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 19^th, 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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