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  • Hero Honda Star Screen Awards: Nominations announced

    MUMBAI: Nominations for the 12th Star Screen Awards have been announced. The awards, scheduled for 11 January, will rank the best of Bollywood in 26 categories.
    The Star Screen Awards will be telecast on Star Plus on 15 January. This year, the awards have been themed as ‘Amchi Mumbai’.
    For the best director category, those who have made into the nominee list include Sanjay Leela Bansali, Prakash Jha and Ram Gopal Varma. The films which stand a chance to win the top honour include Sarkar, Black, Iqbal, Parineeta and Apaharan.
    In the best actor (Male) category, Ajay Devgan, Amitab Bachchan, Shahid Kapoor, Saif Ali Khan and Shah Rukh Khan have got noticed for their performance. The best actor (Female) category talks about names such as Juhi Chawla, Rani Mukherjee, Preity Zinta and Konkana Sen Sharma.
    The complete list of nominees:
    Best Film Nominations:
    1) Apaharan – Prakash Jha

    2) Black – Anshuman Swami, Sanjay Leela Bhansali

    3) Iqbal – Subhash Ghai (Mukta Arts)

    4) Parineeta – Vidhu Vinod Chopra

    5) Sarkar – Ram Gopal Varma, Parag Sanghvi

    6) Yahaan – Gary S, Shoojit Sircar, Robby Grewal

    Best Director :
    1) Nagesh Kukunoor (Iqbal)

    2) Prakash Jha (Apaharan)

    3) Ram Gopal Varma (Sarkar)

    4) Sanjay Leela Bansali (Black)

    5) Sudhir Mishra (Hazaaron Khwaishein Aisi)

    Best Actor In A Supporting Role (Male):
    1) Abhishek Bachchan (Sarkar)

    2) Amitabh Bachchan (Bunty Aur Babli)

    3) Kay Kay Menon (Hazaaron Khwaishein Aisi)

    4) Naseeruddin Shah (Iqbal)

    5) Toby Stephens (Mangal Pandey – The Rising)

    Best Actor in A Supporting Role (Female):
    1) Lillete Dubey (My Brother Nikhil)

    2) Shefali Shah (Waqt)

    3) Shernaz Patel (Black)

    4) Shweta Prasad (Iqbal)

    5) Prateeksha Lonkar (Iqbal)

    Best Actor In A Negative Role (Male / Female);
    1) Ajay Devgan (Shikhar)

    2) Kay Kay Menon (Sarkar)

    3) Nana Patekar (Apaharan)

    4) Pooja Batra (Taj Mahal – An Eternal Love Story)

    5) Yashpal Sharma (Apaharan)

    Best Actor In A Comic Role (Male / Female):
    1) Abhishek Bachchan (Bunty Aur Babli)

    2) Akshay Kumar (Garam Masala)

    3) Anil Kapoor (No Entry)

    4) Ishaa Koppikar (Kya Kool Hain Hum)

    5) Rajpal Yadav (Main Meri Patni Aur Woh)

    Best Background Music:
    1) Amar Mohile (Sarkar)

    2) AR Rahman (Bose – The Forgotten Hero)

    3) AR Rahman (Mangal Pandey – The Rising)

    4) Monty Sharma (Black)

    5) Salim – Suleiman (Iqbal)

    Best Music:
    1) M M Kreem (Paheli)

    2) Shankar-Ehsaan-Loy (Bunty Aur Babli)

    3) Shantanu Moitra (Parineeta)

    4) Shantanu Moitra (Yahaan)

    5) Vishal – Shekhar (Dus)

    Best Playback Singer (Male):
    1) Atif (Woh lamhe….Zeher)

    2) K K and Shaan (Dus Bahane…Dus)

    3) Sonu Nigam (Dheere jalna….Paheli)

    4) Sukhwinder (Yeh Kisna hai….Kisna)

    5) Udit Narayan (Hum Hain iss pal yahaan….Kisna)

    Best Playback Singer (Female):
    1) Alisha Chinoy (Kajra Re…. Bunty Aur Babli)

    2) Kavita Krishnamoorthy (Main vaari jaoon….Mangal Pandey – The Rising)

    3) Shreya Goshal (Piyu Bole….Parineeta)

    4) Shubha Mudgal (Bawra Mann….Hazaaron Khwaishein Aisi)

    5) Sunidhi Chauhan ( Kaisi paheli…Parineeta)

