the Clare Awards after the editor of The Times of India, Clare Mendionca. A dual voting system was developed in 1956. Under this system, “in contrast to the National Film Awards, which are decided by a panel appointed by Indian Government, the Filmfare Awards are voted for by both the public and a committee of experts.” The Filmfare Awards have been often referred to as Hindi film industry’s equivalent of the Oscar.
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New Delhi, When Indian music maestro A.R. Rahman was composing the song “Jai ho”, he didn’t envisage that the composition would become such a rage and win him laurels and awards across the globe.
The song features in British filmmaker Danny Boyle’s “Slumdog Millionaire”, which is a screen adaptation of Indian author and diplomat Vikas Swarup’s novel “Q & A”.
New Delhi, Bollywood star Aamir Khan, who is riding high on the success of “3 Idiots”, couldn’t have asked for more. When the actor received the “wonderful news” of getting a Padma Bhushan, the nation’s third highest civilian honour, in the US Monday morning, his mother’s smiling face flashed in his mind.
