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  • National Awards: Vidya Balan wins for Dirty Picture, Deool & Byari share best film

    National Awards: Vidya Balan wins for Dirty Picture, Deool & Byari share best film

    NEW DELHI: Continuing her winning streak, Vidya Balan has once again won the award for the best actress for her role in the film ‘Dirty Picture‘ in the 59th National Film Awards for 2011.

    The best feature film award went to ‘Deool‘, produced by Abhijeet Gholap and directed by Umesh Vinayak Kulkarni, and ‘Byari‘ (Byari language), produced by TH Althaf Hussain and directed by Suveeram.

    ‘Deool‘ also won awards for best actor for Girish Kulkarni who also won the award for dialogue.

    The top award carries Swarna Kamal and cash prize of Rs 250,000.

    In Non-feature film category, the top honour of best film went to ‘And We Play On‘ (Hindi & English), directed and produced by Pramod Purswane. The award carries Swarna Kamal and Cash prize of Rs 150,000.

    In Best Writing on Cinema category, the Swarna Kamal went to the book titled ‘RD Burman – The Man, The Music‘ written by Anirudha Bhattacharjee and Balaji Vittal, published by Harper Collins India, while Manoj Barpujari from Assam was awarded Best Film Critic.

    The winners were announced by chairpersons of the jury: Rohini Hatthangady for feature films, filmmaker Ramesh Sharma for non-feature films jury, and the veteran filmmaker and author Vijaya Mulay for the best writing on Cinema. The awards will be given to the winners in a ceremony on 3 May.

    Earlier, the Jury Chairpersons submitted their report to Information and Broadcasting Minister Ambika Soni, who said the efforts of the juries enabled the awards to achieve new heights in terms of enhanced participation in different categories and the prestige associated with such awards.

    In Feature Film category, five films have won three awards each. These Films are ‘The Dirty Picture‘, ‘Bal Gandharva‘ (Marathi), ‘Anhe Ghorey Da Daan‘ (Punjabi), ‘Deool‘ and ‘Ranjana Ami Ar Ashbo Na‘ (Bengali). Six films have won two awards each: ‘Chillar Party‘, ‘Azhagarsamiyin Kuthirai‘ (Tamil), ‘Aaranya Kandam‘ (Tamil), ‘Phijigee Mani‘ (Manipuri), ‘Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara‘ and ‘Game‘ (Hindi).

    Vidya Balan has already received the Best Actress award at Filmfare, Screen, Stardust and Zee Cine awards for her portrayal, which Hatthangady described as ‘brave and effortless performance portraying the rise and fall of a B grade actress‘.

    The Award for Best Direction has gone to ‘Anhe Gohrey Daan‘ directed by Gurvinder Singh.

    The film ‘Chillar Party‘ bagged the Best children‘s film award. Its artistes Irfan Khan, Sanath Menon, Rohan Grover, Naman Jain, Aarav Khanna, Vishesh Tiwari, Chinmai Chandranshuh, Vedant Desai and Divji Handa, along with Partho Gupte of ‘Stanley ka Dabba‘, jointly won the best Child Artiste award.

    The Indira Gandhi Award for the Best Debut film of a Director was won by the Tamil film ‘Aaranya Kandam‘, directed by Kamararaja Thiagarajan. The film also got the best editing award for Praveen KL. ‘Azhagarsamiyin Kuthirai‘ (Tamil) won the award for the best film offering Wholesome Entertainment.

    ‘I Am‘ by Onir, a compilation of four stories on identity, won the National award for the best Hindi film and the best lyrics award for Amitabh Bhattacharya. Anand Bhate won the Best male playback singer Award in the Marathi film ‘Bala Gandharva‘, while the best female Playback singer award went to Roopa Ganguly in the Bengali film ‘Abosheyshey‘.

    The Best Supporting Actor award went to Appu Kutty for ‘Azhagar Samiyin Kuthirai‘ (Tamil), and the best actress toLeishangthem Tonthoingambi Devi for the Manipuri film ‘Phijigee Mani‘.

