GIMA Awards 2011 at Kingdom of Dreams in Gurgaon

2nd GIMA Awards were held on 22nd of September at the Kingdom of Dreams, Gurgaon. It was a fantastic show. The ceremony was hosted by Ranvir Kapoor and Neha Dhupia. The show was graced by musicians and Bollywood stars including Shubha Mudgal with Midival Punditz, Papon and Kailash Kher, Sunidhi Chauhan, Sonu Nigam and Pyarelalji, Shaan, Shankar-Ehsaan-Loy with the Shillong Choir(India’s Got Talent-3 fame), Priyanka Chopra and the King Khan Shahrukh.  It was an entertaining night in Gurgaon. There were  a total of 31 film and Non film award categories. Dabangg dominated the show with 6 awards. 

The Award winners

FILM MUSIC WINNERS

BEST MUSIC DEBUT:  Mamta Sharma (Singer) for Munni Badnaam (Dabangg)

BEST MUSIC ARRANGER & PROGRAMMER: Sandeep Shirodkar (Arranger & Programmer) for song – Pee Loon (Once Upon A Time In Mumbaai)

BEST ENGINEER - FILM ALBUM: Eric –Pillai (Music Mix Engineer) for Dabangg

BEST ENGINEER - THEATRE MIX:  Leslie Fernandes(Music Mix Engineer) for Dabangg

BEST BACKGROUND SCORE: Sandeep Shirodkar (Background Score Composer) for Dabangg

BEST LYRICIST:  Irshad Kamil (Lyricist) for Pee Loon (Once Upon A Time In Mumbaai)

BEST PLAYBACK SINGER (FEMALE): Sunidhi Chauhan(Singer) for Sheila Ki Jawani(Tees Maar Khan)

BEST PLAYBACK SINGER (MALE): Mohit Chauhan(Singer) for Pee Loon (Once Upon A Time in Mumbaai)

BEST FILM SONG: Pee Loon (Once Upon A Time In Mumbaai) Music Director – Pritam, Lyricist   - Irshad Kamil, Playback Singers- Mohit Chauhan

BEST MUSIC DIRECTOR: Sajid-Wajid, Lalit Pandit for  Dabangg

BEST FILM ALBUM: Dabangg, Producer - Arbaaz Khan Productions & Shree Ashtavinayak

  Cine Vision Ltd., Music Director - Sajid-Wajid, Lalit Pandit Music Label - T-Series.

NON-FILM MUSIC WINNERS

BEST MUSIC DEBUT: Sreeram (Indian Idol 5) for song Rehnuma (Rehnuma) and Band Called Nine for Rewind

BEST POP/ROCK SINGLE: Aahatein by Agnee

BEST POPULAR MUSIC ALBUM: Akriti by Akriti Kakar

BEST FUSION ALBUM: Bada Boom by Ranjit Barot

BEST DEVOTIONAL ALBUM: Nirgun by Ustad Rashid Khan

BEST FOLK ALBUM: Desert Slide by Pt. Vishwa Mohan Bhatt & Folk Musicians Of

  Rajasthan (Anwar Khan & More)

BEST HINDUSTANI CLASSICAL ALBUM – VOCAL: Sadhana by Pt. Rajan - Sajan Mishra

BEST HINDUSTANI CLASSICAL ALBUM – INSTRUMENTAL: Aura by Niladri Kumar

BEST SEMI-CLASSICAL ALBUM: Nirgun by Ustad Rashid Khan

BEST CARNATIC CLASSICAL ALBUM – VOCAL: Chandiran Oliyil by Sanjay Subrahmanyan

BEST CARNATIC CLASSICAL ALBUM – INSTRUMENTAL: Jury has decided not to nominate any participants

POPULAR AWARDS

MTV HOT PICK OF THE YEAR: Tum Jo Aaye (Once Upon A Time in Mumbaai)

RED FM MOST POPULAR SONG ON RADIO:            Tere Mast Mast (Dabangg)

MOST POPULAR CALLER TUNE OF THE YEAR: Sheila Ki Jawaani (Tees Maar Khan)

HT READERS CHOICE SINGER OF THE YEAR: Rekha Bhardwaj

WIZCRAFT BEST LIVE PERFORMER/S: Shankar-Ehsaan-Loy

MTV YOUTH MUSIC ICON: Sonu Nigam

SPECIAL AWARDS

OUTSTANDING CONTRIBUTION TO INDIAN MUSIC:Pyarelalji

OUTSTANDING CONTRIBUTION TO CLASSICAL MUSIC: Dr. M. Balamuralikrishna

GLOBAL MUSIC HONOUR: A.R. Rahman

Over all 2^nd GIMA awards was the hit of the century.