SRK - Aamir may recieve National Awards

The latest B-town news is that two of the biggest Bollywood superstars, Shah Rukh Khan and Aamir Khan are in contention for National Awards in the ‘Best Actor’ category. While SRK has been nominated for his in ‘Chak De India’, Aamir Khan is in the running for his performance the critically acclaimed flick ‘Taare Zameen Par’.

‘Taare Zameen Par’ has also been nominated in the ‘Best Film’ category. Darsheel Safari is being considered for the Best child actor award for his performance as the dyslexic Ishaan Awasthi in ‘TZP’.

Shah Rukh’s home production, ‘Om Shanti Om’ has also been nominated for a National Award for ‘Best Feature Film’ in the entertainment category. This award was previously won by Aamir for ‘Lagaan’ in 2001.

I&B Minister Ambika Soni is likely to announce the National Awards next week and President Pratibha Patil is scheduled to give away the awards in Delhi in October this year.

Shahrukh and Farah Khan has a Narrow Escape

Superstar Shah Rukh Khan and the legendary Manoj Kumar has reached a truce over the controversial 'Om Shanti Om' . The two stars met at Kumar’s residence to discuss withdrawal of the court cases. Manoj Kumar has finally agreed for out of court settlement on the King Khan seeking for forgivness for the mistake committed.

Manoj Kumar had filed cases against OSO in connection with the spoof of his image but has finally agreesd to withdraw the case. This move surely comes as a breather to SRK, who had been dragged to court for not honouring the promise of deleting the sequence in the film.

The offending sequence shows security guards of the movie theatre beating Manoj Kumar’s duplicate after he displays a driving license showing his photo in his trade mark style of covering the face with his palm.

Mr. Kumar had asked Shah Rukh to remove the scene to which director Farah Khan and SRK had agreed. But the scene continued to be a part of the film which prompted Manoj Kumar to file a case against Shah Rukh.

Deepika is Every Director's Desire

The Lucky Stas are shining high for Deepika Padukone. Filmmakers have considered her to be a crowd puller. They feel that even her small appearance may prove wonders and may result in box-office success also.

Looking at her growing popularity, director Priyadarshan has signed in Deepika for a cameo in his upcoming flick Billo Barber which has Shahrukh and Nana Patekar in pivotal roles. Irrfan Khan has the main role in the movie.

Not many know this but it was Priyadarshan who was to introduce Deepika to the cine world but things did not work out accordingly and instead she was launched by Farah Khan in Om Shanti Om. Priyadarshan did not have any ill-feeling regarding missing Deepika but was happy that she was associated with Farah's film and got to taste of success in her first attempt.
Talking about his shelved film with Deepika, Priyadarshan confirmed saying that Deepika was being considered for a film called Pirates – about music piracy. But the film didn't work out. He is glad to know that Deepika made her debut with a film as successful as OSO, and that too with Shahrukh.

OSO - The Technical Winner of IIFA

The Shah Rukh Khan starrer “Om Shanti Om” swept a number of technical awards at the International Indian Film Awards (IIFA) 2008 gala here Sunday night. The film garnered awards for best special effects (Red Chillies Entertainment), best art direction (Sabu Cyril), best comstume design (Manish Malhotra, Karan Johar and Sanjeev Mulchandani) and best makeup.

Mani Ratnam’s “Guru” won the awards for best background score (A.R. Rahman) and best song recording (H. Sridhar).

The award for best screenplay was won jointly by Anurag Basu (”Life in a Metro”) and Jaideep Sahni (”Chak De! India”).

“Chak De! India” also took home the trophy for best cinematography.

Imtiyaz Ali was named the best dialogue writer for “Jab We Met”.