Superstar Shah Rukh Khan, who played belligerent coach Kabir Khan in the film, walked away with the Best Actor award while Shimit Amin was adjudged the Best Director.

Last year's runaway hit "Chak De India" dominated the
Awards.

Producers Guild Awards with the movie on women's hockey bagging five honours, including those for Best Actor, Best Director and Best Film.


Writer of "Chak De India" Jaideep Sahni received the Best Screenplay and Best Story awards at an award function here on Sunday.

Young filmmaker Imtiaz Ali's romantic comedy "Jab We Met" received three awards, including one for Kareena Kapoor in the Best Actor category and music composer Pritam. Ali won the Best Dialogue award.

Konkona Sen Sharma and Irrfan Khan won awards in the Best Supporting Actor category for their performances in "Life in a Metro".

Aamir Khan's directorial debut "Taare Zameen Par", which swept the Filmfare Awards, was conspicuous by its absence as it released after November 2007 deadline for the nominations.

Singers Shreya Ghosal and Shaan won awards for their song in "Guru" and "Saawariya" respectively. Veteran Lyricist Gulzar won the Best Lyrics award for "Guru".

Veteran filmmaker Yash Chopra was felicitated for his contribution to Indian cinema.

Ranbir Kapoor and Deepika Padukone won honours for their debut performances. Salman Khan and Govinda won the award for Best Jodi for their work in "Partner".

Hrithik Roshan and Katrina Kaif received special awards after being voted as style icons by Pakistani audiences in an award announced by a Pakistani media house.


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It was Chak de for the Chak De! India team at the Sunsilk Apsara The Producers' Guild Award 2008. Chak De! dominated the awards for excellence and achievement in theatrical motion by sweeping a total of eight Apsara trophies.

Chak De! was declared the Best Film, while Shimit Amin picked up the Best Director and Shahrukh Khan picked up the award for Best Actor in a Leading Role for his performance in the film.

Other awardees included Kareena Kapoor picking up the award for the Best Actress in a Leading Role for her role in Jab We Met. Life in A…Metro swept two awards as both Konkana Sen Sharma and Irfan Khan won the Best Actress in a Supporting Role and Best Actor in a Supporting Role respectively.

The had performances by Salman Khan, Ritesh Deshmukh, Bipasha Basu, Katrina Kaif and Kareena Kapoor. The performances were choreographed by the duo Pappu Mallu and Ganesh Hegde. Host Javed Jaffery and Indian Hockey team Captain Vidya Malvade took over the Master of Ceremony proceedings.

Promoters and partners of the show, NDTV Imagine presented awards to Akshay Kumar for NDTV Imagine Best Entertainer of the Year, while Govinda and Salman Khan won the award for NDTV Imagine Best Jodi of the Year.

Shah Rukh Khan presented the Award for the Best Contribution to Indian cinema to Yash Chopra. Under the special category, the ARY Style Icon Award was presented to Hrithik Roshan and Katrina Kaif was presented the ARY Style Diva Award. ARY, the popular Pakistani news network presented these awards on behalf of the fan following present for the Indian Cinema in Pakistan.


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Just when you thought the film awards season had come to an end, here was another one.

On Sunday, the Bolywood film fraternity made their way to the MMRDA grounds in Mumbai for the Annual Producers' Guild Awards.

Shah Rukh Khan ruled the evening by grabbing the Best Actor For Chak De, Akshay Kumar latched on to the Best Entertainer Of The Year and Kareena Kapoor took home the best actress for her performance in Jab We Met.

Newbies Ranbir Kapoor and Deepika Padukone were honoured with Debutant Awards. Expectedly, the winners had their lines perfectly rehearsed.

“It feels great! I worked really hard on Saawariya, and when your work is appreciated its heart warming. This one goes with the other, will sleep peacefully tonight,” said Ranbir.

“Its a wonderful feeling that my first film is winning so many awards so thank you everyone,” added Deepika.

The film of the evening was clearly Chak De India which took Best Film and Best Director, in addition to its producer Yash Chopra being felicitated with an award for Outstanding Contribution to cinema.

“Its a very emotional thing. The decision of the awards is my friends and colleagues from the industry,” said Chopra.

Life In a Metro did it for

Irfan Khan bagged the Best Actor in a Supporting Role for the film Life In a Metro.

“I feel special about it. My film Metro has changed people's perception about me as an actor,” said Irfan.

“Its a very emotional thing. The decision of the awards is my friends and colleagues from the industry,” said Chopra.

Voted for by professionals from the industry itself, these awards threw up no surprises at all, except that there was no mention of Taare Zameen Par as only films that released before November 30 November were eligible for the awards.

And as far as awards go, this one was no different as this was one evening when the Bollywood stars sparkled once again.


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