Another director whose music is a craze is A.R Rehman. His music is great to listen to and very difficult to sing. He has delivered major hits like Chaiya Chaiya, Hamma hamma, roja etc. But the current heart throb is Himesh Reshammiya. It’s not a coincidence but every track which has been a hit in 2006 has been his track. This director not only makes good music but he is an exceptional singer too. Himesh sings and has a voice which sounds like he is singing from his nose but the beauty is that every word he sings touches the heart. Top directors this year are annoyed with him. Reason being even when Himesh was not signed on for some movies the producers requested him to do a special song. To the woes of many other directors everything that Himesh did turned into a hit.

Play back singing used to be the forte of a select few singers but now a days there are many players. To make it big in bollywood you either need to be star kid or you must have a godfather in the industry. Of late there has been a new way to make it big in bollywood and that is by participating in one of the reality shows. There are many shows like Indian idol and Sa Re Ga Ma Pa which are providing raw talent with a platform to make it big. Some of the recent finds have been Debojit and Abhijeet Sawant. These singers not only sing for movies they also perform in shows.

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During the 80s and early 90s it was the time for stars like Govinda who made a fortune by doing only comedy movies. Now directors like Deepak Tijori tried their hands at comedy and made a remake of a Tamil film but that too bombed at the box office. Director Priya Darshan is the only one who is churning out comedy after comedy and that too all hits. The audience loves Shah Rukh for his comedy in movies like Dilwale Dulhaniya Le Jaayenge and Pardes. Salman Khan too did good to his sinking career with comedy film Maine Pyar Kyon Kiya.

• Aage Se Right Starring Shreyas Talpade, Shiv Pandit, Mahi Gill, Kay Kay Menon, Shruti Seth
• Ajab Prem Ki Ghazab Kahani Starring Ranbir Kapoor, Katrina Kaif, Upen Patel…
• All The Best: Fun Begins Starring Ajay Devgan, Sanjay Dutt, Fardeen Khan, Bipasha Basu
• Barah Aana Starring Naseeruddin Shah, Tannishtha Chatterjee
• Dhoondte Reh Jaaoge Starring Kunal Khemu, Paresh Rawal, Soha Ali Khan, Sonu Sood
• Dulha Mil Gaya Starring Ruk ruk Khan, Sushmita Sen, Fardeen Khan
• Do Knot Disturb starring Govinda, Ritesh Deshmukh, Lara Dutta
• Daddy Cool Starring Suniel Shetty, Aftab Shivdasani, Aarti Chabria
• Ek Se Bure Do Starring Arshad Warsi, Rajpal Yadav, Govind Namdeo, Yashpal Sharma, Virendra Saxena

* Best Actor :
Mohanlal (Bhramaram, Ividam swargamanu)
* Best Film :
Pazhassi Raja
* Best actress :
Kavya Madhavan ( Banaras )
* Millennium star :
Mammooty ( Pazhassi Raja )
* Best new comers :
Nishan, Archana kavi (Neelathamara)
* Best Director :
Ranjith (Paleri Manikyam)
* Best Char role :
Sreenivasan (Passanger ), Shwetha menon ( )
* Best Screenplay :
Ranjth Shankar
* Lyrics :
Vayalar sharath Chandra Varma
* Music :
Deepak Dev
* Singers :
Shankar Mahadevan (Puthiya Mukham ), KS Chitra (Pazhassi Raja )
* Best pair :
Jayasurya, Roma (Uthara Swayamvaram)
* Special Jury Awards :
Manoj K Jayan(Pazhassi Raja), Kaniha(Pazhassi Raja), Sharath Kumar(Pazhassi Raja)

Movies in India are basically made with a lot of spices. In India a movie has to have song, dance, romance, thrill, suspense, comedy, action, family drama etc. People in India work for ten hours a day and that too during the main part of the day and so many of them return to a home with no entertainment. The only available entertainment is movies. Whether a business tycoon or a cycle rickshaw driver all want to watch movies. So when a movie is made the makers have to keep in mind both the masses and the classes.

Indian cinema has improved drastically and now the audience is very mature too. They still want song and dance but not the running around tree sequences. So now there is a new market for item songs. This is where a nice fast track is made only for a great dancer to dance and increase the sales. Some of the top songs have been Babuji zara dhere chalo, khallas etc.

