56th National Awards

The National Film Awards for the year 2008 was announced and Bollywood has bagged the cakes as much as 13 awards, Priyanka Chopra tops with the best actress award for the film "Fashion". Best Actor award to Upendra Limaye for Marathi Film "Jogva". And the Best Director award was won by the evergreen movie maker Bala for his movie "Naan Kadavul". The best feature film was won by "Antaheen". The other achivements are as follows,

Best Supporting Actor _ Arjun Rampal for Rock On!!
Best Supporting Actress – Kangana Ranaut for Fashion
Best Hindi Film Award – Rock On!!
Best Choreography – Chinni Prakash and Rekha Prakash for Jodha Akbar (Azeem-o-shaan shehenshah)
Best Costume Designer – Neeta Lulla for Jodha Akbar
Indira Gandhi award for Best First Film of a director – Neeraj Pandey’s ‘A Wednesday’
Best Animation Film – Yash Raj Films’ ‘Roadside Romeo’
Best Editing – A. Sreekar Prasad for Firaaq
Best Art Director – Gautam Sen for Firaaq
Best Popular Film Providing Wholesome Entertainment – Oye Lucky! Lucky Oye!
Best Special Effects – Govardhan for Mumbai Meri Jaan
Best Children’s Film – Gubbachigalu Kannada
Best Child Artist – Shams Patel for Thanks Maa
Best Male Singer – Hari Haran
Best Felmale Singer – Shreya Ghoshal
Best Feature Film in each of the language specified in the Schedule VIII of the constitution’ category –
Best Tamil Film – Vaaranam Aayiram
Best Assamese Film – Mon Jai
Best Bengali Film – Shob Charitro Kalponik
Best Hindi Film – Rock On
Best Kannada Film – Vimukthi
Best Malayalam Film- Thirakkada
Best Marathi Film – Harishchandrachi Factory
Best Telugu Film – 1940 Lookagramam

No More Shahid- Priyanka Chopra

What if you were happened to jump from a 5 storey building to the 60 feet pool? Definitely I will not do it. But what if you got a chance to do it along with bollywood diva Priyanka Chopra? Probably I would be the first person to accept it(!!!). And this is what happened at the sets of her latest release Pyaar Impossible and Uday Chopra had a chance, jumped along with the Desi girl but the thing was, they did it for fun! She is very excited about the movie and happy yet with the results. The former miss world is having an ample of projects for 2010 and what gains attention is, Priyanka Chopra to have a face-off with hot bebo Katrina Kaif in ‘Dostana 2’. But still yet to figure out where and how she will appear as the script work for the movie is in progress. Believe it or not, Priyanka is getting close to Uday, she admits and it’s still a myth whether Shahid-Priyanka are still dating or ended up? But she is doing no more films in the year 2010 with Shahid.

Hot competition among the hotties

Aishwarya Rai Bachchan and Priyanka Chopra are the latest bollywood hotties who tops the list of highest paid actress. Though Ash is not on the scene for quite a long time, she demands quite a high price. Mrs.Bachchan did burn her hands in Hollywood, with films like Mistress of Spice to her credit, but she has hiked her fees to about 6 crores. And fashionable heroin(e) Priyanka Chopra has gathered quite a lot of fan following and is very popular, has hiked her price to about 5 crores after her hat-trick hits and awaiting for her new release Pyaar Impoosible. Since Ash is very selective about her projects after her marriage and having Maniratnam's Raavanaa alone, it is believed the DesiGirl Priyanka Chopra will be the top actress in the forthcoming year. The tailbit is that the source adds Priyanka-Shahid love story appears to be blossoming and she is quite happy to show the world that she is in love with Shahid, apparently he isn't in a hurry to do so. The latest fruit news is that both Priyanka Chopra and Aishwarya rai were selected as Youth Icon in the India Youth Icon Awards, which was held recently in Gurgaon. The platform is to identify and honour young Indians who can be emulated for their varied contribution and exemplary merit across various fields, having made a positive imprint on the society. Youth Icons have been chosen from the various categories such as politics, technology, welfare, environment etc., and they are honoured with "I award" where "I" symbolizes Individual, inspiration, Icon of India.