Mumbai:
It
was
Sanjay
Leela
Bhansali's
film
Black
which
stole
the
51st
Fair
One
Filmfare
Awards
show
by
bagging
a
whopping
11
awards
here
last
evening.
The
film
won
all
the
major
awards
including
Best
Director,
Best
Male
Actor,
Best
Female
Actor,
besides
the
Critics
awards
and
a
few
technical
awards.
Amitabh
Bachchan,
Rani
Mukherjee,
child
artiste
Ayesha
Kapoor
and
Sanjay
Leela
Bhansali
won
both
Popular
and
Critics
awards
for
Black.
This
was
Mr
Bachchan's
first
function
after
recovering
from
his
surgery
late
last
year.
Big
B
won
the
Best
Male
Actor,
while
Rani
collected
her
trophy
as
the
Best
Actress
for
Black,
besides
other
awards.
Accepting
the
Best
Director
award,
Mr
Bhansali
said,
''I
will
not
thank
Mr
Bachchan
for
Black,
as
he
is
above
us.
He
has
given
a
world
class
performance
in
the
movie.''
The
awards
in
the
technical
category
were
given
to
Bela
Sehgal
for
Best
Editing
in
Black,
Ravi
Chandran
for
Best
Cinematography
(Black),
Monty
Sharma
for
Best
Background
Score
(Black),
Keshto
Mondal
for
Best
Art
Direction
(Parineeta),
Vishwadeep
Chatterjee
for
Best
Sound
Design
(Parineeta)
and
Allan
Amin
for
Best
Action
(Dus).
Best
Screenplay
award
was
presented
to
Manoj
Tyagi
and
Nina
Arora
for
Page
3,
Best
Dialogues
award
to
Prakash
Jha
for
Apharan
and
the
Best
Story
was
recieved
by
Sudhir
Mishra,
Ruchi
Narian
and
Shiv
Kumar
Subramaniam
for
Hazaaro
Khywahishain
Aisi.
After
six
years,
Madhuri
Dixit
danced
on
her
Devdas
songs,
which
were
choreographed
by
Saroj
Khan.
Aishwarya
Rai
performed
'Kajra
re' from
Bunty
aur
Babli,
while
Abhishek
Bachchan
on
'First
Love'
from
Bluffmaster.
Shamita
Shetty
paid
a
tribute
to
Parveen
Babi
by
performing
on
the
late
actress'
songs
from
Shaan.
Among
others
who
performed
were
Shaimak
Davar
and
Lara
Dutta.
Popular
awards
included
the
Best
Debut
Male
award
which
went
to
Shiney
Ahuja
for
Hazaaro
Khywahishain
Aisi
and
Best
Debut
Female
was
bagged
by
Vidya
Balan
for
Parineeta.
She
also
won
the
Face
of
the
year
award.
The
R
D
Burman
award
was
given
to
Shantanu
Moitra.
The
other
awards
were
Best
Music
award
given
to
'Shankar-Ehsaan-Loy'
for
Bunty
aur
Babli,
Actor
in
Villainous
Role
was
given
to
Nana
Patekar
for
Apharan,
Abhishek
Bachchan
as
Supporting
Actor
for
Sarkar,
Actor
in
Comic
Role
was
presented
to
Akshay
Kumar
in
Garam
Masala,
Himesh
Reshamiyya
for
Best
Title
Track
and
Gulzar
for
Best
Lyrics
for
'Kajra
re'
in
Bunty
aur
Babli.
Alisha
Chenai
won
the
Best
Playback
Singer
award
for
'Kajra
re'
and
she
thanked
Aishwarya
Rai
for
making
the
song
popular.
Shabana
Azmi
was
given
the
'Lifetime
Achievement
Award'
by
Rani
Mukherjee
who
said,
''Shabana
is
the
winner
of
five
best
actress
National
Awards
and
many
international
awards.
Her
powerhouse
performances
spoke
for
themselves.''
Rani
further
said
Shabana
started
her
career
with
Ankur
and
went
on
to
do
many
commercial
and
off-beat
films
with
veteran
directors
like
Shyam
Benegal.
An
audio
visual
of
Yash
Chopra's
films
was
shown
as
he
and
his
son
Aditya
Chopra
were
given
the
'Power
House
Talent
Award'
for
their
vision
and
body
of
work.
Amitabh
Bachchan,
who
presented
the
award
to
Yash
Chopra,
said:
''Mr
Chopra
should
have
won
this
award
20
years
ago.''
The
grand
evening
was
concluded
by
Hollywood
actor
Will
Smith
who
announced
and
presented
the
Best
Actress
award
to
Rani
Mukherjee
for
Black.
The
comperes
were
VJ
Cyrus
Broacha,
Pooja
Batra,
Tabu,
Lara
Dutta
and
Javed
Jaffri,
who
kept
the
audience
in
splits
with
his
witty
jokes.