    Best Lyrics:
    1) Gulzar (Dheere Jalna….Paheli)

    2) Gulzar (Naam Ada Likhna….Yahaan)

    3) Javed Akhtar (Hum Hain iss pal yahaan….Kisna)

    4) Swanand Kirkire (Bawra Mann….Hazaaron Khwaishein Aisi)

    5) Swanand Kirkire (Piyu Bole….Parineeta)

    Best Actor (Male):
    1) Ajay Devgan (Apaharan)

    2) Amitabh Bachchan (Black)

    3) Saif Ali Khan (Parineeta)

    4) Shah Rukh Khan (Paheli)

    5) Shahid Kapur (Shikhar)

    Best Actor (Female):
    1) Juhi Chawla (My Brother Nikhil)

    2) Konkona Sen – Sharma (Page 3)

    3) Preity Zinta (Salaam Namaste)

    4) Rani Mukherji (Black)

    5) Sharmila Tagore (Viruddh)

    Best Story:
    1) Prakash Jha (Apaharan)

    2) Nagesh Kukunoor (Iqbal)

    3) Rajpal Yadav, Gunjan Joshi (Main Meri Patni Aur Woh)

    4) Sabapati Mahesh (Yahaan)

    5) Sudhir Mishra, Shiv Kumar Subramaniam, Ruchi Narain (Hazaaron
    Khwaishein Aisi)

    Best Screenplay:
    1) Nagesh Kukunoor (Iqbal)

    2) Piyush Mishra, Somnath De, Shoojit Sircar, and Sameer Kohli (Yahaan)

    3) Prakash Jha, Shridhar Raghavan, Manoj Tyagi (Apaharan)

    4) Sanjay Leela Bhansali, , Prakash Kapadia, Bhavani Iyer (Black)

    5) Vidhu Vinod Chopra. Pradeep Sarkar (Parineeta)

    Best Dialogue:
    1) Gulrez Syed, Mohafiz Hyder, Rajeev Mirza (Taj Mahal – An Eternal Love Story)

    2) Nagesh Kukunoor (Iqbal)

    3) Prakash Jha (Apaharan)

    4) Prakash Kapadia (Hindi) & Bhavani Iyer (English) (Black)

    5) Vidhu Vinod Chopra, Rekha Nigam (Parineeta)

    Best Editing:
    1) Catherine D’Hoir (Hazaaron Khwaishein Aisi)

    2) Bela Segal (Black)

    3) Nipun Gupta, Amit Parmar (Sarkar)

    4) Santosh Mandal (Apaharan)

    5) Shekhar (Yahaan)

    Best Sound:
    1) Ajay Kumar PB (Yahaan)

    2) Biswadeep Chatterjee (Parineeta)

    3) Kunal Mehta, Parikshit Lalwani (Sarkar)

    4) Resool Pookutty (Black)

    5) Robert Taylor (Mangal Pandey – The Rising)

    Best Cinematography:
    1) Jakob Ihre (Yahaan)

    2) N Natraja Subramaniam (Parineeta)

    3) Ravi K Chandran (Black)

    4) Ravi K Chandran (Parineeta)

    5) Sudeep Chatterjee (Iqbal)

    Best Special Efects:
    1) Biju D (Naina)

    2) Eagle Videofilms (Paheli)

    3) Merzin Tavaria (Prime Focus) (Vaah! Life ho Toh Aisi)

    4) Stargate Company, LA (Dus)

    Best Art Direction:
    1) Chandravadhan B More (Taj Mahal – An Eternal Love story)

    2) Keshto Mondal, Tanushree Sarkar, Pradeep Sarkar (Parineeta)

    3) Muneesh Sappel (Paheli)

    4) Omung Kumar (Black)

    5) Samir Chanda (Bose – The forgotten Hero)

    Best Choreography:
    1) Bosco – Ceasar (Dus Bahane…..Dus)

    2) Farah Khan (Kaal Dhamaal….Kaal)

    3) Farah Khan (Kangana Re….Paheli)

    4) Saroj Khan (Vaari Vaari….Mangal Pandey – The Rising)

    5) Vaibhavi Merchant (Kajra Re….Bunty Aur Babli)

    Best Action:
    1) Allan Amin (Dus)

    2) Jai Singh Nijjar (Apaharan)

    3) Seng (Thailand) (Ek Ajnabee)

    4) Sham Kaushal (Taj Mahal- An Eternal Love Story)

    5) Shoojit Sircar (Yahaan)

