Bollywood Awards 2011 for Best Actress Vidya Balan for The Dirty Picture

Ekta Kapoor's The Dirty Picture has been named best picture, while Vidya Balan has been adjudged best actress for the same film at The Eighteenth National Media Network Film and TV awards.

The awards, instituted by National Media Network and Akhil Bharatiya Swatantra Patrakar Avom Lekhak Sangh, an association of freelance journalists and writers, will be given on January 21 here where TV czarina Ekta will also be honoured for being a successful film and TV producer in Indian film and TV industry.


Ajay Devgan has been named the best actor for Rohit Shetty's Singham, while Farhan Akhtar will be conferred with best director award for Don 2 - The King Is Back.

Filmmaker Ramesh Sippy, veteran lyricist Gulzar and TP Aggarwal, chairman, Film Federation of India will be given lifetime achievement awards, according to Daya Nand Vats, general secretary of the Sangh.

The hero of all-time hit award goes to actor Anil Kapoor.

NDTV has been named the best Hindi news channel, while Asian Academy of Film and TV has been named the best institute for film and TV.

Aishwarya Rai Saree Traditional Wear – Looked beautiful at World Kannada Sammelan

(1) On 11th March 2011 Friday, 36 years old Aishwarya Rai Bachchan attended World Kannada Sammelan in Belgaum, Karnataka and looked stunningly beautiful in a traditional Saree at there. She paired her traditional pochampalli purple silk sari with a matching cap sleeve blouse, was adorned with exquisite gold jewelry - necklace, jhumkas, multiple gold and red glass bangles; and multiple rings on both her hands.

She exuded coquettish charm with shoulder draping hair, bindi, winged eyeliner and glossy pink lipstick.

She was seated between Dr BS Yediyurappa, Karnataka chief minister, and Prabakar Kore of Belgaum district during the event.

(2) She features on the cover of this month's issue of Verve. March being the month when International Woman's Day is celebrated, it is quite an apt choice that a true 'Woman of Substance'- she has been selected to grace the cover page for this issue.

As per Latest Aishwarya Rai Bachchan Interviews, she said that, "When you land there in winter, you barely wakeup from the jetlag and feel that it's dark like night again"

"The genre of the film we were working on made us relive our college days. I was privy to a close unit of kids (Abhishek, Hrithik and Uday Chopra) who are all childhood friends and felt that I was vicariously part of the gang. Many such memorable experiences that she has had in cities such as Budapest, Mexico City, Machu Pichu, Shanghai, Los Angeles and many more."