# 9th IIFA Awards

The 2008 IIFA Awards, officially known as the 9th International Indian Film Academy Awards ceremony, presented by the International Indian Film Academy honoured the best films of 2007 and took place between 6 – 8 June 2008. The official ceremony took place on 8 June 2008, at the Siam Paragon in Bangkok, Thailand. During the ceremony, IIFA Awards were awarded in 27 competitive categories. The ceremony was televised in India and internationally on Star Plus. Actors Boman Irani and Ritesh Deshmukh co-hosted the ceremony for the first time.
The IIFA Music and Fashion Extravaganza took place on 7 June 2008, as did the FICCI-IIFA Global Business Forum. On 6 June, The IIFA World Premiere was held at Major Cineplex, Bangkok which showcased Sarkar Raj, starring Indian Film icons Amitabh Bachchan, Abhishek Bachchan and Aishwarya Rai Bachchan, directed by Ram Gopal Varma.
Partner led the ceremony with 11 nominations, followed by Guru with 10 nominations, Bhool Bhulaiyaa and Chak De! India with 9 nominations each, Life in a... Metro with 8 nominations and Jab We Met with 6 nominations.
Chak De! India won 9 awards, including Best Film, Best Director (for Shimit Amin), Best Actor (for Shah Rukh Khan), thus becoming the most-awarded film at the ceremony.
Om Shanti Om won 6 awards. Other multiple winners included Life in a... Metro with 3 awards and Guru, Jab We Met, Saawariya and Shootout at Lokhandwala with 2 awards each. In addition, Partner received 1 award at the ceremony.
Konkona Sen Sharma received dual nominations for Best Supporting Actress for her performances in Laaga Chunari Mein Daag and Life in a... Metro, winning for the latter.

## Winners and nominees

Winners are listed first and highlighted in boldface.

### Popular awards

| Best Picture | Best Director |
| Chak De! India – Yash Raj Films Guru – Madras Talkies and Mani Ratnam Jab We Met – Shree Ashtavinayak Cine Vision Ltd Life in a... Metro – UTV Motion Pictures Om Shanti Om – Red Chillies Entertainment Partner – K Sera Sera | Shimit Amin – Chak De! India Anurag Basu – Life in a... Metro David Dhawan – Partner Imtiaz Ali – Jab We Met Mani Ratnam – Guru Priyadarshan – Bhool Bhulaiyaa |
| Best Performance In A Leading Role Male | Best Performance In A Leading Role Female |
| Shah Rukh Khan – Chak De! India as Kabir Khan Abhishek Bachchan – Guru as Gurukant "Guru" Desai Akshay Kumar – Bhool Bhulaiyaa as Dr. Aditya Shrivastav Salman Khan – Partner as Prem (Love Guru) Shahid Kapoor – Jab We Met as Aditya Kashyap | Kareena Kapoor – Jab We Met as Geet Dhillon Aishwarya Rai – Guru as Sujata Desai Deepika Padukone – Om Shanti Om as Shanti Priya / Sandy Katrina Kaif – Namastey London as Jasmeet 'Jazz' Malhotra Lara Dutta – Partner as Naina Sahni Tabu – Cheeni Kum as Nina Verma Vidya Balan – Bhool Bhulaiyaa as Avni Siddharth Chaturvedi / Manmother |
| Best Performance In A Supporting Role Male | Best Performance In A Supporting Role Female |
| Irrfan Khan – Life in a... Metro as Monty Anil Kapoor – Welcome as Sagar Pandey (Majnu) Govinda – Partner as Bhaskar Devakar Chaudhary Mithun Chakraborty – Guru as Manik Dasgupta Rajat Kapoor – Bheja Fry as Ranjeet Thadani | Konkona Sen Sharma – Life in a... Metro as Shruti Chitrashi Rawat – Chak De! India as Komal Chautala Katrina Kaif – Partner as Priya Jaisingh Konkona Sen Sharma – Laaga Chunari Mein Daag as Shubhavari Sahay / Chutki Rani Mukerji – Saawariya as Gulabji Vidya Balan – Guru as Meenakshi "Meenu" Saxena Zohra Sehgal – Cheeni Kum as Buddhadev's mother |
| Best Performance In A Comic Role | Best Performance In A Negative Role |
| Govinda – Partner as Bhaskar Devakar Chaudhary Fardeen Khan – Heyy Babyy as Ali 'Al' Haider Irrfan Khan – Life in a... Metro as Monty Paresh Rawal – Bhool Bhulaiyaa as Batukshankar Upadhyay Rajpal Yadav – Bhool Bhulaiyaa & Partner as Chhote Pandit / Lal Hanuman (Natwar) and Chota Don Riteish Deshmukh – Heyy Babyy as Tanmay Joglekar Vinay Pathak – Bheja Fry as Bharat Bhushan | Vivek Oberoi – Shootout at Lokhandwala as Mahindra "Maya" Dolas Arjun Rampal – Om Shanti Om as Mukesh Mehra "Mike" Kay Kay Menon – Life in a... Metro as Ranjeet Rajat Bedi – Partner as Neil Bakshi Shilpa Shukla – Chak De! India as Bindiya Naik Tusshar Kapoor – Shootout at Lokhandwala as Dilip "Buwa" Kohok Vidya Balan – Bhool Bhulaiyaa as Avni Siddharth Chaturvedi / Manjulika |
| Male Debutant Star | Female Debutant Star |
| Ranbir Kapoor – Saawariya as Ranbir Raj | Deepika Padukone – Om Shanti Om as Shanti Priya / Sandy |

