Bollywood diva Madhuri Dixit and previous beauty queen and actress Sushmita Sen were honoured for individual excellence within the field of acting and entrepreneurship respectively here Monday night.
While Sushmita was honoured with woman entrepreneur award for successfully running her organisation –I AM SHE, Madhuri was conferred with platinum diva award, at Planman Media’s Powerbrands Hall of Fame awards held at Kingdom of Dreams.
“I am very proud and honoured after receiving the award. It reiterates the truth that people still take a look at me with integrity. I'VE come here with a large number of hard work,” said Madhuri, who was accompanied by husband Sriram Nene, after receiving the award.
While thanking for the honour, Sushmita said: “It have been a journey for me. I won Miss Universe in 1994, got to do my first film ‘Dastak’ in 1996 and now I receive this woman entrepreneur award for I'M SHE, which I opened two years ago.”
Sen said she opened it with the theory of creating “our Indian beauties capable enough to win international titles. All you people was a source of significant strength”.
Actors Parineeti Chopra and Prateik also received the awards for rising star female and rising star male respectively.
“Just a year ago I USED TO BE not even planning to become an actress. I USED TO BE working in corporate industry. I always considered becoming a banker. But I FEEL destiny has its own role to play,” said Parineeti who's enjoying new found fame after the success of “Ladies v/s Ricky Bahl” and “Ishaqzaade”.
“It feels specialized that I'VE BEEN getting such a lot of awards. I promise to maintain working harder and that i hope to maintain everybody happy,” she added.
Prateik, who has films like “Jaane Tu Ya Jaane Na”, “My Friend Pinto” and “Aarakshan” to his credit, dedicated his trophy to the folk he has worked with so far.
“This is truly encouraging. I WANT to dedicate this to the entire individuals who I'VE worked in all my films,” he said.
Theatre veteran Tom Alter was given an award for exemplary contribution to Indian theatre while recently crowned Miss Asia Pacific Himagini Singh Yadu was honoured with the title of inspirational youth icon.
Celebrity chef Vikas Khanna was given an award within the category, India Ki Shaan- culinary. People from various corporate and marketing fields were also honoured on the awards ceremony.
The event saw the revealing of Planman’s second edition of “Powerbrands”, a research-driven book, which talks about 100 strongest brands of India. – IANS
