Predictable don’t you think?
And the wah-wahs reach the same crecendo this year too.
To add anything more about these awards would be worthless.
Best Actor
Shahrukh Khan – Chak De India
Best Actress
Kareena Kapoor – Jab We Met
Best Film
Taare Zameen Par
Best Director
Aamir Khan – Taare Zameen Par
Critics’ Award For Best Actor
Darsheel Safary – Taare Zameen Par
Critics’ Award For Best Actress
Tabu – Cheeni Kum
Critics’ Award For Best Film
Shimit Amin – Chak De India
Best Actor in a Supporting Role (Male)
Irrfan Khan – Life in a… Metro
Best Actor in a Supporting Role (Female)
Konkana Sen Sharma – Life in a… Metro
Best Lyrics
Prasoon Joshi – (Maa – Taare Zameen Par)
Best Playback Singer (Male)
Shaan – (Jab Se Tere Naina – Saawariya)
Best Playback Singer (Female)
Shreya Ghosal – (Barso Re – Guru)
Best Music
A. R. Rahman – Guru
Best Story
Amol Gupte – Taare Zameen Par
Best Screenplay
Anurag Basu – Life in a… Metro
Best Dialogue
Imtiaz Ali – Jab We Met
R. D. Burman Award
Monty Sharma (Saawariya)
Lifetime Achievement Award
Rishi Kapoor
Power Awards
Yash Chopra & Aditya Chopra
Best Debut (Male)
Ranbir Kapoor – Saawariya
Best Debut (Female)
Deepika Padukone – Om Shanti Om
Best Special Effects
Red Chillies Entertainment – Om Shanti Om
Sony Head N Shoulders Fresh Face of the Year Award
Deepika Padukone
Best Background Score
A. R. Rahman – Guru
Best Editing
Amitabh Shukla – Chak De India
Best Choreography
Saroj Khan (Barso Re Megha Re – Guru)
Best Action
Rob Miller – Chak De India
Best Art Direction
Samir Chanda – Guru
Best Sound
Leslie Fernandes – Johnny Gaddaar
Best Cinematography
Sudhip Chatterjee
Best Costumes
Sujata Sharma – Gandhi My Father
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
wtf is power awards…and why it’s given to Yash chopra and adi chopra….who are these critcs who decide critic’s awards….Darsheel gave an interview that he is not satisfied with best child actor..so what to do now..u have to give it to srk..but darsheel…so lets give darsheel critcs best actor..and srk as always the best actor….this sucks ….
lol Anand cool down! it’s the same story every year no?
by the way, didn’t Yash Chopra get the ‘power award’ before too?
What is power award anyway? Is there a policy that it will always be given to the person whose pet dog wins best actor?
I think Power is a satisfy-your-ego award. This year we could not give any other award to Adi / Yash combo so lets give them power award….
Even in any other year, I think the only people who have got this award are Adi / Yash and SRK….
And what the deal with SRK presenting the awards for the third time or was it 4th….
I don’t think the selection this year has been as bad a some of the previous years. Shahrukh delvered a worthy performance in CDI. I shudder to think what would have happened if OSO was the only SRK release last year. If he had got it for OSO, that would have been the limit!! But yes, i agree that the critic’s award becomes sort of a consolation prize!!
The only award I personally have a major problem this year is the Best Playback Singer (Male). I didn’t find anything exceptional in Shaan’s rendition. Then that’s just my opinion.
black friday and manorama were criminally ignored this year. atleast they deserved being nominated.
screenplay should have definitely gone to johnny gaddar. it was probably the best screenplay we had in the last 3-4 yrs.
in art direction i don’t know how guru can compare to blue umbrella, or how chak de can compare to eklavya in cinematography.
and how come darsheel found a nomination for best actor category and still failed to win the best debut award?
and wtf is a power award? is it the power to fix awards award? but seriously, what did aditya chopra do this year to get this award?
baah! the story will always remain the same. let’s just wait for the national awards. my only grouse with national awards is that they do not acknowledge violent movies like satya and all. johnny gaddar won’t find favour there too…
Simply..as the season for popular awards comes in..i prefer to be more ignorant of whats happening.
Why did not Shreyas Talpade win for Iqbal? Why did not Iqbal win? Iqbal is much better film than Chak De India!
Chak De India!, is only a half decent manufactured film!
HG i think Iqbal was released in 2006….
i know it was released in year 2006.
I am just trying to make a generalization between Iqbal and Chak De India! – quality wise Iqbal is far superior to Chak De India! but yet it did not win any (top filmfare) awards in year 2006…
How the hell did Ranbir Kapoor win the award for Best Debut when he was supremely outclassed by Neil Mukesh in Johnny Gaddar.
