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The evening crackled with anticipation, excitement and delight,
as several heart-stopping acts interspersed the actual ceremony
of presentation of the much-awaited awards.
Farooque
Sheikh presents the CEO of the year award to Star India CEO
Peter Mukerjea |
Star India CEO Peter Mukerjea was adjudged CEO of the year and
top contenders, Balaji Telefilms and UTV shared the honours for
the TV Production House of the Year award. Star Plus walked away
with the title of Entertainment Channel of the Year and Aaj Tak
was adjudged the News Channel for the year 2002. MTV turned up trumps
as the Music Channel of the Year and Zee Cinema, which revamped
itself in a slicker, sleeker look last year was adjudged Hindi Movie
channel of the Year.
TV
actress Sangeeta Ghosh dances to a Punjabi tune |
Anchored by Smriti Malhotra Irani, Mandira Bedi, Simone Singh,
Rakshanda Khan, Shweta Salve and Shweta Kawatra, the glittering,
star studded function was interspersed with some dazzling performances
by Amrita Arora, Aasma, Sangeeta Ghosh, Sukhbir, Perizaad Zorabian,
Shaan and Gracy Singh, who performed for the first time on stage.
Fierce competition saw the most coveted awards - the best actor
in the male and female categories being shared by two contenders
each. Shivaji Satam, who plays ACP Pradyuman on Sony's CID
and Aman Verma, who plays Aditya Pratap in Star Plus' Kehta Hai
Dil shared the honours for the Best Actor of the Year (Male),
while Saakshi Tanwar, better known as Parvati of Star Plus' Kahaani
Ghar Ghar Kii and Smriti Z Irani, a familiar face as Tulsi of
Kyunki Saas Bhi Kabhi Thi on Star Plus, were jointly adjudged
the Best Actor of the Year (Female). Unfortunately, three of the
four stars were not present to receive the awards. Reportedly, Shivaji
Satam was out of town, Aman Varma was canvassing for BJP in Delhi
and Sakshi Tanwar was busy in a shooting schedule of her serial
Devi.
Star Plus' Des Mein Niklla Hoga Chand walked away with the
TV Programme of the Year honours, while the face of Indian television
today, Smriti Z Iraani was honoured with the TV personality of the
year award. Founder of the ETV empire, Ramoji Rao was felicitated
with the Lifetime Achievement Award in recognition of his immense
contribution to the growth of the Indian television industry. The
award was handed over to Rao by Indiantelevision.com CEO Anil Wanvari
at Ramoji Film City in Hyderabad over last weekend.
The fiercely competitive genre of best continuing TV programme
had two joint winners - Sab TV's hilarious take on office life,
Office Office, and Star Plus' engaging family drama, Kyunki
Saas Bhi Kabhi Bahu Thi. Kyunki Saas... also bagged the
prestigious daily serial of the year award, while Star Plus' Sanjivani,
the emotional story of doctors in love, and Des Mein....,
another Star Plus soap about family values and conflicts, was conferred
the honour of the Best Weekly Serial of 2002.
Farooque Sheikh was adjudged TV anchor of the year for Zee's Jeena
Isika Naam Hai while Prabhu Chawla was conferred the News Anchor
of the Year award for his work on Aaj Tak. Pankaj Kapur, who plays
Musaddilal in Sab TV's Office Office got the best TV actor
in a comic role (male), and Supriya Pathak as Hansa Parekh on Star
Plus' Khichdi got the best TV actor in a comic role (female)
award. While Urvashi Dholakia was adjudged Best TV actor in a negative
role as Komolika in Kasautii Zindagi Kay, the award for Best
TV actor in a negative role (male) was shared by Mohnish Behl (Sony's
Devi) and Manoj Joshi (Star Plus' Kehta Hai Dil).
Hansika Motwani as Tina of Des Mein bagged the child artiste
of the year award.
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Ekta
Kapoor cheers after announcing Star Plus as the channel of
the year
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Sahara Manoranjan's Kadam won in two categories - the Best
TV programme with a social message and Best TV programme (Single
Episodic series). Sab TV's political satire Public Hai Sab Janti
Hai won it the Best TV Sitcom/ Comedy Programme of the Year
award. Reality Bites- The Petrol Pump Scam won NDTV and Star
News the best current affairs programme of the year award, while
Storyboard fetched CNBC-TV18 the best business programme of the
year award.
Zee TV's Sa Re Ga Ma Pa won the Music Programme of the Year
award and the NDTV produced Sports Tonight fetched Star News
the award for the best sports programme of the year. While Synergy
Communications' Mastermind India for BBC World was honoured
with the Game Show of the year award, Optymistix's Khullja Sim
Sim on Star Plus won a special award on behalf of Indiantelevision.com.
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CEO Anil Wanvari with CNBC's Vandana Malik
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Jasoos Vijay, the BBC World Service Trust produced detective
series on Doordarshan's National channel bagged the Thriller Programme
of the Year award, and Taurus Video's Son Pari for Star Plus
was adjudged the Kids' Programme of the Year. Fireworks Productions'
Achanak - 37 Saal Baad on Sony, the spine chilling tale of
a killer who gains immortality via his victims, was declared the
Horror Programme of the Year.
A Miditech creation, Kuch Yaadein Kuch Baatein on Star Gold
got the Best Film based Show of the Year award, and NDTV's Unsung
Heroes of Gujarat got Star News the TV Documentary of the Year
award.
NDTV's Reality Bites - Mental Health got the Non Fiction
Programme of the Year award. MTV's Fully Faltoo won for the
Best Comic Shorts of the Year.
Among the personality awards, veteran poet Naqsh Lyallpuri won
the TV Lyricist of the Year for Shikwah on Doordarshan. Shaan
for Zee's Lipstick and Lalit Sen for Star Plus for Kaahin
Kissii Roz jointly shared the honours for TV Music Director
of the year award. Sukhvinder Singh bagged the Best Title Singer
for a TV Show award for Des Mein Niklla Hoga Chand while
the award for Best Director was shared by Sourabh Narang for Haqeeqat
and Aroona Irani for Des Mein.... Haqeeqat fetched Sahara
another award for scriptwriter Charudatt Acharya.
Says Indiantelevision.com and The Indian Telly Awards Founder Anil
Wanvari: "The fantastic response from industry clearly shows that
The MTR Indian Telly Awards are the the industry's awards. The Indian
Telly Awards are all about celebrating excellence, the best in television
today. We at Indiantelevision.com believe we did exactly that in
the awards' third edition."
The Indian Telly Awards have MTR Foods as the main title sponsor,
while Zandu, Tata Safari and ---are the associate sponsors. The
MTR Indian Telly Awards also has Hindustan Times as media partner,
Radio City as the radio partner, Bright Advertising as the outdoor
partner. Spirits are provided by the UB group.
For full list of winners,
click here
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