9th IIFA Awards

9th IIFA Awards
9th IIFA Awards
	The official logo of the 2008 IIFA Awards
Date	6 June 2008–; 8 June 2008
Site	Siam Paragon ; Bangkok, Thailand
Hosted by	Boman Irani; Ritesh Deshmukh; Urmila Matondkar;
Highlights
Best Picture	Chak De! India
Best Direction	Shimit Amin; (Chak De! India)
Best Actor	Shahrukh Khan; (Chak De! India)
Best Actress	Kareena Kapoor; (Jab We Met)
Most awards	Chak De! India (9)
Most nominations	Chak De! India (14)
Television coverage
Channel	Star Plus
Network	STAR TV
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The 2008 IIFA Awards, officially known as the 9th International Indian Film Academy Awards ceremony, presented by the International Indian Film Academy honoured the best films of 2007 and took place between 6 – 8 June 2008. The official ceremony took place on 8 June 2008, at the Siam Paragon in Bangkok, Thailand. During the ceremony, IIFA Awards were awarded in 27 competitive categories. The ceremony was televised in India and internationally on Star Plus. Actors Boman Irani and Ritesh Deshmukh co-hosted the ceremony for the first time.

Date6 June 2008–
8 June 2008

SiteSiam Paragon
Bangkok, Thailand

Hosted by

Best PictureChak De! India

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The IIFA Music and Fashion Extravaganza took place on 7 June 2008, as did the FICCI-IIFA Global Business Forum.^[1] On 6 June, The IIFA World Premiere was held at Major Cineplex, Bangkok which showcased Sarkar Raj, starring Indian Film icons Amitabh Bachchan, Abhishek Bachchan and Aishwarya Rai Bachchan, directed by Ram Gopal Varma.^[2]

Partner led the ceremony with 11 nominations, followed by Guru with 10 nominations, Bhool Bhulaiyaa and Chak De! India with 9 nominations each, Life in a... Metro with 8 nominations and Jab We Met with 6 nominations.

Chak De! India won 9 awards, including Best Film, Best Director (for Shimit Amin), Best Actor (for Shah Rukh Khan), thus becoming the most-awarded film at the ceremony.

Om Shanti Om won 6 awards. Other multiple winners included Life in a... Metro with 3 awards and Guru, Jab We Met, Saawariya and Shootout at Lokhandwala with 2 awards each. In addition, Partner received 1 award at the ceremony.

Konkona Sen Sharma received dual nominations for Best Supporting Actress for her performances in Laaga Chunari Mein Daag and Life in a... Metro, winning for the latter.

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Best Picture	Best Director
Chak De! India – Yash Raj Films Guru – Madras Talkies and Mani Ratnam Jab We Met – Shree Ashtavinayak Cine Vision Ltd Life in a... Metro – UTV Motion Pictures Om Shanti Om – Red Chillies Entertainment Partner – K Sera Sera	Shimit Amin – Chak De! India Anurag Basu – Life in a... Metro David Dhawan – Partner Imtiaz Ali – Jab We Met Mani Ratnam – Guru Priyadarshan – Bhool Bhulaiyaa
Best Performance In A Leading Role Male	Best Performance In A Leading Role Female
*Shah Rukh Khan – Chak De! India* as Kabir Khan** Abhishek Bachchan – Guru as Gurukant "Guru" Desai Akshay Kumar – Bhool Bhulaiyaa as Dr. Aditya Shrivastav Salman Khan – Partner as Prem (Love Guru) Shahid Kapoor – Jab We Met as Aditya Kashyap	*Kareena Kapoor – Jab We Met* as Geet Dhillon** Aishwarya Rai – Guru as Sujata Desai Deepika Padukone – Om Shanti Om as Shanti Priya / Sandy Katrina Kaif – Namastey London as Jasmeet 'Jazz' Malhotra Lara Dutta – Partner as Naina Sahni Tabu – Cheeni Kum as Nina Verma Vidya Balan – Bhool Bhulaiyaa as Avni Siddharth Chaturvedi / Manmother
Best Performance In A Supporting Role Male	Best Performance In A Supporting Role Female
*Irrfan Khan – Life in a... Metro* as Monty** Anil Kapoor – Welcome as Sagar Pandey (Majnu) Govinda – Partner as Bhaskar Devakar Chaudhary Mithun Chakraborty – Guru as Manik Dasgupta Rajat Kapoor – Bheja Fry as Ranjeet Thadani	*Konkona Sen Sharma – Life in a... Metro* as Shruti** Chitrashi Rawat – Chak De! India as Komal Chautala Katrina Kaif – Partner as Priya Jaisingh Konkona Sen Sharma – Laaga Chunari Mein Daag as Shubhavari Sahay / Chutki Rani Mukerji – Saawariya as Gulabji Vidya Balan – Guru as Meenakshi "Meenu" Saxena Zohra Sehgal – Cheeni Kum as Buddhadev's mother
Best Performance In A Comic Role	Best Performance In A Negative Role
*Govinda – Partner* as Bhaskar Devakar Chaudhary** Fardeen Khan – Heyy Babyy as Ali 'Al' Haider Irrfan Khan – Life in a... Metro as Monty Paresh Rawal – Bhool Bhulaiyaa as Batukshankar Upadhyay Rajpal Yadav – Bhool Bhulaiyaa & Partner as Chhote Pandit / Lal Hanuman (Natwar) and Chota Don Riteish Deshmukh – Heyy Babyy as Tanmay Joglekar Vinay Pathak – Bheja Fry as Bharat Bhushan	*Vivek Oberoi – Shootout at Lokhandwala* as Mahindra "Maya" Dolas** Arjun Rampal – Om Shanti Om as Mukesh Mehra "Mike" Kay Kay Menon – Life in a... Metro as Ranjeet Rajat Bedi – Partner as Neil Bakshi Shilpa Shukla – Chak De! India as Bindiya Naik Tusshar Kapoor – Shootout at Lokhandwala as Dilip "Buwa" Kohok Vidya Balan – Bhool Bhulaiyaa as Avni Siddharth Chaturvedi / Manjulika
Male Debutant Star	Female Debutant Star
*Ranbir Kapoor – Saawariya* as Ranbir Raj**	*Deepika Padukone – Om Shanti Om* as Shanti Priya / Sandy**

