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'Black' steals the show at Filmfare awards
Indo-Asian News Service

Mumbai, Feb 26 (IANS) Sanjay Leela Bhansali's "Black" was undoubtedly the scene-stealer at the Filmfare awards, bagging four of the top awards, including for best film, at a glittering show here.
                

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The 51st Fair One Filmfare Awards Saturday night saw Bhansali's film walk away with also the best director, best actor and best actress awards.

Amitabh Bachchan, who couldn't attend the previous Star Screen and Apsara Award functions due to his ill health, collected the best actor award for "Black" from director Vidhu Vinod Chopra. Rani Mukerji received the best actress award for the film from Hollywood actor Will Smith. Bachchan and Rani also won the critics award for best actor and best actress respectively at the function held at the Bandra-Kurla Complex. 

Child artist Ayesha Kapoor, who played the young Rani in "Black", won the critics award for best actress in a supporting role, while Abhishek Bachchan was given the critics award for best actor in a supporting role for "Sarkar".

Akshay Kumar won the best actor in a comic role for his hilarious act in "Garam Masala" and Nana Patekar the best actor in a villainous role for "Apaharan".

Shabana Azmi was presented the lifetime achievement award for her contribution to Indian cinema by Rani.

Charismatic director Yash Chopra and his son Aditya Chopra were presented with the Filmfare Power Awards, an award specially instituted for the father-son duo, who have given more than a dozen super hit films. The elder Chopra is the director of memorable hits like "Silsila" and "Kabhie Kabhie", while his son has directed the evergreen hit "Dilwale Dulhaniya Le Jayenge". They have also produced some of the recent mega blockbusters, including last year's super duper hit "Dhoom" and also "Hum Tum", and this year's super hit "Bunty Aur Babli".

Newcomer Vidya Balan, who bowled over the audience with her performance in "Parineeta", won the face of the year award, which was voted for by viewers, while Shiney Ahuja bagged the best male debutant award for "Hazaaron Khwaishein Aisi". 

Pop singer Alisha Chinai won the best female playback award for the "Kajra Re" qawwali number in "Bunty Aur Babli", while Himesh Reshammiya won the best male playback for the title song of "Aashiq Banaya Aapne".

Gulzar won the award for best lyrics for "Kajra Re" for "Bunty Aur Babli", while the musical trio of Shankar Ehsan and Loy won the award for best music for "Bunty Aur Babli".

In the technical section, Keshto Mondal, Tanushree Sarkar and Pradip Sarkar won the award for best art direction for "Parineeta", Bishwadeep Chatterjee won the award for best sound design. The best choreography award went to Howard Rosemayer for "Parineeta".

"Black" received other awards too - Monty Sharma for scoring the best background music, Ravi K. Chandran for best cinematography and Bela Sehgal for best editing. 

Shantanu Moitra was given the R.D. Burman Award for the best new musical talent. 

Other winners were: Best action - Allan Amin for "Dus"; Best screenplay - Nina Arora and Manoj Tyagi for "Page 3"; Best story - Sudhir Mishra for "Hazaron Khwaeishen Aisi" and best dialogue - Prakash Jha for "Apaharan". 

The Saturday night show will be remembered also for its glamorous dancing by Bollywood beauty Aishwarya Rai, who danced sinuously to "Kajra Re", and also by Abhishek Bachchan. Madhuri Dixit came down from the US, where she now lives, to present a special dance on the occasion.

Special night for Bachchan and Bhansali at Filmfare awards
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By Subhash K. Jha, Indo-Asian News Service

Mumbai, Feb 26 (IANS) It was a very special night for Amitabh Bachchan and Sanjay Leela Bhansali. Their collaborative classic "Black" walked away with all the major Filmfare awards including for best picture, best actor for Bachchan and best actress for Rani Mukherji.

The film also won the award for best director and best editing too at the 51st Fair One Filmfare Awards function Saturday night. 

Exultant and tired, Sanjay Bhansali was especially happy that "Black" had walked away with all the awards in the critics and popular awards categories. 

"It's very rare for a film to do that," he said. "I never expected us to get the best actor, best actress and best film awards in both sections. That makes these awards a special triumph," said the filmmaker who has swept the Filmfare awards earlier too for "Devdas" and "Hum Dil De Chuke Sanam".

There were many special moments at the Filmfare awards Saturday night. The most special of them all was the first public appearance of Amitabh Bachchan after his long illness.

Though he didn't sit among the audience he appeared on stage thrice to collect his two awards for best actor (critics' and popular) and to give Yash Chopra the 'Power' award.

Rani, who got the best actress award from Hollywood actor Will Smith, gave the lifetime achievement award to Shabana Azmi, who's no stranger to awards.

All the nominees paled into near-insignificance under the formidable influence of "Black" power at the function. "Black" swept all the other awards too, for first timers Bela Sehgal (best editing) and Ayesha Kapoor for best supporting actress. 

Vidya Balan won herself two awards, including the Best Debut for "Parineeta". The poet-extraordinaire Gulzar won the best lyric award for the popular "Kajra re" in "Bunty Aur Babli". The song won Alisha Chinai the best female vocalist award. 

Later Aishwarya Rai brought the house down when she danced to a remix version of "Kajra re". Abhishek Bachchan grooved to a medley of his songs while Madhuri Dixit, who had flown down specially from the US for her performance, danced to her songs in Sanjay Leela Bhansali's "Devdas". Unfortunately the director couldn't meet up with Madhuri.

Conspicuous absentees were Akshay Kumar and Nana Patekar who won for best actor in a comic role and best actor in a villainous role, respectively, for "Garam Masala" and "Apaharan". 

Akshay was in Delhi during the awards while Patekar was shooting in Dubai. 

Abhishek Bachchan won for the award for best actor in a supporting role for "Sarkar". A high point in the evening was the moment when Abhishek caught hold of father Amitabh and hugged him spontaneously.

The audience didn't lag far behind. It gave the senior Bachchan a standing ovation.