SRK, Vidya get best actor and actress Zee Cine Award

The best actor and actress awards in the popular choice section were won by Shah Rukh Khan for ‘My Name Is Khan’ and Vidya Balan for ‘Ishqiya’.

The Zee Cine Awards 2011 saw yet another sweep for Salman Khan-starrer ‘Dabangg’ with the movie taking home 9 awards in all. 'Dabangg' won Best Film, Best Debut Female for Sonakshi Sinha, Best Debut Director for Abhinav Kashyap, Best Song (Munni Badnaam Hui) and Best Music (Sajid-Wajid), among other awards.

Vidya was at her witty best while accepting the award. “If I’d known that swearing, shooting a gun, and having an affair with two men would get me an award, I would have done it five years ago,” she said referring to her character in the movie.

SRK was more philosophical. “I didn’t think I could do this role, so I must thank Karan and Shibani (MNIK story writer) for their belief and support.”

The best actor and best actress awards in the jury section were won by Hrithik Roshan and Aishwarya Rai Bachchan, both for ‘Guzaarish’. Hrithik said, “This movie is very special to me because of its message. It is the suffering, weaknesses, and misery in our life that become the wind beneath our wings.”

Aishwarya thanked her “milestone director” Sanjay Leela Bhansali. “This is a very special film for me. I’ve always had career milestones with Sanjay’s movies – from ‘Hum Dil De Chuke Sanam’ to ‘Devdas’ and now ‘Guzaarish’.”

Karan Johar won best Director in the popular section for ‘My Name Is Khan’ while Vikramaditya Motwane won the jury award for ‘Udaan’.

The awards, held at the Marina Bay Sands Hotel in Singapore this year, were high on star presence. Shah Rukh Khan, Aishwarya Rai Bachchan, Deepika Padukone and Arjun Rampal all performed on stage, with rocking songs from their movies this year.

SRK even got Hrithik and his usually shy wife Sussanne on stage. SRK said he'd show Hrithik how to look after his wife, and proceeded to dance to 'Sajda' from MNIK with him'

Priyanka Chopra introduced each of the Best Film nominees by dressing and getting into character of someone from that particular movie. So she was SRK’s Rizwan while introducing ‘MNIK’, she was Katrina while talking about ‘Raajneeti’, and Salman’s Chulbul Pandey while introducing ‘Dabangg’.

First-time host Akshay Kumar with Sajid Khan for company. And Akki began the ceremony by taking a potshot at himself. He asked the audience to observe a minute of silence, and then said it was for his movie 'Action Replayy' and that what happened to it (the movie flopped at the box office) shouldn't happen to anyone else! The duo cracked jokes about everyone from Katrina Kaif (saying she'd probably speak in English at a Hindi Prachar event) to Deepika Padukone (wondering which airline she'd flown in on).

All in all, it was an entertaining evening with the stars having a lot of fun, and not shying away from it being at each others expense. Click here to get a sneek peak of pictures of the stars at the Zee Cine Awards. We'll soon have lots more photographs for you.


ZEE CINE AWARDS 2011 WINNERS

BEST FILM
Dabangg (Popular Choice)
Udaan (Jury)

BEST ACTOR FEMALE
Vidya Balan – Ishqiya (Popular Choice)
Aishwarya Rai- Guzaarish (Jury)

BEST ACTOR MALE
Shah Rukh Khan- My Name Is Khan (Popular Choice)
Hrithik Roshan – Guzaarish (Jury)

BEST DIRECTOR
Karan Johar- My Name Is Khan (Popular Choice)
Vikramaditya Motwane – Udaan (Jury)

INTERNATIONAL FEMALE ICON
Deepika Padukone

INTERNATIONAL MALE ICON
Ranbir Kapoor

BEST ACTOR IN A SUPPORTING ROLE
Arjun Rampal - Rajneeti

BEST ACTRESS IN A SUPPORTING ROLE
Prachi Desai - Once Upon a Time in Mumbai

BEST PERFORMANCE IN A NEGATIVE ROLE
Ronit Roy – Udaan

BEST PERFORMANCE IN A COMIC ROLE
Boman Irani – Well Done Abba

BEST DEBUT MALE
Ranveer Singh – Band Baaja Baarat

BEST DEBUT FEMALE
Sonakshi Sinha - Dabangg

BEST DEBUT DIRECTOR
Abhinav Kashyap – Dabangg

BEST PLAYBACK SINGER MALE
Mohit Chauhan for Pee Loon – Once Upon A Time In Mumba

BEST PLAYBACK SINGER FEMALE
Richa Sharma for Sajda – My Name Is Khan

BEST MUSIC
Sajid-Wajid – Dabangg

BEST LYRICS
Gulzar for Dil Toh Bachcha Hai Ji – Ishqiya

BEST CHOREOGRAPHY
Farah Khan for Sheila Ki Jawani – Tees Maar Khan

SONG OF THE YEAR
Munni Badnaam Hui- Dabangg

BEST MARKETED FILM
My Name Is Khan – Dharma Productions, Karan Johar

BEST BACKGROUND SCORE
Sandeep Shirodkar – Dabangg

BEST STORY
Shibani Bhatija – My Name Is Khan

BEST SCREENPLAY
Dilip Shukla and Abhinav Kashyap – Dabangg

BEST DIALOGUE
Rajat Arora – Once Upon A Time In Mumbai

BEST SOUND DESIGN
Dilip Subramaniam – My Name Is Khan

BEST ART DIRECTOR
Rajneesh Basu – Guzaarish

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
Ayanka Bose – Kites

BEST EDITING
Pranav Diwan – Dabangg

BEST ACTION
Vijay Master - Dabangg

SPECIAL AWARDS
LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD
Shatrughan Sinha

EVERGREEN COUPLE AWARD
Rishi Kapoor and Neetu Kapoor


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Catch the Zee Cine Awards on Zee TV, February 5 at 9:30pm (UAE time) and on Zee Cinema, February 18 at 9pm (UAE time).