The MTV IMMIES honoured artistes in 24 categories across all genres of music - from film to spiritual music; Indipop to devotional; ghazal to international music including one for piracy detection.
Westlife, Outlandish, Safri Duo, Punjabi MC, Rishi Rich Project, Junoon, Euphoria, Salman Khan, Isha Koppikar, Yana Gupta, Amrita Arora, Falguni Pathak and Bombay Vikings get the crowd grooving to their high-energy performances at the MTV IMMIES Awards in Mumbai.
Truly the biggest celebration of music in the country, the MTV IMMIES had Bollywood stars like Preity Zinta, Jackie Shroff, Fardeen Khan, Karan Johar, Kajol, Dino Morea, Sunidhi Chauhan, Diya Mirza, A.R. Rahman, Abhishek Bachchan, Anu Malik, Ramesh Sippy, Sonali Bendre, Gulshan Grover and Pooja Batra presenting the MTV IMMIES Awards at the delightful show.
Farah Khan won the award in the Best Choreography category for Koi Mil Gaya. Said she, "I love my job. You get to make the best dancer in the country dance and get an award for it. I want to thank Rakesh Roshan, Hrithik Roshan and Preity for making me a part of their film".
Whilst Best Remix Video / Song went to Harry Anand for Kanta Laga/Rao & Sapru Films; a new category - Best Classical / Classical Fusion Album - Instrumental was won by Rahul Sharma - the talented son of Pt. Shiv Kumar Sharma.
"This belongs to my father who happens to be my guru. Its extremely reassuring that in today's times in this age of Indi pops, remixes and bhangra pop, Indian classical music is recognised and that's what we are here for. I think this award belongs to all those young people who want to pursue Indian classical music as a career" said Rahul on receiving the award.
It was star power at it's best! One, which was spiced with the comic banter between show presenters - Bollywood heartthrob Saif Ali Khan and MTV's 'Bakra' Cyrus Broacha, had the crowd in splits!
Not surprisingly, it was amongst tremendous cheer that Shah Rukh Khan walked away with Best Performance in a song - Male category for Chalte Chalte. "Its quite an honour to be here for a person who has not sung the song, not written the lyrics of the song or someone who has not choreographed the song. I've just walked around in the song. Although, I'm feeling a little out of place here because I'm quite tone deaf, I want to thank you all as you are so kind", said the king Khan on receiving the award.
{{/usCountry}}Not surprisingly, it was amongst tremendous cheer that Shah Rukh Khan walked away with Best Performance in a song - Male category for Chalte Chalte. "Its quite an honour to be here for a person who has not sung the song, not written the lyrics of the song or someone who has not choreographed the song. I've just walked around in the song. Although, I'm feeling a little out of place here because I'm quite tone deaf, I want to thank you all as you are so kind", said the king Khan on receiving the award.
{{/usCountry}}The highlight of the evening was a joint performance by two of the sub continent's biggest bands - Euphoria of India and Junoon of Pakistan whereby Palash Sen - lead singer of Euphoria, sang Sayonee amidst cheers of Pakistan and India Zindabaad.
Westlife, Outlandish, Safri Duo, Punjabi MC, Rishi Rich Project, Junoon, Euphoria, Salman Khan, Isha Koppikar, Yana Gupta, Amrita Arora, Falguni Pathak and Bombay Vikings got the crowd grooving with their high-energy performance!
India's first MTV IMMIES (Indian Music Excellence Awards) was presented by AirTel and exclusively supported by IMI. It premiers on MTV and Sony Entertainment Television on Sunday, 14 December at 9.00 p.m. with repeats on MTV on Monday, 15 December at 3.30 p.m. and on Saturday, 20 December at 6.00 p.m.
Viewers were invited to vote for their favourite nominees via mtvindia.com, SMS on 8888 and through on-ground polling booths at MTV hangouts such as Music World, Planet M, Rhythm House and INOX multiplexes. AirtTel subscribers had an added advantage; they just need to dial 64608 on their AirTel mobile to vote for their favourite nominees.
The MTV IMMIES is exclusively supported by the Indian Music Industry (IMI) and is brought in association with LG Electronics India Pvt. Ltd, Kinetic Zing, Pepsi and Maruti - for the brand Alto. The hospitality partner is J W Marriott Hotel; Mumbai while the radio partner is Radio Mirchi.
MTV Networks India is a 24 - hour music channel that caters to young Indians between the ages of 15 - 34.
Catch the MTV IMMIES on-air on 14th Dec at 9.00 p.m.
MTV IMMIES- List of Winners
Genre Sr. Category Winner
Film 1 Best Performance in a song - Male Shahrukh Khan - Chalte Chalte
2 Best Performance in a song - Female Yana Gupta - Dum
3 AirTel IMMIE for Best Composer A R Rahman - Saathiya
4 Best Lyrics Gulzar - Saathiya
5 Best Singer - Male Sonu Nigam - Saathiya
6 Best Singer - Female Chitra - Koi Mil Gaya
7 Best Album Kal Ho Na Ho - Karan Johar / Yash Johar
8 Best Choreography Farah Khan - Koi Mil Gaya
9 Best New Film Music Talent - Male / Female Sonu Kakkar - Dum
Pop 10 Best Male Pop Act - Solo / Duo / Group Adnan Sami - Tera Chehra
11 Best Female Pop Act - Solo / Duo / Group Falguni Pathak - Yeh Kya Jadoo Kiya
12 Best Pop Album Tera Chehra
13 Best Video Bela Segal - Tera Chehra
14 Best New Non-film Talent - Male / Female Babul Supriyo - Soochta Hun
15 Best Remix Video / Song Kaanta Laga - Harry Anand / Rao & Sapru Films
International 16 Best Male Pop Act - Solo / Duo / Group Westlife
17 Best Female Pop Act - Solo / Duo / Group Norah Jones
18 Best Debut Norah Jones
Special 19 Inspiration / Special Award Lata Mangeshkar
Other 20 Best Ghazal Album Pankaj Udhas - Yaaron Mujhe
21 Best Devotional / Spiritual Album Jagjit Singh - Hari Om Tat Sat
22 Best Classical / Classical Fusion Album - Vocal Pt. Bhimsen Joshi - Tum Kaheko Neha Lagaye
23 Best Classical / Classical Fusion Album - Instrumental Rahul Sharma - Psychadelia
24 Best Detection IMI Team for the Year 2003 Ram Kripal Singh - DSP (Rtd.)
Bindeshwari Singh - Sr. Inspector (Rtd.)
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