Rajkumar Hirani’s “3 Idiots” continued with its award-winning spree bagging top honors at the Global Indian Music Awards (GIMA) here.
The movie took home the best film album, best lyricist for Swanand Kirkire, Shaan and Shantanu Moitra for best play back singer (Male), “All izz Well” for the Red FM most popular song on Radio and Bishwadeep Chatterjee and Anup Dev for best engineer (Theatre mix).
Karan Johar’s “Wake Up Sid” took away three awards for best playback singer (Female) Kavita Seth, best film song-”Iktara” and Hindustan Times readers choice award for singer Kavita Seth for “Iktara”.
“Kaminey” too managed to score a hat trick, with Vishal Bhardwaj receiving award for the best music director, the song “Dhan Te Nan” received the most popular caller tune award. The film also got best music arranger and programmer award. Music maestro A R Rahman and Asha Bhosle presented Lata Mangeshkar with the Lifetime Achievement Award.
“Receiving lifetime achievement is an honor but one should not stop working and instead give their best,” Lata said.
The legendary singer also received award for the best devotional album, “Shree Hanuman Chalisa’. “I am extremely happy as this is my first non-film award and especially because it is for Hanuman Chalisa,” she said.
The award ceremony saw performances from actors Saif Ali Khan, Salman Khan and Kareena Kapoor. Also, an enthralling tribute performance to Lata Mangeshkar by Shankar Mahadevan, Loy Mendonsa, Salim-Suleiman, Leslie Lewis and Shantanu Moitra among others. The show hosted by Saajid Khan, Shreyas Talpade and Dia Mirza opened with a performance from Asha Bhosle, who belted the sufi rock song, ‘Rab rakha’.
A total of 29 awards under Film and non-film categories were presented including the award for outstanding contribution by an Indian on the global stage, bestowed upon Pandit Ravi Shankar.
In order to fight music piracy, the best anti-piracy initiative of the year was received by the Government of Maharashtra.
Bollywood personalities like Sonu Niigaam, Anil Kapoor, Rajkumar Hirani
Yash Chopra, Ritesh Deshmukh, Kavita Krishnamurthy, Jagjit Singh and Kailash Kher among others were present at the event.
Source: http://www.indiajournal.com/pages/event.php?id=13101
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