Indian television tsarina Ekta Kapoor's blue-eyed girl Prachi Desai and Ronit Roy won the best actress and actor awards respectively at her Balaji Telefilm's television awards ceremony where artistes from other production houses were feted too.

The misgivings in the TV industry that the work of only those associated with Balaji Telefilms would be honoured turned out to be unfounded at the Future Group Global Indian TV Honours event held at the Andheri Sports Complex Friday night.

Right at the onset, comperes Sajid Khan and Mallika Arora Khan clarified that Balaji was 'honouring' the achievers and not 'awarding' them.

'Banu Main Teri Dulhan' bagged the award for best serial while the best director award was given to Rajan Shah for 'Ghar Ki Lakshmi Bahu' and Dipesh Shah and Sameer Kulkarni for 'Ba, Bahu Aur Baby'.

Divyanka Tripathi of 'Banu Main Teri Dulhan' was chosen as the best new female face while Aditya Narain bagged the best new male face.

Other programmes that were chosen for awards included 'Ahat 3', 'Indian Idol', 'Swastik', 'Amber Dhara', 'C.I.D.', 'Kaun Banega Crorepati' and 'Jhalak Dikhla Ja'.

Karan Johar won the best chat show anchor award while Shah Rukh Khan was chosen as the best game show host.

King Khan later set the stage on fire when he paid tributes to the present day leading ladies of Indian television and cheered them to scale new heights with his 'Chak De Kudiya' act.

Several actresses, including Prachi, Divyanaka, Smriti Irani, Gautami Kapoor, Aroona Irani, Shakshi Tanwar and Roshni Chopra joined Shah Rukh to do a jig on stage.

Lara Dutta also performed at the event, dancing with a group to songs from 'Partner' and 'Jhoom Barabar Jhoom'.

Bollywood stars rubbed shoulders with their small screen counterparts at the ceremony in a spirit of bonhomie rarely seen in public.

The lifetime achievement honour was presented to B.R. Chopra. Ravi Chopra accepted the honour on behalf of his ailing father.

A special global honour was presented to Karan Johar. Bollywood star Kareena Kapoor was also felicitated with a special global achievement honour.