Movies were made particularly for the masses and the multiplex crowd. But now the viewers want to see good movies with great stories. Earlier the hero carried the entire movie on his shoulders but now the load is evenly spread. A movie will do well even if you don’t have a great star cast but have a great story and your actors do a job. A good example for this would be Khosla Ka Ghosla. There is nobody you can call the hero of the film but it’s realistic and humorous.

In three hours the audience wants to laugh, cry and be excited and so it’s a tough task for the directors but then hats off to all Indian directors as they come up with something spicy enough to fulfill the needs of all types of viewers.

Each movie has the main story and a lot of other small stories that build around it. At times in stories there may not be any scope for comedy. A lot of directors use other characters and bring in another funny plot. This comedy has no link with the movies. In the past people accepted this kind of comedy too but nowadays the audience accepts comedy only when it’s a part of the main story.

People who want to watch emotions are very particular about the quality of the emotions too. If you can’t cry or deliver the dialogues properly the audience rejects the star immediately. The stars have to be convincing enough. This is where the director’s ability is tested. The comedy has to be timed properly and the tears have to be realistically shed.

Movies in India have been made with a lot of respect for family values and traditions. Every movie which shows any function has to do it in the right way. If there is a wedding song in a movie it not only becomes a hit. It becomes a part of every Indian wedding. Movies like Hum Saath Saath Hain and Hum Apke Hain Kaun have been very very big hits because each and every scene of the movie is actually what happens in joint families and in weddings.

A movie when made in India has to be made in such a way that both a 5 year kid and an 85 year old grand father both have to enjoy it. It has to have a great story, touching performances, lovely music, breath taking locations, great dance steps and of course a really bad villain whom the hero has to bash up even if he is on the death bed.

This is true bollywood ishtyle where anything can happen. The hero can beat up any number of guys. The heroine can cry without glycerin. The villain is always ugly to look at. The police will never reach on time to save people. It’s only up to the hero to do all the running around, saving and bashing up. The heroines will always be wearing great makeup even if its in the middle of the night. Mother in laws can’t be good and the daughter in law will only worry about everybody else’s happiness and not hers. This is apna bollywood with all these errors but still it is the biggest film industry in the world. Nearly thrice the number of movies is made each year than the number of days in a year. If you are a movie buff then there is no place like bollywood because there is nothing that you can’t find here.

Award Winners.

Best actor: Hrithik Roshan, “Jodhaa Akbar”

Best actress: Priyanka Chopra, “Fashion”

Best film: “Jodhaa Akbar”

Best director: Ashutosh Gowariker, “Jodhaa Akbar”

Best supporting actor: Arjun Rampal, “Rock On!!”

Best supporting actress: Kangana Ranawat, “Fashion”

Best performance as villain: Akshaye Khanna, “Race”

Best comedy performance: Abhishek Bachchan, “Dostana”

Best story: Neeraj Pandey, “A Wednesday”

Best music direction: A.R. Rahman, “Jodhaa Akbar”

Best lyrics: Javed Akhtar, “Jashan-e-Baharaa” from “Jodhaa Akbar”

Best male playback singer: Javed Ali, “Jashan-e-Baharaa” from “Jodhaa Akbar”

Best female playback singer: Shreya Ghoshal, “Teri Ore” from “Singh is Kinng”

Lifetime achievement award: “Rajesh Khanna”

If a movie has been made then there has to be some reward for the people who excel in this industry and this is where come in the awards. The first and the oldest award to be given in India was the prestigious black Lady or the filmfare awards. This award has now been in the industry for the last 52 years. Then in 1954 came in the National awards which are the most prestigious award to be won. The stars are rated for their movies in the previous year and awarded by a panel of ten jury members.

Any award is surrounded by many entries in each category. The National award is not only for Hindi movies but is for the regional movies too. While the Filmfare is the Oscars of bollywood it is only for Hindi movies. Some of the other popular awards now are Star Screen Awards, Zee Cine awards etc. The latest and the most popular Indian awards are the IIFA awards.

Stars like Amitabh Bachchan and Shah Rukh Khan have won the filmfare award many times in a row.

