Glittering Show "Marathi Film Awards 2009"

Aamir Khan, ageless beauty Rekha and oscar-winner ace musician A.R. Rahman was felicitated at the 46th annual Marathi awards held in Mumbai on May 30th. Maharashtra Chief Minister Ashok Chavan presented the prestigious 'Raj Kapoor awards' at the Bollywood stalwarts for the special contribution to the Indian cinema.

The award has been named after the legendary film Bollywood personality Raj Kapoor.

Bollywood icon Rekha, who is considered to be one of the evergreen Bollywood actresses, looked as scintillating as ever in Indian traditional drape and thanked the State Government and public for the honour.

Aamir Khan's last film 'Ghajini' was one of the highest grosser in the year 2008 and was accorded with several awards for his movie based on dyslexia 'Taare Zameen Par'.is first appearance on the silver screen was as a child actor in his uncle Nasir Hussain's film 'Yaadon Ki Baaraat' way back in 1973.

Oscar award winning music director Rahman was felicitated along with the technical team of 'Slumdog Millioanire'. He had also sang movie's award-winning song 'Jai ho' on stage. Rahman fetched two Oscar for rags-to-riches romance about a poor Indian boy competing in a TV game show. The movie scooped eight Academy Awards earlier this year.Child actor Azharuddin Mohammed Ismail was also present at the event.

Bollywood is worth about 85 billion rupees and is forecast to more than double to 175 billion rupees by 2011.Despite being so prolific, Bollywood makes more than 800 films a year-the industry's revenues stand at half of what the Walt Disney studio made in box office revenues in 2006.

Big B’s hidden secret revealed to Aamir

Aamir Khan is surely lucky…not just for he is a superstar. We are talking about something more interesting.The actor is the only one in the whole Mumbai city to have witnessed megastar Big B's startling new look in his forthcoming film Paa.

What happened was that Aamir made a surprise visit last week to the Big B at Film City, while he was shooting for R. Balakrishnan's Paa that also stars Abhishek Bachchan and Vidya Balan . Interestingly, Abhishek is playing father to Big B in the film.

Visitors are strictly not allowed on the film's sets, but Aamir was soon escorted to Amitabh's make-up van. Balakrishna, who is popularly known as Balki, is skeptical about his leading man's looks being leaked out and he swore Aamir to secrecy.

"We don't allow a single visitor, not even close relatives or friends of crew members on the set. Phones of course are a complete no-no,"
Balki said. The secret behind the Amitabh's make-up is none other than international make-up artist ,Stephan Dupuis, who did Robin Williams' make-up in Mrs. Doubtfire. And he takes a good four hours to get it correct. While Aamir got a look at Big B's unique never-before look, Sanjay Dutt and Ranbir Kapoor who dropped in the next day were not that lucky. While Sanjay met up with Amitabh when he was not in his special get-up and costume, Ranbir had to be turned away after being appeased by a photograph of the Bachchan senior's look .

Balki, who has earlier worked with Amitabh in Cheeni Kum, says he will soon move the shooting of Paa to Malaysia to protect the actor's look from prying eyes not because they require a foreign location. But because they need to shoot without the fear and embarrassment of visitors."We can't afford to take any risks. If Mr. Bachchan's look leaks out, the plot is out. In any case Aamir is a man who understands the exigencies of cinema. He will hardly be expected to leak the look out," he added.