When I saw Dabangg, I had no idea I was watching the musical of the year! Awards after awards are being announced and everyone seems to be finding Dabangg consisting of the best songs of 2010. Radio Mirchi announced their Mirchi Music Awards in a glam ceremony in Mumbai, and Dabangg walked away with 8 of the 22 categories! Filmfare, IIFA and the likes serving to the hype was understandable, but to think that a jury consisting of such people as Javed Akhtar, Shankar Mahadevan and Suresh Wadkar could have awarded the Best Song of the Year to Munni Badnaam Hui is outrageous! Munni as the Best Item Song of the Year is befitting, but if the jury is unable to find a single song from 2010 that was better than the said song they are kidding themselves imho! Which, by the way, strengthens the case for a more democratic and transparent system of awards being advocated by Tweeple Film Awards. Do support the cause if you aren’t yet! Coming back to yesterday’s awards, luckily the jury didn’t feel like giving out the entire 22 categories to Munni and Dabangg (at least some of them presumably coz they didn’t fit the category!), due to which some deserving people still got honored, most notably the Lifetime Achievement to Ravi and Charanjit Singh, one of the industry’s finest instrumentalists, for Outstanding Contribution for Film Music. Below are the winners in the different categories.
Best Song of the Year
Munni Badnaam composed by Lalit Pandit, sung by Mamta Sharma & Aishwarya, lyrics by Lalit Pandit
Best Album of the Year
Dabangg composed by Sajid-Wajid & Lalit Pandit, lyrics by Faaiz Anwaar, Lalit Pandit & Jalees Sherwani
Best Male Vocalist
Rahat Fateh Ali Khan for Tere Mast Mast Do Nain from Dabangg
Best Female Vocalist
Mamta Sharma for Munni Badnaam from Dabangg
Best Music Director
Sajid-Wajid for Tere Mast Mast Do Nain from Dabangg
Best Lyricist
Gulzar for Dil To Bachcha Hai from Ishqiya
Uninor Mirchi Listeners’ Choice – Best Song of the Year
Sheila Ki Jawani composed by Vishal-Shekhar, sung by Sunidhi Chauhan & Vishal Dadlani, lyrics by Vishal Dadlani
Uninor Mirchi Listeners’ Choice – Best Album of the Year
Once Upon A Time In Mumbaai composed by Pritam, lyrics by Irshad Kamil, Neelesh Mishra & Amitabh Bhattacharya
Best Programmer and Arranger
Shankar-Ehsaan-Loy for Noor E Khuda from My Name is Khan
Best Song Recording
Salman Khan Afridi & Farhad K Dadyburjor for Dil To Bachcha Hai from Ishqiya
Best Background Score
Sandeep Shirodkar for Dabangg
Lifetime Achievement Award
Ravi
Jury Award for Outstanding Contribution to Hindi Film Music
Charanjit Singh
Best Upcoming Singer of the Year — Male
Mustafa Kutoane, Kirti Sagathia for Beera from Raavan
Best Upcoming Singer of the Year — Female
Mamta Sharma for Munni Badnaam from Dabangg
Best Upcoming Lyricist
Bhadwai Village Mandali for Mehngai Dayain from Peepli [Live]
Best Upcoming Composer
Shiraz Uppal for Rabba from Aashayein
Best Item Song of the Year
Munni Badnaam from Dabangg, composed by Lalit Pandit, sung by Mamta Sharma & Aishwarya, lyrics by Lalit Pandit
Best Raag-Inspired Song
Kaare Kaare Badra from Mirch, composed by Monty Sharma, sung by Shankar Mahadevan, lyrics by Javed Akhtar
Best Album of the Golden Era
Barsaat
Best song in Sufi Tradition
Sajdaa from My Name is Khan, composed by Shankar-Ehsaan-Loy, sung by Rahat Fateh Ali Khan, Shankar Mahadevan & Richa Sharma, lyrics by Niranjan Iyengar
Best Indipop Song
Thumri from Kohram, composed by Kami, sung by Amanat Ali, lyrics by Traditional (Folk)
