53rd Filmfare Awards

53rd Filmfare Awards
53rd Filmfare Awards
Date	16 February 2008
Site	Yash Raj Studios
Hosted by	Shahrukh Khan, Saif Ali Khan
Official website	www.filmfare.com
Highlights
Best Film	Taare Zameen Par
Best Critic	Chak De! India
Most awards	Chak De! India (5)
Most nominations	Chak De! India, Guru and Om Shanti Om (10)
Television coverage
Network	Sony Entertainment Television (India)
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The 53rd Idea Filmfare Awards ceremony, presented by The Times Group and Idea Cellular, was one of India's most prestigious awards ceremony, honoring the best Bollywood films of 2007. It took place on 16 February 2008 at the Yash Raj Studios, Mumbai.

Chak De! India, Guru and Om Shanti Om led the ceremony with 10 nominations each, followed by Saawariya with 8 nominations and Jab We Met with 7 nominations.

Chak De! India and guru won 5 awards, thus becoming the most-awarded film at the ceremony.

Shahrukh Khan won his 7th Best Actor award for his role in Chak De! India and Kareena Kapoor won her first and only Best Actress award for her role in Jab We Met.

The event was also notable as Madhuri Dixit got her 13th nomination for Best Actress for Aaja Nachle, breaking the record held by Meena Kumari (with 12 nominations for Best Actress) for 35 years.^[1]

Awards and nominees[]

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

Shimit Amin — Best Director Critics winner for Chak De! India

Tabu — Best Actress Critics winner for Cheeni Kum

Irrfan Khan — Best Supporting Actor winner for Life in a... Metro

Konkona Sen Sharma — Best Supporting Actress winner for Life in a... Metro

Rishi Kapoor — Lifetime Achievement Awardee

Main awards[]

Best Film	Best Director
Taare Zameen Par — Aamir Khan Productions Chak De! India — Yash Raj Films Guru — Madras Talkies Jab We Met — Shree Ashtavinayak Cine Vision Ltd Om Shanti Om — Red Chillies Entertainment	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	Best Actress
Shah Rukh Khan – Chak De! India as Coach Kabir Khan Abhishek Bachchan – Guru as Gurukant "Guru" Desai Akshay Kumar – Namastey London as Arjun Singh Darsheel Safary – Taare Zameen Par as Ishaan Awasthi Shahid Kapoor – Jab We Met as Aditya Kashyap Shah Rukh Khan – Om Shanti Om as Om Prakash Makhija / Om Kapoor	Kareena Kapoor – Jab We Met as Geet Dhillon Aishwarya Rai – Guru as Sujata Gurukant Desai Deepika Padukone – Om Shanti Om as Shantipriya Mehra / Sandhya "Sandy" Bansal Madhuri Dixit – Aaja Nachle as Dia Shrivastav Rani Mukerji – Laaga Chunari Mein Daag as Vibhavari Sahay / Badki Vidya Balan – Bhool Bhulaiyaa as Avni S. Chaturvedi / Manjulika
Best Supporting Actor	Best Supporting Actress
Irrfan Khan – Life In A... Metro as Monty Aamir Khan – Taare Zameen Par as Ram Shankar Nikumbh Anil Kapoor – Welcome as Sagar "Majnu" Pandey Mithun Chakraborty – Guru as Manik "Nanaji" Dasgupta Shreyas Talpade – Om Shanti Om as Pappu Master	Konkona Sen Sharma – Life in a... Metro as Shruti Konkona Sen Sharma – Laaga Chunari Mein Daag as Shubhavari Sahay / Chutki Rani Mukerji – Saawariya as Gulabji Shilpa Shukla – Chak De! India as Bindiya Naik Tisca Chopra – Taare Zameen Par as Maya Awasthi
Best Male Debut	Best Female Debut
Ranbir Kapoor – Saawariya as Ranbir Raj Darsheel Safary – Taare Zameen Par as Ishaan Awasthi Himesh Reshammiya – Aap Ka Surroor as HR Muzzamil Ibrahim – Dhokha as Inspector Zaid Ahmed Khan Neil Nitin Mukesh – Johnny Gaddaar as Johnny Gaddaar Ruslaan Mumtaz – MP3: Mera Pehla Pehla Pyaar as Rohan	Deepika Padukone – Om Shanti Om as Shantipriya Mehra / Sandhya Bansal Hansika Motwani – Aap Kaa Surroor as Riya Bakshi Jiah Khan – Nishabd as Jia Sonam Kapoor – Saawariya as Sakina Ibrahim Urvashi Sharma – Naqaab as Sophia D'Costa Malhotra
Best Music Director	Best Lyricist
A. R. Rahman – Guru Monty Sharma – Saawariya Pritam – Jab We Met Pritam – Life in a... Metro Vishal–Shekhar – Om Shanti Om	Prasoon Joshi – "Maa" from Taare Zameen Par Gulzar – "Tere Bina" from Guru Javed Akhtar – "Main Agar Kahoon" from Om Shanti Om Sameer – "Jab Se Tere Naina" from Saawariya Vishal Dadlani – "Aankhon Mein Teri" from Om Shanti Om
Best Playback Singer – Male	Best Playback Singer – Female
Shaan – "Jab Se Tere Naina" from Saawariya A. R. Rahman – "Tere Bina" from Guru K.K. – "Aankhon Mein Teri" from Om Shanti Om Sonu Nigam – "Main Agar Kahoon" from Om Shanti Om Sukhwinder Singh – "Chak De! India" from Chak De! India	Shreya Ghoshal – "Barso Re" from Guru Alisha Chinai – "It's Rocking!" from Kya Love Story Hai Shreya Ghoshal – "Yeh Ishq Hai" from Jab We Met Sunidhi Chauhan – "Aaja Nachle" from Aaja Nachle Sunidhi Chauhan – "Sajanaji Vari Vari" from Honeymoon Travels Pvt. Ltd.

