Best Actor in a Negative Role

Arjun Rampal (Om Shanti Om)

Best Playback Singer (Male)

KK – Aankhon Mein Teri (Om Shanti Om)

Best Music

Vishal Shekhar (Om Shanti Om)

Best Lyrics

Vishal Dadlani – Ankhon Mein Teri (Om Shanti Om)

Best Re-Recording

Kuldeep Sood (Om Shanti Om)

Best Choreography

Farah Khan – Dhoom Tana (Om Shanti Om)

Best Costume Design

Manish Malhotra, Karan Johar, Sanjeev Mulchandani (Om Shanti Om)

Best Editing

Shirish Kunder (Om Shanti Om)

Best Art Director

Sabu Cyril (Om Shanti Om)

Best Special Effects

Red Chillies VFX (Om Shanti Om)

Latest Bollywood sensation Deepika Padukone has been nominated in the best actress category for her scintillating performance in the blockbuster Om Shanti Om at the second Asian Film Awards, organisers announced on Thursday.

Padukone, who grabbed eyeballs with her performance in the Bollywood hit, will vie with Joan Chen of China (The Home Song Stories), Jeon Do-yeon of South Korea (Secret Sunshine), Kirin Kiki (Tokyo Tower: Mom and Me, and Sometimes Dad), Kim Yun-jin of Korea (Seven Days) and Tang Wei of Hong Kong (Lust, Caution) for the top award.

The winners will be announced at an awards ceremony on March 17.

Since its release, the Indian Films-Studio 18 released “Welcome” has only moved from strength to strength.

In the 2007 round-up in the UK, where the film has done the most business in the overseas market, “Welcome” ranks at No.2 after “Om Shanti Om”. “Namaste London”, “Partner” and “Salaam-e-Ishq” feature at No.3, 4 and 5 respectively.

It follows that “Welcome” is also the biggest of the four Akshay Kumar releases of 2007, and by the end of its fifth weekend, it will have created yet another record by emerging as the biggest UK hit ever of Akshay Kumar’s movie career!

“Welcome” has grossed nearly $1.8 million in the UK to date.

Eros Entertainment has announced that they will bring the Bollywood film ‘Om Shanti Om’ to Blu-ray on January 22nd, day-and-date with the DVD release.

The film broke box office records in its India debut, and played to packed crowds during its limited US release. Not all specs and features have been announced at this time, but we do know that video will be 1080p. Stay tuned for more soon.

Shah Rukh Khan has gone where no Hindi film actors have gone before. The trade reports coming in from Kerala have it that SRK’s Om Shanti Om has been doing roaring business in Kerala.

In fact, it has done better business than their local films released during the same time. King Khan is a big hit down south too. Mind it!

Bollywood actress Deepika Padukone has reportedly gone to Australia to cheer cricketer Yuvraj Singh in the ongoing Test match series against the Aussies.

They may not concede to having an affair. But which girl would fly across the Indian Ocean to be with the man she calls “just a good friend”. May be Deepika has heeded the call of love. Or may be we should not jump the gun.

Let us say Deepika has gone to Sydney to cheer up the swashbuckling batsman who has unfortunately not been able to find form in the innings he has played so far against the Aussies. She is also there to celebrate her birthday with Yuvi on January 5.

Another reason why Deepika is in Australia is because she is soon set to begin shooting Yashraj Films’ next movie there, to be directed by Siddharth Anand , whose last film Tara Rum Pum was a dud.

Even though the shooting will begin next week, Deepika has gone there in advance, needless to say, to spend some quality time with Yuvi.

Though the couple has been spotted together many times in Mumbai over the period of last month, the chemistry between them became apparent on Yuvraj Singh’s birthday party at Enigma on December 19.

This time it is Deepika’s birthday on Saturday and we hope the chemistry between them would have become more electric by now.

Shah Rukh Khan himself desperately wants the song to go down into the Guinness book as a record of sorts. Yet the hit number was originally to have a few more famous and known faces dancing and making their presence felt. Like Amitabh Bachchan for instance who if not for Abhishek’s impending marriage would surely have been a part of the entire song sequence along with son Abhishek Bachchan . In fact Farah who left no stone unturned to have the duo says, “While both Amitabh Bachchan and Abhishek Bachchan have a special appearance in my film, they couldn’t make it in the Deewang i song. I wanted them to be part of the song, but when I shot the song, they were too busy with the Abhi-Ash marriage preparations.”

