*Sajid-Wajid, Javed Akhtar, Mamta Sharma, Shankar Mahadevan, Ehsan, Richa Sharma, Irshad Kamil express their delight on winning awards at the Uninor Mirchi Music Awards 2010 Powered by Karbonn Mobiles
 

MUMBAI: Positioned and envisioned as the Grammys of India, the Uninor Mirchi Music Awards 2010 Powered By Karbonn Mobiles brought together the leading lights of contemporary Bollywood Music under one roof. The winners were delighted on bagging these prestigious awards. Here is what some of them had to say:

Composer Sajid of Sajid-Wajid, who won the top awards any music composer would vie for – the Best Album Of The Year and Music Director Of The Year, and were also responsible for creating the music for the song Tere Mast Mast Do Nain (again from Dabanng) for which Rahat Fateh Ali Khan won the Best Male Vocalist of theYear Award: I feel like I am on Cloud nine and need to jump to the earth and be grounded again and be very humble! Allah has given me everything and I am really thankful to Allah that I have received this award while being a part of such a big music family. It was a fantastic experience and I would like to thank Rahat also for singing so well and believing in us and working so hard to make this song one of the best songs of 2010. I promise that we will keep working harder and make better songs each year and will never let our loyal listeners down! We are delighted to have always given only original music throughout our career....

Irshad Kamil, who wrote the lyrics Once Upon A Time in Mumbaai, which bagged the Uninor Mirchi Listeners' Choice Album Of The Year, said, This is a very good feeling -- very nice because this is the second time that we have won the Listeners' Choice Award at the Mirchi Music Awards. The last time we won, it was for Ajab Prem Ki Ghazab Khaani, and now, to win it for Once Upon A Time In Mumbaai feels really good, because the competition was really tough – all the albums, like Dabangg, My Name Is Khan and Ishqiya were very good, but I think listeners are listeners, and listeners are God!...

Mamta Sharma, who won the Best Female Vocalist and Best Upcoming Female Vocalist of the Year Awards for Munni Badnam from Dabanng, said: It feels great to win the Mirchi Music Awards! I am more excited as I have received the award from fabulous singers like Kavita Ma'am and Alkaji. The experience was fantastic, and I shall cherish it all my life. I am grateful to Arbaaz, Mallika and Salman Khan. I owe a lot to Arbaaz because I think it's the producer who finally decides as to who will sing a particular song. Lalit (Pandit, composer) sir gave me the song,  and he could have erased the voice and could very easily have said â€?we need an established singer',  but he is the one who actually said, â€?Change whatever you want,  but the voice should be this alone, and none other.' This is fantastic, and I cannot express my  happiness....

Popular composer-trio Shankar Ehsaan and Loy, who received the Best Programmer And Arranger Of The Year award for the song Noor-e-Khuda from My Name is Khan, and their song Sajdaa, sung by Rahat Fateh Ali Khan, Shankar and Richa Sharma from the same film won the Best Song in the Sufi Tradition, while Kare Kare Badra from the film Mirchi won the award for the Best Raga-Based Song.

Composer-Singer Shankar said, I'm feeling very good, actually, as these are three diverse awards. I have got one for music arrangement, which was a surprise,  and another is as a vocalist for the raga-based song which is a fantastic composition by Monty. I am delighted to also have won the award for the best song in the Sufi Tradition. I would like to thank Radio Mirchi for making this possible....

Richa Sharma, who too won for Sajdaa, said, I am definitely feeling great. I am high, high, high! I am very happy and it feels absolutely great when you work hard and get recognized  by getting an award for it. When you win against such strong competition,  it feels great!...

Shankar's fellow-composer Ehsaan said, It's fantastic! We were here for the first awards,  we weren't there for the second,  and now we are here for the third,  and it's great to get awards from your peers and from people you have worked with and respect....

Javed Akhtar, who wrote the lyrics for the Best Raga-Based Song, Kare Kare Badra, said, It always feel great to win any award. After all,  an award is recognition, it's a message that whatever you have done is liked by others, praised by others; that you can connect with the audience and listeners,  so it's a kind of gratification. As a matter of fact, nowadays,  it is rare that you get a situation where the song is classical-based. Lyricists write songs to tunes, and when, as a lyricist, before you write the lyrics for a tune, when you listen to it carefully, the tune also has its own temperament, its own dharma,  and if you understand that temperament and dharma,  and if that tune is a classical raga-based tune, you cannot write casual colloquial language. You go for traditional words,  traditional diction,  and that is what I did because I had no choice but to show my respect to the raga by using words that belonged to those time when such songs were sung....