# 1998 Zee Cine Awards

The 1st Zee Cine Awards ceremony honouring the winners and nominees of the best of Bollywood cinema films released in 1997. The ceremony was held on 14 March 1998 in Mumbai.
Dil To Pagal Hai led the ceremony with 27 nominations, followed by Border and Pardes with 19 nominations and Ishq with 10 nominations.
Dil To Pagal Hai won 10 awards, including Best Film, Best Actor (for Shah Rukh Khan), Best Actress (for Madhuri Dixit) and Best Supporting Actress (for Karisma Kapoor), thus becoming the most-awarded film at the ceremony.

## Main Awards

The winners and nominees have been listed below:
| Best Film | Best Director |
| Dil To Pagal Hai Border Chachi 420 Ishq Pardes | J. P. Dutta – Border David Dhawan – Hero No. 1 Kamal Haasan – Chachi 420 Subhash Ghai – Pardes Yash Chopra – Dil To Pagal Hai |
| Best Actor | Best Actress |
| Shahrukh Khan – Dil To Pagal Hai Aamir Khan – Ishq Kamal Haasan – Chachi 420 Shahrukh Khan – Pardes Sunny Deol – Border | Madhuri Dixit – Dil To Pagal Hai Juhi Chawla – Ishq Kajol – Gupt Karisma Kapoor – Dil To Pagal Hai Karisma Kapoor – Hero No. 1 |
| Best Supporting Actor | Best Supporting Actress |
| Akshaye Khanna – Border Ajay Devgan – Ishq Apurva Agnihotri – Pardes Kader Khan – Hero No. 1 Sunil Shetty – Border | Karisma Kapoor – Dil To Pagal Hai Farida Jalal – Dil To Pagal Hai Kajol – Ishq Pooja Batra – Virasat Urmila Matondkar – Judaai |
| Best Performance in a Villainous Role | Best Performance in a Comic Role |
| Kajol – Gupt Aditya Pancholi – Yes Boss Amrish Puri – Koyla Ashish Vidyarthi – Ziddi Sadashiv Amrapurkar – Ishq | Kamal Haasan – Chachi 420 Govinda – Deewana Mastana Johnny Lever – Deewana Mastana Johnny Lever – Ishq Kader Khan – Hero No. 1 |
| Best Debut – Male | Best Debut – Female |
| Akshaye Khanna – Himalay Putra Apurva Agnihotri – Pardes Arbaaz Ali Khan – Mrityudaata Rajeev Goswami – Border Swapnil Joshi – Ghulam-E-Mustafa | Mahima Chaudhary – Pardes Aishwarya Rai – Aur Pyaar Ho Gaya Pooja Batra – Virasat Sapna Bedi – Border Sharbani Mukherjee – Border |
| Best Music Director | Best Lyrics |
| Uttam Singh – Dil To Pagal Hai Anu Malik – Border Anu Malik – Ishq Nadeem-Shravan – Pardes Viju Shah – Gupt | Javed Akhtar – "Sandese Aate Hai" – Border Anand Bakshi – "Bholi Si Surat" – Dil To Pagal Hai Anand Bakshi – "Dil To Pagal Hai" – Dil To Pagal Hai Anand Bakshi – "I Love My India" – Pardes Sameer – "Sona Kitna Sona Hai" – Hero No. 1 |
| Best Male Playback Singer | Best Female Playback Singer |
| Sonu Nigam – "Sandese Aate Hai" – Border Kumar Sanu – "Do Dil Mil Rahe Hain" – Pardes Udit Narayan – "Are Re Are Ye Kya Hua" – Dil To Pagal Hai Udit Narayan – "Bholi Si Surat" – Dil To Pagal Hai Udit Narayan – "Dil To Pagal Hai" – Dil To Pagal Hai | Lata Mangeshkar – "Dil To Pagal Hai" – Dil To Pagal Hai Asha Bhosle – "Le Gayi" – Dil To Pagal Hai Kavita Krishnamurthy – "I Love My India" – Pardes Lata Mangeshkar – "Are Re Are Ye Kya Hua" – Dil To Pagal Hai Poornima – "Sona Kitna Sona Hai" – Hero No. 1 |
| Best Story | Best Screenplay |
| J. P. Dutta – Border Kamal Haasan – Chachi 420 Pamela Chopra – Dil To Pagal Hai Subhash Ghai – Pardes Rajiv Rai – Gupt | Vinay Shukla – Virasat J. P. Dutta – Border Prakash Jha, Rajan Kothari, Anil Ajitabh – Mrityudand Rumi Jaffrey – Hero No. 1 Yash Chopra, Tanuja Chandra, Pamela Chopra – Dil To Pagal Hai |
| Best Dialogue | Best Cinematography |
| Prakash Jha – Mrityudand Aditya Chopra – Dil To Pagal Hai Gulzar – Chachi 420 O. P. Dutta – Border Shama Zaidi – Sardari Begum | Manmohan Singh – Dil To Pagal Hai Ishwar B. Bidri – Border Rajan Kothari – Mrityudand S. M. Kabirlal – Pardes Sanjay Dharankar – Sardari Begum |
| Best Choreography | Best Action |
| Shiamak Davar – Dil To Pagal Hai Farah Khan – Virasat Nimesh Bhatt – Hameshaa Rekha Prakash – Gupt Roshan Kumari – Sardari Begum | Tinu Verma – Ziddi Bhiku Verma – Koyla Kala Singh – Mohabbat Sham Kaushal – Yeshwant Veeru Devgan – Ishq |
| Best Editing | Best Art Direction |
| Deepak Wirkud, Vilas Ranade – Border Dilip Kotalji, Zafar Sultan – Hameshaa Renu Saluja – Pardes V. N. Mayekar – Bhai V. V. Karnik – Dil To Pagal Hai | Sharmishta Roy – Dil To Pagal Hai Bijon Dasgupta – Gupt Leeladhar S. Sawant – Ziddi Nitin Chandrakant Desai – Ishq Samir Chanda – Sardari Begum |
| Best Background Score | Best Sound Recording |
| Vanraj Bhatia – Pardes Aadesh Shrivastava – Border Amar P. Haldipur – Hero No. 1 Salim–Sulaiman – Hameshaa Uttam Singh – Dil To Pagal Hai | Rakesh Ranjan – Pardes Navin Zaveri – Koyla Anuj Mathur – Dil To Pagal Hai Jitendra Chaudhary – Hameshaa V. M. Gandhi – Lahu Ke Do Rang |
| Best Make Up Artist | Best Re-Recording |
| Pradeep Premgirikar – Prithvi Kiran R. Naik – Pardes Mustaq Mansur – Deewana Mastana Sadanand Shedge – Tamanna Subodh H. Shelke – Border | B.K. Chaturvedi – Mrityudand Anand Recording – Gudgudee Anup Dev – Pardes Hitendra Ghosh – Sardari Begum |
| Best Costume Design | Best Song Recording |
| Pia Benegal – Sardari Begum Kashmera Shah– Gudgudee Manish Malhotra – Dil To Pagal Hai | Satish Gupta – Border Hassan Sheikh – Pardes |
| Best Special Effects (Visual) |
| Sai Prasad – Dil To Pagal Hai Ramesh Meer – Pardes |

