SPECIAL FEATURE: MTV IMMIES 2004 REPORT AND WINNERS LIST!

The much-hyped TATA Indicom and MTV IMMIES were held at the Tulip Star Hotel in Mumbai on 10th December 2004. This year's show was based on the dysfunctional 'Horror' theme... Radio Sargam takes a look!

A lively crowd of over 2,000 people grooved to high voltage music, spiced with electrifying performances by Indian and international artistes. The MTV IMMIES (Indian Music Excellence Awards), will premiere on MTV and Sony Entertainment Television on Sunday, 19th December 2004 at 8pm.

The show honored artistes in 24 categories across all genres of music - from film to spiritual music, indipop to devotional, ghazal to international (list of winners belows). The ceremony featured Bollywood stars like Hrithik Roshan, Shilpa Shetty, Amrita Arora, Kamal Hassan and Sonali Bendre presenting the coveted Awards at the delightfully 'sinful' show.

The audience was wowed with livewire performances by Strings, Fuzon, Sukhbir & JoSH. Some of Bollywood's more sought after stars - Fardeen Khan, Zayed Khan and Priyanka Chopra also set the IMMIES stage on fire. All this, spiced with the comic banter between saucy Mandira Bedi and MTV's favourite Bakra Cyrus Broacha, had the crowd in splits!

Over 7.9 lakh people voted to select the winners in the popular categories. Viewers were invited to vote for their favourite nominees via mtvindia.com, SMS on 8888 and through on-ground polling booths at MTV hangouts such as Music World, Planet M, Rhythm House and INOX multiplexes.

List of Awards:

1. Best New Film Music Talent: Kunal Ganjawala for Bheege Honth Tere in the film Murder
2. Best Female Pop: Sneha Pant for Kabhi Aar Kabhi Paar
3. Best Music Video: Raj Santhkumar & Shruti Vohra for Chhod Do Aanchal Zamaana Kya Kahega
4. Best Singer Male (Films): Sonu Nigam for Main Hoon Na in the film Main Hoon Na
5. Best Singer Female (Films): Sunidhi Chauhan for Dekh Le in the film Munnabhai MBBS
6. Best Classical Fusion Instrumental: Niladri Kumar
7. Best Male Pop Act International: Enrique Iglesias
8. Best Remix Video Song: DJ Suketu for Bin Tere Sanam
9. Best International Pop Debut: Black Eyed Peas
10. Best Lyrics: Arun Bhairav for Lal Dupatta in the film Mujhse Shaadi Karogi
11. Best Devotional / Spiritual Album: Pandit Jasraj
12. Best Choreographer: Prabhudeva for Main Aisa Kyoh Hoon in the film Lakshya
13. Best New Non Film Talent: JoSH for Kabhi
14. Best Male Pop Singer: Bombay Vikings for Chhod Do Aanchal
15. Best Ghazal Album: Jagjit Singh for the album Close To My Heart
16. Best Composer: Pritam for Dhoom Machalein the film Dhoom
17. Best Female International: Tata Young
18. Best Performance in a Song Male (Film): Hrithik Roshan for Main Asa Kyon Hoon in the film Lakshya
19. Best Performance in a Song Female (Film): Sushmita Sen for Tumhe Joh Maine Dekha from the film Main Hoon Na
20. Best Pop Album: Harry Anand for Sweet Honey Mix
21. Best Classical Voca: Begum Parveen Sultana
22. Staying Alive Award: Shailendra Singh of Percept D'Mark
23. Best Film Album: Main Hoon Na
24. Inspiration Award: Naushad

Written by Robeel Haq