The recent unfortunate happenings in the film industry has made us nostalgic and got us thinking. We are reminded of what the old timers in the media used to tell us about the early days of superstars in Bollywood.

It is true that even in the days of the three greats- Dilip Kumar, Raj Kapoor and Dev Anand, there used to be camps, loyalists and lobbies, but then the competition used to be healthy. The industry used to be above all that and united. On his 90th birthday last month, the thespian Dilip Kumar recollected how he, the late Raj Kapoor and Dev Anand used to talk a lot to each other and the channels of communications never broke, even when some differences cropped up.

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Those who’re following Shirish Kunder on the popular micro-blogging site would opine that his tweets against RA.One would irk Shah Rukh Khan.

At the same time, those who disagree would be quick to point out that if the actor can take digs at others, then he should have a sense of humour to accept jibes directed at him too.

In the early hours of Sunday post the filmfare awards, the actor-producer retaliated to the director’s remarks, not verbally, but physically. Yes, it is learnt that SRK slapped and punched Shirish and also commented on the latter’s friendship with his arch rival and foe, Salman Khan.

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The 57th Idea Film fare Awards has been announced Sunday night on 29th Of Jan in a grand style at the Reliance Media Works studio in Mumbai amid stunning performance of Priyanka Chopra, Deepika Padukone, Riteish Deshmukh and Genelia D’Souza.The Bollywood King Shahrukh Khan and Youngistan icon ‘Ranbir Kapoor’ hosted the show with their witty and satire anchoring.

Like most award shows, here too the best actors male and female awards was bagged by Ranbir Kapoor for his rave performance in ‘Rockstar’ and Vidya Balan for her excellent and bold performance in The Dirty Picture’.Zoya Akhtar’s ‘Zindagi Ma Milegi Dobara’ scores high by winning 7 most popular awards – Best Film, Best Director, Best Dialogue, Best Supporting Actor (Male), Best Movie (Critics), Best Cinematography and Best Choreography.

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Bollywood stars Ranbir Kapoor and Vidya Balan picked the best actors’ trophies at the star-studded seventh edition of Chevrolet Apsara Awards here Wednesday night for their performance in “Rockstar” and “The Dirty Picture” respectively.

The best film award went to “Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara”, and Zoya Akhtar won the best director for the movie. Her actor-filmmaker brother Farhan took home the best supporting actor award for the movie too.

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Stardust have recently published the nominations for 2012 Stardust Awards. We present you the nomination list. Guess who will win.

SUPERSTAR OF TOMORROW (MALE)

Ali Zafar (Mere Brother Ki Dulhan)
Rana Daggubati (Dum Maro Dum)
Prateik (Dhobi Ghat)
Jackky Bhagnani (F.A.L.T.U.)
Chirag Paswan (Miley Naa Miley Hum)

SUPERSTAR OF TOMORROW (FEMALE)
Nargis Fakhri (Rockstar)
Kajal Aggarwal (Singham)
Kulraj Randhawa (Yamla Pagla Deewana)
Parineeti Chopra (Ladies VS Ricky Bahl)
Sarah-Jane Dias (Game)

BREAKTHROUGH SUPPORTING PERFORMANCE (MALE)
Vidyut Jamwal (Force)
Arunoday Singh (Yeh Saali Zindagi)
Rajat Rawail (Bodyguard)
Kunal Roy Kapoor (Delhi Belly)
Vir Das (Delhi Belly)
Nikhil Dwivedi (Shor In The City)
Prashant Narayanan (Murder 2)

BREAKTHROUGH SUPPORTING PERFORMANCE (FEMALE)

Swara Bhaskar (Tanu Weds Manu)
Lisa Haydon (Rascals)
Monica Dogra (Dhobi Ghat)
Poorna Jagannathan (Delhi Belly)
Sonal Chauhan (Bbuddah Hoga Terra Baap)

Standout Performance by a Music director
Krsna – Tanu Weds Manu
Raghu Dixit – Mujhse Fraaandship Karoge
Sangeet & Siddharth Haldipur – (Tujhko bhulaana and Aa zaraa) Murder 2
Haris Jayaraj- Force
Sohail Sen – Mere Brother Ki Dulhan

