The 2nd Hum Awards ceremony, presented by the Hum Television Network and Entertainment Channel (HTNEC), sponsored by

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and

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Talkshawlk, honored the best in fashion,

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and Hum Television Dramas of 2013. The ceremony took place on 29 March 2014 at Expo Center in

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beginning at 7:30 PST. The ceremony was recorded and was broadcast on 25 May 2014. During the ceremony, Hum Television Network and Entertainment Channel presented awards in 29 regular categories along with 2 in honorary and 1 in special category. The ceremony was televised in Pakistan by

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, while Servis returned as a main sponsor of the show. Television personalities

Meekal Zulfiqar Mian Mikaal Patras Zulfiqar (born 5 September 1981), commonly known as Mikaal Zulfiqar ( ur, ), is a British-Pakistani actor and former model. He has appeared in a number of Pakistani television series. He has also acted in a few Indian films ...

and

Sanam Saeed Sanam Saeed (born 2 February 1985) is a Pakistani actress, singer and former model who predominantly works in Urdu cinema and television. She is best known for portraying the role of Kashaf Murtaza in Momina Duraid's ''Zindagi Gulzar Hai'' for ...

hosted the show along with Sanam Jung and

Vasay Chaudhry Vasay Chaudhry (Punjabi, ur, ; born on 12 November 1981) is a Pakistani screenwriter, actor, director, producer, host, and comedian. He is best known for writing sitcoms and comedy-dramas for Pakistani televisions. He is also known for writin ...

. Meekal Zulfiqar and Vasay Chaudhry hosted the show for a second time, having hosted the previous ceremony. During the ceremony, Hum also held its annual Honorary Awards, which were presented by host

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. '' Zindagi Gulzar Hai'' won nine awards, the most for the ceremony, including Best Director Drama Serial for

Sultana Siddiqui Sultana Siddiqui also known as Sultana Apa ( Sindhi: سلطانا آپي)is a Pakistani media mogul, television director, and producer who is the founder of Hum Network Limited. Siddiqui is an active director of Hum Network Limited and the p ...

and Best Drama Serial Jury and Best Drama Serial Popular for

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. '' Aseerzadi'' won three awards including

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and Best Supporting Actor, for

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and

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'' and '' Ek Pagal Si Larki'' won two awards each. While others dramas to win one award were '' Rehaai'', '' Ishq Humari Galion Main'', '' Extras – The Mango People'', '' Rishtay Kuch Adhorey Se'', '' Behadd'' and ''

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''.

Winners and nominees

The nominees of the 2nd Hum Awards were announced on 2 March 2014 at the bloggers meeting by GM Public Relations and Publications Shehnaz Ramzi, In meeting, only four categories were announced which were set open for public voting on channels official website, while the rest of the categories were announced during the ceremony. Television categories were split into Viewers Choice and Jury Choice portions. '' Zindagi Gulzar Hai'', '' Aseerzadi'' and ''

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'' tied for the most nominations with thirteen each, and '' Zindagi Gulzar Hai'' bags nine awards in all of its nominations. Noman Ejaz and

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became the second time winner of

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and Best Supporting Actress awards, respectively.

and

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and Best Supporting Actor categories respectively made '' Aseerzadi'' the second drama to win both leading acting awards.

Umera Ahmad Umera Ahmed (Punjabi, ur, ) is a Pakistani writer, author and screenwriter. She is best known for her novels and plays '' Shehr-e-Zaat'', '' Pir-e-Kamil'', '' Zindagi Gulzar Hai'', ''Alif'', '' Durr-e-Shehwar'', '' Daam'', '' Man-o-Salwa'', ' ...

won Best Writer Drama Serial for '' Zindagi Gulzar Hai'', which was her second successive win. Umera was the only individual whose work were nominated in all main categories, including Best Actor and Best Actress (Viewers/Jury), Best Supporting Actor/Actress, and Best Television Film which ultimately won for director Asim Raza.

and Fawad Khan won the Best Actress Popular and Best Actor Popular receptively. Fawad and Sanam won both Jury and Viewers Choice category of Best Onscreen Couple. Arij Fatyma was the only soap actress to be nominated consecutive for

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and ultimately won.

