2009 Videocon India Youth Icon Awards winners, nominees

UPDATE: The 2009 Videocon India Youth Icon Award winners have been announced.

The 2009 Videocon India Icon of the Year is Rahul Gandhi.

Priyanka Chopra and Hrithik Roshan are the winners of the 2009 Videocon India Youth Icon Award in the field of entertainment.

The 2009 Videocon India Icon of the Year in the field of Sports is Abhinav Bindra.

The 2009 Videocon India Icon of the Year in the field of Arts is Chetan Bhagat.

Rahul Bose is the winner of the 2009 Videocon India Icon of the Year in the category of social justice and welfare.

Aishwarya Rai Bachchan has won the Global Face of the Year award.

The 2009 Videocon India Fashion Icon of the Year is Deepika Padukone.

The first Videocon India Youth Icon Awards ceremony was held on September 25, 2009, at Leela Kempinski, Gurgaon.

The 2009 Videocon India Youth Icon Awards will honor achievements in the fields of Business, Sports, Entertainment, Media, Social Welfare and Justice, Technology, Arts, Politics, Entertainment, and Icon of The Year Award.

The show will be put together by Wizcraft in association with Sahara India Media.

The 2009 Videocon India Youth Icon Awards nominees are:

Entertainment

1. Priyanka Chopra
2. Hrithik Roshan

Hrithik Roshan with Barbara Mori in Kites

3. Farhan Akhtar

4. Katrina Kaif

Sports

1. Abhinav Bindra (Shooting)
2. Vijender Singh (Boxing)
3. Saina Nehwal (Badminton)
4. M.S. Dhoni (Cricket)
5. Ritwik Bhattacharya (Squash)
6. Pankaj Advani (Billiards)

Technology

1. Alok Kejriwal (Chief Executive Officer & Founder/Chairman, Games 2 Win/C2W Companies)
2. Neeraj Roy (Founder, Hungama.com)
3. Anupam Mittal (CEO, Shaadi.com)
4. Sachin Bhatia (Founder & CEO, Makemytrip.com)
5. Rohit Sharma (CEO, Zapak.com)

Arts

1. Chetan Bhagat (Author)
2. Namita Devidayal (Author)
3. Arzan Khambatta (Sculptor)
4. Shafi Quraishy (Artist)
5. Vikram Bawa (Photographer)
6. Tarun Khiwal (Photographer)

Entrepreneurship (Private)

1. Ajay Bijli (Chairman & Managing Director, PVR Cinemas Ltd.)
2. Alok Kejriwal (Chief Executive Officer & Founder/Chairman, Games 2 Win/C2W Companies)
3. Raaja Kanwar (Managing Director, UFO Moviez)
4. Neeraj Roy (Managing Director & CEO, Hungama.com)
5. Sanjay Nayak (CEO & MD, Tejas Networks India Ltd.)

Media

1. Rajdeep Sardesai (Editor-in-chief, IBN Network 18)
2. Harinder Baweja (Editor, Investigations – Tehelka)
3. Barkha Dutt (Group Editor, English News – NDTV)
4. Udayan Mukherjee (Indian TV news anchor and editor, CNBC TV 18)
5. Tarun Tejpal (CEO, Tehelka)
6. Sanjay Gupta (Editor, Dainik Jagran)

Social Justice and Welfare

1. Vikram Akula (Founder and CEO, SKS Micro Finance Pvt. Ltd.)
2. Ambalal Panchal Hiralal,(Social Activist, Community)
3. Mamta Ranka (Social Activist, Community)
4. Shehnaaz (Social Activist, Pukar)
5. Chandrakant Uttekar (Social Activist, Pukar)
6. Rahul Bose (Founder, The Foundation)
7. Arbind Singh (Founder, Nidan)

Politics

1. Sachin Pilot
2. Agatha Sangma
3. Priya Dutt
4. Omar Abdullah
5. Milind Deora

The 2009 Videocon India Youth Icon Award nominees were decided by a panel comprising IPS officer Kiran Bedi, journalist Paranjoy Guha Thakurta, filmmaker Shyam Benegal, tennis ace Leander Paes, renowned cardiologist Naresh Trehan, actor and social activist Shabana Azmi, singer Usha Uthup and Venugopal Dhoot, chairman of Videocon Industries Limited.

The winners of the 2009 Videocon India Youth Icon Awards will be selected through online voting.