Ashish Pandit – Dhinka chika / Ready
Chetan Sashital & Ram Sampath – Saigal Blues / Delhi Belly
Dharmendra Kadd ke botal – Yamla Pagla Deewana
Nishu – Deem deem – Shor In The City
Nitesh Tiwari – Tai tai phis / Chillar Party

New musical sensation Male

Ali Zafar – Madhubala / Mere Brother Ki Dulhan
Ash King – Te amo / Dum Maaro Dum
Kamal Khan – Ishq sufiyana / The Dirty Picture
Raaj – Itne kareeb aao / Ragini MMS
Shahid Mallya – Rabba main toh /Mausam

New Musical sensation Female

Aditi Singh Sharma – Dilli/ No One Killed Jessica
June Banerjee – Laila main laila / Chalo Dilli
Neha Bhasin – Dhunki / Mere Brother Ki Dulhan
Ritu Pathak – Jalebi bai / Double Dhamaal
Shefali Alvares – Yeh dil hai nakhrewala / Dil Toh Baccha Hai Ji

HOTTEST FILM OF THE YEAR

Bodyguard (Atul & Alvira Agnihotri)
Tanu Weds Manu (Vinod Bachchan, Shailesh R. Singh & Surya Singh)
Rascals (Sanjay Dutt, Vinay Choksi & Sanjay Ahluwalia)
Love, BreakUps Zindagi (Dia Mirza & Zayed Khan)
Chalo Dilli (Krishika Lulla, Kavita Bhupathi Chaddha)

HOTTEST NEW FILMMAKER

Siddique (Bodyguard)
Abhinay Deo (Delhi Belly)
Kiran Rao (Dhobi Ghat)
Rohit Dhawan (Desi Boyz)
Ali Abbas Zafar (Mere Brother Ki Dulhan)
Remo D’Souza (F.A.L.T.U)

ACHIEVERS OF THE YEAR

BEST ACTOR – DRAMA

Hrithik Roshan (Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara)
Amitabh Bachchan (Aarakshan)
Ranbir Kapoor (Rockstar)
Salman Khan (Bodyguard)
Saif Ali Khan (Aarakshan)

BEST ACTRESS – DRAMA

Rani Mukerji (No One Killed Jessica)
Kareena Kapoor (Bodyguard)
Vidya Balan (The Dirty Picture & No One Killed Jessica)
Katrina Kaif (Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara)
Deepika Padukone (Aarakshan)
Priyanka Chopra (Saat Khoon Maaf)

BEST ACTOR – COMEDY/ROMANCE

Akshay Kumar – Desi Boyz
Dharmendra – Yamla Pagla Deewana
Sunny Deol – Yamla Pagla Deewana
Salman Khan – Ready
Sanjay Dutt – Double Dhamaal
Ajay Devgn – Dil Toh Baccha Hai Ji

BEST ACTRESS – COMEDY/ROMANCE

Kangna Ranaut – Tanu Weds Manu
Anushka Sharma – Ladies VS Ricky Bahl
Asin – Ready
Deepika Padukone – Desi Boyz
Sonam Kapoor – Thank You
Katrina Kaif – Mere Brother Ki Dulhan

BEST ACTOR – THRILLER/ACTION

Ajay Devgn – Singham
Amitabh Bachchan – Bbuddah Hoga Terra Baap
Shah Rukh Khan – Don 2
Abhishek Bachchan – Dum Maro Dum
Emraan Hashmi – Murder 2
John Abraham – Force

BEST ACTRESS – THRILLER/ACTION

Priyanka Chopra – Don 2
Kareena Kapoor – Ra.One
Jacqueline Fernandez – Murder 2
Genelia D’Souza – Force
Bipasha Basu – Dum Maro Dum

STAR OF THE YEAR – MALE

Salman Khan (Ready & Bodyguard)
Ajay Devgn (Singham)
Ranbir Kapoor (Rockstar)
Hrithik Roshan (Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara)
Shah Rukh Khan (Don 2 & Ra.One)

