2008 Zee Cine Awards

11th Zee Cine Awards
11th Zee Cine Awards
Date	26 April 2008
Site	ExCeL London
Hosted by	Sajid Khan; Karan Johar; Dia Mirza; Gulshan Grover; Chunky Panday; Minissha Lamba
Highlights
Best Picture	Chak De! India
Best Direction	Aamir Khan; (Taare Zameen Par)
Best Actor	Shah Rukh Khan; (Chak De! India)
Best Actress	Kareena Kapoor; (Jab We Met)
Most awards	Taare Zameen Par (6)
Most nominations	Om Shanti Om (15)
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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]

Aamir Khan — Best Director winner for Taare Zameen Par

Shah Rukh Khan — Best Actor winner for Chak De! India

Kareena Kapoor — Best Actress winner for Jab We Met

Govinda — Best Supporting Actor winner for Partner

Shilpa Shetty — Best Supporting Actress winner for Life in a... Metro

Zeenat Aman — Lifetime Achievement Awardee

Feroz Khan — Lifetime Achievement Awardee

Popular Awards

Best Film	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
Best Actor – Male	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
Best Actor in a Supporting Role – Male	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
Best Performance in a Negative Role	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
Best Music Director	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
Best Male Playback Singer	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
Best Track of the Year	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
Best Male Debut	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
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

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

Critics' Awards

Best Film
Anil Kapoor – Gandhi, My Father‡
Best Actor – Male	Best Actor – Female
*Darsheel Safary – Taare Zameen Par* as Ishaan Nandkishore Awasthi**‡	*Shefali Shah – Gandhi, My Father* as Kasturba Gandhi**‡
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
5	Om Shanti Om
3	Gandhi, My Father
	Guru
	Jab We Met
2	Saawariya

References

^ "Bollywood stars will grace the red carpet at Zee Cine Awards tomorrow night". Manchester Evening News. Trinity Mirror PLC. Retrieved 31 March 2013.
^ "Nominations for the Zee Cine Awards 2008". Bollywood Hungama. Bollywood Hungama News Network. 1 April 2008. Archived from the original on 23 March 2010. Retrieved 18 March 2022.
^ "Winners of the Zee Cine Awards 2008". Bollywood Hungama. Bollywood Hungama News Network. 27 April 2008. Archived from the original on 14 August 2011. Retrieved 18 March 2022.
^ "Zee Cine Awards 2008 winners". Zee News. 23 April 2008. Retrieved 18 March 2022.

[Manchester_Evening_News_-_Bollywood_stars_will_grace_the_red_carpet_at_Zee_Cine_Awards_tomorrow_night-1] "Bollywood stars will grace the red carpet at Zee Cine Awards tomorrow night". Manchester Evening News. Trinity Mirror PLC. Retrieved 31 March 2013.

[2] "Nominations for the Zee Cine Awards 2008". Bollywood Hungama. Bollywood Hungama News Network. 1 April 2008. Archived from the original on 23 March 2010. Retrieved 18 March 2022.

[3] "Winners of the Zee Cine Awards 2008". Bollywood Hungama. Bollywood Hungama News Network. 27 April 2008. Archived from the original on 14 August 2011. Retrieved 18 March 2022.

[4] "Zee Cine Awards 2008 winners". Zee News. 23 April 2008. Retrieved 18 March 2022.

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