## Special Awards

| Lifetime Achievement Award Dilip Kumar | Lux Face of the Year Mahima Chaudhry |

## Superlatives

Multiple nominations :
| Nominations | Film |
| 27 | Dil To Pagal Hai |
| 19 | Border |
| 19 | Pardes |
| 10 | Ishq |
| 8 | Hero No. 1 |
| 6 | Chachi 420 |
| 6 | Gupt |
| 6 | Sardari Begum |
| 4 | Hameshaa |
| 4 | Mrityudand |
| 4 | Virasat |
| 3 | Deewana Mastana |
| 3 | Koyla |
| 3 | Ziddi |
| 2 | Gudgudee |
Multiple wins :
| Awards | Film |
| 10 | Dil To Pagal Hai |
| 7 | Border |
| 3 | Pardes |
| 2 | Mrityudand |

## Presenters

| Name | Role |
| Sarika Nirupa Roy | Presenters of the award for Best Story |
| Shabana Azmi Jagjit Singh | Presenters of the award for Best Female Playback Singer Yash Chopra accepted it on behalf of Lata Mangeshkar |
| Indra Kumar Sadhana Sargam | Presenters of the award for Best Male Playback Singer Anu Malik accepted it on behalf of Sonu Nigam |
| Shahrukh Khan Aishwarya Rai | Presenters of the award for Best Lyrics |
| Reena Roy | Presenter of the award for Best Supporting Actress Yash Chopra accepted it on behalf of Karisma Kapoor, although she collected her award after her part of hosting the show with Salman Khan |
| Asha Parekh | Presenter of the award for Best Supporting Actor Akshay Sethi accepted it on behalf of Akshaye Khanna |
| Karisma Kapoor Salman Khan | Presenters of the award for Best Performance in a Villainous Role |
| Bindu Shashikala | Presenters of the award for Best Performance in a Comic Role |
| Sunil Dutt | Presenter of the award for Best Film |
| Zeenat Aman | Presenter of the award for Lux Face of the Year |
| Javed Akhtar | Presenter of the award for Lifetime Achievement Award |
| Mohammed Zahur Khayyam Sajjad Gul | Presenters of the award for Best Music Director |
| Jackie Shroff | Presenter of the award for Best Debut - Female |
| Juhi Chawla Raveena Tandon | Presenters of the award for Best Debut - Male Akshay Sethi accepted it on behalf of Akshaye Khanna |
| Shatrughan Sinha Sultan Ahmed | Presenters of the award for Best Director |
| Hema Malini Smita Thackeray | Presenters of the award for Best Actress Yash Chopra accepted it on behalf of Madhuri Dixit |
| Kajol Govindan Advani | Presenters of the award for Best Actor Shahrukh Khan resigned his award and gave it to Salman Khan, although it wasn’t because Salman Khan because of him being nominated for this award but because of the entertainment Salman Khan gave on stage which turned out to be the best highlight. |