STAR OF THE YEAR – FEMALE

Kareena Kapoor (Bodyguard & Ra.One)
Vidya Balan (The Dirty Picture & No One Killed Jessica)
Katrina Kaif (Mere Brother Ki Dulhan & Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara)
Priyanka Chopra (Don 2 & Saat Khoon Maaf)
Anushka Sharma (Ladies VS Ricky Bahl)

DREAM DIRECTOR

Rohit Shetty (Singham)
Milan Luthria (The Dirty Picture)
Anees Bazmee (Ready)
Siddique (Bodyguard)
Zoya Akhtar (Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara)
Farhan Akhtar (Don 2)

FILM OF THE YEAR

Bodyguard
The Dirty Picture
Singham
Ready
Ra.One
Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara
Don 2

STARDUST SEARCHLIGHT AWARDS (Small Budget, High Concept Films)

BEST ACTOR – SEARCHLIGHT AWARDS

Rajkumar Yadav – Ragini MMS, Shaitan
Gulshan Devaiya – Shaitan
Partho Gupte – Stanley Ka Dabba
Gulshan Grover – I Am Kalam
Jimmy Shergill – Saheb Biwi Aur Gangster
Pitobash- Shor In The City

BEST ACTRESS – SEARCHLIGHT AWARDS

Kainaz Motivala – Ragini MMS
Lara Dutta – Chalo Dilli
Preeti Desai – Shor In The City
Kalki Koechlin – Shaitan
Gul Panag – Turning 30
Shraddha Kapoor- Luv Ka The End
Aditi Rao Hydari- Yeh Saali Zindagi

BEST FILM – SEARCHLIGHT AWARDS

Ragini MMS
Stanley Ka Dabba
Chillar Party
Shor In The City
Saheb Biwi Aur Gangster
I Am Kalam

BEST DIRECTOR – SEARCHLIGHT AWARDS
Amole Gupte – Stanley Ka Dabba
Bejoy Nambiar (Shaitan)
Vikas Bahl & Nitesh Tiwari – Chillar Party
Raj Nidimoru & Krishna DK – Shor In The City
Tigmanshu Dhulia – Saheb Biwi Aur Gangster

The FilmFare Awards is one the most prestigious and oldest Films awards of the Indian Cinema. Established in the year of 1954, the Filmfare awards get widely noticed for its sheer star presence and long-standing association with Hindi cinema is an annual Film awards given by The Times Group to Hindi film industry artistic and technical peoples for achieving excellence in their respective fields.This yearly award show generally takes place in Jan-Feb month at the Yash Raj Studios, Mumbai, India.The 2012 FilmFare awards will be the 57th edition of this oldest Bollywood movie award show.The 2012 FilmFare awards will be held on 29th Jan, 2012 in Bollywood city Mumbai and will be hosted by non other than the Bollywood Supertars Shahrukh Khan & Ranbir Kapoor.

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The award season has started.It was The Dirty Picture all the way at the 18th Colors Screen Awards 2012 – the super hit movie on Saturday won the best film award, while Milan Luthria won the best director and Vidya Balan best actress trophy for her bold performance in the picture about the rise and fall of a sex symbol.

The Dirty Picture shared the best film trophy with Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara.

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What an eventful year 2011 was. So many hits/successes in a single year are a rarity. Plus, five films joining the 100 cr club in one year itself [READY, BODYGUARD, SINGHAM, RA.ONE and DON 2]… Waah! Mazaa aa gaya!

2012 promises to be an exciting, action-packed year as well. The year sets in motion with a biggie [PLAYERS] and is expected to wrap up with another biggie [DABANGG 2; Christmas 2012 release]. In between, there’s a plethora of big-budget and keenly anticipated films that should keep the optimism alive. I am often asked at the end of every year, which film/s in the ensuing year has the potential to strike gold at the ticket window and my answer remains static, let’s not pin hopes on merely a couple of films. Did anyone expect NO ONE KILLED JESSICA, TANU WEDS MANU, F.A.L.T.U., HAUNTED, RAGINI MMS, PYAAR KA PUNCHNAMA, DELHI BELLY, MURDER 2 and THE DIRTY PICTURE to strike gold for their investors?

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