Filmfare’s Knotty List
This from Phoenixnu who seems to be going ballistic over every new nominee list announcement. The knotty list, sorry, nominee list of Filmfare is out. Published at the thinking man’s (and woman’s) cine site, the list goes as follows,
BEST FILM
Chak De! India
Guru
Jab We Met
Om Shanti Om
Taare Zameen ParBEST DIRECTOR
Aamir Khan (Taare Zameen Par)
Anurag Basu (Life… In A Metro)
Farah Khan (Om Shanti Om)
Imtiaz Ali (Jab We Met)
Mani Ratnam (Guru)
Shimit Amin (Chak De! India)BEST ACTOR IN A LEADING ROLE (MALE)
Abhishek Bachchan (Guru)
Akshay Kumar (Namastey London)
Darsheel Safary (Taare Zameen Par)
Shahrukh Khan (Chak De! India)
Shahrukh Khan (Om Shanti Om)
Shahid Kapoor (Jab We Met)BEST ACTOR IN A LEADING ROLE (FEMALE)
Aishwarya Rai Bachchan (Guru)
Deepika Padukone (Om Shanti Om)
Kareena Kapoor (Jab We Met)
Madhuri Dixit (Aaja Nachle)
Rani Mukerji (Laaga Chunari Mein Daag)
Vidya Balan (Bhool Bhulaiyaa)BEST ACTOR IN A SUPPORTING ROLE (MALE)
Aamir Khan (Taare Zameen Par)
Anil Kapoor (Welcome)
Irrfan Khan (Life in a… Metro)
Mithun Chakraborty (Guru)
Shreyas Talpade (Om Shanti Om)BEST ACTOR IN A SUPPORTING ROLE (FEMALE)
Konkona Sen Sharma (Life in a… Metro)
Konkona Sen Sharma (Laaga Chunari Mein Daag)
Rani Mukerji (Saawariya)
Shilpa Shukla (Chak De! India)
Tisca Chopra (Taare Zameen Par)BEST MUSIC
A R Rahman (Guru)
Monty Sharma (Saawariya)
Pritam (Jab We Met)
Pritam (Life in a… Metro)
Vishal-Shekhar (Om Shanti Om)BEST LYRICS
Gulzar…Tere Nina (Guru)
Javed Akhtar…Main Agar Kahoon (Om Shanti Om)
Prasoon Joshi…Maa (Taare Zameen Par)
Sameer…Jab Se Tere Naina (Saawariya)
Vishal Dadlani…Aankhon Mein Teri (Om Shanti Om)BEST PLAYBACK SINGER (MALE)
A R Rahman …Tere Bina (Guru)
K K…Aankhon Mein Teri (Om Shanti Om)
Shaan…Jab Se Tere Naina (Saawariya)
Sonu Nigam…Main Agar Kahoon (Om Shanti Om)
Sukhawinder Singh…Chak De (Chak De! India)BEST PLAYBACK SINGER (FEMALE)
Alisha Chinai…It’s Rocking (Kay Love Story Hai)
Shreya Ghosal …Barso Re (Guru)
Shreya Ghosal …Yeh Ishq Hai (Jab We Met)
Sunidhi Chauhan …Sajanaji Vari Vari (Honeymoon Travels Pvt Ltd.)
Sunidhi Chauhan …Aaja Nachle (Aaja Nachle)
I suppose the technical nominees have not been announced or Filmfare will do it at a later date (or never) or the cine-thinking man’s (and woman’s) site ran out of HTML space.
As usual and has been the trend for the last few years, Filmfare moves along it’s safe and chosen path who’s destination seems to be Film-Miss this-Fare… Another suck up list finds its way to the trash can… Really, why even spend so much time and money on awards and ceremonies anymore. It would be much better for us that we face the pain in one joint mutual ceremony where Filmfare, Screen, Star and the million other award functions collect together at Pragati Maidan and we can get all the pain they wanna give us in one day, instead of bombarding us every second week for the rest of the year!
Anurag Kashyap
Abhay Deol
Dibakar Banerjee
Hansal Mehta
Khalid Mohamed
Kundan Shah
Anish Kuruvilla
Jaideep Verma
Manish Gupta
Navdeep Singh
Bhavani Iyer
D. Santosh
Onir
Ashvin Kumar
Ramu Ramanathan
Sudhir Mishra
Pankaj Advani
Revathy
Saurabh Shukla
Shilpa Shukla
Sujoy Ghosh
Suparn Verma
Santosh Sivan
Shashank Ghosh
Shivajee
Pavan Kaul
Partho Sen-Gupta
Prroshant Naryannan
Sam Langoria
Satish Kasetty
I’m wondering why Johnny Gaddaar is being ignored so tragically at the awards, for this is a film that is head and shoulders above anything that has been attempted this year.
