Amitabh, Kareena bag top honours at Stardust awards

Megastar Amitabh Bachchan has bagged the Reader's Choice best actor award for the movie 'Paa' while Kareena Kapoor was adjudged best actress for 'Kurbaan' at the seventh Stardust Awards here.

Rajkumar Hirani's well-made '3 Idiots' got the Reader's Choice best film of the year award even as Imtiyaz Ali bagged the Reader's Choice best director award at the star-studded ceremony Sunday evening.

Rohit Shetty bagged the Stardust Editor's Choice award for best director for his movie 'All The Best'. The best actor and best actress awards in the same category were given to Shahid Kapoor for 'Kaminey' and Kareena Kapoor for 'Kurbaan', respectively.

While 'Wanted' bagged the best film in action thriller category, 'All The Best' was adjudged the best comedy film.

Another special award, Superstar of tomorrow (male), went to Ranbir Kapoor for 'Wake Up Sid' and 'Ajab Prem ki Gazab Kahani', while Superstar of tomorrow (female) was grabbed by Mugdha Godse for 'Jail'. The hottest new filmmaker award went to Ayan Mukherjee for 'Wake up Sid'.

The new musical sensational (female) award went to Kavitha Seth for 'Iktara' from 'Wake up Sid' and the award for new musical sensational (male) went to Suraj Jagan for 'Give me some sunshine' ('3idiots').

Piyush Mishra won the Stardust performance by a music director award for 'Gulaal', while Subrat Sinha won the Stardust performance by a lyricist for 'Radio'.

Rekha was honoured with Stardust Editor's Choice Icon of the Industry award at the ceremony.

Actors Katrina Kaif, Saif Ali Khan and Kareena Kapoor sizzled on stage performing to some of their hit songs.

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