Mumbai: NDTV Imagine will be airing the Airtel Salaam-E-Comedy Awards on 7 September at 8:30 pm.
The show was hosted by Ranvir Shorey and Suresh Menon. Amisha Patel and Rakhi Sawant charmed audiences with their performances. The evening was lit up with the performances of Govinda, Rimmi Sen, Sharman Joshi and Rajpal Yadav. From spoofs on the films from Bollywood to their interpretation of the latest ad films, the comic talent soon had the audience in splits with their gags. Suresh Menon was the master of disguise, donning many avatars from Bappi Lahiri to Laloo Prasad Yadav during the show.
Showing their support for this genre of films and its talented artists were many personalities from the industry like Govinda, David Dhawan, Madhur Bhandarkar, Konkana Sen, Johnny Lever, Satish Shah, Shekhar Suman, Johnny Lever, Sajid Khan, Jaaved Jaffrey, Kapil Dev, Vinay Pathak, Ria Sen, Yukta Mookhey, Rituparna Ghosh, Randeep Hooda, Poonam Dhillon, Atul Kulkarni, Bappi Lahiri and many more.
The jury selected the winners across many award categories such as Best Comic Dialogue, Best Comedy Character, Best Comedy Scene, Best Supporting Comic (Actor and Actress), and Best Comedy Jodi amongst others. The Airtel Salaam-E-Comedy Awards also presented an Award for Outstanding Contribution to Comedy to one of Bollywood’s most loved comedians. The Airtel Salaam-E-Comedy Awards has been produced and conceptualized by Percept D’Mark.