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Best  Action Manohar Verma (Madras Cafe) Actions speak louder than words, and Manohar Verma who won the Screen Award for Best Action in Madras Café, prefers to let his work do the talking. Witness to high voltage stunts and action in the film Madras Café, that dealt with LTTE insurgency, Verma painted a very realistic […]

Noteworthy Chairman and Managing Director, The Express Group, Viveck Goenka, on the qualities that qualify a film for the Ramnath Goenka Memorial Award for Excellence in Cinema As all of you are aware, every year, the editors of The Express Group select one film for the Ramnath Goenka Memorial Award for Excellence in Cinema Award. […]

Most  Promising  Newcomer (Male) Sushant Singh Rajput (Kai Po Che) Sushant Singh Rajput has engineered his career with a single-minded devotion. His rise to the top are the stuff of dream stories — it was instant fame as Manav Deshmukh in Ekta Kapoor’s soap Pavitra Rishta or as Ishaan in Abhishek Kapoor’s Kai Po Che. […]

Best  Ensemble Cast Club 60 (Sanjay Tripathi) Before making his debut in film direction with Club 60, Sanjay Tripathy made Turning Point, the celebrated science series on DD National. He has also made various award winning science documentaries, shows for BBC and National Geographic besides writing and directing the 52-episode commissioned series Hum for DD […]

Bonhomie and cheer marked the Awards night as stars dazzled brighter with the attention and applause they received from friends and families who cheered them on   Not without maa! The warmest moment at the Screen award event was when the Bachchans were requested to come backstage for a photo shoot. Jaya Bachchan was engrossed […]

The show must go on George Varghese, CEO of The Express Group, talks about the perfect balance between art and commerce in cinema at the 20th Annual Life OK Screen Awards Two decades may be but a footnote in the annals of history, insufficient for chronicling a lifetime of excellence, but I am happy to […]

The Dancing Diva Performing on a huge Nagada, several feet above the ground, Deepika Padukone’s four acts, depicting various aspects of a woman’s emotions  held the audience spell-bound Swinging precariously on a Nagada, several feet above the ground, dressed in a peach coloured lehenga-choli, Deepika Padukone took everyone’s breath away as she swayed to the tunes […]

Ramnath Goenka Memorial Award For Excellence in Cinema Madras Cafe With his first directorial Yahaan (2005), Shoojit Sircar inked his profile as a film-maker who believes in creating a healthy dialogue through the medium of cinema. While Yahaan dealt with Kashmiri insurgency, the film won the Indian Competition Special Jury Award at Osian’s Cinefan Festival […]

Special Jury Award Anand Gandhi (Ship Of Theseus) Applause and praise was what Anand Gandhi received from the Jury of the 20th Annual Life OK Screen Awards, for his directorial venture Ship Of Theseus. This special award has been instituted to recognise any path-breaking works of an actor or a director. And this year, it’s […]

Best Actor in a Negative Role (Male) Rishi Kapoor (D-Day) The quintessential loverboy of  Bollywood, Rishi Kapoor made his debut as a teenager in Raj Kapoor’s Mera Naam Joker and notched up a National Award for his act. Though he went on to become synonymous with frothy romances and musicals, there was never a doubt […]

 Dare-devil performance Zooming on a bike, clothes on fire, shattering through sheets of glass— these are only some of the feats that the stuntsmen perform for our stars. Sonu Sood’s act paid a tribute to these unsung heroes    For the first time, in the history of awards, the audience was witness to a live, […]

Rowdy Rajkumar Long hair, overgrown beard and a red scarf tied round his neck, Shahid Kapoor’s tapori avatar was an instant hit with the audience as he performed on hit numbers from his recent films Expect a mind-blowing performance, when Shahid Kapoor takes over the dance floor. And this is exactly what happened on the […]

Most  Promising  Newcomer (Female) Aida-El-Kashef (Ship Of Theseus) It was the sheer power of the senses that worked in perfect rhythm to favour the critically acclaimed Ship of Theseus and its actors. Egyptian actor-film-maker, Aida El Kashef walked away with the honours as the Best Promising Newcomer (Female). The sensitive portryal of a blind photographer […]

Romancing the heroes Portraying the quintessential romantic hero of Hindi screen, Varun Dhawan’s act saw him serenading three television heroines   Stepping down from the time machine, Varun Dhawan’s opening act saw him serenading three Life OK actresses—Shraddha Arya, Sana Sheikh, and Chhavi Pandey on Tum hi ho (Aashiqui 2), Alf Allah (Bhaag Milkha Bhaag), […]

Best  Child Actor Japtej Singh (Bhaag Milkha Bhaag) For a 13 year-old, Japtej Singh epitomises the characteristic traits of the sportsperson, Milkha Singh, which he played in the film Bhaag Milkha Bhaag. The actor still has to come to terms with his celebrity status as he proudly holds the Screen trophy aloft. Hailing from a […]

Best Actor in a Negative Role (Female) Shilpa Shukla (BA Pass) Shilpa Shukla made her debut in films with Khamosh Paani (2003), which received wide acclaim across the festival film circuit around the world. Though she did several films after that, including Sudhir Mishra’s Hazaaron Khwaishen Aisi, the former theatre actress first got noticed for […]

Tradition of change With 20 years of uneasy, unconventional choices behind the awards instituted by Screen, the legacy of excellence has only become stronger With the telecast of the 20th Annual Life OK Screen Awards behind us, we now bring you Screen’s special edition on the award function as it were. Truly, there is no […]

Best  Cinematography S. Ravi Varman (Goliyon Ka Raasleela Ram-leela) Returning after a hiatus of seven years, S. Ravi Varman had walked away with the Screen trophy of Best Cinematographer for Barfi! last year. This year too, Varman recreated magic on screen with his breathtaking images in Sanjay Leela Bhansali’s love ballad, Goliyon Ki Rasleela Ram-leela. […]

Winners’ Circle Tally ho! 5 The number of awards bagged by Goliyon Ki Raasleela Ram-leela after being nominated in 16 categories. 4 The number of awards Bhaag Milkha Bhaag (out of 13 nominations), Madras Cafe (out of 9 nominations) and Chennai Express (out of 7 nominations) walked away with. 3 Is the number of awards won […]

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Director: Ashim Ahluwalia Cast : Nawazuddin Siddiqui, Anil George, Niharika Singh   Films that try and capture murk and sleaze are usually hard to watch. Usually, there is a transfer of slime, and you feel like washing off the experience. Miss Lovely, Ashim Ahluwalia’s debut feature shows us the dark innards of the profitable porn-horror […]

It was director Vikram Bhatt, who flagged off the Raaz series in 2002 with the highly successful Raaz.