No award for SRK last year even though his KANK was much more deserving than Hritik for Dhoom 2. I think they got large bits right this year – SRK for CDI was well deserved. (As was Shreyas for Iqbal – clearly a bad choice there.) But I think Kareena was an excellent choice. Ranbir needs to be drummed out of town but unfortunately is here to stay and torture us for many years. Neil Nitin – what a find, can’t wait for more. Darsheel reminds me of a brat – says he should get the best actor award – not he should be in the best actor category! So they give him a nomination, and then a critics choice award. Was his performance really award worthy?
Awful awards – Rahman for Guru – his worst work to date. Barso re choreography – now jumping into pools and rivers is choreography? Life in a Metro screenplay – WTF – 40% or more was plagiarized!
Tabu for Cheeni Kum? It was about the worst I have seen her do.
Black Friday had five nominations in screenplay,editing, art, background score and action
No Smoking had four in Cinematography, art, sound and SFX
But none of the nominees were either announced or invited at the function.
Nominees were only announced at the venue
Black friday should have been in best film nominee…it’s so strange..each and everyone praised BF when it was released …but what happnd now…have they forgot abt it….
these are popular awards anand, and you will be surprised that fifty percent of india is not even aware of the film..
I read this article elond time back.. maybe this will clear some doubts
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KS: Pyare-ji, pehli film ke liye kitne paise mile the aapko?
PL: mere Khayaal mein shaayad 4000 mila hoga lekin jo ‘amount’ hamne
liya, ‘for the first time’, Dosti mein, 10000 hamne liya.
KS: 10,000 us samay bahut baDi rakam hoti thi.
PL: aur 10,000 hamne liya tha aur Filmfare ward ke liye 65,000 rupaya
hamne ‘loan’ liya tha, Filmfare mein woh bharne ke liye. Filmfare
ke ‘form’ bharne ke liye 65,000 rupay hamne lagaaye.
KS: us samay kya paise dene paDte the ‘award’ ke liye?
PL: naheen kya tha ki Filmfare ki ek ‘copy’ khareedni paDti thi,
usmein ek ‘form’ hota tha, usmein aapko ‘Best Music’ ke andar apna
naam likhna paDtaa tha, us zamaane mein yeh hota tha, woh aaj bhi
chal raha hai…
KS: to aap se pehle bhi logon ne yahi kiya tha?
PL: bilkul, kyunki dekhiye, ismein koi buri baat naheen hai,
yeh ‘business’ hai, jab tak aap kuchh karenge naheen to ‘business’
chalega naheen. aap bahut sat chalenge to naheen chal paayenge. to
hamne Filmfare ki ‘copy’ lekar ‘hero, heroine, director’, sab khareed
liye, ‘amount’ to mujhe yaad naheen lekin laakh do laakh rupay hogaa.
to hamne, maan leejiye 25000 Filmfare ki ‘copies’ kahreedi, usmein
har ‘copy’ mein ek ‘form’ hai, to sab mein Best Music Director mein
apna naam likhke bhej diya, waise hi ‘hero’ ke liye, ‘director’ ke
liye. to hamne bhi kiya tha aise. to Dosti ke andar 65,000.
KS: lekin us zamaane ke hisaab se to bahut baDi rakam hai yeh.
PL: ab hamko shauk tha, maine kahaa tha Laxmi-ji ko ki ‘ismein faayda
kuchh naheen hai’.
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Song: jaanewaalon zara muDke dekho mujhe (Dosti)
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KS: us saal Filmfare Award ke liye kaun si kaun si filmen Takkar mein
theen?
PL: Woh Kaun Thi, aur Sangam.
KS: yaani ki Madan Mohan, Shankar Jaikishan aur Laxmikant Pyarelal.
PL: aur ham logon ko mila ‘award’.
fifty percent of india is not aware of the film…but atleast eighty percent of the film industry must be aware of it……giving award to a movie just becoz it’s popular is outrageous….
kuch nahi hoga yaha..kuch nahi badlega…….
though this time filmfare tried hard not to look like filmfart awrds. ofcourse everyone knows the truth nyway. so they managed tpo give one to darsheel n one to srk. one for aamir n one for shimit. dialogues to imtiaz n screenplay to anurag basu n many more like that. tried hard to spread the msg that they r serious about the award. they hav also cut down the nacch gana. now its recorded for telecast only. its funny n weird. but then its filmfare…who remembers after few days..who got it for which film. srk is happy man at the end of d day..twenty othr actors r also hppy cz they will do whatever srk says n so filmfare guys r happy.
