Rang De, Omkara sweep Screen nominations

On the whole, the nomination list reflects the bountiful year Bollywood has had, both in terms of business and excellence in film-making. The Screen jury picked the best of the lot from over 200 releases in 2006. The awards will be given away on January 6 at MMRDA Grounds, Bandra-Kurla Complex.

UTV Motion Pictures’ co-production with Mehra, Rang De… took the nominations for Best Film, Best Director (Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra), Best Actor (Male) Aamir Khan, three of the six nominations for Best Actor In A Supporting Role (Atul Kulkarni, Sharman Joshi and Kunal Kapoor), Best Actor In A Supporting Role (Female) Kirron Kher, two nominations for AR Rahman for Best Music as well as Best Background Music, Best Lyrics (Prasoon Joshi for the popular Masti ki pathshaala…), Best Screenplay (Rensil D’Silva and Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra), Best Dialogues (Prasoon Joshi and Renzil D’Silva), Best Story (Kamlesh Pandey) and Most Promising Newcomer (Male) Siddharth. It was also nominated for editing, sound, art direction, cinematography and choreography.

Omkara, produced by Kumar Mangat, was nominated for Best Film, Best Actor (Ajay Devgan), Best Actor (Female) Kareena Kapoor, Best Actor In A Supporting Role (Female) Konkona Sen Sharma, Best Actor In A Negative Role Saif Ali Khan besides Best Sound, Best Art Direction, Best Cinematography and Best Choreography.

The film also scores hugely on the music side, with nominations for Best Lyrics (Gulzar for Beedi jalayale…), Best Playback Singer (Male) Sukhwinder Singh for Omkara… and Best Playback Singer (Female) Sunidhi Chauhan (Beedi jalayale…), Shreya Ghoshal (O saathi re…) and Rekha Bhardwaj (Namak ishq ka…). The list is topped by Vishal Bhardwaj winning nominations for Best Music, Best Background Music, Best Dialogues and Best Direction — a record at the Screen Awards.

Mukesh Bhatt’s crime thriller-cum-love story Gangster and Vinod Chopra’s Lage Raho Munnabhai follow with 10 and 9 nominations

respectively. Kabhi Alvida Naa Kehna, Don and Fanaa have won seven nominations each, followed by Dor and Dhoom 2 with six nominations each and Krrish and Vivah with five nominations each. The other nominees in the Best Film category are Rakesh Roshan’s Krrish, Vinod Chopra’s Lage Raho Munnabhai and Rajshri Productions’ Vivah, while the list of Best Director nominees includes Anurag Basu (Gangster), Nagesh Kukunoor (Dor), Rajkumar Hirani (Lage Raho Munnabhai) and Sooraj R.Barjatya (Vivah).

Hrithik Roshan has won nominations for his performances in Krrish and Dhoom 2, and Sanjay Dutt (Lage Raho Munnabhai) and Shahid Kapoor (Vivah) complete the Best Actor (Male) nominations. Among the women actors, Aishwarya Rai (Dhoom 2), Bipasha Basu (Corporate), Ayesha Takia (Dor), Amrita Rao (Vivah) and Kajol (Fanaa) are the other nominees in the Best Actor (Female) category.

Nominations for the 13th Star-Screen awards

BEST FILM

KRRISH (Rakesh Roshan)

LAGE RAHO MUNNABHAI

(Vidhu Vinod Chopra)

OMKARA (Kumar Mangat)

RANG DE BASANTI (RDB) (Ronnie Screwvala, Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra)

VIVAH (Kamal Kumar Barjatya, Rajkumar

Barjatya, Ajit Kumar Barjatya)

BEST DIRECTOR

ANURAG BASU (Gangster)

NAGESH KUKUNOOR (Dor)

RAJKUMAR HIRANI (Lage Raho Munnabhai)

RAKEYSH OMPRAKASH MEHRA (RDB)

SOORAJ R. BARJATYA (Vivah)

VISHAL BHARDWAJ (Omkara)

BEST ACTOR (MALE)

AAMIR KHAN (Rang De Basanti)

AJAY DEVGAN (Omkara)

HRITHIK ROSHAN (Dhoom 2)

HRITHIK ROSHAN (Krrish)

SANJAY DUTT (Lage Raho Munnabhai)

SHAHID KAPOOR (Vivah)

BEST ACTOR (FEMALE)

AISHWARYA RAI (Dhoom 2)

AMRITA RAO (Vivah)

AYESHA TAKIA (Dor)

BIPASHA BASU (Corporate)

KAJOL (Fanaa)

KAREENA KAPOOR (Omkara)

BEST ACTOR IN SUPPORTING ROLE (MALE)

AMITABH BACHCHAN (Kabhi Alvida Naa Kehna (KANK))

ARSHAD WARSI (Lage Raho Munnabhai)

ATUL KULKARNI (Rang De Basanti)

KUNAL KAPOOR (Rang De Basanti)

NANA PATEKAR (Taxi No. 9-2-1-1)

SHARMAN JOSHI (Rang De Basanti)

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR (FEMALE)

GUL PANAG (Dor)

KIRRON KHER (Rang De Basanti)

KONKONA SEN SHARMA (Omkara)

RATNA PATHAK-SHAH (Yun Hota Toh Kya Hota – What If?…)

SEEMA BISWAS (Vivah)

BEST NEGATIVE ROLE

AAMIR KHAN (Fanaa)

ESHA DEOL (Ankahee)

SAIF ALI KHAN (Omkara)

SHAH RUKH KHAN (Don)

SHINEY AHUJA (Gangster)

BEST ACTOR IN A COMIC ROLE

OM PURI (Malamaal Weekly)

