Winners of 5th Apsara Film & Television Producers Guild Awards

Best Actor in a Leading Role
Shahrukh Khan - Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi

Best Actress in a Leading Role
Priyanka Chopra - Kaminey

Best Movie
Ghajini - Madhu Mantena

Best Director
A.R. Murugadoss - Ghajini

Best Actor in a Supporting Role
Rishi Kapoor - Love Aaj Kal

Best Actress in a Supporting Role
Kirron Kher - Kurbaan

Best Actor in a Comic Role
Ajay Devgan - All The Best

Best Actor in a Negative Role
Amol Gupte - Kaminey

Best Debut Director
Ayan Mukerji - Wake Up Sid

Lifetime Achievement Award (Male)
Amitabh Bachchan

Entertainer of the year
Ranbir Kapoor

Best Debut (Male)
Jackky Bhagnani - Kal Kissne Dekha

Best Debut (Female)
Anushka Sharma - Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi

Chevrolet Heartbeat of the Nation (Male)
Shahid Kapoor (Kaminey)

Chevrolet Heartbeat of the Nation (Female)
Deepika Padukone (Love Aaj Kal)

Best Choreography
Shiamak Davar - Dance Pe Chance - Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi

Best Lyrics
Jaideep Sahni - Tujh Mein Rab Dikhta Hai - Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi

Best Female Playback Singer
Shreya Ghosal - Tujh Mein Rab Dikhta Hai - Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi

Best Male Playback Singer
Mohit Chauhan - Ye Dooriyan - Love Aaj Kal

Best Music
Pritam Chakraborty - Love Aaj Kal

Best Screenplay
A.R. Murugadoss - Ghajini

Best Dialogue
Anurag Kashyap - Dev D

Best Story
Imtiaz Ali - Love Aaj Kal

Most public appearances
Abhishek Bachchan

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Aamir praised for supporting no-smoking campaign

Director A.R. Murgadoss and actor Aamir Khan, who are riding on the success of "Ghajini", are being lauded by National Organisation for Tobacco Eradication (NOTE) for cinematically endorsing and propagating the no-smoking ban in the action thriller.

The scene in "Ghajini", which has drawn accolades from the anti-smoking lobby, shows Aamir, who is prodded on by his girlfriend into beating up hooligans who insist on smoking in a public place.

"We thank Murugadoss and Aamir Khan for highlighting such an important fact even though we certainly do not favour any violence against smokers," Subhash Salkar, general secretary of NOTE, wrote in a letter of appreciation to Aamir.

Salkar said in the letter, dated January 7, that research shows that more often film stars inspire children to puff on their first cancer stick.

"Fifty two percent children have their first puff of a cigarette after watching a celebrity light up. We recognise that just as non-smokers are victims of exposure to second hand smoke from smoker, smokers are victims of tobacco industry and they require assistance in quitting their tobacco addiction," he wrote.

He added that that a simple administrative order stopping depiction of smoking in films would prevent 50 percent of the viewers from becoming smokers.

NOTE in the past has dragged Bollywood superstars like Shah Rukh Khan and Amitabh Bachchan to court for promoting smoking on screen.

Right now Ajay Devgan has landed in trouble for smoking in public. A Chandigarh-based NGO on Tuesday filed a complaint against Ajay for allegedly smoking at a public place.

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