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  • Alpha Gaurav 2004 nomination night runs full house

    Alpha Gaurav 2004 nomination night runs full house

    MUMBAI: Star-struck! That must have been the common sentiment at the Alpha Gaurav 2004 Nomination Night, held Friday at Rangsharda in Bandra, Mumbai.

    Running to a packed house, the ceremony had everybody who was anybody from Marathi television, cinema, theatre, music and advertising in attendance.

    The fifth award ceremony will be held on 8 February 2004 at NSE complex, Goregaon, Mumbai.

    It was punctuality with a capital P (a point worth noting considering how it has almost become a style statement for many of Indian award functions to start late). The show starting dot on time at Rangsharda’s banquet hall and what’s more, all the stars reached the venue on time. With the hall filled to capacity in no time, the passage seemed to overflow with celebrities.

    Besides officially announcing the nominations for the different categories, the special contributors in the theater categories including Achyut Vaze, Pradeep Velankar, Hemu Adhikari, Premanand Gajvi, Pratima Kulkarni and Sachin Khedekar were felicitated at the event. In the music category, Ashok Patki, Devki Pandit and Chadrashekhar Gokhle were awarded with special prizes for their contribution to the Marathi music.

    Attendees included the board of governors members Jabbar Patel, N Chandra, Kamlakar Sontake, Jayant Salgoankar and Dr Shrirang Adarkar, the jury members- director Kanchan Nayak, cinematographer Harish Joshi, novelist PL Mayekar, music director Ashok Patki and film critique Sudhir Nandgoakar.

    That besides throng of film artists including Ashok Saraf, Yatin Karyekar, Dr Girish Oak, Ramesh Bhatkar, Reema Lagoo, Bharati Achrekar, Nina Kulkarni, Suhas Joshi, Mohan Joshi, Mrinal Kulkarni, Sharvani Pillai, Deepa Parab, Resham Tipnis, Nivedita Joshi-Saraf, Sachin Khedekar and Tushar Dalvi made their presence felt at the awards.

    Food was aplenty and the atmosphere was jubilant but underneath all this one could feel a sense of despair. Although the Maharastra government is pumping in the moolah (Rs 1.5 million per film) to encourage the Marathi film industry to produce quality films, there seems to be just a handful of movies worth mentioning and that was reflected in the nominations. The often repeated titles included, Not only Mrs Raut, Shwas, Anahat, Tarunya Chya latewar and Yugpurush.

    A point mentioned during the presentation was difficulty the Marathi movie industry was facing in attracting newer talents. In a bid to popularise Marathi cinema, Zee’s Marathi entertainment arm has tied up with YB Chavan Pratishthan for a film festival. Starting 2 February, the five nominated films for Alpha Gaurav 2004 will be showcased at YB Chavan centre in Mumbai.

    The five-day movie fest will conclude with the awards night on 8 February. This year, Alpha Gaurav has constituted 16 categories from the Marathi film industry, 10 categories from Marathi theatre and five categories from Marathi music industry. The Alpha Gaurav will also honour the winners from the state intercollegiate one act play “ekankika” competition. Besides that the award ceremony will also fete renowned personalities from film and theatre for the lifetime achievement awards.

    The award ceremony will be telecast on the channel at a later date. Last year’s awards telecast received a channel share of 22 per cent among all entertainment channels in the general entertainment category in Maharastra and over 80 per cent amongst the Marathi channels receiving 10.3 TVR. Channel officials seem confident of upping those figures this year. Wish the same could be said about the actual state of Marathi regional cinema.

  • Telly Awards Nominees’ Nite dazzles with stars

    Telly Awards Nominees’ Nite dazzles with stars

    MUMBAI: They said it wouldn’t work. But we said we wouldn’t say so until we’d tried. The response to the Indian Telly Awards Nominee’s Nite held last night at the ITC Grand Maratha however outshot our wildest expectations by several miles.
     

    Hosts Ali Asgar and Urvashi Dholakia
    A novel initiative, the Nominees’ Nite was intended to converge and felicitate all those who are deserving of the prestigious Telly (to be given away on 19 and 21 November).

    Now in its third year, the Indian Telly Awards, instituted by Indiantelevision.com, celebrate excellence in the television industry, both on screen and off screen, and are the most credible and sought after honours in their arena.

    The jury at the function – (Lto R) – Prasoon Joshi, Kiran Juneja, Rathikant Basu, Rakesh Sharma and Lekh Tandon
    While only one of the contenders in each category will finally lay claim to the statuesque statuette, each candidate had his hour in the sun at the Grand Maratha as esteemed industry veterans, who had comprised the jury for the awards, presented each nominee with a certificate that honours his excellence in his chosen field. 

    UTV”s Monisha Singh making her speech

    Monisha Singh collects a certificate from jury member Kiran Joneja
    The jam packed Ball Room 2 at the Grand Maratha (even standing room became a privilege when the party after the presentation reached a crescendo, proving without doubt that Indiantelevision has its finger firmly on the pulse of the television industry. Veteran producers like Prem Kishen

    Malhotra of Cinevistaas rubbed shoulders with Star India senior VP, content and communciations Deepak Segal, MTV’s vice president, creative Cyrus Oshidar, CNBCTV18 executive director Vandana Malik….the list goes on.

    Cinevistaas’ Prem Kishen Malhotra collects his certificate from Rathikant Basu

    Shruti Ulfat, Divya Dutta and Raavee Gupta at the function
    The glamour factor was out in full force with practically all the major luminaries on the small screen marking their presence – from Mohnish Behl, Niki Aneja, Shweta Salve, Deepshikha, Shivaji Satam, Sudha Chandran, Pallavi Joshi, Asawari Joshi, Yatin Karyekar, Hiten Tejwani, Nausheen Ali Sardar, Shweta Keswani, Mihir Mishra, Hussain, Maanav Gohil and Shweta Kawatra, veejay Kim, Aly Khan, Varun Vadola, Arjun Punj, Shakti Anand, Karishma Tanna, Gurdeep Kohli, Roopali Ganguly, there was nary a name that could not have been spotted at the venue. 
    The broadcasters were represented healthily by Sony’s Anupama Mandloi, Star’s Deepak Segal and Channel V head Amar Deb, among others.

    Actor Kiran Karmarkar being presented his certificate by indiantelevision.com founder CEO Anil Wanvari
    Jury members including the venerable producer director Lekh Tandon, the gorgeous Kiran Juneja, filmmaker Rakesh Sharma, filmmaker Vivek Agnihotri, Mc Cann Erickson national creative director Prasoon Joshi, Broadcast Worldwide chairman Rathikant Basu, Javed Sayed gamely came up on stage when called by emcees Ali Asgar and Urvashi Dholakia to give away the certificates.

    Shweta Kawatra collecting her certificate from Rathikant Basu

     

    Child artiste Tanvi Hegde gets her certificate from veteran producer director Lekh Tandon

    The packed hall sat entranced through a presentation on the history of the Telly Awards and the acts that interspersed the presentation ceremony. As the evening wore on, several artistes, directors, technical heads and the creative types flowed in, eager to mingle with the chosen few and mark their presence at a function that so obviously belonged to the entire television fraternity.