MUMBAI:India's leading radio station, Radio Mirchi, hosted an evening of glamour and music at the Renewgreen Mirchi Music Awards Marathi powered by Idea at Pune. The luminaries of the Marathi music and entertainment fraternity graced the occasion with their benign presence and felicitated the talented winners.

Commenting on this, Prashant Pandey, CEO and Executive Director, ENIL, said, "We are delighted to host yet another edition of the Mirchi Music Awards Marathi. Music has no language and talent has no bounds. This is what we seek to acknowledge. With these awards we wish to pay tribute to the hard work and dedication of some of the most deserving talents in the country."

Also present at the event Mr. Rajendra Babulal Malu, Founder Director Renewgreen Energy Pvt. Ltd, said, "Radio Mirchi is giving awards to aspiring and established singers, musicians and technicians of Marathi music World from last year.

Renewgreen appreciates the efforts of Radio Mirchi to inspire the MARATHI MUSIC WORLD with this award. Renewgreen salutes the stalwarts of Marathi music industry & congratulates all the singers, musicians & technicians for this RENEWGREEN MIRCHI MUSIC AWARD - MARATHI."

Expressing his delight, Suresh Wadkar, the Jury Chairperson, said, "It's the second year and I along with my team of jury members are very happy to see this platform grow for promoting good Marathi music. These awards are a huge encouragement for artists from the Marathi music industry to motivate them to do good and quality work. I got to hear some real good songs during the scanning process and feel that new talent has a huge potential in them".

The star- studded event hosted by Sumeet Raghvan and Kranti Redkar was attended by prominent members of showbiz like Sachin Pilgaonkar, Hrishita Bhatt, Ashok Patki, Mrinal Kulkarni, to name a few. The evening saw some splendid performances by Sonu Nigam, Shalmali Kholgade, Vaishali Samant and Apeksha Dandekar. Popular Marathi actress Manasi Naik gave a scintillating dance performance.

The jury included eminent personalities like Ashok Patki, Suresh Wadkar, Mahesh Manjrekar, Vijay Dayal, Vaishali Samant, Abhijeet Pohankar, Bela Shende, Kaushal Inamdar, Aarti Anklikar, Salil Kulkarni, Nilesh Mohrir, Pravin Davne, Rahul Deshpande, Manoj Pandya and Shitalchandra Kulkarni.

The awards were presented for 12 categories namely, album of the year, song of the year, male/female vocalist of the year, music composer of the year, lyricist of the year, upcoming male/female vocalist of the year, upcoming music composer of the year, upcoming lyricist of the year, Programmer & arranger of the year, Song recording & mixing of the year.

Yashwant Deo was awarded the Lifetime Achievement Awards for his extra ordinary contribution to the Marathi music industry.

The award show will be telecast on ETV Marathi on Sunday, February 16, 2014.

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