    The Award for Best Cinematography went to cameraman Satya Rai Nagpaul for the Punjabi film ‘Anhe Ghorey Da Daan‘. The Best Music Direction Award was won by Neel Daat for the songs in the Bengali film ‘Ranjana Ami Ar Ashbo Na‘ which also got the best Bengali Film award. This film also got a Special Jury Mention for Anjan Dutta.

    The Hindi film ‘Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara‘ won two awards: choreography for the song ‘Senorita‘ by Bosco-Caesar; and best audiography to Baylon Fonseca.

    ‘The Dirty Picture‘ and ‘Bal Gandharva‘ shared two other awards: best make-up for Vijram Gaekwad for both films; and costume design for Niharika Khan in ‘The Dirty Picture‘ and Neeta Lulla for ‘Bal Gandharva‘.

    The best Special Effects award expectedly went to ‘RA.One‘ while the Best Screenplay award went to Vikas Bahl, Nitesh Tiwari, Vijay Maurya, and Rajesh Bajaj for ‘Chillar Party‘.

    In the Non-Feature film category, three films have won two awards each. The Film ‘Tiger Dynasty‘ has won the Best Environmental Film and Best Cinematography awards. Awards for Best Direction and Best Editing weld to the film ‘There is Something in the Air‘, while ‘Panchakki‘ has been awarded Best Short Fiction and Best Music Direction.

  • Ek Main Aur Ekk Tu nets Rs 355 mn in 10 days at BO

    Ek Main Aur Ekk Tu nets Rs 355 mn in 10 days at BO

    MUMBAI: Ek Main Aur Ekk Tu, which collected Rs 313 million in its first week, could not make much of the poor oppositions in its second weekend due to the word of mouth going against it.

    The film‘s shows were curtailed or cancelled at many cinemas except in metros. Opening with just about Rs 5 million on the second Friday, it adds little over Rs 40 million to its seven day total taking its 10 day tally to Rs 355 million.

    Meanwhile, with its poor content all round, no music to back this love story and a weak lead pair result in Ekk Deewana Tha being rejected outright. Opening to poor response, the film manages a weekend of just short of Rs 30 million.

    The other two releases, Married 2 America and ? (Question mark) just added to statistics of number of releases, while Valentine‘s Night went unnoticed.

    Gali Gali Chor Hai collected Rs 4 million to take its two week total to Rs 49 million; a disaster.

    Agneepath got some benefit of poor oppositions to collected Rs 67 million in its third week; its three week total now being at Rs 1.18 billion.

    The Dirty Picture added Rs 7 million in its 11th week taking its total to date to Rs 846.1 million.

  • Ek Main Aur Ekk Tu nets Rs 195 mn in opening weekend

    Ek Main Aur Ekk Tu nets Rs 195 mn in opening weekend

    MUMBAI: With poor content and having failed to generate any excitement, Ek Main Aur Ekk Tu opened to a timid response.

    The collections improved marginally on Saturday and reached a peak to decent collections on Sunday to end the opening weekend with Rs 195 million. The Sunday collections were better at metro multiplexes; drop as the new week opens is noticeable.

    Gali Gali Chor Hai, a dull satire on corrupt system, finds total rejection, barely managing to complete its seven-day run at most centres. It ended the week with Rs 45 million.

    Love You To Death added some more loss to its making budget of Rs 25 million in the form of release cost.

    Agneepath reaped the benefit of inconsequential opposition and went on to collect a reasonable Rs 233 million in its second week to take its total to Rs 1.11 billion.

    Of the previous releases, Chaalis Chaurasi and Ghost (fourth week), Players (fifth) and Don2 (seventh), the collection was between few thousands to couple of lakhs of rupees, thus hardly impacting their standings.

    The Dirty Picture is the only film to add over half a million with collections of Rs 600,000 to take its total to Rs 839.1 million.