One of the top entertainers I’ve seen all year;
I’m not sure but has its brilliance been forgotten?
http://movie-place.blogspot.com/2007/10/johnny-gaddaar-movie-review.html
Bhaiyya Satish,
this is how the film industry or rather the award giving industry functions… tension nahi lene ka for an audience to feel that a certain film has not got a nomination i guess in itself is like an award as your opinion matters more than the dead trophy buddy… Thank god they atleast considered Imtiaz worth it… Shimit no doubts did a fabulous job by finally making sir to act.
Something that I never get is multiple nominations for the same person in a category … so they’ve got 2 for SRK in Best Actor this year … which means to say that both the performances were at par with each other at a minimum (I am not even trying to compare him to others here). Besides they already have 4 other candidates to fill the 5-best performances in a leading role criteria. It’s a shame for FilmFare to actually resort to this to please somebody.
Besides were either of SRKs performances better than the ones that he’s already won Filmfare trophy for … i think his best was in Swades and Kabhi Han Kabhi Na.
For Abhishek/Shahid – it does seem to be their breakthrough performances … at least in what they have done so far.
Darsheel should walk away with the award in an ideal scenario – but I doubt that it’ll happen.
Akshay should never be on any list for acting awards. Entertainer, yes – actor, no.
Dont even want to touch the nomination for Deepika. Farah should get a special recogniation award for the most entertaining pot-boiler or the year – not for Best Director.
Where is TZP music director recognition … though they seem to be recognising the medicrity of Saawariya.
Where is Shankar M. nomination for Maa and TZP title song … any lesser man would’ve messed up Maa for sure.
Johnny Gadar – what an awesome film – yet no recognition.
Strange ways that this award-industry functions … though they do put up one hell of a show every year.
Amitabh Bacchan in Nishabdh was the standout male performance for me last year. Nobody in this list comes close…
There is no Black friday in the list ..it released in 2007 right ?
What i am surprised is….every review, every person, every dog praised Black Friday so high…there was none, i mean NO FUCKING ONE who did not like Black Friday….then why doesnt it “even” deserve a nomination? leave alone winning one…either the critics are stupid for praising the movie, or i guess Film fare awards worls in reverse proportionality to “acclaimed” movies….as soon as it is acclaimed, it automatically gets dis-qualified for a nomination….and as well might give a “tukda” award…saying ” critics award”….if critics award are decided by cine-critic…then who decides the rest of the “non-critical” award?
It really is a shame…thoooo makki kirkiri
Black Friday deserved an nomination ..no doubt ….they have forgoten abt this film i guess . ..not only filmfare some other award which happened earlier this year also missed Black friday …..
man.. Akshaye khanna in Gandhi my father was anythime better then akshay kumar ..abhishek and shahid …
also shefali chhaya performed very well in GMF …
Interesting, there is no nomination for ” Best actor in a negative role”
My Nominations would have been
1. Pavan Malhotra ( BF)
2. Aditya Shrivastav ( BF)
3. Kay kay ( Life)
4. Taran Adarsh ( Indiafm)
5. khalid Md.( hindustan times)
OM .lol :d…add raj thakeray to the list
Because of Popular demand…and the un-availibility of kay kay Menon, nomination number three has been given to Raj Thakela…Anyways, Kay Kay must be used to it by now…year after year, performance after performance, he has been criminally ignored…
who needs a spoof version of the awards when the awards themselves are a spoof?
i, for one, am glad that all the ignored ones aren’t in the list.. it sets them a class apart from the rest.
i would love to see aamir replaced by vinay pathak in the best supporting actor category..his performance in tzp was ok
and am i the only one who thinks that guru was a bad over rated film ..
go darsheel :D
Vivek, you are not the only one, Guru to me was a farce…
seriously, whatever happened to movies like Johnny Gaddar, Manorama SFU, Gandhi M.F.,Black Friday and Dharam(with all those oscar hype).
and no nomination for Shankar-Ehsaan-Loy for TZP?How did Pritam get into the list when 90% of his songs are lifted????…Gawdd, What a country!!!
@OM(6)
These (and all other)awards are for popular(hit) movies and not for critically acclaimed ones.
Now, don’t ask me how Saawariya and LCMD made it!
what ghanta popular movie and critically acclaimed bullshit yaar…a film is a film is a film…achhi hain tho achhi hain.. bas, thats all i know
you are right, a good film is a good film.
