GRABBING THE EYE BALLS Front Page 2011, Ormax Media’s round-up of the entertainment and media industry trends in 2011, has come out with rankings of popular stars, films, shows, newsmakers, and icons. The media research firm has used a combination of things, such as round-the-year exit interviews with audiences, for the rankings Best Hindi films Best Tamil & Telugu Singham emerged as top Hindi film based on Word- films of-Mouth score or percent of audience which liked the Deiva Thirumagal, an emotional film enough to recommend it to friends. drama starring Vikram, was the Singham 75 most popular Tamil film, while the Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara 67 top Telugu film was romantic Rockstar 61 hit Mr Perfect. Ready 57 Bodyguard 54 Don 2 53 No One Killed Jessica 52 The Dirty Picture 49 WOM (Word of Mouth) score, i.e., % audiences wholiked the film enough to Murder 2 46 recommend it strongly to their friends. Delhi Belly 45 Top 10 popular Top 10 kids favourite serials of 2011 TV characters Bade Achhe... was the most The most popular kids' popular TV soap, putting Sony characters were estimated from in top spot. Results were drawn bi-annual research on children Top 5 Tamil films from 16,000 Hindi GEC viewers. in 6-14 age group in 8 cities. Deiva Thirumagal 77 Serials Channel Score Character Programme Channel Share Ko 71 Bade Achhe Lagte Hain Sony 27.1 Bheem Chhota Bheem Pogo 21.4 Engeyum Eppodhum 68 Taarak Mehta Ka Ooltah SAB TV 19.1 Doraemon Doraemon Disney 17.4 7aam Arivu 63 Chashmah Jerry Tom & Jerry CN 9.5 Mankatha 60 Balika Vadhu Colors 17.2 Hattori Ninja Hattori Nick 8.3 Top 5 Telugu films Saath Nibhana Saathiya Star Plus 13.3 Tom Tom & Jerry CN 7.1 Mr. Perfect 66 Pavitra Rishta Zee TV 13.2 Mr. Bean Mr. Bean Pogo 5.9 Dookudu 65 Pratigya Star Plus 12.4 Shinchan Shinchan Hungama 5.7 Ala Modalaindi 62 Yeh Rishta Kya Kehlata Hai Star Plus 11.5 Ben Ben 10 CN 5.3 100% Love 49 Sri Rama Rajyam 44 Uttaran Colors 9.3 Oggy Oggy And The Nick 2.1 CID Sony 9.1 Cockroaches Sasural Genda Phool Star Plus 7.9 Krishna Krishna Balram CN 0.9 Channel of the year Sony sweeps the Channel of the Year category, moving up from No Top newsmakers Entertainment 4 in 2010 to No 2 in 2nd half of 2011. Newsmakers or those who hit the headlines were industry icons gauged by contacting news consumers. Anna Hazare is 5 History TV 57 Sony Ektaa Kapoor is on top. The score for each newsmaker was based on % 7 Others Ent TV of respondents who gave him or her 8 or more out of 10. top icon of the entertainment 8 Star Anna Hazare 93 industry, Gold % M S Dhoni 76 ruling TV and 23 Movies Sathya Sai Baba 53 making an Now Baba Ramdev 40 impact on ARaja 37 cinema. Mamata Banerjee 33 Sharad Pawar 31.