  • Agneepath nets Rs 620 mn in opening weekend

    Agneepath nets Rs 620 mn in opening weekend

    MUMBAI: Agneepath, a remake of the 1990 film of the same title from Dharma Productions, has taken an outstanding opening, making the most of its release on Thursday, 26 January, the Republic Day holiday.

    The opening day collections touched an all time high of Rs 230 million. However, due to lack of appreciation and bad worth of mouth, the film registered a drastic drop of over 50 per cent over the next two days.

    The collections of the Hrithik Roshan-starrer gained some respectability on Sunday to end the weekend at approximately Rs 620 million.

    Meanwhile, Chaalis Chaurasi has collected Rs 6 million in its second week, taking its total to Rs 27 million.

    Ghost remains reasonably steady and manages to stay above the Rs 10 million-mark in its second week to collect Rs 13 million. Its two-week collections stand at Rs 81 million.

    Players added Rs 25 million in its third week, taking its total to Rs 290 million.

    Don 2 collected a symbolic Rs 8 million in its fifth week. The movie has so far netted Rs 1.11 billion.

    The Dirty Picture added Rs 4 million, ending with Rs 837.5 million over eight weeks.

  • Ranbir Kapoor, Vidya Balan top Apsara Awards

    Ranbir Kapoor, Vidya Balan top Apsara Awards

    MUMBAI: The Film and Television Producers Guild of India-sponsored Apsara Awards picked up Ranbir Kapoor and Vidya Balan as best actors for their performance in Rockstar and The Dirty Picture respectively (male and female) at the star-studded seventh edition of Chevrolet Apsara Awards.

    While the best film award went to Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara, Zoya Akhtar was acclaimed the best director for the film and Farhan Akhtar took home the best supporting actor award for the same film.

    The best supporting actress award went to Parineeti (Priyanka Chopra’s cousin) for her portrayal as a spoilt Delhi girl in Ladies Vs Ricky Bahl. She also bagged the best debutant (female) award. On the other hand, the best debutant (male) award was lapped up by south actor Rana Daggubati for his maiden film Dum Maro Dum.

    While Mohit Chauhan walked away with the best singer (male) award for the song Sadda haq from Rockstar, Shreya Ghoshal took the honour in the female category for her rendition of Teri meri from Bodyguard.

    A highlight of the awards ceremony, the Guild kick-started the celebrations of 100 years of Indian cinema wherein they were to honour veterans. Rajesh Khanna, Vinod Khanna, Zeenat Aman and Jaya Bachchan came up to the stage to collect the same while others were absent.

  • Ghost, Chaalis Chaurasi haunted by poor collections at BO

    Ghost, Chaalis Chaurasi haunted by poor collections at BO

    MUMBAI: Poor performance at the box office has haunted the makers of Ghost and Chaalis Chaurasi. The other two releases last week, Sadda Adda and Tutiya Dil, have even fared more dismally.

    While Ghost has netted Rs 68 million in its first week, Chaalis Chaurasi collected Rs 21 million. Sadda Adda and Tutiya Dil couldn‘t even touch Rs 10 million.

    With almost two blank weeks behind, the starved cinema halls are betting high on Agneepath; speculations are made on the opening day collections crossing Rs 250 million as Thursday is the Republic Day holiday.

    Players, despite no opposition, collected a mere Rs 49 million in its second week, taking its two-week total to Rs 265 million.

    Don2 has collected a symbolic Rs 15.5 million in its fourth week, taking its four-week tally to Rs 1.10 billion.

    The Dirty Picture has added Rs 3.5 million in its seventh week, taking its total to Rs 833.5 million.

  • Balaji to expand screens showing The Dirty Picture

    Balaji to expand screens showing The Dirty Picture

    MUMBAI: Production house Balaji Motion Pictures will expand the number of screens showing The Dirty Picture to 100 in a bid to penetrate deeper.

    Said Balaji Motion Pictures, Distribution and Acquisition head Girish Johar, “The movie is doing well. We have almost thrashed a deal to increase the number of screens the film is showing from around 40 to 100 from this Friday.”

