Madhuri Dixit and Sushmita Sen honoured for individual excellence in their field!

Madhuri Dixit

Sushmita Sen

Bollywood diva Madhuri Dixit and former beauty queen and actress Sushmita Sen were honoured for individual excellence in the field of acting and entrepreneurship respectively.

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 fact that people still look at me with integrity. I have come here with a lot of hard work," told Madhuri, who was accompanied by husband Sriram Nene, after receiving the award.

While thanking for the honour, Sushmita told: "It has 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 AM SHE, which I opened two years ago."

Sen said she opened it with the idea of making "our Indian beauties capable enough to win international titles. All you people have been a source of great strength".

Actors Parineeti Chopra and Prateik also received the awards for rising star female and rising star male respectively.

"Just a year ago I was not even planning to become an actress. I was working in corporate industry. I always thought of becoming a banker. But I think destiny has its own role to play," told Parineeti who is enjoying new found fame after the success of "Ladies v/s Ricky Bahl" and "Ishaqzaade".

"It feels really good that I have been getting so many awards. I promise to keep working harder and I hope to keep everybody happy," she added.

Prateik, who has movies like "Jaane Tu Ya Jaane Na", "My Friend Pinto" and "Aarakshan" to his credit, dedicated his trophy to the people he has worked with so far.

"This is really encouraging. I would like to dedicate this to all the people who I have 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 in the category, India Ki Shaan- culinary. People from various corporate and marketing fields were also honoured at the awards ceremony.

The event saw the unveiling of Planman's second edition of "Powerbrands", a research-driven book, which talks about 100 most powerful brands of India.

Kajol and Sushmita support girl Child birth cause!

Sushmita Sen with a girl



Kajol



Heard the current news about three-month-old baby Afreen, who was battered by her father in Bangalore, as she was born a girl? Well, reacting to this incident, actress Kajol told, “people who do things like that are sick in their head”. Even Sushmita Sen, the former beauty queen said, anyone who can do such an ugly thing should be punished.

Kajol further added, “I think children are sacred, they are god’s gift and I don’t think anybody has the right to take anybody’s life or to do anything with any baby,” told Kajol, who is a mother of two – daughter Nysa and son Yug.

A campaign called ‘Save and Empower The Girl Child’, was organized here on Wednesday.

“It’s a wonderful cause and I am very happy to be here. The country needs to sit and take notice of this. In today’s date, if anybody feels that man is superior to women then I don’t think so. It’s a wrong, illiterate attitude,” told Kajol.

Actress Sushmita Sen was also present at the event. She too, was disturbed by the brutal incident.

She further added, “We all were talking about the little girls, so many get killed before their neighbours even get to know that they even existed…No matter how much we thank god, but when you take action it matters a lot. So whenever I get an opportunity, I jump in because I want everyone to have a life,”

Sushmita Sen, has adopted two daughters.