Mumbai:
It was Dabangg's night at the Apsara Awards on Tuesday as it scooped up the biggest honours including Best Film and Best Actor. Salman Khan looks set to dominate the awards season, taking home Best Actor for his role as maverick cop Chulbul Pandey
Salman's brother Arbaaz Khan turned producer with Dabangg and struck gold at the box office as the film became 2010's top moneyspinner. First time director Anubhav Kashyap and debutante Sonakshi Sinha completed the film's list of firsts. Sonakshi won Best Female Debut for her role as village belle Rajjo. The chartbusting Munni Badnaam also took honours for Mamta Sharma: Best Singer, shared with Sunidhi Chauhan for Sheila Ki Jawani. Pakistani singing star Rahat Fateh Ali Khan won Best Male Singer for Tere Mast Mast Do Nain.
Vidya Balan and Anushka Sharma split the Best Actress Award between them - Vidya, for her role as rural femme fatale Krishna Verma in Ishqiya, and Anushka, for her role as go getting wedding planner Shruti in Band Baaja Baaraat. Band Baaja Baaraat also won Best Male Debut for Ranveer Singh and Best Debut Director for Maneesh Sharma. Farah Khan, who seized the opportunity to make up with estranged pal SRK, won Best Choreography for Sheila Ki Jawani
Karan Johar took home the Best Director trophy for My Name Is Khan which stars Shah Rukh Khan as an Asperger's Syndrome patient who's life falls apart in post-9/11 America leaving him to prove that being Muslim doesn't automatically make him a terrorist.
Salman's brother Arbaaz Khan turned producer with Dabangg and struck gold at the box office as the film became 2010's top moneyspinner. First time director Anubhav Kashyap and debutante Sonakshi Sinha completed the film's list of firsts. Sonakshi won Best Female Debut for her role as village belle Rajjo. The chartbusting Munni Badnaam also took honours for Mamta Sharma: Best Singer, shared with Sunidhi Chauhan for Sheila Ki Jawani. Pakistani singing star Rahat Fateh Ali Khan won Best Male Singer for Tere Mast Mast Do Nain.
Vidya Balan and Anushka Sharma split the Best Actress Award between them - Vidya, for her role as rural femme fatale Krishna Verma in Ishqiya, and Anushka, for her role as go getting wedding planner Shruti in Band Baaja Baaraat. Band Baaja Baaraat also won Best Male Debut for Ranveer Singh and Best Debut Director for Maneesh Sharma. Farah Khan, who seized the opportunity to make up with estranged pal SRK, won Best Choreography for Sheila Ki Jawani
Karan Johar took home the Best Director trophy for My Name Is Khan which stars Shah Rukh Khan as an Asperger's Syndrome patient who's life falls apart in post-9/11 America leaving him to prove that being Muslim doesn't automatically make him a terrorist.
