On the 15th anniversary of the Lux Style Award’s
we decided to look back and celebrate some of the most priceless moments in
Pakistani award show history. For the
sake of this list we sat through almost 40 hours of footage and relived every
single LSA that has taken place so far.
Here are some of the highlights:
1. Shan’s first ever
live performance for the 2006 Lux style Awards
One
of Lollywood’s biggest heart throbs of all time was used to doing dance numbers
on screen, but he had never performed live. He was paired with his co-star Saima,
who looked beautiful in her ‘laal laacha’
and the audience was left spellbound
2. Humayun Saeed wins
his first award for Chaandni Raatein in 2003
Do you remember what a big blockbuster this serial was? This was the time when all the ladies went ga
ga over the very young and extremely handsome Humayun Saeed for the first time.
His performance was praiseworthy and the serial, based on issues of polygamy
and motherhood, very captivating. Humayun has come a long way, hasn’t he?
3. Moin Akhtar’s entertainment segments in 2003
What a
precious night. The 2003 LSAs left us with so many beautiful memories of Moin
Akhtar at his prime. He provided his audience with comic relief but it was
clear as day that he was not just a humorist – he was, and still remains, one
of Pakistan’s most treasured actors,
hosts, producers and writers.
4. Faysal Qureshi winning his first LSA
award for Best TV Actor on a Satellite channel in 2005
Faysal won
the best actor award for his comic performance in Main aur Tum. Nominated in the category alongside the biggest names
of the television industry, like Nadeem sahib, Abid Ali, Firdous Jamal, Sajid
Hasan and Talat Hussain, He said “I wasn’t expecting this. Just like Humayun
scored a hat trick this year for winning awards, I will score one for not
getting the award!”
5. Wasim Akram winning the Personality of
the Decade award in 2006
This good looking and stylish cricketer thanked his club, his coaches, Javed Miandad, Mudassir Nazar and “the great Imran Khan” for his success. He said he had good teachers. Yup, that’s right, we’re not surprised – having IK as one of his mentors, Wasim Bhai was bound to become the style icon he is today!
6. When Runa Laila and Meera shared the
stage to entertain the audience
The
combination of Runa Laila’s beautiful voice and Meera’s electric thumkas created a dynamite combination
on stage. It was a trip down memory lane as the duo relived this sixties
classic.
7. Karma winning the Best Couture Designer
award one year before they parting ways
It was
highly ironic when Maheen Kardar Ali stated “I’d like to thank my partners,
Kamiar and Saad - I can’t think of working with any other two people” upon
winning the Best Couture Designer award in 2006. It was great to Rokni and Ali together
on stage that year before they split and parted ways permanently, a year later.
Since then, both the designers have come a long way with their separate design
houses.
8. Hadiqa Kayani’s performance with her quirky
hair cut and models in mohawks!
Hadiqa
entertained the audience with her song Meherman
dilan deya during the 2006 awards show while dancing with hot male models
clad in HSY’s latest collection. Side note: heart throb Adnan Malik from Sadqay Tumharay was also one of these
men.
9. When Reema and HSY performed on ‘Love mein gum’ for LSA in 2011
HSY was
the perfect dance partner for the talented and evergreen Reema. It is’nt easy to dance in sync with the queen of
Lollywood and hats off to HSY for doing an excellent job! We can now say that
he dances as well as he designs!
10. When our very own Tennis Super star
Aisaam ul Haq received the Most Stylish Person award for 2011 from Ayaan Ali,
the model and ex-convict
Of
course, sports and style go hand in hand and who doesn’t love a handsome young
sports star in a good suit?
11. When Pakistan’s first fashion editor, Samina
Ibrahim was given the lifetime achievement award in 2011
Whenever
we will talk about Pakistan’s fashion journey, Samina Ibrahim’s name will
always come up as the first Pakistani fashion editor who took Pakistan from the
vague to the vogue. Her colleagues say that she understood photographs like a
professional fashion photographer. Even after her 28 year journey in the fashion
world she said “thank you, not just for the award but for inspiring me, hopefully,
to a new beginning”.
12. When Sharmeen Obaid Chinoy was bestowed
the Lux Style Award of Achievement 2012
“This
is the first time I am being honoured in my own country and to receive an
honour in your own country cannot be matched even by an Academy Award. As
Pakistanis we need to start celebrating our own work,” said the two-time Oscar
winner.
13. Hamsafar bagging 4 awards in one night
for Best Actor, Best Actress, Best Drama and Best Director in 2013.
The
audience wouldn’t have settled for anything less. What a glorious moment it was
when sab ke dilon ki dhadkan, Fawad
Khan, won Best Actor, the beautiful Mahira Khan won best Actress, the talented
Momina Duraid won Best Drama and the extraordinary Sarmad Khoosat won Best Director
for Humsafar. It was the biggest serial of 2012 and played an instrumental role
in launching Fawad and Mahira’s bollywood careers and once again put Pakistani
TV on the global map.
14. Pyare
Afzal winning five awards in one night
Following
closely on Humsafar’s footsteps, Pyaare Afzal owned the award night by winning
all the major categories in TV.
15. When Ali Zafar bragged about his dance
with Katrina Kaif in the 2015 LSA
And
not only that, he challenged Fawad to also dance with Katrina! Little did we
know that Karan Johar will love Fawad so much in Kapoor & Sons that he
would cast him the following year with the lovely Katrina in his next venture!
Good luck for that Fawad, we can’t wait to see you do that dance with Kat!
*This article was published on http://www.luxstyle.pk/
