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Last night I read the winner’s list of the 2008 Nokia Screen Awards and boy, can there be a more predictable list? I mean my predictions after reading the nominations were almost 100% accurate. In fact, it makes me feel that the nominee list is a farce. The winners are decided before hand and 4 other idiots put there just to make a list.

As a tribute to that spirit, I am letting go of a separate post for the nominations and announcing the winners directly. But mind you, all nominees here are deserving and I did have problems choosing the winners.

Best Picture

• Black Friday
• Chak De India
• Dharm
• Jab We Met
• Taare Zameen Par

Best Actor (Male)

• Abhishek Bachchan – Guru
• Akshaye Khanna – Gandhi My Father
• Darsheel Safary – Taare Zameen Par
• Pankaj Kapur – Dharm
• Shah Rukh Khan – Chak De India

Best Actor (Female)

• Deepika Padukone – Om Shanti Om
• Kareena Kapoor – Jab We Met
• Katrina Kaif – Namastey London
• Jiah Khan – Nishabd
• Sonam Kapoor – Saawariya

Best Director

• Aamir Khan – Taare Zameen Par
• Bhavna Talwar – Dharm
• Imtiaz Ali – Jab We Met
• Shimit Amin – Chak De India
• Sriram Raghavan – Johnny Gaddaar

Best Story

• Amol Gupte – Taare Zameen Par
• Mani Ratnam – Guru
• Madhu Muttom – Bhool Bhulaiyaa
• Pooja Ladha Surti – Johnny Gaddaar
• Vibha Singh – Dharm

Best Supporting Actor (Male)

• Aamir Khan – Taare Zameen Par
• Darshan Zariwala – Gandhi My Father
• Mithun Chakraborty – Guru
• Vipin Sharma – Taare Zameen Par
• Zakhir Hussain – Johnny Gaddaar

Best Supporting Actor (Female)

• Amisha Patel – Bhool Bhulaiyaa
• Anjana Sukhlani – Salaam-E-Ishq
• Shreya Saran – Awaarapan
• Tisca Chopra – Taare Zameen Par
• Zehra Naqvi – Dhan Dhana Dhan Goal

Best Song

• Bandeh – Black Friday
• Jaage Hain – Guru
• Kash Laga – No Smoking
• Maa – Taare Zameen Par
• Yoon Shabnami – Saawariya

Best Music

• A R Rahman – Guru
• Himesh Reshammiya – Namastey London
• Monty – Saawariya
• Shankar Ehsaan Loy – Taare Zameen Par
• Vishal Shekhar – Om Shanti Om

Best Background Music

• A R Rahman – Guru
• Debajyoti Mishra – Dharm
• Daniel George – Johnny Gaddaar
• Shankar Ehsaan Loy – Salaam-E-Ishq
• Shantanu Moitra – Eklavya

Best Lyrics

• Gulzar – Jaage Hain / Guru
• Gulzar – Kash Laga / No Smoking
• Piyush Mishra – Bandeh / Black Friday
• Prasoon Joshi – Maa / Taare Zameen Par
• Prasoon Joshi – Taare Zameen Par / Taare Zameen Par

Best Singer (Male)

• A R Rahman – Jaage Hain / Guru
• Asheem Chakravarty – Bandeh / Black Friday
• Sonu Nigam – Bhaee Bhor / Dharm
• Shankar Mahadevan – Taare Zameen Par / Taare Zameen Par
• Amitabh Bachchan – Rozana / Nishabd

Best Singer (Female)

• Chitra – Jaage Hain / Guru
• Hamsika Iyer – Chanda Re / Eklavya
• Mayyam Toller – Mayya Mayya / Guru
• Richa Sharma – Daras Bina / Saawariya
• Rekha Bharadwaj – Phoonk De / No Smoking

Best Debut (Male)

• Darsheel Safary – Taare Zameen Par
• Ranbir Kapoor – Saawariya
• Neil Nitin Mukesh – Johnny Gaddaar
• Himesh Reshammiya – Aap Ka Surroor (He He.. Just for gags!!)

Best Debut (Female)

• Deepika Padukone – Om Shanti Om
• Jiah Khan – Nishabd
• Sagarika Ghatke – Chak De India
• Sonam Kapoor – Saawariya
• Zehra Naqvi – Dhan Dhana Dhan Goal

Best Trailer

• Saawariya (what a con job)
• Dhan Dhana Dhan Goal
• Taare Zameen Par
• Eklavya
• Salaam-E-Ishq

Worst Film

• Heyy Babyy
• Saawariya
• Salaam-E-Ishq
• Ta Ra Rum Pum
• Welcome

Worst Actor (Male)

• Abhishek Bachchan – Jhoom Barabar Jhoom (I have not seen the film, but wearing a hairband earns him an automatic nomination)
• Akshay Kumar – Welcome
• Himesh Reshammiya – Aap Kaa Surroor
• Saif Ali Khan – Ta Ra Rum Pum
• Salman Khan – Salaam-E-Ishq

Worst Actor (Female)

• Priyanka Chopra – Salaam-E-Ishq
• Rani Mukerjee – Laaga Chunari Mein Daag
• Rani Mukerjee – Ta Ra Rum Pum
• Vidya Balan – Heyy Babyy
• Vidya Balan – Bhool Bhulaiyaa

Most Nonsensical Lyrics

• Javed Akhtar – Dard-E-Disco / Om Shanti Om (nothing else comes close.. no point nominating any others)

Most Nonsensical Film Title

• Ta Ra Rum Pum (what the heck is that?)
• Aap Kaa Surroor – The Moviee – The Real Luv Storieeeeeee (all in the name of numerologggyyyiieee)
• Team – The Force
• Ram Gopal Varma Ki Aag
• Shaka Laka Boom Boom (more a magician’s mantra than film name)

Xerox Award for the Best Picture

• Hitch (I mean Partner)…

Xerox Award for the Best Music Director

• Pritam Chakraborty with so far 14 tracks in the last year copied from music all the way from Egypt – Korea.. I say so far because we do not know the sources of the others yet. And yes my friends, the 14 include songs from Bhool Bhulaiyaa, Jab We Met, and Life In A Metro. Thanks to itwofs.com for documenting his research.

Congratulations to all the winners…!!