Dabangg Rocks GIMA

Salman Khan's  national award winner movie Dabangg 's  chartbuster "Munni badnaam hui" walked away with six awards, including best film album, at the Global Indian Music Awards (GIMA).

The event was held at the Kingdom of Dreams ,Gurgaon Thursday night.

Mamta Sharma won the best music debut for "Munni badnaam". The best music director award went to Sajid-Wajid and Lalit Pandit for their compositions in the movie.

"Dabangg" also won the technical awards for best background score by Sandeep Shirodkar, best engineer-film album by Eric Pillai and best engineer-theatre mix for Leslie Fernandes.

Giving tough competition to Milan Luthria's "Once Upon A Time In Mumbaai", which received four awards, including best film song for "Pee loon", for which Mohit Chauhan was awarded in the playback singer-male category, and Irshad Kamil took home the best lyricist trophy.

The best music arranger and programmer award was given away to Sandeep Shirodkar for the same song.

Other Honors were

Sunidhi Chauhan  : Best playback singer female for "Sheila ki jawani" (Tees Maar Khan)

A.R. Rahman : Honoured with the title of Global Indian Musician.

Legendary composer Pyarelal : outstanding contribution to pop music award.

Balamurli Krishnan : outstanding contribution to Indian classical music

The show  co-hosted by actors Ranveer Singh and Neha Dhupia, with  high-octane performances followed by Sunidhi Chauhan, Sonu Nigam, Kailash Kher, Shubha Mudgal, Usha Uthup, Midival Punditz, Shankar-Ehsaan-Loy along with "India's Got Talent" winner Shillong Chamber Choir.

Celebs like Shah Rukh Khan, Priyanka Chopra, Rajeev Khandelwal, Nagesh Kukunoor and actor-VJ Rannvijay Singh added star power to the show.

In the non-film music category "Indian Idol 5" winner Sreeram won best music debut for "Rehnuma" -- the award was shared by Band Called Nine for "Rewind".

Best pop/rock single : Agnee for "Aahatein".
Best popular music album : Akriti Kakar for "Akriti"

Best fusion album award  :Ranjit Barot for "Bada Boom",

Best devotional album and best semi-classical album  : Ustad Rashid Khan for "Nirgun" 

Best folk album  :"Desert Slide" by Vishwa Mohan Bhatt and folk musicians of Rajasthan
Best Hindustani classical album-vocal :"Sadhana" by Pandit Rajan-Sajan Mishra

Best Hindustani classical album- instrumental :"Aura" by Niladri Kumar

Best Carnatic classical album vocal :"Chandiran Oliyil" by Sanjay Subrahmanyan

The highlight of the show was a performance by Priyanka, who paid tribute to women power of music industry. Shah Rukh, who is the brand ambassador of Kingdom of Dreams, left the audience in splits with his witty and humorous comments off and on.

The guest list also included Aadesh Shrivastav, Salim-Sulieman, Sophie Chowdhary, Kavita Krishnamurthy, Rekha Bhardwaj, Anu Malik and Prasoon Joshi, among others.