• Hero Honda-ITA Awards: Industry's second TV awards mark their presence

    Submitted by ITV Production on Dec 01, 2001

    The Indian television business witnessed its second awards ceremony for this year yesterday - The Hero Honda-Indian Television Academy Awards. (Indiantelevision Dot Com Pvt Ltd, which runs indiantelevision.com and is in no way connected with the Indian Television Academy, actually organised the first set of television awards on 6 July 2001 this year - The Indian Telly Awards 2001.)

    The Hero Honda-ITA awards ceremony held at the Renaissance Hotel & Convention Canter, Powai, Mumbai was attended by the leading lights of the television and film industry. (Estimates put the attendance figure at about 1,000-1,500). Among the film stars who attended the show were Madhuri Dixit, Raveena Tandon, Sanjay Dutt, David Dhawan and Subhash Ghai. Among the TV stars who attended were Siddharth Kak, Renuka Shahane, Tabssum, Saakshi Tanwar, Ram Kapoor and Gautami Gadgil.

    Information & Broadcasting minister Sushma Swaraj, member of Parliament Shatrughan Sinha, Prasar Bharati CEO Anil Baijal were among the government representatives who turned up.

    The awards were split up into 44 categories: 12 popular, 24 jury awards, and eight technical awards. The show started with the technical awards. The winners:

    Sub-category Winner Serial/show/channel

    Best make-up

    Ashok Pangam

    The Great Warrior Chhatrapati Shivaji

    Best costumes

    Pradeep Muley

    The Great Warrior-Chhatrapati Shivaji

    Best Audiography

    Suhas Kulkarni/Ramesh Rathod

    Maa Shakti

    Best Art Direction

    Nitin Desai

    The Great Warrior Chhatrapati Shivaji

    Best Editing

    NDTV

    IT India Tomorrow

    Best visual effects

    Cinevista Communications

    Sshhh..Kohi Hai-Vidhyut Electricity

    Best cinematography

    Sudeep Chatterjee

    Ankahee

    Best Live coverage sports

    TransWorld International

    Four Square Challenge & Rafter Cross

     

    It was followed by the Jury Awards. The winners are as below:

    Sub-category Winner Serial/show/channel/interstitials
    Best children‘s programme

    Rila O‘Brien/R.P. Chatterjee

    Bournvita Quiz Contest
    Best cookery show Sanjeev & Alyona Kapoor Khana Khazana
    Best interstitials/fillers Sahara India Global refugees
    Best Title music/song track Khayyam/Naqsh Lyallpuri Milan
    Best dialogues Ashwani Dhir Office Office
    Best mini-series Deepak Tijori Thriller At 10-Fareb/X-Zone Milan
    Best director -comedy Rajiv Mehra Office Office
    Best director-drama Ajai Sinha Justujoo
    Best show packaging NDTV Reality Bites in Pakistan
    Best Teleplay Chaula Shah/Ashok Patole/Ishaan Trivedi Justujoo
    Best Talk/Chat show Rachna Prasad We the People
    Best Music & film based show Moving Pictures Ek Kalakar Ki Kahani
    Best Game/Quiz Show Siddhartha Basu Kaun Banega Crorepati
    Best Mythological/Historical serial Vinay Apte The Great Warrior -Chhatrapati Shivaji
    Best Serial comedy Smita Chakravarty Ji Mantriji
    Best serial -drama Sangita Sinha/Saurabh Agarwal Justujoo
    Best Anchor-Sports Sonali Chander Sports Tonight
    Best Anchor-News & Current Affairs Rajat Sharma Janta Ki Adalat
    Best Anchor-(Music & Films) Shekhar Suman Movers & Shakers
    Best anchor-game quiz Amitabh Bachchan Kaun Banega Crorepati
    Best Actress -Comedy Archana Puran Singh Aasmaan Say Tapki
    Best Actor-Comeday Farooque Sheikh Ji Mantriji
    Best Actress-Drama Pallavi Joshi Justujoo
    Best Actor -Drama Kanwaljeet Singh Saans


    The Popular Awards were won by the following:

    Sub-category Winner Serial/show/channel
    Best Music Channel MTV MTV
    Best sports presenter/commentator Harsha Bhogle
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    Best anchor-based show Siddhartha Basu Kaun Banega Crorepati
    Best Star Cast Shobha & Ektaa Kapoor Kyunki Saas Bhi Kabhi Bahu Thi
    Best Sports channel Star Sports Star Sports
    Best News Channel Aaj Tak Aaj Tak
    Best Host/Hostess Amitabh Bachchan Kaun Banega Crorepati
    Best Actress Smriti Malhotra Irani Kyunki Saas Bhi Kabhi Bahu Thi
    Best Actor Amar Upadhyay Kyunki Saas Bhi Kabhi Bahu Thi
    Best Entertainment Channel Star Plus Star Plus
    Best Actor/actress in a comic role Pankaj Kapur Office Office
    Best Serial Shobha & Ektaa Kapoor Kyunki Saas Bhi Kabhi Bahu Thi

    The other notable awards given away were the milestones awards which sought to honour serials of yesteryear.

