Radio Mirchi honours Marathi Music Industry at Renewgreen Mirchi Music Awards Marathi

Radio Mirchi honours Marathi Music Industry at Renewgreen Mirchi Music Awards Marathi

·       Music Composer Yashwant Deo felicitated with Lifetime Achievement award

·        Swapnil Bandodkar awarded as the best Male Vocalist of the year, while Bela Shende the Female Vocalist of the year

·        Mesmerizing performances by Sonu Nigam, Manasi Naik, Shalmali Kholgade among others

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.

Winners:

Category	Winner
Album of the year	Mangalashtaka Once More
Song of the year	Olya Saanjweli
Male vocalist of the year	Swapnil Bandodkar
Female vocalist of the year	Bela Shende
Music composer of the year	Avinash – Vishwajeet
Lyricist of the year	Ashwini Shende
Upcoming music composer of the year	Jasraj Joshi, Saurabh Bhalerao & Rishikesh Datar
Upcoming lyricist of the year	Mangesh Kangane
Upcoming male vocalist of the year	Mangesh Borgaokar
Upcoming female vocalist of the year	Sayali Pankaj
Programmer & arranger of the year	Praful Karlekar
Song recording & mixing of the year	Henry Moniz & Vijay Dayal
Song of the year- Listener’s choice	Deva tujhya gaabhaaryaalaa
Album of the year- Listener’s choice	Duniyadari

About Radio Mirchi:

Entertainment Network India Limited (ENIL), India’s leading private FM radio broadcaster, popularly known as Radio Mirchi, operates across 32 cities in the country. Launched in 2001, Radio Mirchi has the highest listenership across the country and a track record of developing innovative content, thus expanding and retaining its audiences and advertisers through the years. Radio Mirchi has delighted listeners and the industry with its exciting properties like the Purani Jeans Film Festival and the Mirchi Music Awards. 

Radio Mirchi’s continuous innovations across different platforms like Visual Radio or Mirchi Mobile have been instrumental in gaining leadership in the private FM Radio industry. Radio Mirchi made its international foray with the launch of the brand in the UAE. From 1st Feb, 2012, Radio Mirchi can be heard in Dubai, Abu Dhabi and Al Ain and is the first Indian radio brand to go international.