I am sick of these popular award shows. We certainly have become a country with the ailment of “overdose of democracy”. The indian idol and the respective clones is another case over here. Why we need popular choice to determine everything? How many people who voted for all these awards and shows are really trained in the respective subjects? What makes people think that any one without any theoretical or practical knowledge and experience on filmmaking(or singing,dancing or whatever)can pass judgment over the ability of an individual who actually spent time to learn their trade and create(or perform)? Do we let our academic papers checked on the basis of popular choice like “vote for the best guy to win a PhD”? Why performing arts is considered to be a whore for everyone?
Sorry for so the rhetoric, but thank God Black Friday did not win any of those film-fairytale awards. Really do not want a film like BF to be a part of that impudent celebration of mediocrity.
@Anurag
fifty percent of the people not aware of your movie would have become aware of it if it was indeed (and very deservingly) nominated for the best picture award. same about manorama and johnny gaddar. these awards would have meant that atleast people would catch these movies on DVDs and TV and see for themselves what good cinema is. this ‘popular award’ garb is only there to yield to the yash raj ‘power award’ power. why is there a jury anyway if this is a popular award? why not just conduct an sms poll and give all awards to shahrukh khan?
for what i know, these awards, if given properly would have brought some good movies which failed at the b.o. some eyeballs and people would have given them another chance. maybe that would have helped improve the cinematic tastes of our audience.
but i guess that is exactly what the people in ‘power’ did not want. although admittedly, chak de was indeed a very, very good movie….
Instead of looking for a way forward, the filmfare has gone totally directionless.Its a myth that filmfare awards are decided by public voting. If that be the case, then the boxoffice report should be taken as a measure of public vote. And films like Welcome and Om Shanti Om should have won hands down.
If you want to give away awards, lay down a criteria based on the final product, and not on the acceptance of the final product by the public. Films like Johnny Gaddar and Black Friday were criminally ignored.
They should have the guts to officially name it ‘Film Unfair’ Awards from now on.
You’ll always see the Chopras, Johars and Khans winning here. The Ranvir Shoereys, Anurag Kashyaps, Neil Mukeshs of the world will never win.
And seriously, if I see Ranbir win any more award this year for showing us his bum, I’ll….(ok, lemme count to 10 now!)
Bah!
Anand (17): one needs to understand the process for filmfare awards so that you understand what Anurag meant in his comment. people are asked to vote for their choices, and the films/ individuals that get the maximum number of votes gets the nomination. the nominations are judged by a jury and the final awards is given based on 50% popular vote and 50% jury votes. so, if (as anurag says) 50% of India doesn’t know about the film, it’s difficult to be nominated or get the award.
One can debate about this process, but with this process, it was difficult for films like BF or JG to get nominated and win(at least in the popular awards). But i guess they could have figured more prominently in the tech awards which are not based on popular vote.
AZAD (21): OSO did get a lot of nominations, because of it’s popularity and maybe the jury did not vote for it, so in the overall tally it fell short.
before anyone gets me wrong, I don’t hold a candle for Filmfare awards and am always disappointed by SRK and Chopras getting an award EVERY year. I’m just saying they have a defined process and usually stick to it. the process is open to rigging as well (as is evident from the pyarelal interview above)….but that’s the way it is!
i have been voting for the fimfare since class 9th.that is 6 years.this year for the first time i did not vote for a ’star’.because i was not aware what good cinema really means.what entettains you is not always good cinema.i can be entertained by ram gopal verma ki aag…what i am suggesting here is…PFC should have its own list of awards,so that not only PFC writers like anurag,navdeep,sudhir mishra but also people like kaykay,pawan malhotra,aditya shrivastav,ranvir.vinay pathak etc.and also the technicians get acclaim,akin to there achievement.it is not to say that it should be a black tie event,but just a list and a “contri-party”,maybe.that will be an encouragement for people who really know what cinema is
Let’s see…
Tara Rum Pum – Flop
Jhoom Barabar Jhoom – Flop
Chak De India – HIT
Laga Chunari Mein Daag – Flop
Aaja Nachle – Flop
What does it say for an industry when Aditya/Yash Chopra are given some ambiguous “Power Award” for what was clearly one of the worst years in their production companies history…
@Tony Mera Naam
wahi to point hai. It’s like this…they have the power to influence people to get the ‘power award’ after producing 4 flops in one year.
Another thing about the Film-Fare Awards and other such “popular” awards are that they will ALWAYS be representative of the industry.
Shah Rukh Khan is the face of Hindi cinema, so it’s not surprising to see the number of awards he’s won over the years.
YashRaj Films still recognized as the #1 Production house (despite their terrible track record in 07), so it was almost inevitable that they had to be recognized somehow as well.