But unfortunately a lot of other people don’t seem to think like that :(
deepika padukone for best actor..man gotta be kidding…and anil kapoor for welcome:o
vivek, why are you picking on Guru being overrated when you see the other crap being nominated – OSO, Saawariya, NL, LCMD, Welcome and BB. All crappy movies with no standout performances in my opinion. If you remove those nominations, other folks like Akshaye and KK would have a slot.
These awards are meaningless anyway since they measure commercial success and/or popularity.
No nomination for ManoramaSFU, Black friday, Dharam, Jhonny G.. SO BLOODY UNFAIR… why is the world like this man…WIll they let new talent surface…
And Madhuri for aaja nach le and Guru [blotch on Mani Ratnam] And I just want to add this bit, because I am still wondering,, whether Darsheel’s nomination amongst the other experienced actors is justified. Have we moved a step forward, giving him the due by considering a child as a lead actor, or being so very unfair[ which they already are, by measuring him with these other stalwarts [?] Deepika Padukone for oso..omg.. THIS IS THE STANDARD WE ARE SETTING FOR OURSELVES..I think Gul Panang was miles ahead. .
Where is Abhay Deol [ MSFU] Pawan Malhotra [BF] Pamkaj Kapoor [Dharam]… If this is the standards
the awards are setting for the audience and the filmmakers.. are they the ones also in a way contributing to the stagnation of our hindi phillums… that is if Awards ever matterred…
Which I think matters a lot to the aam junta [because of its over hype] and the phillumstars… because they flock towards these commercial awards like no bodies business but when it comes to gatherings of Ocian and Miff and other fests awards they are absconding….
Deepika Padukone for best actress..????
:((:((:((:((:((
its weird …
Eklavya and MSFU both ignored .. wonderin what that means !!! atleast Eklavya deserved the nomination … all the films nominated were in its class !!!
thank god … filmfare hasnt spoilt the image of MSFU, BF and JG!!! by including them in the list !!!
I dont think we can call them awards…what they are, is “REWARDS”….someone who nominated these awards..wants to reward all those films/filmmakers/actors for giving hits and bringing in the revenue for the industry…now if we talk about LCMD and Saawariya, which were flops..well they did generate a lot of advertising revenue…so, here we go
” FILMFARE REWARDS”
Buuuuuulllllssshhhhiiiiiiiitttttt….
Then again… what were we expecting?
70 years from now if ppl then look back..they will see these nominations and award winners…and the real ppl will be lost….
I really really hate Awards functions in India. They so well resemble the school I used to study in when I was way younger. The school always had a annual day and this was the typical studious school in Bangalore. So the events for about 5 years were like this. The kid whose mother visited the school each day ended up singing or dancing in the first song (This will have to be either Shahid or Saif in films) , then there would be a recitation of a song by the girl who got the first rank (This will have to be either one of the YRF/Johar Camp girls or Kareena as she is supposed to be the cats whiskers now), then there will be a event coordinator who would be the star pupil (Here is will always be either SRK or Karan or the know-it-all Sajid Khan) and then the principal will come out and give the awards to all the earlier people (Yash Ji giving awards to the earlier listed folks). In School, I used to always give the annual day a miss after attending it for 2 years. Now I just click the remote to a more interesting channel
Guys, forget it..Movies do not get nominated here. Like all awards, this is also fixed and people who are liked by people get awards. Simple.
To answer Why Black Friday, Johnny Gaddar & MFSU do not get awards, very simple DUDE. Duh as Homer Says..You can only give awards to films you see..These are not films..How can the be seen by the INTELLECTUAL FILM FRATERNITY. Its for us losers (read movie lovers) to see it and appreciate it.
Bloody shitty awards. Let them take it and stick it nice and hard where it should really belong..
I agree that most of these nominations are crappy. Also that Indian awards don’t always award the best.. I agree with most things mentioned here..
But one thing disturbs me a little and that is the way all of us on PFC are, even if subconciously, becoming anti-popular cinema. Why are most of us only criticizing popular films? I agree Black Friday, Johnny.. etc definitely deserved nominations, and even awards. But this is a trend that I see on PFC – that most people criticize Shah Rukh, love Irrfan, hate Karan Johar, love Anurag Kashyap, follows the Oscars, hates the Indian film awards.. Can’t one just love ‘cinema’?? I dont know if anyone sees my point, but I hope we dont become a clan that is created just to criticise what the world does.. I hope we are all not becoming cynics-in-the-making..
