Recently held ceremony of ARY Film Awards (AFA) is widely covered by BBC and VOA, here is English translation of report of BBC Urdu on ARY Film Awards
Waar and Zinda Bhaag are declared the best movies in ARY Film Awards (AFA) held in Karachi on Sunday. Waar won popular choice while Zinda Bhaag won jury award. Zinda Bhaag is the movie also sent to Oscars by Pakistan.
The awards are named AFA, which few commented as an attempt of a name similar to Bollywood Awards IIFA. The show was hosted by Shaan, while Sarwat Gillani, Ayesha Omar, Hamza Ali Abbasi and Fahad Mustafa coordinated with him.
Situation got tense when Shaan labelled pakistani artists working in India as ‘cheap sell-outs’, saying ‘His work was not for sale and he would never sell himself short by working in India’,but Ali Zafar responded ‘Art is beyond boundaries and it cannot be restricted within certain boundaries’.
The ceremony started quite late, which also delayed the end. After red carpet the main event started at 10:30 pm at night and lasted till 4:30 am in the morning. After 12:00 am the many among the audience started leaving, and the attendance was quite low when the ceremony concluded.
Performances of Babra Sharif and Saima were the highlight of the show, but the Dhamal of Noor was much appreciated.
The organizers only selected Pakistani songs for all performances, also including famous songs of the past.
As expected Waar grabbed a major share of awards. In viewers choice category Waar won awards for Best Film, Best Actor Male (Shaan), Best Actor (Female) Ayesha Khan, Best Supporting Actor (Male) Hamza Ali Abbasi, Best Supporting Actor (Female) Meesha Shafi, Best Director (Bilal Lashari). Shamoon Abbasi won the award for Best Actor in Negative Role whereas Naseeruddin Shah was also nominated in the same category for film Zinda Bhaag,
Best debut female is given to Ayesha Khan for Waar, while Hamza Ali Abbasi won best debut male award for film Mein Hoon Shahid Afridi.
Aamnah Ilyas heroine of film Zinda Bhaag won the jury award for best actor female while Humayun Saeed won best actor male for film Mein Hoon Shahid Afridi. The other awards in this category were Bilal Lashari for Waar, and Zinda Bhaag for best screenplay.
In music, Rahat Fateh Ali Khan won for film Zinda Bhaag, whereas film Mein Hoon Shahid Afridi won award for best music.
Award for best actor in comedy role was given to Ismael Tara for film Mein Hoon Shahid Afridi.
Ali Zafar was acknowledged for his contributions in promoting pakistani music.
Legendary artist of Pakistani Urdu Cinema Nadeem Baig was awarded the life time achievement award who recieved a standing ovation from the audience.
In the end Salman Iqbal,CEO of ARY informed that next year this ceremony will be held in London for which Royal Albert Hall has already been booked.
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