The winners of the sixth Global Indian Music Academy awards have been revealed. Hosted by Ayushmann Khuranna, the awards night began with Dhruv Ghanekar performing the India national anthem on his guitar followed by a stellar performance by the King of Playback Arijit Singh who had the crowd clapping in unison. Sonakshi Sinha surprised the audience with her power packed performance as she performed a hilarious parody on the year’s most popular film songs.
The show kicked off with ‘Bajirao Mastani’ winning the first three awards of Best Background Score, Best Music Arranger & Programmer and Best Engineer awarded to the talented Sanchit Balhara, Sahil-Pritesh and Tanay Gajjar. Director Sanjay Leela Bhansali also won Best Music Director for his film ‘Bajirao Mastani’. The night continued to feature well-deserved wins as Bollywood’s legendary star Amitabh Bachchan won the award for the Song of the Year performed by a Celebrity for the song ‘Atrangi Yarri’ for the film ‘Wazir’. A surprise for the evening was certainly when Yo Yo Honey Singh alongside Sonu Nigam & Bickram Ghosh were tied for Best Pop Song. Arijit Singh certainly had a great night as he was awarded the Wizcraft Honor for Best Live Performer as well as taking away four more categories– MTV GiMA Duet of the year for Airlift song ‘Soch Na Sake’, Most Popular Radio Song of the year, Best Film Song for the runaway hit ‘Gerua’ and Most Streamed Song of the year for ‘Sanam Re’.
The star studded awards night also featured a special heartfelt tribute to Aadesh Shrivastava by legendary actor Amitabh Bachchan and Udit Narayan, Harshdeep Kaur, Lalit Pandit, Sidesh Bhosle and Divya Kumar in the presence of his family. The event will be telecast on Colors this month.
GiMA 2016: Winners list
Wizcraft Honour for Best Live Performer
Arijit Singh
Best Music Initiative
NH7 Weekender
Breakthrough Artiste of the Year
Badshah
GiMA MTV Rising Star
Anmol Malik
GiMA MTV Rising Star
Zanai Bhosle
GiMA MTV Viewers choice
Sooraj Dooba Hai from Roy
GiMA MTV Duet of the Year
Soch Na Sake from Airlift
Hungama music presents most Streamed Song of the year
Sanam Re
Most Popular Radio Song of the Year brought to you by Superhits 93.5 Red FM Bajaate Raho
Gerua from Dilwale
Song of the year
Amitabh Bachchan for Atrangi Yaari performed by a celebrity for the movie Wazir
Film Categories
Best Music Arranger & Programmer
Shail – Pritesh for Deewani Mastani from Bajirao Mastani. Additional programming by Nitin Shankar
Best Engineer
Tanay Gajjar for Bajirao Mastani
Best Background Score
Sanchit Balhara for Bajirao Mastani
Best Music Debut
Ami Mishra, Music Director of Hasi from Hamari Adhuri Kahani
Best Playback Singer – Female
Shreya Ghoshal for Deewani Mastani from Bajirao Mastani
Best Playback Singer – Male
Papon for Moh Moh Ke Dhaage from Dum Laga Ke Haisha
Best Duo/Group
Swati Sharma & Brijesh Shandilya for Banno Tera Swagger from Tanu Weds Manu Returns
Best Lyricist
Varun Grover for Moh Moh Ke Dhaage from Dum Laga Ke Haisha
Best Music Director
Sanjay Leela Bhansali for Bajirao Mastani
Best Film Song
Gerua from Dilwale
Best Film Album
Roy
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