A peek into Filmfare Awards

A peek into Filmfare Awards
Wednesday, February 22, 2006

Talks have been churning outgossips are high film celebs are very curious to know the results. Nominees feel the shiver. Will they receive the Filmfare lady or will they have to leave the place empty-handed? Viewers are waiting much eagerly to watch their favorite stars winning the awards and performing on stage. All this will end up on 25th February 2006 when the actual function will take place with a mammoth glittering star-studded fiesta in Mumbai.

Anuj Saxena, the man behind this colossal occasion's organizing and sponsoring is very excited. Soon he will also be the participant of the awards as his debut flick 'Lips - The Kiss of Death' is ready to come out to theaters. Anuj's Elder Pharma will be sponsoring Filmfare Awards this year and for the next three years too. Anuj Saxena's Maverick productions have also made curtain raiser of Filmfare Awards for Sony Entertainment channel where Javed Jaffrey and Gaurav Gera are the anchors.

Javed Jaffrey is the main host for the entire Filmfare awards function and Cyrus Barucha, Tabu, Lara Dutta and Feroz Khan will be his co-hosts of the awards' evening. Sex bombshell Shamita Shetty, sexy siren Lara Dutta, gorgeous Madhuri Dixit after a long 6 years' hiatus, world's most beautiful woman Aishwarya Rai, dashing Abhishek Bachchan will be performing on stage for special dance numbers.

The grand finale will be by coveted choreographer Shaimak Davar where Wills Smith appears. Filmfare awards will be held on the 25th of February at MMRDA Grounds in Mumbai. The Filmfare Black Lady remains the ultimate aspiration of every Indian actor, producer and director. There are a total of 31 awards that are awarded every year including two Lifetime Achievement Awards.

Filmfare Pre-Awards Bash Rocks Bollywood

Tuesday, February 21, 2006

Everybody knows that Elder Pharmaceuticals (the business house owned by TV hottie Anuj Saxena) is organizing and sponsoring this year's mega awards' function. The Elder - Filmfare pre-awards party was held at J.W.Marriot in Mumbai recently.

The bash saw who's who of Bollywood fraternity and it went in full attendance by the celebs of filmdom. The party was organized by Elder Pharmaceuticals on occasion of their association with Filmfare Awards for the next three years. The suave actor cum businessman, Anuj, welcomed the guests. "It's a pleasure to have entertainment industry people all around. We are pleased to be associated with the Filmfare awards. The countdown for the awards function has already started and we are sure we will rock on awards night as well", expressed Anuj happily.

The evening adorned with the full dose of dance and it went to the wee hours of morning. Hrithik Roshan came and joined the Femina Miss India Contestants on the dance floor. The dusky beauty Rani Mukherjee attended the function with her brother Raja. The whole director fraternity from Sanjay Leela Bhansali, Madhur Bhandarkar, Nagesh Kuknoor, Pradeep Saarkar, Raj Kanwar, Ken Ghosh to E. Niwas and Abaas Mastan were present at the event.

Other celebrities from the swanky world of entertainment who were spotted at the occasion included Kunal Kapoor of Rang De Basanti, Shreyas Talpade - 'Iqbal' fame, Shiny Ahuja with wife, Shweta Prasad, Upen Patel, Jimmy Shergill, Udita Goswami, Kunal Khemu, T-series' head honcho Kishan Kumar, Jackie Shroff, Bappi Lahiri, Alka Yagnik, music director Shravan, Vashu Bhagnani, coveted fashion designed Neeta Lulla, Alisha Chinai, Bikram Saluja, Mohit Ahlawat, Mohit Suri, Satish Shah, Anil Dharkar, Payal Rohtagi, Omug Kumar, Daboo Ratnani with wife, Vipul Shah, Deepti Naval, Maushmi Chatterjee, Bobby Darling, Suneel Darshan, Ratan Jain, Shakti & Ashim Samant, Mohnish Bahl with wife and many others.

Filmfare Awards will be held on 25th of February at MMRDA Grounds, Mumbai .The Filmfare Black Lady remains the ultimate aspiration of every Indian actor, producer and director. There are a total of 31 awards, which are awarded every year, including two Lifetime Achievement awards.