53rd Filmfare Awards 2008

Here is the list of candidates voted to be most worthy of receiving
the Filmfare awards for important 19 categories..

1. Best Film Winner: Aamir Khan for Taare Zameen Par

2. Best Director Winner: Aamir Khan for Taare Zameen Par

3. Best Actor Winner: Shah Rukh Khan for Chak De India

4. Best Actress Winner: Kareena Kapoor for Jab We Met

5. Best Choreography Winner: Saroj Khan for Barso Re Guru

6. Best Actor Critics Award Winner: Darsheel Safary for Taare Zameen Par

7. Best Debuting Male Winner: Ranbir Kapoor for Saawariya

8. Best Debuting Female Winner: Deepika Padukone for Om Shanti Om

9. Best Supporting Male Winner: Irrfan Khan for Life in a Metro

10. Best Supporting Female Winner: Konkana Sen Sharma for Life in a Metro

11. Best Music Direction Winner: A. R. Rehman for Guru

12. Best Dialogue Winner: Imitiaz Ali for Jab We Met

13. Best Screenplay Winner: Anurag Basu for Life in A Metro

14. Best Lyricist Winner: Prasoon Joshi for ’Maa’ from Taare Zameen Par

15. Best Playback Singer Male Winner: Shaan for ’Jabse Tere Naina’ from Saawariya

16. Best Playback Singer Female Winner: Shreya Ghoshal for ’ Barso Re ’ from Guru.

17. Best Cinematography Winner: Sudip Chatterjee Chak De India

18. Life Time Achievement Award Winner: Rishi Kapoor

19. Best Costume Design Winner: Sujata Sharma for Gandhi My Father.

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Madhuri – Padam-Shree

Bollywood actress Madhuri Dixit, who won many hearts with her million-dollar-smile and returned to the silver screen with ’Aaja Nachle’ after a five-year hiatus last year, has been named among the Padma Shri awardees this year.

The ravishing actress has several hits to her credit, including ’Tezaab’, ’Dil’ ’Dil To Pagal Hain’ and ’Devdas’.

Though her comeback film, after marriage to a US-based doctor and two kids, proved to be a dud at the box office, Madhuri remained unfazed.

’I have never been a part of number game and we are not the racing horses who should be numbered. Either the work you do is good or bad. I have come back not because I miss the media archlights or being written about… it’s secondary. I missed my craft!’ she was quoted as saying.

Madhuri forayed into filmdom with ’Abodh’ in 1986 and was catapulted to fame with the hit dance number ’Ek Do Teen’ in ’Tezaab’ (1988).

Madhuri

There was no looking back for Madhuri who went on to give a string of hits like ’Dayavan’ and ’Ram Lakhan’. She bagged the Filmfare Best Actress Award for her performance in ’Dil’, in which she starred opposite Aamir Khan. She once again walked away with the coveted award for her role in ’Beta’.

Madhuri’s electrifying dance number ’Choli ke peechche..’ in ’Khalnayak’ proved a huge hit and her fan following simply soared.

She repeated the success story in Bollywood blockbuster ’Hum Aapke Hain Koun!’, where she shared screen space with Salman Khan and bagged yet another Filmfare.

Her powerful performance in mega hit ’Dil To Pagal Hai’ won her a fourth best actress award.

The dancing diva also charmed renowned Indian painter M.F. Hussain, who cast her in his film ’Gaja Gamini’.

In 2001, Madhuri was awarded the National Citizens Award, which recognises excellence in various activities affecting national life. The very next year she starred in Sanjay Leela Bhansali’s mega-budget ’Devdas’ with Shah Rukh Khan and Aishwarya Rai. Not only did her acting earn rave reviews, she also bagged a Filmfare Award for best supporting actress.

Madhuri

It was after Devdas that she decided to take a break from Bollywood and devote more time to her family in the US.

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source:indianews.com

London, Jan 15 (IANS) Surrounded by fans, Bollywood actor Salman Khan unveiled his wax figure at Madame Tussauds here Tuesday.

Salman beat nine other Indian mega stars – including Madhuri Dixit, Hrithik Roshan, Lata Mangeshkar and Abhishek Bachchan, to win a place at the world famous waxworks museum after a public poll conducted last summer.

Salman’s statue stands in a special Bollywood section alongside those of three other Mumbai greats – Amitabh Bachchan, Aishwarya Rai and Shah Rukh Khan.

The museum hopes the installation of the new statue, reflecting Salman’s popularity in the West, will attract many more South Asian and British Asian visitors.

The heartthrob actor was measured and photographed by expert sculptors in Mumbai last October to kick-start painstaking work on his wax double. He personally chose and donated clothes for the figure to wear.

Salman, who has starred in over 55 films since his 1988 debut film "Biwi Ho To Aisi" made it to the central London attraction after beating off competition from Madhuri Dixit, Hrithik Roshan, Rani Mukerji, Karan Johar, Kajol, Lata Mangeshkar, Abhishek Bachchan, Priyanka Chopra and John Abraham.

More than 10,000 people voted in the poll to choose the "Next Bollywood Star" conducted last August.

Ben Lovett of Madame Tussauds said recently: "The Asian market is critical to our attraction and our association with Bollywood, particularly the launch of Shah Rukh Khan, has seen a dramatic increase in the number of Asians, from both the UK and abroad, visiting and enjoying Madame Tussauds. We hope to build upon this exciting relationship with the unveiling of Salman.

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Source: bollywood.com