### Musical awards

| Best Music Director | Best Lyrics |
| A. R. Rahman – Guru Mika Singh – Shootout at Lokhandwala Monty Sharma – Saawariya Pritam – Bhool Bhulaiyaa Sajid–Wajid – Partner Salim–Sulaiman – Chak De! India | "Main Agar Kahoon" from Om Shanti Om – Javed Akhtar "Tere Bina" from Guru – Gulzar "Chak De! India" from Chak De! India – Jaideep Sahni "In Dino" from Life in a... Metro – Sayeed Quadri "Jab Se Tere Naina" from Saawariya – Sameer |
| Best Male Playback Singer | Best Female Playback Singer |
| Shaan for "Jab Se Tere Naina" – Saawariya Neeraj Shridhar for "Hare Ram Hare Ram" – Bhool Bhulaiyaa KK for "Aankhon Mein Teri" – Om Shanti Om Sukhwinder Singh for "Chak De! India" – Chak De! India Wajid and Labh Janjua for "Soni De Nakhre" – Partner | Shreya Ghoshal for "Barso Re" – Guru Shreya Ghoshal for "Mere Dholna" – Bhool Bhulaiyaa Shreya Ghoshal for "Ye Ishq Hai" – Jab We Met Shreya Ghoshal for "Thode Badmash" – Saawariya Sunidhi Chauhan for "Aaja Nachle" – Aaja Nachle |

### Backstage awards

| Best Story | Best Screenplay |
| Chak De! India – Jaideep Sahni Life in a... Metro – Anurag Basu Gandhi, My Father – Feroz Abbas Khan Jab We Met – Imtiaz Ali Guru – Mani Ratnam Cheeni Kum – R. Balki | Chak De! India – Jaideep Sahni (joint winner) Life in a... Metro – Anurag Basu (joint winner) |
| Best Dialogue |
| Imtiaz Ali for Jab We Met |

### Technical awards

| Best Art Direction | Best Action |
| Om Shanti Om – Nitin Chandrakant Desai | Shootout at Lokhandwala – Javed Sheikh & Ejaz Sheikh'' |
| Best Cinematographer | Best Choreography |
| Chak De! India – Sudeep Chatterjee | Aaja Nachle from Aaja Nachle – Vaibhavi Merchant |
| Best Costume Design | Best Editing |
| Om Shanti Om – Manish Malhotra, Karan Johar & Sanjeev Mulchandani | Chak De! India – Amitabh Shukla |
| Best Makeup | Best Sound Recording |
| Om Shanti Om – Bharat-Dorris, Ravi Indulkar & Namrata Soni | Chak De! India – Manas Choudhary & Ali Merchant |
| Best Sound Re-Recording | Best Special Effects |
| Chak De! India – Anuj Mathur & Ali Merchant | Om Shanti Om – Red Chillies Entertainment |

### Special awards
#### Style Diva of the Year

* Katrina Kaif

#### Style Icon of the Year

* Abhishek Bachchan

#### Fresh Face of the Year

* Neil Nitin Mukesh

#### Outstanding Contribution to Indian Cinema

* Shyam Benegal

#### Outstanding Contribution by an Indian in International Cinema

* A. R. Rahman

#### Achievement in Indian Cinema

* Mumtaz

## Superlatives

Films with multiple nominations :
| Nominations | Film |
| 11 | Partner |
| 10 | Guru |
| 9 | Bhool Bhulaiyaa |
| 9 | Chak De! India |
| 8 | Life in a... Metro |
| 6 | Jab We Met |
| 5 | Om Shanti Om |
| 5 | Saawariya |
| 3 | Cheeni Kum |
| 3 | Shootout at Lokhandwala |
| 2 | Bheja Fry |
| 2 | Heyy Babyy |
Films with multiple awards :
| Awards | Film |
| 9 | Chak De! India |
| 6 | Om Shanti Om |
| 3 | Life in a... Metro |
| 2 | Guru |
| 2 | Jab We Met |
| 2 | Saawariya |
| 2 | Shootout at Lokhandwala |