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MUMBAI:
The Radio and TV Advertising Practitioners Association of
India Ltd (RAPA), which honours creative work in the radio
and television field, has attracted 1,000 nominations for
the 33rd All India RAPA Awards for Excellence 2007.
Last
year, RAPA received 700 nominations for the awards.
"We
are happy to get a phenomenal increase of more than 43 per
cent in the number of nominations for the 33rd All India RAPA
Awards for Excellence 2007," said RAPA Awards committee
chairman Viresh Chaddha.
"These
awards are one-of-a kind as they honour creative excellence
in radio and television in all the Indian languages including
Hindi and English."
This
year, a total of 63 awards will be given, of which nine are
in the radio category in each language and six more for all
languages combined. There are two awards in the television-advertising
category in each language and nine awards in all languages
combined. There are 11 awards in the television production
category (serials/music videos/telefilms, documentaries) in
each language and 18 awards in all languages combined.
There
are seven special RAPA awards for all-round contribution to
radio/television, outstanding voice performance, best performance
on TV for male and female, campaign of the year on TV and
on radio and outstanding copywriter.
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