Shah Rukh Khan & Priyanka Chopra win Apsara awards for best actors

Bollywood superstar Shah Rukh Khan bagged the best actor award for the movie “Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi” while Priyanka Chopra was adjudged best actress for “Kaminey” at the fifth Apsara Film and Television Producers Guild Awards here Friday evening.

Murugadoss bagged the best director and best screenplay awards for “Ghajini”, which was also adjudged best film.

The Chevrolet Heartbeat of the Nation Award (Male) was bagged by Shahid Kapur for “Kaminey” and Dipika Padukone (Female) for “Love Aj Kal”.

The other special award, Guinness World Record for the Most Public Appearances to Promote a Film went to Abhishek Bachchan. He travelled to seven cities in 12 hours to promote “Delhi-6″.

The outstanding debutant director award went to Ayan Mukherjee for “Wake up Sid”, the best singer female award was bagged by Shreya Ghoshal for “Tujh mein rab dikhta hai” from “Rab Ne Bana…”, and for best male singer to Mohit Chauhan for “Yeh dooriyan” (“Love Aj Kal”).

Imtiaz Ali bagged the best story award for “Love Aj Kal”. The best performance in a comic role went to Ajay Devgn for “All The Best”, while best in negative role award went to Amol Gupte for “Kaminey”.

Pritam won the best music award for “Love Aj Kal”, while Jaideep Sahani won the award for best lyrics for “Rab Ne Bana Di..”.

Amitabh Bachchan won the Best Lifetime Achievement award. He was there with his entire family at the venue – the Chitrakoot Grounds at Andheri.

Shah Rukh Khan, Saif Ali Khan and Kareena performed on stage to some of their hit songs to entertain the crowds.

Shah Rukh enthralled the audience by dancing to his song from “Billu” – “Love mera hit hit soniye”.

The Guild jury, including Ravi Chopra, Ketan Desai, and Sajid Nadiadwala, had chosen the winners.

I share my sadness only with my children: Shah Rukh Khan

He is rarely seen without his dimpled smile and crackling sense of humour but the 'Badshah of Bollywood' Shah Rukh Khan does have his low phases which he shares only with his children.

The 44-year-old superstar's journey, from TV serial 'Fauji' to his latest 'My Name Is Khan', has gone through ups and downs in his two decade long acting career and he insists that his kids have been his biggest support.

"I like kids. I like company of kids more than adults. I remember when my own children, Aryan was 5 or 6, I shared my biggest depression," Shah Rukh said.

"I don't like to talk to people about my sadness and I think the only people I have spoken to, and that too when they do not understood anything, were Aryan and Suhana. So I sat them down and told them I am really sad while they drooled all over me," he added.

Shah Rukh may have become a huge name but the superstar still enjoys giving autographs and standing with his fans for a click.

Shahrukh Khan: The abnormal Factor

The latest bug to have bitten bollywood is the mental disease. Almost every film has started taking up issues of mental disorders which till now had been considered taboo for the extravaganza called the Hindi movie.After the Auro magic of Amitabh Bachchan in Paa, it is now ShahRukh with a projection of a guy inflicted with a form of Autism.

As is a known fact by now that in the latest flick by Karan Johar ‘My Name is Khan’, ShahRukh has portrayed the character of Rizwan who suffers from a mental ailment called the Asperger Syndrome.This is a kind of disease affecting the brain function where in certain abnormalities are detected.

However the twist in this story comes when Rizwan falls in love with the character played by Kajol, Mandira who is a single mother.The story seems to be quite fascinating as the complicated lanes of romance might have come to the rescue of the two harassed characters in the film.

The fact is that the underlying factor which makes the world move forward is perhaps the power of love. This is the emotion which defies all boundaries and gives the worshipper a kind of solace that is unparallel in any other emotion that God has bestowed to humans.

Karan Johar has many a times shown the power of love and the repercussions through his movies like ‘Kuch Kuch Hota Hai’, ‘Khabhi Khushi Khabhi Gham’, ‘Khabhi Alvida Na Kehna ‘etc. to name just a few where the protagonists have always projectedthe power of love in a way that captures the basic essence of human need which of course is love.

So lets hope that ‘My Name Is Khan’ is also going to be a gripping story that touches the audience sentiments in the same manner.

Shahrukh Khan, the techie Frankenstein!

Imagine Shahrukh Khan as a software engineer who creates a monster that goes berserk and kills people!

Well, the latest snippets from B-town reveal a rough outline of SRK’s ambitious home production Ra.1, a sci-fi thriller with loads of special effects.

We learn that in the film SRK plays a techie named Shekhar who’s so obsessed with video games that he creates a monster for one of the games. Trouble begins when the virtual monster takes a real form and begins killing people.

To tame the beast, Shekhar transforms himself into a virtual character. Thereby begins the battle between Shekhar and the monster.

As the film’s producer, SRK is making sure that the production team has the best minds and hands. While Anubhav Sinha has been roped in to direct the flick, Ueli Steiger (cinematographer of ‘10,000 BC’) will crank the camera and David Benullo (of ‘Hallowed Ground’) is the screenwriter.

Shooting is expected to begin in the first quarter of 2010.

Animated Kareena Kapoor for Shahrukh Khan

Shahrukh Khan has signed Kareena Kapoor for his first ever superhero film ‘Ra. 1’ and now reports reveal that the movie will also have an animated version of her.

Yes, sassy Bebo that too animated. Sounds amazing! This is going to happen for the first time that a Bollywood actress will get an animated avatar. So it has to be seen how she looks in her new computer-designed character.

As a source tells about this to daily, “Shahrukh plays a video-game designer in the film. He’s obsessed with their animated characters. When he falls in love with Kareena, he imagines her as one of the characters.”

Last seen in a virtual version was Hollywood actress Angelina Jolie in the animated movie Beowulf, and that created quite a stir because she appeared naked in the film.