Sonu Niigaam Ji -- The best Live Performer...

The Global Indian Music Awards were held on Wednesday at the Yash Raj Studios in Andheri West. Salman Khan, Kareena Kapoor and Sonakshi Sinha were present to show their support, and 3 Idiots was the big winner of the evening..

 Sonu Niigaam Ji awarded the best Live Performer award at GIMA.. 

Music maestro A R Rahman and Asha Bhosle presented Lata Mangeshkar with the Lifetime Achievement Award.

"Receiving lifetime achievement is an honour but one should not stop working and instead give their best," Lata said.

The legendary singer also received award for the best devotional album, Shree Hanuman Chalisa. "I am extremely happy as this is my first non-film award and especially because it is for Hanuman Chalisa," she said.

The award ceremony saw performances from actors Saif Ali Khan, Salman Khan and Kareena Kapoor. Also, an enthralling tribute performance to Lata Mangeshkar by Shankar Mahadevan, Loy Mendonsa, Salim-Suleiman, Leslie Lewis and Shantanu Moitra among others.

The show hosted by Saajid Khan, Shreyas Talpade and Dia Mirza opened with a performance from Asha Bhosle, who belted the sufi rock song, Rab Rakha.

A total of 29 awards under Film and non-film categories were presented including the award for outstanding contribution by an Indian on the global stage, bestowed upon Pandit Ravi Shankar.

In order to fight music piracy, the best anti-piracy initiative of the year was received by the Government of Maharashtra.

Bollywood personalities like Anil Kapoor, Rajkumar Hirani, Yash Chopra, Ritesh Deshmukh,  Kavita Krishnamurthy, Jagjit Singh and Kailash Kher among others were present at the event.

Cheers!!