2008 Zee Cine Awards Explained

Number:	11
Award:	Zee Cine Awards
Date:	26 April 2008
Site:	ExCeL London
Host:	Sajid Khan Karan Johar Dia Mirza Gulshan Grover Chunky Panday Minissha Lamba
Best Picture:	Chak De! India
Best Direction:	Aamir Khan
Best Direction Film:	(Taare Zameen Par)
Best Actor:	Shah Rukh Khan
Best Actor Film:	(Chak De! India)
Best Actress:	Kareena Kapoor
Best Actress Film:	(Jab We Met)
Most Wins:	Taare Zameen Par (6)
Most Nominations:	Om Shanti Om (15)
Last:	10th
Next:	12th

The 11th Zee Cine Awards ceremony honouring the winners and nominees of the best of Bollywood cinema films released in 2007. The ceremony was held on 26 April 2008 at ExCeL London, London.^[1]

Om Shanti Om led the ceremony with 15 nominations, followed by Guru with 10 nominations, and Chak De! India, Life in a... Metro and Taare Zameen Par with 9 nominations each.

Taare Zameen Par won 6 awards, including Best Director (for Aamir Khan) and Best Actor (Critics) (for Darsheel Safary, thus becoming the most-awarded film at the ceremony.

Awards

The winners and nominees have been listed below. Winners are listed first, highlighted in boldface, and indicated with a double dagger .^{[2] [3] [4]}

Popular Awards

! style="background:#EEDD82;text-align:center;"	Best Film	! style="background:#eedd82; text-align:center;"	Best Director
Chak De! India Guru Jab We Met Life in a... Metro Om Shanti Om Taare Zameen Par	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
! style="background:#eedd82; text-align:center;"	Best Actor – Male	! style="background:#eedd82; text-align:center;"	Best Actor – Female
Shah Rukh Khan – Chak De! India as Hockey Coach Kabir Khan Abhishek Bachchan – Guru as Gurukant "Guru" Desai Akshay Kumar – Namastey London as Arjun Amitabh Bachchan – Cheeni Kum as Buddhadev Singh Shah Rukh Khan – Om Shanti Om as Omprakash Makhija aka OK 'Om Kapoor' Shahid Kapoor – Jab We Met as Aditya D. Kashyap	Kareena Kapoor – Jab We Met as Geet Dhillon Aishwarya Rai Bachchan – Guru as Sujata Desai Deepika Padukone – Om Shanti Om as Sandhya "Sandy" Bansal aka Shantipriya Katrina Kaif – Namastey London as Jasmeet Tabu – Cheeni Kum as Nina Verma Vidya Balan – Bhool Bhulaiyaa as Avni S. Chaturvedi
! style="background:#eedd82; text-align:center;"	Best Actor in a Supporting Role – Male	! style="background:#eedd82; text-align:center;"	Best Actor in a Supporting Role – Female
Govinda – Partner as Bhaskar Devakar Chaudhary Aamir Khan – Taare Zameen Par as Ram Shankar Nikumbh Bobby Deol – Jhoom Barabar Jhoom as Steve Singh/Satvinder Irrfan Khan – Life in a... Metro as Monty Mithun Chakraborty – Guru as Manikdas Desai Shreyas Talpade – Om Shanti Om as Pappu Master	Shilpa Shetty – Life in a... Metro as Shikha Chitrashi Rawat – Chak De! India as Komal Chautala Konkona Sen Sharma – Life in a... Metro as Shruti Ghosh Lara Dutta – Jhoom Barabar Jhoom as Anaida Raza/Laila Tisca Chopra – Taare Zameen Par as Maya Awasthi
! style="background:#eedd82; text-align:center;"	Best Performance in a Negative Role	! style="background:#eedd82; text-align:center;"	Best Actor in a Comic Role
Arjun Rampal – Om Shanti Om as Mukesh "Mike" Mehra Neil Nitin Mukesh – Johnny Gaddaar as Johnny Pavan Malhotra – Black Friday as Tiger Memon Shilpa Shukla – Chak De! India as Bindiya Naik Vivek Oberoi – Shootout at Lokhandwala as Mahindra "Maya" Dolas	Vinay Pathak – Bheja Fry as Bharat Bhushan Anil Kapoor – Welcome as Sagar "Majnu" Pandey Nana Patekar – Welcome as Uday Shankar Shetty Riteish Deshmukh – Heyy Babyy as Tanmay Joglekar Tusshar Kapoor – Dhol as Sameer "Sam" Arya
! style="background:#eedd82; text-align:center;"	Best Music Director	! style="background:#eedd82; text-align:center;"	Best Lyrics
A. R. Rahman – Guru Pritam – Life in a... Metro Pritam, Sandesh Shandilya – Jab We Met Sajid–Wajid – Partner Vishal–Shekhar – Om Shanti Om	Prasoon Joshi – "Maa" – Taare Zameen Par Gulzar – "Tere Bina" – Guru Javed Akhtar – "Main Agar Kahoon" – Om Shanti Om Sameer Anjaan – "Jab Se Tere Naina" – Saawariya Sayeed Quadri – "In Dino" – Life in a... Metro
! style="background:#eedd82; text-align:center;"	Best Male Playback Singer	! style="background:#eedd82; text-align:center;"	Best Female Playback Singer
Shaan – "Jab Se Tere Naina" – Saawariya KK – "Aankhon Mein Teri" – Om Shanti Om Soham Chakrabarty – "In Dino" – Life in a... Metro Sonu Nigam – "Main Agar Kahoon" – Om Shanti Om Sukhwinder Singh, Salim–Sulaiman, Marianne D'Cruz – "Chak De! India" – Chak De! India	Shreya Ghoshal – "Barso Re" – Guru Mahalakshmi Iyer – "Bol Na Halke Halke" – Jhoom Barabar Jhoom Mahalakshmi Iyer – "Tenu Leke" – Salaam-e-Ishq Shreya Ghoshal – "Yeh Ishq Haye" – Jab We Met
! style="background:#eedd82; text-align:center;"	Best Track of the Year	! style="background:#eedd82; text-align:center;"	Most Promising Director
"Mauja Hi Mauja" – Jab We Met "Barso Re" – Guru "Bhool Bhulaiyaa" – Bhool Bhulaiyaa "Dard-e-Disco" – Om Shanti Om "Do You Wanna Partner" – Partner "In Dino" – Life in a... Metro	Aamir Khan – Taare Zameen Par Feroz Abbas Khan – Gandhi, My Father R. Balki – Cheeni Kum Reema Kagti – Honeymoon Travels Pvt. Ltd. Sajid Khan – Heyy Babyy
! style="background:#eedd82; text-align:center;"	Best Male Debut	! style="background:#eedd82; text-align:center;"	Best Female Debut
Ranbir Kapoor – Saawariya as Raj Himesh Reshammiya – Aap Kaa Surroor as HR Neil Nitin Mukesh – Johnny Gaddaar as Johnny	Deepika Padukone – Om Shanti Om as Shantipriya/Sandhya "Sandy" Bansal Jiah Khan – Nishabd as Jiya Sonam Kapoor – Saawariya as Sakeena
! style="background:#eedd82; text-align:center;" colspan="2"	Most Promising Debut Child Artist
Darsheel Safary – Taare Zameen Par as Ishaan Nandkishore Awasthi Dhruv Piyush Panjuani – Apna Asmaan as Buddhi Swini Khara – Cheeni Kum as Sexy

