IIFA Awards 2008 Award Winners

The three-day star packed IIFA Awards 2008 extravaganza, which drew to a close on Sunday in the Thai capital Bangkok, proved to be an event of its kind and is surely getting bigger and better year after year. The event that kick-started with a bang as the who’s who of the Indian film industry walked down the red carpet followed by the premieres of Bollywood’s most awaited films this year ‘Sarkar Raj’, concluded with fireworks as the most sought after awards were announced.

Here is a look at this year’s award highlight:

Best Film

A category that had some of the best pictures of the previous year like Guru, Jab We Met, Partner and Life In A Metro vying for the number one spot, saw the much acclaimed Shah Rukh Khan starrer `Chak De India` bagging the prestigious award.

Best Director

`Chak De India` surely swept the IIFA grand awards ceremony as director Shimit Amin lifted the Best Director trophy. The film about a coach inspiring the Indian women`s hockey team to World Cup victory also won awards for story and screenplay.

Best Actor

Well, Big B may bag the prize for blogger of the year but it is King Khan who earned the award for the Best Actor for his mind boggling performance in Chak De India where his role was much inspired by the real life hockey hero Mir Ranjan Negi.

Best Actress

Yes, the ‘Koi doubt mat rakhna’ bodylicious babe from Jab We Met, Kareena Kapoor added yet another trophy to her bag full of awards for her refreshing youthful performance in `Jab We Met`.

Best Debutant Male and Female

The hottest young couple in tinsel town, Ranbir Kapoor and Deepika Padukone, surely got the maximum eyeballs as they got on the stage to collect their respective awards. While, Ranbir thanked mentor Sanjay Leela Bhansali for his award, Dips once again recited her accepting speech mentioning Farah Khan - the brain behind ‘Om Shanti Om’.

Best Style Icon (Male)

He might not have the six pack abs or the sizzling off shirt item numbers to his credit, nevertheless actor Abhishek Bachchan earned the Best Style Icon award for his raunchy masculine beard look.

Best Style Icon (Female)

We don’t know whether she is the ‘Most Sexy Women in the World’ or not, but Katrina is surely the most stylish woman of B-town The sultry beauty won the Best Style Icon for her sensuous and inspiring style.

Best Performance in a Negative Role

Actor Vivek Oberoi won the bad man award for his role in the flick, ‘Shootout At Lokhandwala’.

Best Screenplay

Anurag Basu - `Life in a Metro` and Jaideep Sahni - `Chak De! India’ shared the best screenplay award. The two movies also jointly won the best story trophy.

Best Cinematography

The award for the Best Cinematography went to `Chak De! India`, making it the maximum award garnering movie in IIFA 2008.

Best Dialogues

Debutant director ‘Imtiaz Ali’ bagged the award for writing one of the most memorable dialogues in recent history for ’Jab We Met’.

Music Direction

AR Rahman won the award for his chartbuster number ‘Barso Re’ in Mani Ratnam’s `Guru`.

Best Lyrics

Javed Akhtar’s beautiful melody of words in the song ‘Main Agar Kahoon’ from ‘Om Shanti Om’ won him the award in this category.

Playback Singer (Male)

The ever so charming singer Shaan bagged this one for ‘Jabse Tere Naina’ in the movie ‘Saawariya’.

Playback Singer (Female)

Youth melody queen ‘Shreya Ghoshal’ bagged the trophy for her melodious singing of ‘Barso Re’ in Guru.

Best Performance in a Comic Role

Govinda, who is popularly known as Chi-Chi, was surely in his element as he went to grab this one for his performance in Partner.

Fresh face of the year

Bollywood’s latest eye candy, Neil Nitin Mukesh was named the Fresh Face of the Year.

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Aishwarya Rai as Benazir Bhutto?

Aishwarya Rai has been approached to essay the role of former Pakistani prime minister Benazir Bhutto.

Sources reveal that Ash is one of the prime contenders for the role.

It is reliably learnt that UTV is producing the project.

The producers are contacting the Bhutto family before they go ahead with it.”

A source reveals, “There is a lot of homework to be done on the film.

At the moment, talks are in progress with the Pakistani government and other officials to get permission to go ahead with the film.

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Ekta Kapoor’s Kahaani Hamaaray Mahabharat Ki

Finally all speculations over the most important character of Ekta Kapoor’s Kahaani Hamaaray Mahabharat Ki are over. Ekta’s blue-eyed girl close friend, Anita Hassanandani will be playing the all important character, Draupadi. Ekta had a tough time deciding between Anita and Gauri Pradhan, who was also a strong contender for the role.

Our source says, “It was a tough call between Anita and Gauri. However, ultimately it was Anita who was selected. Anita will be growing her hair for the character and will start shooting soon.”

Ekta Kapoor confirmed that Anita has indeed been finalised to play Draupadi.

