The most popular ‘Zee Gaurav Puraskar’ nominations were declared yesterday late evening at Hotel Westin, Goregaon. Popular artistes from Marathi entertainment industry were present on this occasion. Prominent among them were Jabbar Patel, Prof. Kamlakar Sontakke, Subodh Bhave, N. Chandra, Priya Bapat with Umesh Kamat, Nirmiti Sawant, Manasi Salvi, Vinay Apte, Santosh Juvekar, Atul Todankar, Rajan Tamhane, Vijay Patkar, Bhargavi Chirmule, Chinmay Mandlekar, Sanjay Mone, Vivek Lagu, Tushar Dalvi, Swapnil Bandodkar, Abhijit Gholap, Prasad Oak, Rahul Ranade, Kshiti Jog, Sagar Talashikar, Kishori Ambiye, Jaywant Wad, Abhijit Khandkekar, Milind Phatak, Shilpa Navalkar, Shreerang Deshmukh, Avadhoot Gupte, Suresh Khare, Seema Deshmukh, Ila Bhate besides many newcomers. But, many nominees and other big names were missing. Sachin Pilgaonkar, Aadesh Bandekar, and Mahesh Manjrekar arrived after the announcement of the nominations, which were delayed 90 minutes behind scheduled time.

Nominations in the Marathi Drama and Movies section were announced by Anand Ingale. As the dress code prescribed was Enigmatic Black, most of the artistes and invitees obliged. The nominations in the Drama section were separately announced for the Experimental and Professional category. ‘Jihad’, ‘Sangeet Kone Eke Kaali’, Shishirutuchya Punaragame’, ‘Chafa’ and ‘Khun Karaychay’ figured in the Experimental plays category, while ‘Saavdhaan Shubhamangal’ , ‘Sukhanshi Bhandato Aamhi’, ‘Hey Majhe Navhe’, ‘Aadhi Basu Mag Bolu’ & ‘Lagnabambaal’ appeared in the nominations list in the professional plays category.

The other nominations in the Drama category comprised of Best actor/ actress, best director, best lighting, best Writer, best Dress design and best production design in both professional as well as experimental category. In the movies section, there were many categories like Best film, best director, best actor/ actress, best supporting actor/ actress, Best Comedy performance, best editing, best cinematography, best Art, best choreography, best sound, best dress design, best make-up, best lyrics, best music , best playback singer- male/female, best child artiste, best story, best screenplay and the best dialogues. Since, announcement of this list was too long, there were no entertainment programme, except for dance floor to celebrate the occasion.

Trupti Bhoir, Manasi Salvi, Sonali kulkarni, Urmila Kanetkar & Tejaswini Lonari found their names in the nominations for best actress category while Mangesh Desai, Girish Kulkarni, Sachin Khedekar, Chinmay Mandlekar and Subodh Bhave were nominated in the best actor category. The nominations for best film of the year 2011 were ‘Taryanche Bait’, ‘Shala’, ‘Fakta ladh Mhana’, ‘Sadrakshanaay’ and ‘Balgandharva’. Now, all eyes on the declaration of winners on 25th February 2012.