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The 3rd Annual Ghanta AwardsÔ: Celebrating the Worst of Bollywood

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The 3rd Annual Ghanta AwardsÔ:  Celebrating the Worst of Bollywood

The Ghanta Awards reward the worst in Bollywood, similar to the Razzies for Hollywood. This is the third edition of the Ghantas, having started “rewarding” the worst of Bollywood since 2011. The awards took place at Enigma, J. W. Marriott.

Karan Anshuman and Prashant Rajkhowa, founders of The Ghantas along with Gagan Takyar and Shruti Seth  played gracious hosts to some sporty celebrities who came to attend the awards. Sorabh Pant and his team of stand up comedians, enthralled the audience with their witty jokes on the Bollywood film industry.

The Ghanta for the worst actors went to Salman Khan and Sonaakshi Sinha. While the Ghanta for the worst debut went to Sunny Leone, Sonam Kapoor won her Ghanta for supporting actor.

Guests who came to support them were Sanjay Gadhvi,  Shruti Seth, Danish Aslam,  Roshan Abbas,  Maria Goretti,  Arshad Warsi, Sahil Mane,  Sandhy Mridul,  Satyadeep Mishra,  Ankur Tewari,  Gaurav Kapoor,  Arunodhay Singh.

According to founder Karan Anshuman, it was the lack of a refund mechanism in place that prompted him to start the Ghantas three years back. “There are more than a dozen film awards to reward the good films but how many to reward the worst of Bollywood? So we started our own show.”
Says Gagandeep Singh, Director of Operations (J.W.Mariott),  “Enigma is home to most Bollywood celebrities. With the Indian cinema being appreciating on international podiums it’s important that we too incorporate some international formats here. The Ghanta award is one such attempt of repeating what the Golden Raspberry Award or Razzie do for Hollywood. “
A jury of eminent film critics and journalists decided the nomination list for the Ghanta Awards. The jury consists of Rajeev Masand, Entertainment Editor & Film Critic, CNN-IBN, Karan Anshuman, Film Critic, Sudhish Kamath, Film Critic and Sahil Rizwan, Film Critic, TheVigilIdiot.com. The winners were decided through public voting at TheGhantas.com.

 List of Winners

1. Thats Anything But Sexy: Tusshar Kapoor’s man boobs

2. WTF Was That: Love quadrangle with Jesus Christ

3. Song: Paw Paw Paw

4. Couple: Rajneesh Duggal+Karishma Kapoor

5. Breatkthrough: Sunny Leone

6. Supp Actor: Mithun Chakraborty

7. Supp Actress: Sonam Kapoor

8. Ripoff/Remake: Agent Vinod

9. Sequel: Housefull 2

10.   Actor: Salman Khan

11.   Actress: Sonakshi Sinha

12.   Director: RGV (Bhoot Returns, Department)

13.   Film: Son of Sardar

About The Ghanta Awards
The Ghanta Awards or The Ghantas celebrates and rewards the worst of Bollywood.
The principle was simple: Every year, Bollywood takes our hard earned money and countless hours of life only to leave us feeling older, poorer and supremely frustrated. While there are good movies produced every year, there are several just want us to tear our hair out and dance naked at the producer’s house demanding refunds.
The Ghanta Awards was created as a means to give back to these films, to give back to these film makers – to make them understand that they needed to try harder…
Also, The Razzies are a glorious institution but unfortunately, even after 30 years, they still don’t look at Bollywood at all. Karan and Prashant think it is very highly unfair that the world’s most prolific film industry doesn’t get the recognition it deserves. So they decided to rectify the situation.
Once a year, they will give away awards in categories including Worst Film, Worst Actor, Worst Actor, Worst Song, Worst Director and WTF Was That?