Neil Nitin Mukesh may have been, hands down, the best actor to debut in 2007. But Ranbir is from the illustrious Kapoor family, so…
Watch Harmen Baweja win best male debut for 2008.
As for Deepika Padukone… Besides Sonam Kapoor what other actress made her debut in 2007? I guess the Chak De Girls, but none of them had a significant enough part to be in contention for an award. Was there anyone else?
Yeah no kidding Neeraja…
Are there independent film awards programs in India, like the Independent Spirit Awards here?
If PFC had its own awards, they could similarly be skewed towards the people we know and like, just as in FilmFare and the other big shows, where it’s sort of a club mentality. However, at least we’d appreciate the results better. :-)
Why did Anurag Kashyap talk to Shahrukh about acting in No Smoking?
Why did Anurag Basu win for hie UNORIGINAL screenplay of Life in a Metro?
Who do we make movies for – ourselves or the viewers?
What was so wonderful about Aamir Khan’s direction in Taare Zameen Par?
Neil Nitin was courageous and made the choice to act in JG – not some mainstream popular cinema. His future choices seem as good. He aspires to perhaps be a Shreyas or a Naseer – so why are we surprised if he is not awarded and Ranbir in his towel slipping act is?
PFC awards will be just as biased on the other side. Fact is these and all awards get something right and somethings wrong.
Lately, I have realized that there is nothing such as naturally neutralism or PH Scale 7!
Media is always biased – it is impossible to be unbiased – everyone feels that world is against them -everyone is having same argument – “I’m right and you’re wrong” – so who is right – hence – the earth is round.
theres a lot of fuss about the Power awards here!!!
The film(un)fair awards were conducted in Yashraj studios!!!..Now, it clicks????
btw, wht did shah rukh do in CDI?..i still dont understand..grunt,hiss and run here and there??..and he had less screen time in CDI than aamir had in TZP !!!
and my hopes on National awards were lost when Saif won it for Hum Tum :o
Shahrukh did more in CDI than Aamir did in TZP. In TZP he cried at the drop of a hat, at Ishaan, at handicapped kids, at a little boy serving him chai. I began to wonder if he had flown in from some Scandinavian country and did not know that poor children in India WORK for a living. Most silly performance.
bhaiyya rxtreme..i was speaking abt the length of the role to even get a best “ACTOR” nomination and not about his performance !!!
and pls dont make me speak about SRKs performance in CDI…the final luk he gives to Vidya before the penalty shot reminded me of all the movies where he proposes others wife/gf !!! that person doesnt kno how to act; he is capable of only entertaining !!!
bhiayya vimal “btw, wht did shah rukh do in CDI?..i still dont understand..grunt,hiss and run here and there??” My response was to that part of your post.
Really – you saw him do this countless times as he proposed to various ladies? In fact CDI is a film where he pulled out a performance that was quite unique – he did not need to weep at all and sundry or give speeches to speechless parents to show us he can act. Do not underestimate the power of entertaining – even those who cry needlessly are only trying to entertain.
On the Power award which everyone seem to be objecting to : Filmfare runs a annual poll of the most powerful people in Bollywood , Yash Chopra and Aditya Chopra have been voted #1 in this poll for second year running i guess . and the award is for that ! its not because to make yashraj happy or the awards were held at yashraj studios !!! come on people talk sense .
you are bound to loathe yashraj and but for good or bad its currently the most powerful and influential entity in bollywood .
http://www.indicine.com/movies/bollywood/filmfare-power-list/
like someone explained these are meant to be “popular” awards balanced by a hand picked jury’s opinion . this year’s list look fair enough to me though music awards for Guru look ridiculous for such a mediocore score more recognition should have been give to vishal shekhar and music of OSO.
OSO and music seriously???
Guru is always a better choice. Jaage hain, Barso re, Tere Bina, Ai Heirathe, Mayya ; songs of different moods in one single album. Though I feel TZP alteast deserved a nomination.
@Aditya Pant
The only award I personally have a major problem this year is the Best Playback Singer (Male). I didn
@ Amit, Sonu Nigam is ofcourse a gifted singer..But last year, I guess there werent any remarkable songs from his end…”Main agar kahoon” was very normal a song and that too a duet…pls share ur views if there are any other gud songs of Sonu last year..
Well I think “COMPARED” to the last 8-10 years,(I have been following it closely)this year the awards were much more decent.The bad choices were for best choreography,male playback and best music.There have been cases like Kajol winning the award for K3G the same year when there was a superlative performance by Tabu in Chandni Bar.Best choreography should have gone to Farah Khan,best male playback Soham for In Dino and best music Vishal-Shekhar for OSO because if they are talking about popularity awards then the above 3 were far more “POPULAR” than the winners.Even otherwise they were more deserving.Rest of the awards were predictable and no surprises.
