Anil Kapoor, Jeetendra at ITA Awards red carpet

Anil Kapoor, Jeetendra, Neelam Kothari, Sameer Soni, Darsheel Safary, Rahul Mahajan, Dimpy Ganguly, Sumeet Raghavan, Talat Aziz, Yukta Mookhey, Raza Murad, Sambhavna Seth, Dolly Bindra, Bhavna Balsaver, Hema Singh, Neena Gupta, Ragini Khanna, Bhagyashree, Sheeba, Rohit Roy, Manasi Joshi Roy, Mouni Roy, Sanjeeda Sheikh, Bhagyashree, Amrita Raichand, Manasi verma, Meghna Mallik, Ram Kapoor, Shilpa Anand, Shweta Tiwari, Smriti Irani, Teejay Sidhu at ITA Awards red carpet in Mumbai on 4th Nov 2012.

Mumbai, 4th November, 2012:
The 12th Indian Television Academy Awards 2012 on Star Plus, the mega TV awards show, established by Anu & Shashi Ranjan, was held on 4th November as the entire TV fraternity celebrated the year gone by. With Karan (Grover), Karan (Kundra) and Riddhi Dogra hosting the awards, the stage was surely on fire! ) The highlight of the event was honoring the winners of the London Olympians – Gagan Narang, Vijay Kumar & Yogeshwar Dutt. Also Sonali Mukherjee, the acid attack victim spoke encouraging words about women having to fight for their dignity as she thanked Anu Ranjan and her foundation BETI for taking up her cause of reconstructive surgery.

(The show started with the introduction of Rahul and Dimpy Mahajan launching the new season of Nach Baliye with their act. While each Award was cheered lustily by all of those present, the Ceremony was punctuated with jaw-dropping performances and acts, done by today’s biggest TV-heartthrobs like, Gurmeet Choudhary, Hina Khan, Nia Sharma, Angad Haseja, Ritwik Dhanjani, Rati Pandey, Deepika Singh, Drashti Dhami, Amir Ali, Karan Wahi, Jay Bhanushali, Manish Raisinghani, Anirudh Dave and so on.
A specially designed and dazzlingly executed act comprised the fabulous li’l mastters of Dance India Dance with the Stars of Jhalak Dikhla Ja. Besides, the goings-on were spiced by the rip-roaring anchoring by Ridhi Dogra, Karan Grover and Karan Kundra, while the Red-carpet was handled by Neelu Waghela (Bhaabho in ‘Diya Bati…’) and Utkarsha Naik (Manorama in ‘Iss Pyar Ko…’)!
This year, ‘The ITA Scroll of Honour – Global Recognition’ was accorded to Anil Kapoor for his achievements in Films as well as Television. It was particularly to commemorate his efforts to bring Indian Television at par with global standards by attempting an Indian version of the iconic Fox series, ‘24’. The honour was presented by yesteryears’ Superstar, Jeetendra.
The Ceremony had an overwhelming touch of nostalgia when Salma Sultan, Alok Nath and Neena Gupta took to the mike to wax eloquent about Television through the years.
Amongst those present were Anil Kapoor, Jeetendra, Ram Kapoor, Shweta Tiwari, Rajdeep Sardesai, Sumeet Raghavan, Sameer Soni, Rohit Roy, Rajshree Thakur, Meghna Malik, Manish Paul, Vivian DSena, Manish Raisinghani, Rithwik Dhanjani, Gurmeet Choudhary, Jai Bhanushali, Vahhbiz Dorabjee, Karanvir Bohra, Teejay Sidhu, Aamir Ali, Sanjeeda Sheikh, Mouni Roy, Avinesh Rekhi, Karan Wahi, Rajan Shahi, Nia Sharma, Romit Raj, Muskaan Mihani, Mona Ambegaonkar, Sameer Kochar, Vishwajeet Pradhan, Shibani Dandekar and many others.
Some of the big winners were Sameer Soni & Barun Sobti (best actor – popular), Nia Sharma (best actress – Popular) Ram Kapoor (best actor – jury), Shweta Tiwari (best actress – jury), Devon Ka Dev Mahadev (best Ensemble cast), Diya Aur Baati Hum (Best Serial – Popular), Star Plus (Best Entertainment Channel – Popular)