awards
2010 UK Asian Music Awards Winners
The Royal Festival Hall hosted the British Asian Awards on 11th March 2010. A night filled with the glitz, glam and buzz featuring popular Brit-Asian performers, winners of awards and an air of a proud industry still going strong despite the tough times.
DESIblitz met up with many of the artists from the Brit-Asian music scene [...]
55th Filmfare Awards 2010 Winners
At a star studded 55th Filmfare Awards ceremony at the Yash Raj Studios in Mumbai on 27th February 2010, the night was filled with cheer, surprises and applaud for the winners, along with commiserations for the losers.
One of the biggest stories surrounding the awards night was the absence of the Bachchans. This was further to [...]
Aktar Islam & Jabbar Khan of Lasan
The DESIblitz SpotLight zooms on Aktar Islam and Jabbar Khan of Lasan Restaurant from Birmingham in the UK, the winners of the Gordon Ramsay’s F Word final on Channel 4 television. Lasan is the first Indian restaurant in the UK to be selected as the ‘Best Local Restaurant’ by Ramsay.
Head Chef Aktar Islam together with [...]
Video GAME BAFTA Awards 2009
The GAME British Academy Video Games Awards event for 2009 to recognise the top achievers of the British video game industry, took place at the London Hilton on Park Lane, UK, on March 10th 2009.
The who’s who of the video gaming industry were all present to see who took home the prize wins in the [...]
UK Asian Music Awards 2009 Winners
The 2009 UK Asian Music Awards were held at Southbank Centre’s Royal Festival Hall in London, on the evening of Thursday 5th March 2009. Buzzing with some of the biggest names in the Asian music and media industries, the eventful night was full of huge cheer for the winners and heart-felt commiserations for the losers.
Hailing [...]
British Asian Sports Awards 2009
The winners of the British Asian Sports Awards were revealed at a gala event held at the Grosvenor House Hotel, London on Saturday 21st February. The coveted Sports Personality of the year award went to cricketer Samit Patel.
The award was collected by Mr Patel, father of Samit Patel. Samit is currently representing England in the [...]
54th Filmfare Awards 2009 Winners
The 54th Idea Filmfare Awards for Bollywood movies released in 2008 took place at the renowned Yash Raj Studios, in Andheri, Mumbai, India, on the warm evening of 28th February 2009.
On the red carpet, one by one descended the stars for the biggest Bollywood awards ceremony dogged as the ‘Bollywood Oscars.’ Gracefully walking on their [...]
Slumdog Millionaire wins 8 Oscars
At the 81st Oscars award ceremony held on the 22nd February 2009 at the Kodak Theatre in Hollywood, USA, Slumdog Millionaire won an amazing 8 Oscars. The Academy Award (Oscar), is the main national film award in the USA and recognised around the globe as one of the most prestigious awards to receive for film [...]
Filmfare Awards 2009 Nominees
It’s that time of year when one of the biggest awards ceremonies in Bollywood takes place, the Filmfare Awards. The 54th awards event will take place in Mumbai this year on 28th February 2009.
Technology wise, there have been some changes to the awards. A new sponsor, Idea Cellular, Tarun Rai, CEO of Worldwide Media Pvt [...]
Stardust Awards 2009 Winners
15th February 2009 was the date and night of the awards for the renowned Bollywood magazine Stardust. The awards ceremony took place at the at the MMRDA Grounds, Bandra, India. The turn out of stars was huge and big names from the Bollywood film fraternity were at this glitzy affair to see who had bagged [...]