Sanyukta Iyer (MUMBAI MIRROR; May 6, 2015)

Priyanka Chopra lost the National Award for Best Actress to Kangana Ranaut despite a knockout performance in Mary Kom, but the actress still turned up at the party hosted by the latter at her Khar apartment and posed hand-in-hand with the Queen.

Obviously, playing India's Million Dollar Baby has made PeeCee a good sport and she found a staunch admirer in her Mary Kom producer, Sanjay Leela Bhansali, who insisted hers was the performance of the year. Priyanka reciprocated the compliment with lots of smiles and coaxed SLB on to the dance floor. For the lensers gathered outside, it would have been a Kodak moment had they got a click of Kashibai shaking a leg with her Bajirao Mastani director.

Meanwhile, Kangana kept talking about her "big" moment. Aamir finally coaxed her to bring out the coveted trophy. She did, calling it her "Indian Oscar". Her Queen director, Vikas Bahl, was away in Goa, but the film's chartbuster, 'Maine hoton se lagai toh, hungama ho gaya...' played on till the early hours and all her guests, from Imran Khan and Shraddha Kapoor to Anupam Kher, Farah Khan and Sonu Sood hit the dance floor. Even Vidya Balan who came with husband, Siddharth Roy Kapur, looked refreshed after a week-long detox in the Himalayas, and joined the naach-gaana.

At around 6 am Aamir Khan stopped Varun Dhawan and Darshan Kumaar, both of who were in high spirits, to discuss world cinema. "And almost immediately, the mood changed, from dancing and drinking, to a serious discussion on films," says a guest. "Aamir advised the youngsters to concentrate on better scripts and then, as the sun rose to announce the beginning of a new day, the revellers called it a day."