, Fawad Khan,

and Noman Ejaz were the only individuals to win multiple awards, with two trophies each.

Awards

Winners are listed first and highlighted in boldface.

Television

Music

Fashion

Honorary Hum Awards

The Hum presented its honorary awards during the ceremony by holding the tradition of honoring the extravagant works of artists across the country. During the ceremony two Hum Honorary Awards and

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were presented.

Hum Honorary Lifetime Achievement Award

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Hum Honorary Award in Television

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Hum Honorary Special recognition

Special Hum trophies were presented by Hum Television Network and Entertainment Channel to Bilal Lashari and Humayun Saeed for their record breaking success of

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which helps the revival of Pakistani Cinema after a period. *

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– '' Waar'' * Humayun Saeed – ''

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Dramas with multiple nominations and awards

The following 14 dramas received multiple nominations: The following four dramas received multiple awards:

Presenters and performers

Presenters (in order of appearance)

The following individuals were chosen to present awards:

Performers

The following individuals were chosen to perform musical numbers:

Ceremony information

Television personality Mikaal Zulfiqar and

hosted the show, with co-host

and Sanam Jung. Mikal and Vasay Hosted the show for a second time after hosting the 1st ceremony in 2013. Vasay and Mikaal, while hosting of show, utilized

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, holding an impromptu session of question answers and criticizing others actors and celebrities. Show held its

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event modernizing it by giving the official name of Interactive Lounge #humawards2014. Presenters Waqar Ali Khan and Sarwat Gillani posed for an impromptu photo (selfie) facing their back to the audience. Winners were announced during the awards ceremony on 29 March 2014.

became the first producer to win an Hum trophy for second time for Best Drama Serial, while

became the oldest and first female recipient to win Best Director Drama Serial. Sultana returned to directing after a gap of almost ten years. '' Rehaai'' was second in the race of most nominations with twelve, but lost all accept for Best Acting category. Out of thirteen nominations ''

'' only won two awards including Best Original Soundtrack for Alycia Dias and Best Television Sensation to Sanam Jung. ''

'' was among with those dramas who have won only one award having most nominations. Fawad Khan,

Sanam Baloch Sanam Baloch Hisbani or Jatoi ( ur, , ) (born 14 July 1986) credited as Sanam Baloch is a Pakistani actress and television presenter. She has hosted various television shows such as; ''Sanam Small Room'' on KTN and the morning show on Samaa TV ...

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, Noman Ejaz, Adnan Siddiqui, Mikaal Zulfiqar and Ahsan Khan bagged consecutive

and

nominations for this year ceremony too.

was the only individual to be nominated twelve times as a producer, most nominations for the ceremony.

and Yumna Zaidi were the only individuals to be nominated for both

and Best Supporting Actress category. Compared to last year nominations, the ceremony nominated only nine dramas and all competition was mostly among these nominated dramas. In the Viewer's Choice categories, '' Zindagi Gulzar Hai'' won all awards, Including Best Actor and Best Actress Viewers choice. In Fashion, Deepak Perwani and Emran Rajput bags the consecutive nominations for Best Designer Womenswear and Best Designer Menswear respectively consecutive this year too.

Ayyan Ali Ayyan Ali ( ur, ) is a Pakistani model and singer. She started modeling in 2010 and won the title of ''Best Female Emerging Model''. She was nominated four times for the Lux Style Awards. In 2013, she clarified that she only wanted to be pub ...

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, Fouzia Aman and Abbas Jafri, Omer Shehzad,

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were all nominated second time for Best Model Female and Best Model Male respectively. In the music category, Falak and Abbas Ali Khan were nominated second time as Best Solo Artist while Usman Mukhtar was nominated as a producer for

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for second time.

Broadcasting

Hum Awards supervene its first ceremony, organizing the event off-air on 29 March 2014 and started broadcasting after passing through the censorship criteria of Pakistan Censor Board on 25 May 2014.

