Global Online awards for Ash, Farah

LONDON: Actress Shabana Azmi, choreographer Farah Khan and filmmaker Jagmohan Mundhra will be honoured with the Global Online awards for their contribution to the Indian cinema.

The awards, constituted by Triangle Media Group, will be presented at the University of Leicester on December seven. The awards ceremony will also have a lecture by Mundhra, who will discuss his forthcoming movie Provoked starring Aishwarya Rai, based on a real life story of a woman abused by her husband, and its legal significance to the university's law school professors and students. The film had received rave reviews at Cannes.

“The TMG awards bi-annually celebrate, recognise and honour the top 50 South Asian and foreign achievers who have made an outstanding mark and contribution in the global mainstream media,” theatre personality, Haresh Sood, who is a the Global Ambassador of the awards, said.

Leicester Councillor Manjula Sood, who is a postgraduate from the University, will also be honoured for her outstanding contribution to local politics.

The awards, launched in 2004, have been supported by Minister for Culture Media and Sport, Tessa Jowell.