Technical Awards

! style="background:#eedd82; text-align:center;"	Best Story	! style="background:#eedd82; text-align:center;"	Best Screenplay
Amole Gupte – Taare Zameen Par	Imtiaz Ali – Jab We Met
! style="background:#eedd82; text-align:center;"	Best Dialogue	! style="background:#eedd82; text-align:center;"	Best Cinematography
Jaideep Sahni – Chak De! India	Sudeep Chatterjee – Chak De! India
! style="background:#eedd82; text-align:center;"	Best Choreography	! style="background:#eedd82; text-align:center;"	Best Action
Farah Khan – Om Shanti Om	Parvez Khan – Johnny Gaddaar
! style="background:#eedd82; text-align:center;"	Best Editing	! style="background:#eedd82; text-align:center;"	Best Art Direction
Amitabh Shukla – Chak De! India	Nitin Chandrakant Desai – Gandhi, My Father
! style="background:#eedd82; text-align:center;"	Best Background Score	! style="background:#eedd82; text-align:center;"	Best Sound Recording
A. R. Rahman – Guru	Baylon Fonseca – Shootout at Lokhandwala
! style="background:#eedd82; text-align:center;"	Best Costume Design	! style="background:#eedd82; text-align:center;"	Best Film Processing
Manish Malhotra, Karan Johar – Om Shanti Om	ADLABS – Namastey London
! style="background:#eedd82; text-align:center;" colspan="2"	Best Special Effects (Visual)
Red Chillies VFX – Om Shanti Om

Critics' Awards

! style="background:#EEDD82;text-align:center;" colspan="2"	Best Film
Anil Kapoor – Gandhi, My Father
! style="background:#eedd82; text-align:center;"	Best Actor – Male	! style="background:#EEDD82;text-align:center;"	Best Actor – Female
Darsheel Safary – Taare Zameen Par as Ishaan Nandkishore Awasthi	Shefali Shah – Gandhi, My Father as Kasturba Gandhi
! style="background:#EEDD82;text-align:center;" colspan="2"	Critics Special Award
Neil Nitin Mukesh

Special Awards

Lifetime Achievement Award
Zeenat Aman	Feroz Khan
Zee Icon award
Shah Rukh Khan
Zee Cinema Entertainer of the Year
Riteish Deshmukh
British Indian Actor Award
Katrina Kaif
Bollywood Queen Award
Gauri Khan

Superlatives

Multiple nominations! Nominations !! Film

15	Om Shanti Om
10	Guru
9	Chak De! India
	Life in a... Metro
	Taare Zameen Par
8	Jab We Met
4	Cheeni Kum
	Gandhi, My Father
	Saawariya
3	Jhoom Barabar Jhoom
	Johnny Gaddaar
	Namastey London
	Partner
2	Bhool Bhulaiyaa
	Heyy Babyy
	Shootout at Lokhandwala
	Welcome

Multiple wins! Awards !! Film

6	Taare Zameen Par
5	Chak De! India
	Om Shanti Om
3	Gandhi, My Father
	Guru
	Jab We Met
2	Saawariya

Notes and References

1. News: Bollywood stars will grace the red carpet at Zee Cine Awards tomorrow night. Manchester Evening News. Trinity Mirror PLC. 31 March 2013.
2. News: Nominations for the Zee Cine Awards 2008 . 1 April 2008 . Bollywood Hungama . 18 March 2022 . https://web.archive.org/web/20100323104004/http://www.bollywoodhungama.com/features/2008/04/01/3729/index.html . 23 March 2010 . Bollywood Hungama News Network.
3. News: Winners of the Zee Cine Awards 2008 . 27 April 2008. Bollywood Hungama. 18 March 2022 . https://web.archive.org/web/20110814222126/http://www.bollywoodhungama.com/features/2008/04/27/3817/index.html . 14 August 2011 . Bollywood Hungama News Network.
4. Web site: Zee Cine Awards 2008 winners . Zee News . 23 April 2008 . 18 March 2022.