The new hit jodi, Anushka Sharma and Ranveer Singh hosted the Star Screen Awards for the first time this year. They were supremely confident and entertaining as they enthralled the audience with their charm and humour.
Anushka looked lovely in a figure-hugging lavender knee-length lavender dress and later, a fitted black jumpsuit. Ranveer looked smart and neat in a suit. They repeated their Band Baaja Baaraat act and worked as a team. She was 'Cutlet' and he was 'Enthu'. So their jodi was 'Enthu+Cutlet'. Whenever somebody from the BBB team won an award, they sandwiched that person in a hug. The rumoured couple was extremely confident, energetic, and lively on stage. In fact, when Shahid Kapoor was the emcee, he even teased them by saying that Anushka was sitting in Ranveer's lap, before he called them on stage. They were extremely at ease even in the presence of award show veterans such as Shah Rukh Khan and Karan Johar. Anushka kept calling mispronouncing Ranveer's name as Ranbir and the latter got exasperated and corrected her by saying, "My name is Ranveer, 'V' from the lower lip!"
When the best actress category was announced, Anushka joked that since she was already on stage and she was nominated, giving the award to her would save a lot of time. Sadly however, she did not win the award.
Ranveer was extremely thrilled to be in the august presence of veterans such as SRK and Karan. In an emotional moment, he said that he had never dreamt he would actually receive congratulatory calls from them or share the stage with them at an awards function.
Anushka and Ranveer introduced the year's acting and film nominees by enacting (faking) scenes from movies such as the moaning one from Guzaarish, and the sensuous thumb-sucking scene from Ishqiya, and others. They even mouthed dialogues from Houseful, My Name is Khan, and others. They did not make any derogatory remakes toward any person or movie.
Catch all the fun and more during the telecast of Star Screen Awards on Star Plus at 8 pm on January 22, 2010.
- Star Plus