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3 Idiots, Paa bag most Screen awards
MUMBAI: The 16th Annual Star Screen Awards saw Vidhu Vinod Chopra‘s 3 Idiots bag as many as 10 awards.
3 Idiots won the best film, best director (Rajkumar Hirani), best editor (Rajkumar Hirani), best screenplay (Rajkumar Hirani, Abhijat Joshi, Vidhu Vinod Chopra), best Choreographer (Bosco Ceaser), best dialogue (Abhijat Joshi), best Newcomer – Male (Omi Vaidya), best actor in a comic role – Male (Omi Vaidya), best actor in a negative role (Boman Irani) and popular choice award for best actor – Female (Kareena Kapoor).
On the other hand, R Balki‘s Paa bagged a few awards. Amitabh Bachchan won the best actor male award while Vidya Balan bagged the best actor female award. Pratik Katare got the best child artiste award.
Rishi Kapoor won the best male supporting actor award for Zoya Akhtar‘s Luck By Chance, while Arundhati Nag won the best female supporting actor award.
Shahid Kapur received the best actor award in the popular category for Kaminey.
Javed Akhtar was given the Lifetime Achievement Award by Yash Chopra and Amitabh Bachchan while the Jodi No 1 award was bagged by the father-son duo of Amitabh and Abhishek Bachchan.
The best music award was bagged by AR Rahman for Delhi 6 and the best background score was awarded to Amit Truvedi for Dev D. Kavita Seth won the best female playback singer award for Iktaara in Wake Up Sid while Rahat Fateh Ali Khan lapped up the best male playback singer award for Aaj din chadeya from Love Aaj Kal.
Nandita Das bagged the award for the most promising debut director for Firaaq as well as the Ram Nath Goenka Award. The most promising newcomer Female award went to Mahie Gill for Dev D. Zoya Akhtar‘s Luck by Chance also won the Best ensemble cast award. The best story award went to Imtiaz Ali for Love Aaj Kal.
Hindi
Dhurandhar the revenge storms past Rs 1,000 crore in a week, rewrites box office records
Aditya Dhar’s spy thriller sets fastest run to Rs 1,000 crore with record-breaking weekday hold
MUMBAI: The box office has a new juggernaut—and it is moving at breakneck speed. Dhurandhar the revenge has smashed past the Rs 1,000 crore mark worldwide in just a week, clocking a staggering Rs 1,088 crore and resetting the rules of the blockbuster game.
Backed by Jio Studios and B62 Studios, and directed by Aditya Dhar, the spy action sequel opened to the biggest weekend ever for an Indian film globally—and then refused to slow down. Unlike typical tentpole releases that taper off after Sunday, this one powered through the weekdays with rare muscle, posting Rs 64 crore on Monday, Rs 58 crore on Tuesday, Rs 49 crore on Wednesday and Rs 53 crore on Thursday.
The numbers stack up to a formidable first-week haul. India collections stand at Rs 690 crore nett and Rs 814 crore gross, while overseas markets have chipped in Rs 274 crore, taking the worldwide total to Rs 1,088 crore in just eight days.
The film’s opening weekend alone delivered Rs 466 crore, laying the foundation for what is now being billed as the fastest climb to the Rs 1,000 crore club in Indian cinema. Every single day of its first week has set fresh benchmarks, from the highest opening weekend to the strongest weekday hold—metrics that typically separate hits from phenomena.
A sequel to the earlier hit Dhurandhar, the film has not just built on its predecessor’s momentum but obliterated previous records, emerging as the biggest global blockbuster run by an Indian film to date.
At this pace, the film is not merely riding a wave—it is creating one.