What happened to PFC Awards??
Hey ! Was there a film called “dharm” this year? plz correct me if i m wrong…no nominations for anything (or was there any)…i know these r pop awards, but they do have technical and critics awards also(atleast they say so)…
if these are really pop awards – Best Debut (Male)should go to Himesh…dont u think? I guess “aap ka suroor” was a bigger hit than sawariya or johnny gaddar (second one i m not sure)…but anyways neil didnt get the award…
Biggest joke of one award function was that Pankaj kapoor given an award for best negative role – in “Blue umbrella”, yes this is not typo error “Blue umbrella”…i m out of words and thoughts on this… all i can say is…..
“May the common sense Prevail”
……….aamen
!!!!!!!!!!!! Wht happened to Maniratnam……only he made a good film with a subject… Aamir khan- ok for best debut director
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)
Abhishek gave the best performance than any one in the nomination list.
the great Amithabh’s son didn’t got 25% vote….!!!!!!(25+75%critics vote…mmmm there was a chance )
Thank god …for the supporting actors category…
Nobody can blame filmfare this time.
the only perfect choice by them (irfan and konkana)
Music Rahman is the only choice… At least he is creating something …not copiying.
Was Eklavya banned from Filmfare awards this time? Was it nominated in any of the categories? Forgive my ignorance. Not that I loved or liked the movie, but its again from one of the Chopras (though a little less influential/with less power). I wonder…
vimal you seem to hate everything associated with SRK apparently ! :-?
Guru music was ok but not all songs were good that whole song about twin was sheer cacophony it was like someone drilling in to my ear .
All the songs in OSO album were consistently good and much better and hummable and far more popular than Guru’s songs .
try humming Meetha hai kosa hai barish ka bosa hai posa hai kosa hai barish ka bosa hai :w; ..were those lyrics translated from tamil or something LOL !
music should definitely have been taare zameen par.
the other ones i can say with conviction were johnny gaddar for screenplay, eklavya for cinematography and blue umbrella for art design.
and one thing i still don’t understand is how come darsheel was eligible for best actor category but not for best male debut? can anyone please explain to me how this works?
black friday was not nominated so CDI for me was best movie. although aamir for direction did get it deservedly.
but the only consolation is that sajid khan was aptly ignored in the awards. now THAT would have killed the filmfares…
other grouses, pawan malhotra should have got a nomination for black friday. he should have actually won some too……
Shootout at Lokhandwala… Great movie… Vivek Oberoi should have gotten Best Negative Role award. but coz of controversies he got neglected.
For Anurag Kashyap: Which is your next movie? I want to compliment you that what u did for Return of Hanuman was what Steve Jobs did for Pixar..u gave Indian Animation Industry a chance.
@vimal
well, I can’t remember offhand all the songs which “became” brilliant just because of his voice quality but I’ll like to name a few:
Kitni der tak (Dilli Heights)
O re Paakhi (Khoya Khoya Chand)
Jaanu na (Eklavya)
Dholna (Hey Baby)
Salam-e-ishq songs
and the song which you find normal -”Main agar Kahoon”- deserves filmfare handsdown, IMO. Then, somebody will point out that above songs were not that popular and filmfare is about popular awards, in that case “Chak de India” or “Dard-e-disco” deserve to win. “Jab se tere Naina..” is strictly an okay song and that too is because of its composition, Shaan didn’t add any value to it which is in complete contrast when Sonu sings. He brings much more to the table as a singer.
And I’m not saying that Shaan is bad but I have noticed that filmfare is not doing justice to the talent of Sonu, not only this year but over the years. Remember Himesh getting the award over “Piyu Bole” and “Dheere Jalna”! And how can somebody rate “Kabhi alvida na kehna” lower than “Chand Sifarish” purely in terms of singing?
Why are technical awards given separately??
They are still given separetely aren’t they??
“Best screenplay award” is given separetly, isn’t it? These r the kind of people who are least qualified to make statements like ..
“The Script is the king” and stuff like that..
screenplay award was given as part of main ceremony , i guess best action , special effects etc is given seperately
Morph,
I believe they used to give best screenplay in the technical section till about some years back at a separate function???
Well I think we shud not even be discussing these awards…
Everything mediocre is like communalism.. The more u discuss it, the more it starts to make sense.. The way to shut it out is to shun it completely..
i’ve seen winners for story and screenplay coming up and picking up the awards at the live ceremony like anurag basu did this year for metro