Shah Rukh, Priyanka bag top honours at Apsara Awards

Bollywood superstar Shah Rukh Khan bagged the best actor award for the movie "Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi" while Priyanka Chopra was adjudged best actress for "Kaminey" at the fifth Apsara Film and Television Producers Guild Awards here Friday evening.

A.R. Murugadoss bagged the best director and best screenplay awards for "Ghajini", which was also adjudged best film.The Chevrolet Heartbeat of the Nation Award (Male) was bagged by Shahid Kapoor for "Kaminey" and Deepika Padukone (Female) for "Love Aaj Kal".

The other special award, Guinness World Record for the Most Public Appearances to Promote a Film went to Abhishek Bachchan. He travelled to seven cities in 12 hours to promote "Delhi-6".

The outstanding debutant director award went to Ayan Mukherjee for "Wake up Sid", the best singer female award was bagged by Shreya Ghoshal for "Tujh mein rab dikhta hai" from "Rab Ne Bana...", and for best male singer to Mohit Chauhan for "Yeh dooriyan" ("Love Aaj Kal").

Imtiaz Ali bagged the best story award for "Love Aaj Kal". The best performance in a comic role went to Ajay Devgn for "All The Best", while best in negative role award went to Amol Gupte for "Kaminey".

Pritam Chakraborty won the best music award for "Love Aaj Kal", while Jaideep Sahni won the award for best lyrics for "Rab Ne Bana Di..".

Amitabh Bachchan won the Best Lifetime Achievement award. He was there with his entire family at the venue - the Chitrakoot Grounds at Andheri.

Shah Rukh Khan, Saif Ali Khan and Kareena performed on stage to some of their hit songs to entertain the crowds.

Shah Rukh enthralled the audience by dancing to his song "Love mera hit hit soniye" from "Billu".

The Guild jury, including Ravi Chopra, Ketan Desai, and Sajid Nadiadwala, had chosen the winners.