Next Saturday, June 9, the International Indian Film Academy (IIFA) will announce the winners of the 8th IIFA Awards in the Popular Categories. The ceremony will be part of the International Indian Film Academy Weekend, which will take place between June 7-10 in Yorkshire. In addition to the IIFA awards ceremony, the IIFA Weekend will offer a global business forum, a celebrity charity cricket match, and an Indian film festival. (Each year, the IIFA festival is held in a different city of a country with a large Indian population. Last year, Dubai hosted the event; the previous year's party was held in Amsterdam.)
This year, Rang De Basanti / Paint It Yellow received the most nominations, 15 in all, including best picture, best direction (Rakyesh Omprakash Mehra), best actor (Aamir Khan), and best screenplay (Mehra and Rensil Dsilva). This political-musical-coming-of-age drama (it's all that) follows a group of spoiled university students as they sing & dance their way to sociopolitical awakening. The film has already won 7 awards in the IIFA's Technical Categories (there are no nominations for those categories; only the winners are announced), including best cinematography (Binod Pradhan) and best editing (P.S. Bharathi), and it's the odds-on favorite to sweep the 2007 IIFA Awards.
Rang De Basanti, which irked India's military upon its release, was that country's submission for the 2007 Academy Awards though it ultimately failed to get a nomination. It did, however, get a BAFTA nomination in the best foreign-language film category.
Other best picture nominees are:
Sanjay Gadhvi's Dhoom 2 / D:2 – Back in Action, starring best actress nominee Aishwarya Rai in an action tale involving two buddy cops who try to catch an international thief;
Karan Johar's expensively mounted Kabhi Alvida Naa Kehna / Never Say Goodbye (above), starring another best actress nominee, Rani Mukherji, as a woman involved in an extra-marital affair with a football player (Shahrukh Khan);
Rakesh Roshan's Krrish / There's No One Like You, a sequel to Roshan's 2003 action-sci-fi hit Koi… Mil Gaya / I Found Someone, described as the story of India's "first ever super hero" — played by the director's son, best actor nominee Hrithik Roshan (who also stars in Dhoom 2);
Rajkumar Hirani's Lage Raho Munnabhai, a musical comedy-drama about a dolt (Sanjay Dutt) who, while trying to win the heart of the girl he loves, gets help from none other than the spirit of Mahatma Gandhi;
and Sooraj R. Barjatya's Vivah, about how a young couple tries to cope after their lives are turned upside down by a major tragedy.
Vishal Bharadwaj's Omkara (above), a retelling of Shakespeare's Othello set in the world of Indian politics in Uttar Pradesh, failed to get a best picture nod, but Bharadwaj was shortlisted in the best direction category. Actor Ajay Devgan, actress Kareena Kapoor, and screenwriters Bharadwaj, Robin Bhatt, and Abhishek Chaubey, also nabbed nominations.
Full list of 2007 IIFA winners and nominees
2006 IIFA winners and nominees
2005 IIFA winners and nominees
Cannes Film Festival 2007 winners
AMU by Shonali Bose: Film Review
my best actor is sharukh khan.
"We indians living outside of India would like to see more values and morals in Indian movies…"
Ahem, speak for yourself. Not all of us Indians are moralists and prudes whose sense of values predate Queen Victoria. We're now in the 21st century. And there's nothing wrong with showing the human body.
I'd say, show us more female bodies. (And I must admit that those half-naked men in RANG DE BASANTI look healthy, too!!)
I feel that the IIFA awards should be conducted in
Hindi, my reason being that all their films are in
Hindi with sub-titles for those who do not understand. Besides some of the actors cannot speak English and they sound pathetic.
To all the film directors out there. We indians living outside of India would like to see more values and morals in Indian movies. Get rid of the half naked women prancing around and bring in the
more sophisticated Indian women with good values and morals.
I think Taare Zamein Par was such an excellent movie. These kind of movies with substance is what
we would like to see.
shahid is soooooo cute why karina break up with shahid i am so said for shahid karina is so stuped i want to kill karina that why she leave shahid i want that kareena read my message first i like karina but now i hate she tooooooooo much please submit this comment
Best Movie Of 2007 : Chak De India
Best Director: Farah Khan (OSO)
Best Actor : Sharukh Khan ( Chak De & OSO)
Best Actress: Katrina Kaif (Namestey London)
Best Actor Critics Award: Shahrukh Khan (Chak De)
Best Actor In A Comic Role : Sharukh Khan (OSO)
Best Male Debut: Ranbir Kapoor (Saawariya )
Best Female Debut: Deepika Padukone
Best Story: Chak De India
Best Music-Vishaal And Shekhar(Om Shanti Om).
Star Of Year Male : Sahrukh
hey there. just wanted to point out that i don't think the characters in rang de basanti actually sang the songs. no lip-syncing as far as i remember.