RANVEER SHOREY (Khosla Ka Ghosla)

SHREYAS TALPADE (Dor)

TUSSHAR KAPOOR (Golmaal – Fun

Unlimited)

UDAY CHOPRA (Dhoom 2)

BEST BACKGROUND MUSIC

DOR (Salim-Suleiman)

FANAA (Salim-Suleiman)

GANGSTER (Raju Singh)

OMKARA (Vishal Bhardwaj)

RANG DE BASANTI (AR Rahman)

BEST MUSIC

AKSAR (Himesh Reshammiya)

FANAA (Jatin-Lalit)

JAAN-E-MANN (Anu Malik)

KABHI ALVIDA … (Shankar-Ehsaan-Loy)

RANG DE BASANTI (AR Rahman)

OMKARA (Vishal Bhardwaj)

BEST PLAYBACK SINGER (MALE)

KK (Tu hi meri shab hai…—Gangster)

SHAAN (Chand sifarish…—Fanaa)

SONU NIGAM (Bawari piya…—Baabul)

SUKHWINDER SINGH (Omkara…)

SHAFQAT AMANAT ALI (Mitwaa…—KANK)

ZUBEEN GARG (Ya Ali…—Gangster)

BEST PLAYBACK SINGER (FEMALE)

ALKA YAGNIK (Tumhi dekho naa…—Kabhi Alvida Naa Kehna)

ANOUSHKA MANCHANDA (Golmaal…— Golmaal- Fun Unlimited)

REKHA BHARDWAJ (Namak ishq…—Omkara)

SHREYA GHOSHAL (O saathi re…—Omkara)

SUNIDHI CHAUHAN (Beedi jalayale…—Omkara)

BEST LYRICS

GULZAR (Beedi jalayale…—Omkara)

JAVED AKHTAR (Mitwaa…—KANK)

PRASOON JOSHI (Masti ki paathshala…

—Rang De Basanti)

PRASOON JOSHI (Subhanallah…—Fanaa)

MIR ALI HUSAIN (Ye hausla…—Dor)

SWANAND KIRKIRE (Bande mein

tha dum…—Lage Raho Munnabhai)

BEST STORY

GAFLA (Sameer Hanchate)

GANGSTER (Mahesh Bhatt)

KHOSLA KA GHOSLA (Jaideep Sahni)

LAGE RAHO MUNNABHAI (Rajkumar Hirani/ Abhijat Joshi)

RANG DE BASANTI (Kamlesh Pandey)

BEST SCREENPLAY

GANGSTER (Anurag Basu)

LAGE RAHO MUNNABHAI (Rajkumar Hirani, Abhijat Joshi)

MALAMAAL WEEKLY (Priyadarshan)

PYAAR KE SIDE/EFFECTS (Saket Chaudhary)

RANG DE… (Renzil D’Silva, Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra)

BEST DIALOGUE

FANAA (Kunal Kohli)

LAGE RAHO MUNNABHAI (Rajkumar Hirani)

MALAMAAL WEEKLY (Manisha Korde)

OMKARA (Vishal Bharadwaj)

RANG DE BASANTI (Prasoon Joshi,

Renzil D’Silva)

BEST EDITING

GANGSTER (Akiv Ali)

LAGE RAHO MUNNABHAI (Rajkumar Hirani)

RANG DE BASANTI (PS Bharathi)

TAXI NO. 9211 (Aarif Sheikh)

BEST SOUND

DON (Andrew Belletty)

GANGSTER (Adil Ali)

KRRISH (Jitendra Chaudhary)

OMKARA (KJ Singh)

RANG DE BASANTI (Nakul Kamte)

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY

ANTHONY KAUN HAI ?(Hemant Chaturvedi)

DON (Mohanan)

KABHI ALVIDA NAA KEHNA (Anil Mehta)

OMKARA (Tassaduq Hussain)

RANG DE BASANTI (Binod Pradhan)

BEST SPECIAL EFFECTS

ALAG (EFX—Prasad)

DHOOM 2 (Tata Elxsi – Pankaj Khandpur)

DON (Red Chillies VFX)

JAAN-E-MANN (Prime Focus Ltd.—Merzin Taveria)

KRRISH (Marc Kolbe, Craig Mumma—USA)

BEST ART DIRECTION

DON (Aradhana Sheth)

JAAN-E-MANN (Sabu Cyril)

KABHI ALVIDA… (Sharmistha Roy)

OMKARA (Samir Chanda)

RANG DE BASANTI (Samir Chanda)

BEST CHOREOGRAPHY

DHOOM 2 (Dhoom…—Shiamak Davar)

DON (Main hoon Don…Ganesh Hegde)

JAAN-E-MANN (Humko maloom…— Farah Khan)

OMKARA (Beedi…— Ganesh Acharya)

RANG DE BASANTI (Masti ki Paathshala…—Ganesh Acharya)

BEST ACTION

DHOOM 2 (Allan Amin)

DON (Sham Kaushal)

KRRISH (Tony Ching Siu Tung (Hong Kong) and Sham Kaushal)

MOST PROMISING NEWCOMER (MALE)

SIDDHARTH (Rang De Basanti)

UPEN PATEL (36 China Town)

VINOD SHARAWAT (Gafla)

MOST PROMISING NEWCOMER (FEMALE)

KANGANA RANAUT (Gangster, Woh Lamhe…)

ONJOLIE NAIR (Holiday)

MOST PROMISING DEBUT DIRECTOR

DIBAKAR BANERJEE (Khosla Ka Ghosla)

KABIR KHAN (Kabul Express)

NASEERUDDIN SHAH (Yun Hota To Kya Hota)

SAKET CHAUDHARY (Pyaar Ke Side/Effects)