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The Clap-O-Meter
Wizcraft may have organised the event, but the audience controlled the pace and the mood letting their feelings be clearly known with their claps and boos.
- Published: 23:33 May 3, 2009
Wizcraft may have organised the event, but the audience controlled the pace and the mood letting their feelings be clearly known with their claps and boos.
Of course Amitabh Bachchan got the maximum number of claps every time he appeared on stage or even on the monitor screens.
But there were others who rated highly on the clap-o-meter.
Abhishek Bachchan drew plenty of applause and calls of I love you and the crowd went into a frenzy when Hrithik and Salman appeared on stage.
Anil Kapoor, Akshay Kumar and Jaya Bhaduri also did well on the clap-o-meter as did Rani and Preity.
Applause for Van damme
Vaibhavi Merchant, choreographer of Kajra Re, did not seem surprised to get loud applause but Jean Claude Van Damme couldn't believe that just a glimpse of him on the screen could generate such a response from an Indian audience.
South Indian celebrities Mohanlal, Vikram and Mammootty certainly had many fans in the auditorium but John Abraham was not even there - yet the audience clapped when some scenes from his film were shown.
Standing ovations
K.K. Mahajan, O.P. Dutta and Asha Parekh got standing ovations from the stars and the entire audience.
But Bela Sehgal's long winded acceptance speech was drowned out by the boos of the audience.
Himesh Reshammiya also ignored the catcalls and insisted on singing to Amitabh Bachchan and calling his "daddy" on stage.
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