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  • Salute Mumbai Awards given away

    Salute Mumbai Awards given away

    MUMBAI: IN Mumbai, the city centric channel, presented this year’s Salute Mumbai Awards 2004 in association with Indian Oil Corporation and Thyrocare to acknowledge the contribution of extraordinary people at a function held at St. Andrew’s Auditorium, Bandra.

    The award felicitates and recognizes people across categories from varied fields such as Social Service, Sports, Architecture, and people as diverse as Actors, Taxi Drivers, Postmen, and Firefighters.
    Jagannath Hegde sheriff Mumbai presenting award to Karan Dingreja in special recognition of his academic accomplishments

    The list of winners this year is a long one including Nelson Wang of China Garden who has received the Best Entrepreneur award. Ashish Choudhary got recognition as an upcoming actor while Mandira Bedi collected it for promoting cricket among women. Gwen Athaide received an award in the area of fashion modelling, whereas Purvi Sompura got recognised for her accomplishments in architecture, informs an official release.

    Others to receive the award are John Fernandez for commercial arts, Riddhi Harlalka for excellence in fashion designing, Karan Dingreja for his academic accomplishments, Haadin Bawa for lawn tennis, Prof Alka Gogate for her contribution in AIDS awareness. Childline India Foundation also got recognition for its services among street kids of Mumbai.

    Rest of the awardees include, assistant commissioner G South Ramesh Pawar for his contributions in improving civic services, Shanti Avedna Ashram, for services in social welfare and care of the terminally ill, taxi driver Sheshram Yadav for the integrity and dedication shown in his duty, Hemant Parab for exemplary services in the fire services department, A S Rane for exemplary services in the postal department and Bombay Natural History Society for contribution in conservation of environment and natural life.

    Minister of state for home Kripa Shankar Singh gave away the awards and the other guests of honour included the Sheriff of Mumbai Dr Jagannath Hegde, Thyrocare Technologies ltd chairman and MD Dr A. Veluani and Indian Oil Corporation ltd DGM aviation captain S Srinivasan.

  • TV artiste heads for Bollywood

    TV artiste heads for Bollywood

    MUMBAI: The small screen has lost another actor to Bollywood. Ashish Choudhary, who has acted in serials such as Hum Pardesi Ho Gaye(Sony TV) and Wajood (Star Plus) has bid adieu to the TV screen.

    Choudhary has bagged a role in producer-director Harry Baweja’s Qayamat – City Under Threat. Moon Moon Sen’s daughter Riya Sen stars opposite him. The co-stars include big guns such as Ajay Devgan, Suniel Shetty, Aayub Khan, Sanjay Kapoor, Arbaaz Khan, Chunky Pandey and a host of other heroines. Won’t he get lost?

    Choudhary justifies: “Well, I have made my transition and there is no turning back. I have refused all the TV serials offered to me. I have no regrets about acting in serials because they gave me acclaim and elevated me to where I am now. But, TV takes too much time.”

    Choudhary has three films on hand, including a commercial English film made by Delhi based director duo Siddharth-Ankhush. The film is produced by Quartet Films, in which Javed Jaffery and Rajan Shah (Bharat Shah’s son) have stakes.

    What about modeling? “I hope my films become blockbusters and I get endorsement offers instead of modeling assignments,” Choudhary quips.

    Speaking to indiantelevision.com, director Baweja says: “I needed a fresh face and Choudhary showed a lot of promise in the screen tests. I must say that he has delivered.”

    The small screen’s loss is the big screen’s gain.

  • Air Force life to be serialised on Star Plus soon

    Air Force life to be serialised on Star Plus soon

    It may have lost Avinash IPS to another production house, but Miditech is set to launch another series on Star Plus.

    After Commando, the reality series on the Indian army it made for the BBC earlier this year, Miditech has targeted the Indian Air Force with Saara Aakash, a ficitonal series focusing on life against the backdrop of the IAF. A break from the regular family dramas and marital crises abundant on television, Saara Aakash revolves around the triumphs and tribulations of young IAF fighter pilots. Ashish Choudhary, Anuj Saxena, Manav Goel and Manish Goel play the main characters. The series has been shot mostly on location at Lohegaon Air Base, Pune.

    The series portrays the officers, both young and old, who have chosen this profession with a sense of purpose, as the real life heroes that they are. It gives an insight into the lives of the officers as they go about their business of defending the country, says the production house.