At the Tele Cine Awards 2011

Sunday evening I went to the Science City to attend the Tele Cine Awards (TCA) 2011 function. Science City auditorium is becoming a favourite for hosting the Bengali cinema and television serial award functions.

Surprisingly, the number of award functions is increasing by the month. I think that it has become a more of a profitable venture for the organizers than recognition of the personalities. I met Kaushik & Churni Ganguly, Swastika Mukherjee, Srijit (picture), Sashswata, Rituporno Ghosh and others from the Tollywood fraternity.

I handed over the award for Best Actress to Nandana Sen for her film Autograph (picture). One of the songs from the movie Autograph – Amake amar moton thaktey dao… – has become a rage. Nandana, the daughter of Nobel laureate Amartya Sen and Nabaneeta Dev Sen, flew down from Mumbai for the function.

On the evening of Saturday, June 19th, before returning home for dinner with some guests, I attended a function at the Crystal Hall of The Taj Bengal, organized by Penguin Books India and The Taj Bengal, to launch the Amitav Ghosh’s River of Smoke – his second book in Ibis trilogy. Amitav’s books are a bestsellers overseas putting him on top of the list of bestselling Indian writers.

I shall will be in Delhi by today late night.

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