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  Hon. Minister for Aviation, Shri Prafull Patel honouring Aishwarya Rai Bachchan
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  Anooj Kapoor (Bussiness Head-SONY SAB) and Shreyas Kishore- Ex Miss India honouring Dr. Jatinder Kaur Arora
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  Dheeraj Kumar Presenting the award to Krushnaa Patil
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  Sanjay Arora- MD, Dicitex Decor giving the award to Jasmin Sohrabji
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  Pradeep Dhoot- Director, Videocon Industries Ltd and Nalini Dhoot honouring Sushmita Sen
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  Anirudh Dhoot- Director, Videocon Group of Companies and Parvathy Omnakuttan- Ex Miss India honouring Manisha Girotra
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  N.P Singh, COO SET and Harrinder Singh, Vice Chariman and MD, Percept Holdings honouring Pooja Chopra
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  Anil Khera- CEO, Videocon D2H and Videocon mobile and Reshmi Ghosh presenting the award to Loveleen Tandan
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  Javed Akhtar presenting award to Aradhna Prakash Gupta
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  Anu Ranjan (President- The ITA, Editor GR8! TV magazine) and Madhur Bhandarkar honouring Asha Parekh
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  Archana Kochhar, Aarti Chabaria and Yoshita Swarup Sharma- Category Manager, Volini honouring Meghna Malik
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  Ramesh Taurani and Zarine Khan presnting Award to Kavita Seth
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  Honey Irani and Anil Mahajan- CEO, Corporate Affairs honouring Zoya Akhtar
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  Anuradha Prasad and Rajeev Shukla presenting the award to Latika Khaneja
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  Hon. Min for Public Health Protocol, Enviornment, Sports and Youth- Shri Suresh Shetty and Shabana Azmi honouring Rekha Purie
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  Ajit Thakur- Bussiness head, Sony TV, Poonam Dhillon and Yogesh Lakhani Bright Advertising honouring Shahnaz Hussain
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  Bitta Singh- All India Anti- Terrorist Front. Former Chief of the youth Congress, Yukta Mookhey and Ramesh Sippy honouring Rukhsana Kausar
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  Shashi Ranjan and Mugdha Godse honouring Vardhman Saxena
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  Dia Mirza and Arshad Wasi

GR8! Women Awards, 2010
Year: 2010
Location: The ITC Grand Maratha Sahar, Andheri (W), Mumbai

- Vierendra Bhargav

Come to think of it…
To God goes the credit for creating Eve, but – and we say it even at the risk of sounding blasphemous – to GR8! Goes an equal credit in creating some of the biggest celebratory eves year after year for God’s Eve!

This Event has multiple layers to it! But that’s not all!

Threaded into the Awards is ‘beti’, which is a movement against the scourge of Female Foeticide rampant all across the country, today. This heinous practice is playing havoc with the Gender-balance as created by Mother Nature and ‘beti’ is a clarion call for awareness about this cursed mindset!

And this entire endeavour of Awards and ‘beti’ has won the implicit trust of one and all over the years and the Event is always awash with the illuminati from all walks of life!

But the crowning glory of the evening was when two women (one a girl, actually), who have become the symbol of Women-courage today, were honoured!

In a stunned hush, everybody heard Kashmir’s Rukhsana Kausar recount her skirmish with hardcore terrorists and how she took them head-on single-handedly. She ended up killing one and injuring the other. Coming out of a girl, who has still not moved off her teens, it left all of those present speechless. Many an eye went moist with pride!

This year, GR8! floated a special contest for The Best Short-film on ‘Beti-Foeticide’ in association with Aaj Tak that carried an award of Rs. 1,00,000/-. It elicited tremendous response and more than 250 films were entered by young film-makers of all hues and from all the nooks and corners of the country.

The winner was Vardhman Saxena from far-off Shajapur in Madhya Pradesh. The audience clapped lustily after his 45-seconder Short was screened at the Event!

A visibly moved Anu Ranjan was heard saying – "I feel so humbled by this electric response to the Awards and to ‘beti’! We will go the whole mile for ‘beti’ and do whatever we can for changing the feudal mindsets that lead one to kill one’s on flesh & blood just because she is a daughter!"

Indeed, ‘beti’ stirred deep emotions in people that night! With anger welling up in his eyes, Arshad Warsi hissed – ‘The perpetrators of Female Foeticide should be castrated!’ And an incensed Sushmita Sen was even more precise – ‘Kill ’em!’

Winners:

GR8! Golden Laurel, 2010 - Asha Parekh

GR8! Scroll of Honour, 2010 for ‘Global Recognition’ - Aishwarya Rai Bachchan

GR8! Special Mention for adopting a Girl-Child - Sushmita Sen

GR8! 'Entrepreneur - Shahnaz Husain

Choreography - Saroj Khan

GR8! Entrepreneur - Latika Khaneja

Directing - Zoya Akhtar

Television - Meghna Malik

Sports - Krushnaa Patil

GR8! Special Mention - Rukhsana Kausar

Medicine - Dr. Rishma Dhillon Pai

Social Service - Chetna Gala Sinha

Beauty - Pooja Chopra

GR8! Special Mention - Suman Sharma

Banking & Finance - Manisha Girotra

GR8! Special Mention - Loveleen Tandan

Fashion & Designing - Shabina Khan

GR8! Young Achiever - Sparsh Khanchandani

Science & Technology - Dr. Jatinder Kaur Arora

Music - Kavita Seth

Education - Ameeta Mulla Wattal

GR8! Special Mention - Aradhna Prakash Gupta