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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Salman Khan and Shah Rukh Khan have been named the most profitable actors of the Hindi film industry in India and abroad respectively by ETC Bollywood Business Awards.

Actress Kareena Kapoor, who featured in Bodyguard and RA.One in 2011 opposite the two actors, has been titled the most profitable actor in the female category.

“Receiving an award wherein you are being adjudged considering the economic quotient as a cornerstone for mapping the success gives you a sense of pride. I’ve always maintained that commercial success is as important as the critical success of a movie. A commercially successful movie pays evidence to the fact that viewers loved watching your movie,” Kareena said in a press statement.

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Here’s looking at the highest paid professionals in various departments of filmmaking.

Actors: Asserting that the three Khans Aamir, Salman and Shah Rukh Khan are the highest paid actors, trade sources peg their basic remuneration to Rs 21 crore. “But they’re also producers of their films, like Aamir for Talaash, SRK for Don 2, Salman for Bodyguard, Dabangg 2. So a major portion of their remuneration comes from the revenue the movie earns,” says a trade veteran.

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Bollywood star Ranbir Kapoor made several startling revelations about his friendships, his film career and incidents relating to his life in Rajat Sharma’s popular TV show Aap Ki Adalat. Rajat Sharma grilled Ranbir in the latest episode of Aap Ki Adalat. We bring you that exclusive episode online !

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This year I complete 20 years in the film industry. It’s been quite a journey, but let me start at the beginning. Let me find my Action Replayy time machine, pop back and tell you how it all began.

A few years before Bollywood, I was a slim, mean humble fighting machine, cooking noodles for hungry people in Bangkok so I could pay for my martial arts training. The dream then was simple — I wanted to be India’s most inspiring karate teacher. Being an action hero wasn’t even on my radar.
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Jagjit Singh (Punjabi: ਜਗਜੀਤ ਸਿੰਘ, Hindi: जगजीत सिंह) (February 8, 1941 – October 10, 2011) was an Indian Ghazal singer, composer, music director, etc. He breathed his last at 8 a.m., on Monday, Oct 10, 2011 at the age of 70. He was admitted to Mumbai’s Lilavati Hospital on Sep 23 after he suffered brain haemorrhage.

Popularly known as “The Ghazal King” he gained acclaim together with his wife, another renowned Indian Ghazal singer Chitra Singh, in the 1970s and 1980s, as the first ever successful duo act (husband-wife) in the history of recorded Indian music. Together, they are considered to be the pioneers of modern Ghazal singing and regarded as most successful recording artistes outside the realm of Indian film music. He has sung in Punjabi, Hindi, Urdu, Bengali, Gujarati, Sindhi and Nepali languages. He was awarded India’s third highest civilian honour, the Padma Bhushan, in 2003.
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Shahrukh Khan began his career appearing in several television serials in the late 1980s. He made his film debut in Deewana 1992. Since then, he has been part of numerous other commercially successful films and has earned major critical acclaim for many of his performances. During his years in the Indian film industry, he has won thirteen Filmfare Awards, seven of which are in the Best Actor category.Khan studied acting under celebrated Theatre Director Barry John at Delhi’s Theatre Action Group .In 2007, John commented thus on his former pupil that, “The credit for the phenomenally successful development and management of Shahrukh’s career goes to the superstar himself. Find out more about his life and his struggle.

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