Didnt we always know that our awards mostly suck?? What’s the point in getting bitter about it??? Rather, let’s just start doing something to clean the muck.. And I dont think that begins with collectively abusing.
who are the people who select the nominees????
seriously who are they???
i have always wondered!!!!!!!!!!!!
WHO ARE THEY!!!!!!!!!
Arati..
so you tell us aarti how will we stop this …no one is here against the popular cinema ..i don’t think any one has problems with chak de being nominated or for that matter srk for chak de …..even if we call all award functions crappy ..there should have been atleast one award function where all the irfan khan’s and anurag kashyap’s should be recognised …along with other popular one’s…
Hey carol
yes i totally agree with you that some of the otehr films are even shittier
but well i atleast feel that OSO was the most entertaining hindi movie i have ever seen
Honestly ive not even seen sawariyaa so i cannot say..2 chracters in a pool of ink is not the way i want to see white nights interpreted
@Anand
the screen award functions come very close to doing that
Sometimes i feel that PFC should be a magazine and haves its own awards..
Reading your comments and further researching it online, I have finally understood what “Popular” awards means. It does not mean the movie was a hit or a super hit. I am happy to see that Filmfare has not chosen only those movies that were declared “hits” by the media (irrespective whether the producer was fulling forms for new bank accounts or for bankruptcy) – case in point. Laga Chunari Mein Daag. La Chu Me Da is popular cinema. It spent a lot of cash in spreading the word about the film from Kashmir to Kanyakumari, helping people’s economic lives take a positive step or two (or three).
And that is a very heartening thing. It is not about hit or flop movie, but popular movies – movies like La Chu Me Da that spend a lot of money to generate awareness about the movie during the release of the movie right upto the various award functions.
Hence now I am leaning towards the Filmfare for giving the cleanest list possible I have seen in ages.
Though a tiny beef oz do having Filmfare with.
I think the most popular movie should have been “Red Swastika” – why is it not mentioned in the popular list is beyond my understanding. A movie which is now freely circulated around the entire Indian (only the thurkee kind) diaspora around the world. Viagra has been discarded. Pfizer’s executives are shaking nervously in their seats. They have a punch in your face competition that they have never experienced before. And it comes from a man who has been going on and on and on and on and on in Bollywood. Jee Haan, Bhaiyyon aur Behenon (Hinglish: Oh yes, Bros and Sises) Vinod Pandey has created the popular cinema of all time in Red Swa.
Why is not Red Swa on the list? Why? How could filmfare criminally ignore the massive unbelievable shocking twisted contours the face of Sherlyn Chopra gets into – during those love making scenes with
menhairy grizzlies. Those out of proportion facial contortions that would put to shame the almost illegal body twisting done by those yoga experts.I had never before Red Swa even given a thought to exercising my eyelids. This is an entire new industry and will be making so much money. Lifting those 100 pound fake eyelashes is indeed a popular thing amongst Red Swa fans the world over.
Red Swa is popular cinema. And shame on Filmfare for not including the director, actress, story writer, actress, actress, assets in their nominee list.
oz ,
how about starting pfc awards ….the first e-awards …:)
and like me if u HATE all these suck-all awards then here is something to cheer about..the fuck-all follywood awards…
http://www.outlookindia.com/follywood/
and guess who has got the maximum follywood nominations…Big B…four!!! and Bahu B has also got one.
where the *%*$ is Johny Gaddar
It was the best movie of the year
why all award functions are ignoring it?
@Anand(35)
I second that.
What will be the e-trophy? An opportunity(invitation) to write a special post on PFC?
And i genuinely believed that Vishal Bharadwaj gave AMAZING music for No Smoking, and this was also the time where i probably actually understood/appreciated (or both) Gulzar’s lyrics… But neither was named… Oh well…
(and it wasn’t even mentioned in the 1st 38 comments, ‘oh well’ more…)
btw Neeraja and Anand, there were already PFC awards last time… and they were more or less democratic (voting by the people, if i am not mistaken)… with no awards as such…
“La Chu Me Da…”
:d :d :d
I am surprised nobody thought of Bheja Fry( which was a commercial hit also) and award for Vinay Pathak. However as known to everybody the Times Group is not interested in quality but in making a commercial killing from the event.
Hey …
Ye sab kahaan hai:
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Best Music – Shankar Ehsaan Loy
Best Playback(Male) – Mohit Chouhan, Soham
Best Supporting Actress – Shefali chhaya, Gul Panaag(She acted awesome in Dor)
Aur ye kya hai : Vishal Dadlani’s name for “Aankho me teri”
:-??
No KKKc, No Swanand Kirkire …
Atleast Screen walo ke Nominations toh better the Filmfare se ..
:((