The star-studded event had the last year’s best, Taare Zameen Par, Om Shanti Om, Life in a Metro, Guru and Chak De! India, ruling the ceremony.

The mood of the evening was set by Amrita Arora and Dia Mirza who performed to a medley of hits from last year’s big hits. Energy levels shot up when Ritiesh Deshmukh made a grand entry on top of a kitsch-kooky truck, dancing to drumbeats. The star danced to Hey Babyy and Mast Qalandar even as his proud father, the chief minister of Maharashtra, Vilasrao Deshmukh, looked on.

Katrina Kaif, who has had three big hits in 2007, shimmied to a song from all of them in shiny trousers. The crowd was only too happy with the star as her hits films included Namastey London, Partner and Welcome, each with a foot-tapping score.

However, there was much more starry action in store for the audience when Shahid Kapur shook a leg to Mauja Mauja and Nagara nagara from Jab We Met. Kapur’s frenzy was only upstaged by someone who Rekha called “The man with 18-pack abs”, SRK himself.

In the audience were Karisma Kapoor, who gave away some awards to, besides Rekha, Simi Garewal, Rakesh Roshan, Subhash Ghai, Gauri Khan (the fresh fashionista wore a gelled-back hairdo), Rishi and Neetu Kapoor (they accepted two awards for best debutante, male, Ranbir), Irrfan Khan (best actor in a comic role for Metro) and Yash and Pamela Chopra.

Among other honours were Deepika Padukone for best debut, female; Amole Gupte for best dialogue and best story, A R Rahman for best background music for Guru, and best music director for the same; SRK’s Red Chillies VFX for special effects, Biswadeep Chatterjee for best sound in Eklavya, The Royal Guard, Amitabh Shukla for editing (Chak De), art director Nitin Chandrakant Desai (Gandhi, My Father) and best action for Tinnu Verma (Apne). Farah Khan, too, bagged a golden statuette for her funky choreography in OSO’s Dhum Taana.

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