It’s on tonight: great cinema, plenty of glamour

It's that time of the year again in Bollywood, and the season for awards begins Wednesday. On January 14, at Mumbai's sprawling MMRDA Grounds, the Nokia 15th Annual Star Screen Awards will honour the best of Indian cinema in 2008. "Being nominated is a very nice way to start the New Year and I am very thrilled," said Shah Rukh Khan, nominated for Best Actor for Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi. The list of nominations mixes oodles of glamour with some great cinema. In the race are A Wednesday, Ghajini, JaaneTu... Ya Jaane Na, Jodhaa Akbar, Rock On!! and Sarkar Raj, all nominated for both Best Film and Best Director. The hugely impressive A Wednesday demonstrated how much power small-budget productions can pack, while Jodhaa Akbar re-drew Bollywood's limits of magnificent scale. JaaneTu... and Rock On!! radiated youthful energy, and action and drama scaled new heights with Ghajini and Sarkar Raj respectively. Said Abhishek Kapoor, nominated for Best Director for Rock On!!, "I'm elated to be nominated. It was an out-of-the-box film about rock musicians and their aspirations." More out-of-the-box movies at the awards are Aamir (4 nominations) and Mumbai Meri Jaan (3 nominations). Competing for Best Actor (Female) are Aishwarya Rai Bachchan (Jodhaa Akbar), Asin (Ghajini), Genelia D'Souza (Jaane Tu...), Kajol (U, Me Aur Hum) and Priyanka Chopra (Fashion). In the race for Best Actor (Male) with Shah Rukh (Rab Ne) are Aamir Khan (Ghajini), Abhishek Bachchan (Dostana), Akshay Kumar (Singh Is Kinng), Amitabh Bachchan (Sarkar Raj), Hrithik Roshan (Jodhaa Akbar), Naseeruddin Shah (A Wednesday) and Ranbir Kapoor (Bachna Ae Haseeno). Abhishek has also been nominated for Best Supporting Actor (Sarkar Raj). "I am truly excited that my work has been recognised and I am looking forward to the Awards function," he said. A R Rahman, who became the first Indian to win a Golden Globe for the soundtrack of Slumdog Millionaire in Los Angeles on Sunday night, has three Star Screen Awards nominations: Best Background Music and Best Playback Singer (Jodhaa Akbar) and Best Music (Jaane Tu...).The presentation of the Awards statuettes will be interspersed with performances by Deepika Padukone, Bipasha Basu, Katrina Kaif, Anushka Sharma and Priyanka Chopra. Sajid Khan and Shreyas Talpade will be the hosts for the night, with entertaining inputs from Akshay Kumar.

The Star Screen Awards have a formidable reputation for being India's most unbiased cinema honours. The highly respected jury of Amol Palekar, Farida Jalal, Rajkumar Hirani, Shyam Shroff, Sujoy Ghosh and Uday Singh will be headed by Ramesh Sippy. Let the show begin!

Sajid Khan's 'Ghajini Mania' at Screen Awards IndiaGlitz [Tuesday, January 13, 2009]

With a day left for Screen Awards 2009, here's something we've got for you' Of course, this is the most happening event that everyone is excited to catch up with. Well, this year it's Sajid and Farah Khan along with Shreyas Talpade hosting the show with lots of fun, frolic and a dash of controversies. Some of the sources have revealed that Sajid's take on 'Ghajini' would be quite critical. Says a source, "A dwarf appears on the Stage while Sajid asks him to remove his shirt and one of the tattoos reads ' I don't attend awards and on his back it's tattooed except Oscars." Also tots up, 'In spite of Aamir Khan spelling numerous achievements, he pulls down Indian Awards, but loves to bring Oscars for his home productions'. Well Aamir are you listening?

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