    Most Promising Newcomer (Male):
    1) Abhay Deol (Socha Na tha)

    2) Karan Sharma (Dil Jo Bhi Kahey)

    3) Kunal Khemmu (Kalyug)

    4) Shiny Ahuja (Hazaaron Khwaishein Aisi)

    Most Promising Newcomer (Female):
    1) Chitrangada Singh (Hazaaron Khwaishein Aisi)

    2) Minissha Lamba (Yahaan)

    3) Sonya Jehan (Taj Mahal – An Eternal Love Story)

    4) Vidhya Balan (Parineeta)

    Best Debut Director:
    1) Jahnu Barua (Maine Gandhi Ko Nahin Maara)

    2) Mohit Suri (Zeher)

    3) Onir (My Brother Nikhil)

    4) Pradeep Sarkar (Parineeta)

    5) Shoojit Sircar (Yahaan)

  • SET targets the serious viewer with ‘ACHANAK’ and ‘PAR IS DIL KO KAISE SAMJAYE’

    SET targets the serious viewer with ‘ACHANAK’ and ‘PAR IS DIL KO KAISE SAMJAYE’

    Sony has set its sights on leading prime time ratings every Friday with innovative fare. To this effect it has announced the launch of two shows aimed at having a dramatic effect on the audience.

    The first one is a weekly supernatural show with a difference. Achanak the brainchild of writer Shridhar Raghavan will air every Friday at 10:30 pm starting from 22 March. It has the tagline 37 saal baad.

    Speaking on this Director On Air Programming SET Anupama Mandloi said, ” The name grabs your imagination. This is a psychological thriller. It is like reading a novel on television. The show is built on a solid foundation a great script. It is representative of the faith the channel and the producers have in taking this genre a step further. Most importantly it is created by a team which understands this genre and where its appeal lies for the viewer”.

    The producers of the show are Pradeep Uppoor and Neo Films. They together with Sridhar have worked on Aahat and CID for the channel. Like Achanak both of them had a lot of suspense. A serial from Pradeep Uppoor and Neo Films Srikant was shown on Doordarshan and Channel 4.

    Speaking about the project Shridhar Raghavan said, ” Achanak started off a few years ago as a slightly wild outrageous notion, a set of unlinked fragments of ideas. What if you went home and your parents did not know who you were? What if you were happily married and someone from your past told you that it was nothing more than a hallucination?

    Achanak is a battle royal between good and evil. But its a long fight, a tough fight mostly a losing fight for good. Good eventually wins over evil but it gets one hell of a bloody nose before it does. Or does it?”

    Shridhar also envisioned the setting which is the town of Gahota as a twisted version autHor R.K. Narayan’s Malgudi. He sees the project as something unlike anything seen on Indian television. It is weird, bizarre and outrageous with a complex undercurrent running through it.

    In the deceptively calm town of Gahota over the past couple of months something evil has been occuring. Murders, suicides and acts of madness have been taking place. An alchoholic journalist Dipankar travels to Gahota believing that he has the explanation for why crimes are committed in the town once every thirty seven years for a period of three months. Once the turbulent period has passed people cannot recollect what happened.

    The producers built a real town in Panvel not just a TV serial set. a town square, clock tower, residential areas etc were created.

    Regarding casting decisions Shridhar said that some important members do not appear until half the episodes are completed. Also some characters have a touch of eccentricity to them like a professor whose stance shifts with each encounter. There is a hint of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde waging a war within the characters. He also revealed that one of the central protagonists will appear only in the final act. Cast members include Raj Zutshi, Faraaz Khan and Shishir Sharma.

    He pointed out the differences between Achanak and Aahat. Aahat was episodic involving a single continous story. Aahat dealt with big issues concentrating more on pace as opposed to plot. Achanak on the other hand is about small things. It is about how decption can hide underneath a sea of normality. It also deals with the thin line that separates sanity and insanity, light and dark, good and evil.

    The second new weekly show on SET is called Par Is Dil Ko Kaise Samjaye. It premiers on 29 March at 8:30pm. It deals with how the relationship between two sisters gets affected by a series of accidents brought about through sheer fate.

    A woman loses her sister and husband. For companionship and to support her sisters offspring she marries her brother in law. However later on it turns out that her sister survived the accident. Now both of them are married ot the same man. The show is directed by Imtiyaz Punjabi and stars Raj S Verma, Shweta Salve and Pooja Ghai.