    Milestone Awards
    Hum Log
    Buniyaad
    Ramayan
    Mahabharat
    1983 Cricket World Cup
    Phool Khile Hai Gulshan Gulshan
    Yeh Jo Hai Zindagi
    Karamchand
    Surabhi
    Tara

    The show, which began nearly two hours later than the scheduled 7:30 pm, began with a Russian ballet. Veteran actor Kabir Bedi was the first of the show‘s several anchors, who hosted the seven segments of the awards. Archana Puran Singh and Parmeet Sethi, Mandira Bedi, Niki Aneja and Rohit Roy, Ranjeet and Sandhya Mridul, Shekhar Suman, Aly Khan (who also hosted The Indian Telly 2001 Awards in July 2001) were the other sub-anchors roped in to host the other segments.

    Take offs on the TRP ratings, Doordarshan‘s programming and spoofs on TV talk shows peppered the show, in between segments. Current hit Adnan Sami stole the show with his brilliant vocals and lightning fingers.

  • Hero Honda-ITA Awards: Industry's second TV awards mark their presence

    The Indian television business witnessed its second awards ceremony for this year yesterday - The Hero Honda-Indian T

  • ICICI CEO K.V. Kamath named CNBC Asia Business Leader

    Submitted by ITV Production on Nov 30, 2001

    ICICI‘s K.V. Kamath: Top Gun

    CNBC has been taking an increasing number of off-air initiatives to further strengthen its bonding with its core audience: the business news viewer. Earlier this year (6 July) it organised the Managing India Brainstorm in Mumbai. For the past couple of months it has been plugging its Business Leaders Awards which were organised by CNBC Asia and TNT.

    Held for the first time by CNBC Asia and business logistics solutions company TNT and aimed at rewarding excellence in the corporate arena, the awards honour executives and industry leaders for contributions made in their respective spheres.

    Raffles Hotels boss Richard Helfer: The good citizen

    According to the channel, more than a thousand nominees were received and the 10 finalists were chosen by a panel headed by economist Lester Thurow. The finalists were chosen based on the roadmap they charted for their respective companies as well as their ability to manage diverse talent in a difficult job market. The theme of the awards, held at Singapore, was ‘Reinventing Corporate Asia‘.

    Neptune Orient Lines boss Flemming Jacobs: Peers‘ choice

    Four Indians figured in the final list: ICICI CEO & managing director K.V. Kamath, Infosys head N R Narayana Murthy, Wipro chief Azim Premji and Satyam Computers‘ B Ramalinga Raju.

    Today, the business news channel announced the winners. And ICICI CEO & managing director K V Kamath emerged tops and was named as ‘Asian Business Leader of the Year‘, beating back a host of other candidates from Asia.

    Mazda Motor‘s Mark Fields: The innovator

    A jubilant Kamath told CNBC India after bagging the award that "the award was for Team ICICI. ICICI is technology-led but the challenge lies in driving it at a healthy pace. We have modern systems with no legacy. We are not afraid to make changes. We have a healthy growth engine in retail and corporate and retail can only grow in the coming year. We don‘t have any problems which have arisen on account of the merger between ICICI and ICICI Bank. ICICI is 45 years old but the average age is 32 years.. we have the best talent base. "

    Other winners of the Asian Business Leader Awards included Mazda Motor Corp president Mark Fields who was named Corporate Citizen of the Year. Singapore-based hotel group Raffles International CEO Richard Helfer walked away with The Innovator of the Year Award, while the prestigious CEOs‘ Choice Award was bagged by Neptune Orient Lines‘ CEO Flemming Jacobs.

    The awards show sponsored by Citibank and Avaya on CNBC showed at 7 pm and was repeated at 10 pm.

    All Pictures courtesy CNBC Asia

  • ICICI CEO K.V. Kamath named CNBC Asia Business Leader

    CNBC has been taking an increasing number of off-air initiatives to further strengthen its bonding with its core audi

  • Star gets into the act with Channel Nine Gold library

    Submitted by ITV Production on Nov 30, 2001

    Channel Nine Gold‘s loss has been Star‘s gain. Star Plus, which started airing two soaps from the library acquired from the now defunct company, will commence airing Sanjay Khan‘s Jannat , from 8 December at 7 pm.
    Jannat is part of the Nine library bought by Star after Channel Nine Gold fell out with pubcaster Doordarshan and stopped operations in September this year. Kabhie Souten Kabhie Saheli and Kundali, the two other serials from the Nine stables, have started telecast on Star Plus from November and are reportedly doing well. indiantelevision.com had reported earlier this month that Star had paid only 20 per cent of the actual valuation of the library. The library is valued at around Rs 120 million.

    Most of Channel Nine Gold‘s soaps were doing well on DD Metro before they were stopped abruptly. Star stands to gain from the telecast of these serials which already had a loyal following among DD Metro‘s audiences.

    Jannat, a daily soap that goes on air from next Saturday, had a 37 episode run on DD Metro, follows the trials and travails of a Muslim family. The couple‘s desire to have a child is thwarted by the wife‘s inability to bear one. Predictable tussles follow after the man agrees to his wife‘s request to get married once again.

    Kabhie Souten Kabhie Saheli which airs Monday to Friday at 3:30 pm, deals with two friends who are close despite their differing backgrounds. As the story progresses, both get married to the same man. Once the cat gets out of the bag, the two women scheme a revenge plot to get even. Kundali, another program from the Nine library, deals with a strikingly similar theme. The serial explores different events which shape the direction of our lives. Two sisters, married into the same household, suffer at the hands of a wrathful mother-in-law. The family quibbles come to the screen every Thursday at 8 pm.

  • Star gets into the act with Channel Nine Gold library

    Channel Nine Gold's loss has been Star's gain.

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