The award ceremony which was held just after the IPL season this year had luminaries from the Hindi film industry and cricket fraternity in their gorgeous best to acknowledge the super talented young and established players from the cricketing world.
Watch the first ever Sahara IPL Award winners accepting laurels for their hard work, only on your favorite channel, COLORS on Sunday, May 23 at 8.00 pm. The hosts of the glittering evening were the ever eloquent, Karan Johar along with the stunning, Shilpa Shetty and the Baadshah of Bollywood, Shah Rukh Khan.
While, spectacular performances by the two reigning queens of Bollywood, Priyanka Chopra and Katrina Kaif set the mercury soaring at the event. Priyanka rocked the evening with her 'Dhan-Te-Nan' act from her film, 'Kaminey' and Katrina set the stage on fire in a black sari as she performed on the 'Teri Ore' track from 'Singh is King'.
The highlight of the evening was SRK's dance performance on a medley of his super-hit songs including 'Haule Haule', 'Marjani' and 'Love Mera Hit Hit' where he also made Yusuf Pathan dance on these tunes.
He brought down the house with his witty one-liners, pranks and humorous exchanges with Yuvraj Singh, Harbhajan Singh and Australian cricketer, Adam Gilchrist.
Bollywood beauties, Neha Dhupia and Mugdha Godse also kept the entertainment quotient high with their performances. A.R. Rahman's stirring rendition of 'Vande Mataram' was also part of an exciting line up of performances and felicitations.
Master blaster, Sachin Tendulkar was honored with the Lifetime Achievement recognition and a host of other cricketers were presented with trophies for like best fielder, best bowler, best batsmen, best ground, etc.