Anita Hassanandani says, “I was really excited when Ekta offered me the role. I am obviously thrilled to be part of the show and I will be working on my look as well. I am now waiting for Ekta to give me a detailed narration of the character. I will also be reading the Mahabharat and will take tips from there. I will have to grow my hair for the character as well.”

The show is scheduled to go on air from August this year.

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Movie Preview : Via Darjeeling

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Darjeeling is a global melting pot of tourism. The Darjeeling Himalayan Railway, a 126-year-old cobalt blue narrow-gauge train still chugs and snorts its way from Kurseong to Darjeeling via Ghoom, winding its way along the serpentine route, against the shimmering silver of the Kanchenjunga Range in the backdrop. Along the way, it leaves behind the lush, green-layered mantle of its velvet tea gardens, shanty teashops with the smoke rising from earthen cups, the locals helping themselves to their favourite momo with its clear soup, and huts with tin roofs. Correspondent Shoma offers a sneak preview of VIA DARJEELING, a Hindi film shot against the intriguing landscape of this hill city.

Chillers and thrillers are a fashion statement in the Hindi mainstream today. Arindam Nandy, who honed his skills in advertising and made a documentary on the poet-couple Radharani Debi and Narendra Deb, called Bhalobashar Kobi Dampati, steps into the world of feature films with VIA DARJEELING, a Hindi suspense thriller.

The film is co-produced by Joy Ganguly, a Bengali producer and presented by NFDC under the Moxie Entertainments banner. The other 'Bengali' identity the film boasts of is its unusual storyline that revolves around the concept of the 'adda' – or informal chat sessions within homes, in public spaces, between and among friends, that usually begin as a friendly chat but could diversify into other streams evoking different emotional layers of response like nostalgia, anger, affection, friendship, hate and even violence. Subjects can be anything under the sun - politics, love, college life, family, children, psychology, sex, murder, adultery and so on.
'The film is set in modern day Kolkata and Darjeeling and is based on an age old Bengali tradition called 'adda' where friends get together in the rains, & exchange stories & gossip, over drinks & dinner,' adds Nandy.

Others in the cast are Rajat Kapoor, Parveen Dabas, Sandhya Mridul, Simone Singh, Arindam Sil and Prroshant Narayannan.

Prabuddha Banerjee has done the musical score. The film has been shot extensively in Darjeeling, Kalimpong, Kolkata and Mumbai.


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Movie Preview : Via Darjeeling

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Darjeeling is a global melting pot of tourism. The Darjeeling Himalayan Railway, a 126-year-old cobalt blue narrow-gauge train still chugs and snorts its way from Kurseong to Darjeeling via Ghoom, winding its way along the serpentine route, against the shimmering silver of the Kanchenjunga Range in the backdrop. Along the way, it leaves behind the lush, green-layered mantle of its velvet tea gardens, shanty teashops with the smoke rising from earthen cups, the locals helping themselves to their favourite momo with its clear soup, and huts with tin roofs. Correspondent Shoma offers a sneak preview of VIA DARJEELING, a Hindi film shot against the intriguing landscape of this hill city.

Chillers and thrillers are a fashion statement in the Hindi mainstream today. Arindam Nandy, who honed his skills in advertising and made a documentary on the poet-couple Radharani Debi and Narendra Deb, called Bhalobashar Kobi Dampati, steps into the world of feature films with VIA DARJEELING, a Hindi suspense thriller.

The film is co-produced by Joy Ganguly, a Bengali producer and presented by NFDC under the Moxie Entertainments banner. The other 'Bengali' identity the film boasts of is its unusual storyline that revolves around the concept of the 'adda' – or informal chat sessions within homes, in public spaces, between and among friends, that usually begin as a friendly chat but could diversify into other streams evoking different emotional layers of response like nostalgia, anger, affection, friendship, hate and even violence. Subjects can be anything under the sun - politics, love, college life, family, children, psychology, sex, murder, adultery and so on.
'The film is set in modern day Kolkata and Darjeeling and is based on an age old Bengali tradition called 'adda' where friends get together in the rains, & exchange stories & gossip, over drinks & dinner,' adds Nandy.

Others in the cast are Rajat Kapoor, Parveen Dabas, Sandhya Mridul, Simone Singh, Arindam Sil and Prroshant Narayannan.

Prabuddha Banerjee has done the musical score. The film has been shot extensively in Darjeeling, Kalimpong, Kolkata and Mumbai.





