The winners of Apsara Awards 2012

The winners of Apsara Awards 2012

Ranbir Kapoor and Vidya Balan for the third time emerged as winners. For their rave performance in ‘Rockstar and The Dirty Picture, they bagged the Apsara best actor male and female awards. Hosted by Farah Khan and Karan Johar, Apsara Awards was held on Wednesday at Yash Raj studios.

The evening was memorable for Zoya Akhtar as she received the best director award for her film, Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara and at the same time, it also won the Best Film award. The evening saw some scintillating performance from the soon to be wed Genelia D’Souza and Riteish Deshmukh, Kareena Kapoor grooved to the song ‘Nakka Mukka’, ‘Ringa Ringa’ and the chartbuster ‘Kolaveri Di’. Amisha Patel danced to recent hit item numbers like ‘Chikni chameli’, ‘Ooh La La’ and ‘Madhubala’. Anushka Sharma set the stage on fire with popular telly actors.

Check out the complete list of winners of Apsara Awards:

Best Film
Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara

Best Actor (Male)
Ranbir Kapoor for ‘Rockstar’

Best Actor Female
Vidya Balan for ‘The Dirty Picture’

Best Director
Zoya Akhtar for ‘Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara’

Best Supporting Actor
Farhan Akhtar for ‘Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara’

Best Supporting Actress
Parineeti Chopra for ‘Ladies V/s Ricky Bahl’

Best Debutant (Female)
Parineeti Chopra

Best Debutant (Male)
Rana Daggubati for ‘Dum Maaro Dum’

Best Performance in a comic role
Deepak Dobriyal (Tanu Weds Manu)

Best performance in a negative role
Prakash Raj (Singham)

Hindustan Times Readers Choice Award for best entertainer male
Shahrukh Khan

Hindustan Times Readers Choice Award for best entertainer female
Priyanka Chopra

Best Music
A R Rahman for Rockstar

Best Lyrics
Irshad Kamil for ‘Nadaan Parinday’ in ‘Rockstar’

Best Choreography
Bosco-Caesar for ‘Desi Boyz’

Best Singer Male
Mohit Chauhan for ‘Saada Haq’

Best Singer Female
Shreya Ghosal for ‘Teri Meri’ in ‘Bodyguard’

Best Sound Design and Sound Mixing
Ra. One

Best Editing
No One Killed Jessica

Best Cinematographer
Chirantan Das (Tanu Weds Manu)

Most Promising Director
Abhinay Deo (Delhi Belly)

Best Screenplay
Reema Katgi and Zoya Akhtar (Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara)

Best Story
Reema Katgi and Zoya Akhtar (Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara)

Guild honour for excellence On TV
Amitabh Bachchan (Kaun Banega Crorepati)