Stars sashayed stardom…dressed in their classiest, gorgeous best walked down the red carpet to attend the 7th Chevrolet Apsara Awards 2012 powered by Venus Soap. Hosted by Farah Khan and Karan Johar, Apsara Awards was held at Mumbai’s plush Yash Raj studios, Andheri.
The Film & Television Producers Guild of India and Wizcraft International Entertainment announced its much awaited winners for the finest talents in Film & Television for the year 2011.
Ranbir Kapoor and Vidya Balan for the third time won the Apsara best actor male and female awards for their performances in ‘Rockstar’ and ‘The Dirty Picture’.
Ranbir said, “This is my 3rd Apsara Award and actually, I don’t feel humbled because I worked really hard for this role, so I’m very happy that I got the award for it. I express my deepest gratitude to the Guild for giving me this honor; it is very special to me.”
The Best Film award went to “Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara" and Zoya Akhtar won the Best Director for the movie. Reema Katgi and Zoya Akhtar got the Best Story and Screenplay for “Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara".
A. R. Rahman got the Best Music award for ‘Rockstar’ while Irshad Kamil for ‘Nadaan Parinday’ in ‘Rockstar’ got the Best Lyrics award.
Hindustan Times Readers Choice Award for best entertainer went to Shahrukh Khan and Priyanka Chopra.
Guild honour for excellence On TV went to Amitabh Bachchan for the show Kaun Banega Crorepati.
The evening had great performances from the soon to be wed Genelia D’Souza and Riteish Deshmukh, Kareena Kapoor grooved to the song ‘Nakka Mukka’, ‘Ringa Ringa’ and the chartbuster ‘Kolaveri Di’. Amisha Patel danced to recent hit item numbers like ‘Chikni chameli’, ‘Ooh La La’ and ‘Madhubala’.
A special act has been designed with Shiamak Davar and his troupe to pay tribute to iconic stars like Dilip Kumar, Saira Banu, Shashi Kapoor, Dr. Vyjanthimala Bali, Waheeda Rehman, Asha Parekh, Manoj Kumar, Jaya Bachchan, Shabana Azmi, Vinod Khanna, Zeenat Aman, Rajesh Khanna, Hema Malini for their contribution to Hindi cinema.