Noted song writer Gulzar walked away with the best lyricist
award once again for the popular "Bidee" item number
in "Omkara" and Sunidhi Chauhan was best playback singer
female for the same song.
Top-notch
actors added glitter with their enthralling performances at
the function. Bipasha Basu had the audience in raptures with
her dance to the rustic number "Bidee". Kareena too
jived to the tunes of "Ye mera dil" from "Don"
and Helen, the dancing queen of Bollywood, was so touched by
her performance that she came on stage and appreciated her performance.
"Lage
Raho Munna Bhai" scored yet again with the best story award
going to Rajkumar Hirani and Abhijit Joshi. Siddharth, who featured
in "Rang De Basanti", won the best newcomer male award
and Kangana Ranaut was honoured with best newcomer female award
for "Gangster
- A Love Story".
Sanjay Dutt and Ayesh Takia were given the best critics award
(male and female) for their performances in "Lage Raho Munna
Bhai" and "Dor" respectively.
This
year the competition was among "Omkara", Lage Raho Munna
Bhai" and "Rang De Basanti" which won six awards.
Apart from best director, "Rang De..." also won best
screenplay, best background music for A.R. Rahman, best special
effects and best editing award.
Salman Khan and Shahid Kapur were the other star performers.
Bollywood
heartthrob Hrithik Roshan was adjudged best actor for his superhero
act in 
Raj
Kumar Hirani's 
Funny
man Arshad Warsi won the best supporting actor award for playing
Circuit in "Lage Raho Munna Bhai" and Kirron Kher received
best supporting actress female trophy for her powerful performance
in "Rang De Basanti". 
Arshad
later told a TV channel that he had been pretty unlucky with awards
so far but is extremely happy about getting the trophy. He thanked
Amitabh and Jaya Bachchan and their company ABCL for giving him
his first break as an actor in "Tere Mere Sapne".
Saif
Ali Khan bagged the best actor in negative role award for playing
Langda Tyagi in 