Making of Awards

Hum Awards Making is the part of award ceremony in which stage creation of the show, rehearsals of performances, and miscellaneous happenings related to show were shown. This is an off-and-on program which is not a compulsory event to be shown, unlike the Red Carpet. Making of Awards was hosted by television personalities

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and Mansha Pasha. The Hum Awards Red carpet was arranged in the foyer area which was furbished with white couches that were complemented by a backdrop of glass-work and bright lights with soothing music by Wahab Shah. Nazeer Saeed Janjua served as director and producer for a second time while Umer Mukhtar and S. Ommar Rehman served as the assistant director, Umer Mukhtar as co-producer, Saad Ahmed as line producer, Hassan Shirazi as head of transportation, Khair Muhammed as technical director. Choreography was organized by ActOne, while backstage management by was done by Production '' O21''.

Voting trend and summary

Hum Television Network and Entertainment Channel set open four categories called Viewers Choice Categories for public voting from 7 March 2014 to 25 March 2014. Audience could vote and select their favorite actors in categories such as Best Actor, Best Actress, Best Drama Serial and Best Onscreen Couple. Online public voting received an immense reception from people. The rest of the categories were jury selected and voted by Hum membership as a whole. Jury awards also included Best Actor, Best Actress, Best Couple and Best Drama Serial, while Fashion and Music categories were completely based on membership votes.

Awards categories

Compared to first ceremony, 2nd Hum Awards had some changes in the categories awarded. Some of the previous years categories were not awarded while others were introduced.

Category split

With the inception of Award Ceremony in 2013, both Jury and Viewers Choice categories were present but didn't mention and carried out specifically. For 2nd ceremony, Television categories was split in two section Jury Choice Categories and Viewers Choice Categories, Jury Categories comprises total of sixteen television categories, while Viewers Choice contains only Four popular categories, all viewers categories were also included in Jury i.e.; Best Actor Viewers choice and Best Actor Jury Choice. Similarly in Fashion and Music all categories were Viewers choice based. Criteria of categories were introduced to avoid biased reception from audience and critics. Thus introducing the interference of Public in selection process shows the respect and devotion for public. While Fashion and Music categories were awarded same as did in first ceremony.

Not awarded categories

Having many changes in the event, main change was awarding categories, as compared to first ceremony which follow the simple categories criteria in Fashion, Music and Television. This year following categories were not awarded: *

Hum Award for Best Drama Series Hum Award for Best Drama Series is one of the Hum Awards of Merit presented annually by the Hum Television Network and Entertainment Channel (HTNEC) to producers working in the Television industry. Since its inception, however, the award has ...

* Hum Award for Best Television Host *

Hum Award for Best Comic Actor Performance by an Comic Actor is one of the Hum Awards of Merit presented annually by the Hum Television Network and Entertainment Channel (HTNEC) to recognize a comic actor who has delivered an outstanding performance while working within the ...

The dis-closer of these categories were not explained and not mention.

Newly introduced categories

As with the removal of some categories new categories were introduced in Television and Music Categories. In Television following categories were introduced: * Hum Award for Best Actor in a Negative Role * Hum Award for Best or Most Impactful Character *

Hum Award for Best Television Film The Hum Award for Best Television Film is one of the Hum Awards of Merit presented annually by the Hum Television Network and Entertainment Channel (HTNEC) to producers working in the Television industry. Since its inception, however, the award ...

While in Music only one category was introduced * Hum Award for Best Music Band Changes had wholly been made by Hum management and membership as a whole.

Special awarded categories

Pakistan Film Industry shows extravagant achievement and progress in 2013, such effort has earned a great reputation to boost-up the lost

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. Many Television Directors, producers and writers were tuned up to Silver screen, and year 2013 has been proved tremendous for film industry,

’s long-awaited movie '' Waar'' broke several records on domestic and international screens, earning critical and financial success. While Humayun Saeed biographical movie ''

'' also achieve financial and critical success, while others independent films like ''

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'', '' Zinda Bhaag'', and '' Josh: Independence Through Unity'' were major hits, film '' Zinda Bhaag'' was selected as an official entry for

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after 50 years which was first done by '' Aina''. To celebrate such success Hum Television Network and Entertainment Channel honored Humayun Saeed and

for their exceptional works towards cinema and for the revival of Pakistani Film Industry.

References

External links

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