Amitabh Bachchan :
To list a few awards that the Big B has won just scroll down.
1. 1972 Won the filmfare as Best Supporting Actor for Anand.
2. 1974 Won the filmfare as Best Supporting Actor for Namak Haraam.
3. 1978 Won the filmfare Best Actor award for Amar Akbar Anthony.
4. 1979 Won the filmfare Best Actor award for Don.
5. 1991 Won the filmfare life time achievement award.
6. 1992 Won the filmfare Best Actor award for Hum.
7. 2000 Won the filmfare Superstar of the Millennium award.
8. 2000 Won the filmfare Best Supporting Actor award for Mohabbatein.
9. 2002 Won the filmfare Best Actor Critics award for Aks.
10. 2006 Won the filmfare Best Actor and Best Actor critics award for Black.
11. 1991 Won the Silver Lotus Award as Best Actor for Agneepath.

Marathi Film Industry
This industry has its base both in Mumbai and Pune. This is an industry which is being supported by the Maharashtrian government. Due to Bollywood this state had ignored their own regional industry and so now the government has made it a rule that all multiplexes and theatres have to show Marathi movies. These multiplexes which show Marathi movies are given many subsidies. It’s a nice way to motivate the theatre owners to show regional movies.

Marathi movies are made with a lot of reality and their song and dance sequences are very lively. A lot of Marathi stars make it big in bollywood too. One theatre owner screened the movie Shwaas for an entire week without charging a single penny because it was such a meaningful movie.

BEST FILM
Chak De! India
Guru
Jab We Met
Om Shanti Om
Winner: Taare Zameen Par

BEST DIRECTOR
Winner: Aamir Khan (Taare Zameen Par)
Anurag Basu (Life… In A Metro)
Farah Khan (Om Shanti Om)
Imtiaz Ali (Jab We Met)
Mani Ratnam (Guru)
Shimit Amin (Chak De! India)

BEST ACTOR
Abhishek Bachchan (Guru)
Akshay Kumar (Namastey London)
Darsheel Safary (Taare Zameen Par)
Winner: Shahrukh Khan (Chak De! India)
Shahrukh Khan (Om Shanti Om)
Shahid Kapoor (Jab We Met)

BEST ACTRESS
Aishwarya Rai Bachchan (Guru)
Deepika Padukone (Om Shanti Om)
Winner: Kareena Kapoor (Jab We Met)
Madhuri Dixit (Aaja Nachle)
Rani Mukerji (Laaga Chunari Mein Daag)
Vidya Balan (Bhool Bhulaiyaa)

Critics’ Award For Best Actor
Darsheel Safary – Taare Zameen Par

Critics’ Award For Best Actress
Tabu – Cheeni Kum

Critics’ Award For Best Film
Shimit Amin – Chak De India

Best Actor in a Supporting Role (Male)
Irrfan Khan – Life in a… Metro

Best Actor in a Supporting Role (Female)
Konkana Sen Sharma – Life in a… Metro

Best Lyrics
Prasoon Joshi – (Maa – Taare Zameen Par)

Best Playback Singer (Male)
Shaan – (Jab Se Tere Naina – Saawariya)

Best Playback Singer (Female)
Shreya Ghosal – (Barso Re – Guru)

Best Music
A. R. Rahman – Guru

Best Story
Amol Gupte – Taare Zameen Par

Best Screenplay
Anurag Basu – Life in a… Metro

Best Dialogue
Imtiaz Ali – Jab We Met

R. D. Burman Award
Monty Sharma (Saawariya)

Lifetime Achievement Award
Rishi Kapoor

Power Awards
Yash Chopra & Aditya Chopra

Best Debut (Male)
Ranbir Kapoor – Saawariya

Best Debut (Female)
Deepika Padukone – Om Shanti Om

Best Special Effects
Red Chillies Entertainment – Om Shanti Om

Sony Head N Shoulders Fresh Face of the Year Award
Deepika Padukone

Best Background Score
A. R. Rahman – Guru

Best Editing
Amitabh Shukla – Chak De India

Best Choreography
Saroj Khan (Barso Re Megha Re – Guru)

Best Action
Rob Miller – Chak De India

Best Art Direction
Samir Chanda – Guru

Best Sound
Leslie Fernandes – Johnny Gaddaar

Best Cinematography
Sudhip Chatterjee

Best Costumes
Sujata Sharma – Gandhi My Father