Bappi Lahiri at GIMA Music Awards 🎶

The Mumbai rains couldn't play spoilsport for the 3rd Global Indian Music Awards(GIMA) held at Yashraj<br />Studios on Monday.<br />Though shutterbugs were drenched outside the auditorium of the studio, the Bollywood swish set turned up<br />to honour the best and most popular of the music fraternity.<br />Hosts of the evening were Saif Ali Khan and Parineeti Chopra , and the guest list included Shah Rukh Khan,<br />Ajay Devgn, Vidya Balan, Sonakshi Sinha, Ayushmann Khurrana, Himesh Reshammiya, Nargis Fakhri<br />and Vivek Oberoi.<br />Among highlights of the evening was Ajay Devgn taking to the stage to perform with Sonakshi. There was a<br />special tribute act dedicated A.R. Rahman to toast his completion of 20 years in the industry.<br />He was felicitated by Yash Chopra and singers such as Mohit Chauhan, Sonu Niigaam, Alka Yagnik, Hariharan<br />and Udit Narayan belted out some of his biggest hits.<br />There was a standing ovation for classical music veterans Girija Devi and Pandit Jasraj when they took to stage<br />to collect the Lifetime Achievement Award and the Global Indian Musician Award respectively. Rockstar won<br />six GIMAs in the film category.<br />Ayushmann Khurrana along with composer Rochak Kohli won the award for Hottest Song of the Year, for the<br />Vicky Donor number Paani da rang. Bappi Lahiri won the award for Most Popular Song on Radio for Ooh la la<br />from The Dirty Picture.