Mirchi Music Awards Bangla | |
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Awarded for | Best in film music |
Country | India |
Presented by | Radio Mirchi |
First awarded | February 4, 2012 |
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Mirchi Music Awards Bangla is the Bengali segment of the annual Mirchi Music Awards, presented by Radio Mirchi to honour both artistic and technical excellence of professionals in the Bengali language film music industry of India. In 2012, the Bengali edition of the awards - Mirchi Music Awards Bangla was launched, to award the best of 2011.
The award, first instituted in 2011, was held on February 4, 2012. It was hosted by Mir Afsar Ali, an RJ of Radio Mirchi and film actress Rimjhim Mitra. The second edition was held on March 29, 2013, at the Science City auditorium.
The 5th edition of Mirchi Music Awards Bangla was held at Nazrul Manch, Kolkata on 5 February 2016.
On January 15th 2016 the Grand Jury for Mirchi Music Awards Bangla met at The Lalit Great Eastern Hotel to discuss and deliberate on the contenders for the awards this year. Thirty two Judges adjudicated from a collection of more than 2000 songs to find out the most deserving nominees in various categories.
The entire process of judging is done through a secret ballot method handled by the renowned audit firm Ernst & Young. Besides the regular awards categories in Film and Non-Film Bangla music, there is also the Mirchi Listeners’ Choice Awards for the Best Film Song and the Best Film Album.
This year the jury board was studded with stars like Alokananda Roy, Kalyan Sen Barat, Suparna Kanti Ghosh, Pt Tanmoy Bose, Pratik Chowdhury, Pt. Debojyoti Bose, Sudeshna Roy, Raghab Chatterjee, Shiboprasad Mukherjee, Sidhu, Lopamudra Mitra, Sraboni Sen, Soumitra Ray, Surojit Chatterjee, Vikramjit Banerjee (Tuki), Anindya Chatterjee & other luminaries from the field of music and performing arts.