9th IIFA Awards

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.

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]

Chak De! India led the ceremony with 14 nominations, followed by Guru and Om Shanti Om with 10 nominations each, and Bhool Bhulaiyaa and Life in a... Metro with 9 nominations each.

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.

Winners and nominees

Winners are listed first and highlighted in boldface.^[3][4][5]

Popular awards

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

Musical awards

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

Backstage awards

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

Technical awards

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

Special awards

Style Diva of the Year

• Katrina Kaif

Style Icon of the Year

• Abhishek Bachchan

Fresh Face of the Year

• Neil Nitin Mukesh^[6]

Outstanding Contribution to Indian Cinema

• Shyam Benegal

Outstanding Contribution by an Indian in International Cinema

• A. R. Rahman

Achievement in Indian Cinema

• Mumtaz

Multiple nominations and awards

References