Best Music Director	Best Lyrics
A. R. Rahman – Guru Mika Singh – Shootout at Lokhandwala Monty Sharma – Saawariya Pritam – Bhool Bhulaiyaa Sajid–Wajid – Partner Salim–Sulaiman – Chak De! India	*"Main Agar Kahoon" from Om Shanti Om* – Javed Akhtar** "Tere Bina" from Guru – Gulzar "Chak De! India" from Chak De! India – Jaideep Sahni "In Dino" from Life in a... Metro – Sayeed Quadri "Jab Se Tere Naina" from Saawariya – Sameer
Best Male Playback Singer	Best Female Playback Singer
Shaan for "Jab Se Tere Naina" – Saawariya Neeraj Shridhar for "Hare Ram Hare Ram" – Bhool Bhulaiyaa KK for "Aankhon Mein Teri" – Om Shanti Om Sukhwinder Singh for "Chak De! India" – Chak De! India Wajid and Labh Janjua for "Soni De Nakhre" – Partner	Shreya Ghoshal for "Barso Re" – Guru Shreya Ghoshal for "Mere Dholna" – Bhool Bhulaiyaa Shreya Ghoshal for "Ye Ishq Hai" – Jab We Met Shreya Ghoshal for "Thode Badmash" – Saawariya Sunidhi Chauhan for "Aaja Nachle" – Aaja Nachle

Best Story	Best Screenplay
Chak De! India – Jaideep Sahni Life in a... Metro – Anurag Basu Gandhi, My Father – Feroz Abbas Khan Jab We Met – Imtiaz Ali Guru – Mani Ratnam Cheeni Kum – R. Balki	*Chak De! India – Jaideep Sahni* (joint winner) Life in a... Metro – Anurag Basu (joint winner)**
Best Dialogue
Imtiaz Ali for Jab We Met

Best Art Direction	Best Action
Om Shanti Om – Nitin Chandrakant Desai	Shootout at Lokhandwala – Javed Sheikh & Ejaz Sheikh''
Best Cinematographer	Best Choreography
Chak De! India – Sudeep Chatterjee	Aaja Nachle from Aaja Nachle – Vaibhavi Merchant
Best Costume Design	Best Editing
Om Shanti Om – Manish Malhotra, Karan Johar & Sanjeev Mulchandani	Chak De! India – Amitabh Shukla
Best Makeup	Best Sound Recording
Om Shanti Om – Bharat-Dorris, Ravi Indulkar & Namrata Soni	Chak De! India – Manas Choudhary & Ali Merchant
Best Sound Re-Recording	Best Special Effects
Chak De! India – Anuj Mathur & Ali Merchant	Om Shanti Om – Red Chillies Entertainment

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9th IIFA Awards
The official logo of the 2008 IIFA Awards
Date	6 June 2008 (2008-06-06)– 8 June 2008 (2008-06-08)
Site	Siam Paragon Bangkok, Thailand
Hosted by	Boman Irani Ritesh Deshmukh Urmila Matondkar
Highlights
Best Picture	Chak De! India
Best Direction	Shimit Amin (Chak De! India)
Best Actor	Shahrukh Khan (Chak De! India)
Best Actress	Kareena Kapoor (Jab We Met)
Most awards	Chak De! India (9)
Most nominations	Chak De! India (14)
Television coverage
Channel	Star Plus
Network	STAR TV
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Nominations	Film
11	Partner
10	Guru
9	Bhool Bhulaiyaa
9	Chak De! India
8	Life in a... Metro
6	Jab We Met
5	Om Shanti Om
5	Saawariya
3	Cheeni Kum
3	Shootout at Lokhandwala
2	Bheja Fry
2	Heyy Babyy