Synopsis:

Ankur (KK Menon) and Rimli (Sonali Kulkarni), a newly married couple, visit Darjeeling for their honeymoon. The evening before they are to return to Kolkata, Ankur goes missing. Robin Bose on the eve of their return to Calcutta, Ankur disappears. The Inspector in charge, Robin Bose (Vinay Pathak) is committed in his search for Ankur but he is never found.A visibly shocked and disturbed Rimli gives him just a few clues. She tells him about a fight Ankur had with a cabbie and a mysterious man who, she felt, kept stalking her during her stay in the hill town. Two years later, Inspector Bose narrates this story to a few friends on a rainy evening during an adda session. When he cannot give him or her definite answers to where and why Ankur went missing, each adda member begins to give his/her individual version of what might have happened. One suspects Ankur committed suicide while another says he has probably been murdered. A third suggests that he was probably a con man who had his fun and disappeared. During this adda session, there is a purging of personal emotions of these people themselves, as their versions begin to blend into problems in their personal lives. Thus, the adda brings the mystery to Kolkata one night...'via Darjeeling'. Faces are unmasked and new ones emerge.

Lastly Nandy elaborates, 'The tributary of tales that our epics, Ramayan and Mahabharat are made of are primarily oral in nature. They have journeyed through tales, songs, paintings, murals, folk arts, and sculpture through the ages. This is probably whey Rama of Ramayan and Krishna of Mahabharat blend into one another as 'avatar' of the same entity - Vishnu. The roles change though the face remains the same'.

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Genelia excited about first project with Priyadarshan!

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For the Hindi film buffs, the name Genelia D'Souza is not unknown. They remember her as the petite actress who played Ritesh Deshmukh's love interest in not one but two films, MUJHE TERI KASAM (2003) and MASTI (2004). She later moved to South and is one of the top names there.

The good news is that Genelia is all set to return to Hindi cinema this Friday via Priyadarshan's laugh riot, MERE BAAP PEHLE AAP and later with JAANE TU YA JAANE NA. Naturally, Genelia is quite excited about working for the first time with the master director, who has an envious track record. She adds that she will make it a point to sign up another Priyan project pretty soon.

While on MERE BAAP PEHLE AAP, it will be interesting to know how Genelia sums up the movie. She calls it a 'cute comedy'!

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Hit or Average - It's wait and watch for SARKAR RAJ

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As of today, there is no clear verdict on the box office performance of SARKAR RAJ. The trade is keeping its fingers crossed to classify the status of SARKAR RAJ before the first week comes to an end. And all of this is happening courtesy the film's big release.

Of course, there were expectations of a huge opening for the film, which didn't quite happen. However, the point to be noted is that contrary to what was widely anticipated, the film wasn't given a mid-size release but instead opened on a huge print count.

This means that the occupancy level was bound to be on the middle side since multiplexes with a house full indication (where 12-14-16 shows are running) would have been a little too much to ask. Reason being that SARKAR RAJ has a kind of subject which would certainly enthuse people to venture into theaters but not the way a RACE or a JANNAT did (both of which also boasted of chartbuster music).

On the other hand an advantage of a huge release meant that even a 50% opening (which obviously increased to 70-80% over the weekend) ensured that a recovery is certainly on the cards. Now due to average to good word of mouth (no one is calling it a bad film though the words 'must watch' are missing), the film is safe but it would be some sustaining power over the weekdays that would decide the fate in the long run for SARKAR RAJ.

If the film enjoys a healthy second weekend (something where competition does come in handy because of MERE BAAP PEHLE AAP carrying good reports), this Ram Gopal Varma film may manage to approach the HIT status.

But again, it is a wait and watch situation!

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Om Puri asked to strip by Priyadarshan

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In an upcoming film, Om Puri would be doing something which he has probably never done in mainstream Bollywood commercial cinema. Though the veteran actor has been seen stripped till waist down in some of the art-house cinema which he did early in his career (and later in AASTHA with Rekha), it would be for the first time that he would be removing his shirt for a hardcore Bollywood film.

The man who has managed to convince him to do so is Priyadarshan and the film is this week's release MERE BAAP PEHLE AAP.

Informs a source, "The film is an out and out comedy where Om Puri plays a flirt middle aged man. He keeps getting caught on the wrong side of the law and invariably it is by the cop played by Archana Puran Singh."

What is Archana's character here?

Replies the source, "She plays a hard nosed female cop who detests men with roving eye. This is why the characters played by Puri saab and Paresh Rawal ji get caught under her close eye. In one of the many hilarious sequences in the film, when Archana catches hold of Puri saab, she makes him do 'uthak-baithak', a standard way of mildly punishing such Romeos. Also, he is seen only in his trousers in this scene."

"This is not all. Even when this character is going through such a situation, instead of being humiliated, he instead starts flirting with Archana Puran Singh as well. The scene is certainly going to get the house down", laughs the source.

MERE BAAP PEHLE AAP is yet another comedy outing for Priyadarshan after DHOL. Though his last release was BHOOL BHULAIYAA, it saw quite some drama and thrills amalgamated with comedy. However, this Akshaye Khanna starrer sticks entirely to the comic genre.

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