    To a question as to why was the home video rights given at a time when the film was still going strong, Johar quipped, “ Normally, the home video rights are given away after the fourth week and our film is already six weeks old. We decided to bring out the film on home video for we knew that people will lap it up and in the process, we would be able to monetise on that front too.”

    The Dirty Picture, which released worldwide on 2 December in Hindi, Tamil and Telugu, has Vidya Balan, Naseeruddin Shah, Emraan Hashmi and Tusshar Kapoor among others.

  • Chaalis Chaurasi nets Rs 13.5 mn at BO

    Chaalis Chaurasi nets Rs 13.5 mn at BO

    MUMBAI: Chaalis Chaurasi has done fair business at single screens and collected Rs 13.5 million over the opening weekend.

    Ghost has netted Rs 14 million during its first weekend while Sadda Adda‘s collections remained poor.

    Players, the first of the three-film structural deal project between Viacom18 and Wave, has proved a debacle all around. Though Rs 360 million had been paid till the film’s delivery by Wave, the cut off recovery target was set at Rs 260 million with the balance amount to be treated as advance. Wave is said to have recovered about Rs 90 million by selling circuits excluding Delhi-UP, Punjab and Bombay.

    The heist film has been able to collect a mere Rs 216 million in its first week. As things stand after the film’s poor show, Viacom 18 is reported to have offered Vidhya Balan starrer Kahani to Wave for nil consideration as compensation.

    Don 2 has added Rs 50.5 million in its third week to take its total to Rs 1.08 billion.

    Ladies Vs Rikcy Bahl‘s collections at the end of five week reached Rs 342 million.

    The Dirty Picture collected Rs 50 million in its sixth week to take its total to Rs 830 million.

  • Players gets rejected at the box office

    Players gets rejected at the box office

    MUMBAI: Players got rejected at the box office, failing to improve on its poor opening over the weekend. The multi-starrer managed to collect just about Rs 150 million in three days and slid further as the new week began.

    Kya Yahi Sach Hai, a biographical account of a former IPS officer, managed to draw a meagre Rs 2 million in its one-week run.

    Shah Rukh Khan starrer Don2 makes the most of the Christmas holidays, collecting Rs 945 million of its Rs 1.03 billion two-week total between 23 December – 2 January. In the second week, the movie collected Rs 279 million. The film seems to have lost steam as the third weekend accounted for just Rs 35 million.

    Pappu Can’t Dance Saala took its total to Rs 4.25 million after three weeks.

    Ladies Vs Ricky Bahl, at the end of fourth week, has collected Rs 338 million.

    The Dirty Picture has managed to stay above the Rs 10 million mark even in its fifth week. It added another Rs 11 million, thereby taking its tally to Rs 825 million.

  • Salman, Shah Rukh among ETC Bollywood Business awards

    Salman, Shah Rukh among ETC Bollywood Business awards

    MUMBAI: Salman Khan and Shah Rukh Khan have bagged ETC Bollywood Business Awards after they were named most profitable actors of the Hindi film industry both in India and abroad.

    While Salman‘s film Bodyguard was declared the top grosser, Shah Rukh Khan‘s Ra.One was termed as the best marketed film of the year. The film also bagged an award under the highest single day collection category.

    Kareena Kapoor, who featured in Bodyguard and Ra.One respectively last year, was named the most profitable actor in the female category.

    “Receiving an award wherein you are being adjudged considering the economic quotient as a cornerstone for mapping the success gives you a sense of pride. I‘ve always maintained that commercial success is as important as the critical success of a movie. A commercially successful movie pays evidence to the fact that viewers loved watching your movie,” Kareena said in a press statement.

    Bodyguard‘s director Siddique was named the most profitable director.

    Other films like Pyaar Ka Panchnaama, The Dirty Picture, Don 2:The King Is Back and Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol bagged awards for being the most successful small budget Film, ETC Box Office surprise of the year, most popular first look of a film and most successful foreign film respectively.

    The ETC Awards will be aired on Monday.