BIG Star Entertainment Awards

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Big STAR Entertainment Awards
Awarded forIndia's leading 'People's Award'
CountryIndia
Presented byReliance Broadcast Network Limited
First awarded2010
Last awarded2015
Website http://927bigfm.com/bigfm/

The Big STAR Entertainment Awards was an annual award show presented by Reliance Broadcast Network Limited in association with STAR India to honour personalities from the field of entertainment across movies, music, television, sports, theatre and dance. The award is touted to be a completely viewer driven award where in audience participation right from nominations to the final winners through SMS and online voting across the categories is used for deciding the winners. The award was announced on 12 December 2010 and the first ever nominations for 2010 Awards were published online through various entertainment websites on 15 December. The last award ceremony happened in 2015.

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History

The awards were conceptualised by Reliance Broadcast Network Limited's marketing arm, Big Live. [1] The first ever Big Star Entertainment Awards was held on 21 December 2010 at Bhavan's Grounds in Mumbai. [2] The Awards were given immense promotion through various media outlets like Reliance Broadcast Network's verticals like 92.7 BIG FM, Big Street, Big Live and Big Digital.[ citation needed ]

The awards were launched in a public ceremony with Arshad Warzi unveiling the statuette of Big Star Entertainment Awards. [3] Reliance Broadcast Network CEO Tarun Katial said, "We are very proud to announce the Big Star Entertainment Awards, an award with a high degree of consumer centricity and representing all Entertainment genres Indian’s love." He added the aim of the award was to celebrate entertainment the way audiences consume and enjoy it. Through this award, the audience are empowered to decide who their favourite entertainers are. He said "Delivered through engaging ideas and multiple touch points, this is a truly integrated property that is bound to create unprecedented impact, in its first year itself." [4]

Star India COO Sanjay Gupta said, "The Big Star Entertainment Awards will witness the coming together of Star India and Reliance Broadcast Network, two of India’s biggest media companies, with complementary capabilities. Star India is the leading television network in the country reaching more than 400 million viewers weekly; and together we are all set to create superlative entertainment reaching out to our viewers across all platforms." He added, "Today, almost 50 per cent of TV viewing happens in the entertainment space and December 31 night is a time when television viewing actually increases manifold because people are willing to sit together and watch TV. Therefore, we are sure that the property will pull in good eyeballs." Price Waterhouse Coopers were the auditors for the first award ceremony held in 2010. [5]

Awards

There were 21 categories in the 2010 Big Star Entertainment Awards. These included 8 categories for the mainstream Hindi films, 4 for the Hindi television programmes and a set of 9 awards which honored the best shows and personalities of the 2000–2010 Decade.

Film Awards

Television Awards

Sports Awards

BIG Star Decade Honors

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References

  1. ↑ "Star India & Reliance Broadcast Network launch Big Star Entertainment Awards". Business of Cinema. 16 December 2010. Archived from the original on 24 March 2012. Retrieved 22 December 2010.
  2. ↑ "Star India & Reliance Broadcast Network launch Big Star Entertainment Awards". The Times of India . 20 December 2010. Archived from the original on 5 November 2012. Retrieved 22 December 2010.
  3. ↑ "Big Star Entertainment Awards Controversy | HQ".
  4. ↑ "RBNL-STAR come together to present Big Star Entertainment Awards". Media Mughals. 16 December 2010. Archived from the original on 14 July 2011. Retrieved 22 December 2010.
  5. ↑ "RBNL-STAR come together to present Big Star Entertainment Awards". India Television. 15 December 2010. Retrieved 22 December 2010.
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