Critics' awards[]

Best Movie
Chak De! India (Shimit Amin)
Best Performance
Male	Female
Darsheel Safary – Taare Zameen Par	Tabu – Cheeni Kum

Technical Awards[]

Best Story	Best Screenplay
Amole Gupte – Taare Zameen Par Jaideep Sahni – Chak De! India Mani Ratnam – Guru David N. Donihue and Rahul Dholakia – Parzania Vibha Singh – Dharm	Anurag Basu – Life In A... Metro Amole Gupte – Taare Zameen Par Jaideep Sahni – Chak De! India David N. Donihue and Rahul Dholakia – Parzania Sriram Raghavan – Johnny Gaddaar
Best Dialogue	Best Editing
Imtiaz Ali – Jab We Met Amole Gupte–Taare Zameen Par Jaideep Sahni – Chak De! India Mayur Puri – Om Shanti Om Sanjeev Dutta – Life in a... Metro	Amitabh Shukla – Chak De! India
Best Choreography	Best Cinematography
Saroj Khan – *"Barso Re"* – Guru	Sudeep Chatterjee – Chak De! India
Best Production Design	Best Sound Design
Samir Chanda – Guru	Leslie Fernandes – Johnny Gaddaar
Best Costume Design	Best Background Score
Sujata Sharma – Gandhi, My Father	A. R. Rahman – Guru
Best Special Effects	Best Action
Red Chillies VFX – Om Shanti Om	Rob Miller – Chak De! India

Special awards[]

Lifetime Achievement
Rishi Kapoor
R. D. Burman Award
Monty Sharma

Maximum Nominations & Wins[]

The following films received multiple nominations.

10 nominations: Guru, Chak De! India and Om Shanti Om
9 nominations: Taare Zameen Par
8 nominations: Saawariya
7 nominations: Jab We Met
6 nominations: Life in a... Metro
2 nominations: Parzania and Aaja Nachle

The following films received multiple awards.

5 awards: Chak De India & Guru
4 awards: Taare Zameen Par &
3 awards: Life in a... Metro and Saawariya
2 awards: Jab We Met and Om Shanti Om

External links[]

^ "Filmfare Awards Winners From 1953 to 2019". filmfare.com. Retrieved 14 February 2020.

[1] "Filmfare Awards Winners From 1953 to 2019". filmfare.com. Retrieved 14 February 2020.

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