Aamir Khan too was conspicuous by his absence and Farah it seems had a long standing wish to have the three Khans – Shah Rukh, Salman and Aamir dancing together alongside each other for the first time on the 70mm screen.

Shah Rukh Khan wanted his Main Hoon Na co-star Amrita Rao to be a part of the special song too. But director Farah Khan, we learn, had bigger plans. She wanted to have a complete Main Hoon Na segment in Deewangi song. That is to say she had hoped to have Main Hoon Na’s leading cast Sushmita Sen , Amrita Rao and Zayed Khan along with SRK to be featured together in a separate part of the song. Amrita says, “I couldn’t shoot for the song as I was busy shooting for Athidhi in Austria. Farah would call me up every time and badly wanted Sushmita, Zayed, Shah Rukh and myself to do a Main Hoon Na sequence but I just could not get out of my schedule.” And Farah went ahead with only Zayed and Shah Rukh where they do their trademark ‘head rubs’ from Main Hoon Na .

Dilip Kumar and Saira Banu who were the only senior actors who could not make it for the song though Shah Rukh and Farah wished for it desperately. Shah Rukh who was initially tagged of having a strong Dilip Kumar hangover has always looked up to the senior Devdas as his idol.

From the yesteryear celebrities, King Khan also wanted his personal favourite Zeenat Aman to add grace to the song. Not to forget Zeenat’s popular costar – the style icon Feroz Khan . Plus his son Fardeen Khan ! But both father and son were out of town.

So Shah Rukh says that what you saw in Om Shanti Om was not big – at least not as ‘magnanimous’ as he and Farah had visualized it to be, though for the audiences this was as grand as it could get. The king feels that if he could manage to get all the ones they had planned for that could have been huge. So SRK says, “Now I feel I will have to make a sequel to Om Shanti Om and request all the celebrities who missed out from the original song to shoot a song with me in the sequel”.

We would eagerly wait for ‘ OSO 2’ , Shah Rukh!

“Shirtless sequence of one of the songs and dance i.e. “Dard-E-Disco” of “Om Shanti Om”  was the original idea of Superstar Shah Rukh and not her,” Bollywood filmmaker Farah Khan said.
Farah Khan also gave credit to Shah Rukh Khan for this commendable idea, which brought such a big success to the film among other factors.  She said:”The entire credit for the film’s success goes to Shah Rukh,” director Farah Khan told in an interview. “He is the film’s main attraction and the shirtless song is definitely one of the main reasons for the film’s hit. It is the scene to watch out for.”

“Om Shanti Om”, a film on the theory of reincarnation, had to fight tough against “Saawariya”. However, OSO beat the Saawariya because of its top entertainer style and SRK knows how to read the pulse of the cine-goers.

OSO has all super touches of various areas of life and being star studded appearances of top stars of yester years and that of present era added a great color to the film. SRK’s acting was superb; it may not be possible for any producer to match this sort of top film nor could possible get assemble so many top stars of the Industry.

Shah Rukh Khan, in fact, had to undergo rigorous training to develop a six-pack, which made the song ‘Dard-E-Disco’ hit and the soul of the picture.

In short, SRK was a super star before release of OSO and after its release he has become the top star of the Industry.

Filmmaker Farah Khan, who is riding high on the success of Om Shanti Om, credits Shah Rukh Khan’s shirtless song-and-dance sequence as one of the main reasons for the film’s good opening.

The bare-chested act by the 42-year-old actor who underwent rigorous training sessions to develop a six-pack, has helped the song Dard-E-Disco reach the top of the charts across television channels and FM radio stations.

farah made many girls and women happy by showing Shah Rukh in a very different way, she said.

According to farah Sharukh has a huge audience base. she sure is loving the way he has pulled it off. Shahrukh had to train a lot for the scene and he is looking very good,
Om Shanti Om, a film on reincarnation, had a tough battle to overcome for box-office supremacy as it was sharing its opening date with Saawariya by Sanjay Leela Bhansali.