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The Ghanta Award, or The Ghanta for short, is an award presented in recognition of the worst in film in Bollywood. Founded by Prashant Rajkhowa and Karan Anshuman in 2010, the annual Ghanta Awards ceremony in Mumbai takes place about the same time as other major Bollywood awards. The term Ghanta, which literally means bell, is used in its more irreverent forms. The awards themselves are a large golden bell that is typically used for idol worship.

The Ghanta Awards are unique in the way that it is a live show shaped by online voting by the audience. The public can vote on 13 'worst of' categories.

The first Ghanta Awards ceremony was held in February, 2010 at Tian Santorini to honour the worst in film of the 2010 film season. The 3rd ceremony will be held in February, 2013.

Categories

 * Ghanta Film of the Year
 * Ghanta Actor of the Year
 * Ghanta Actress of the Year
 * Ghanta Director of the Year
 * Ghanta Supporting Actor of the Year
 * Ghanta Supporting Actress of the Year
 * Ghanta Couple of the Year
 * Ghanta Song of The Year
 * Ghanta Remake, Rip-off, Sequel of the year
 * Worst Holier-than-thou Movie
 * WTF Was That
 * That's Anything But Sexy
 * Sajid Khan Lifetime Achievement Award to Sajid Khan (every year)

Awarding process
Mainstream media film critics pick the nominees and put them out for public vote on the awards' website at theghantas.com. Voting closes a day before the event. Thousands of film enthusiasts voted in the last edition.

Ceremony
The ceremony, typically held around the same time as other popular Bollywood film awards, is hosted by stand-up comedians of repute and is interspersed with sketches mocking the worst/Ghanta film of the year nominees. Usually winners don't attend the ceremony, but popular actress Sonam Kapoor did attend to receive hers in 2012 for Ghanta Couple of the Year.