Its time to look deeper into the performances last year, who was best in which category.
Haider steals the show for me comfortably, winning in 9 categories. While Ek Villian and Queen take away 4 categories each.
Presenting nominees along with the winners, the list is entirely based on my opinion.
Best Actor Male : Shahid Kapur (Haider)
• Aamir Khan (PK)
• Sanjay Mishra (Aankhon Dekhi)
• Rajkumar Rao (Citylights)
• Partho Gupte (Hawa Hawaai)
Shahid was too good in his portrayal of Shakespeare’s Hamlet, and you knew it the moment you saw Haider’s trailer. His eye expressions in entire Bismil song alone was enough for me to keep him as best actor. Aamir Khan and Sanjay Mishra were a close second.
Best Actor Female : Kangana Ranaut (Queen)
• Tabu (Haider)
• Alia Bhatt (Highway)
• Rani Mukherji (Mardaani)
• Vidya Balan (Bobby Jasoos)
Kangana’s best performance ever, even outdid Gangster and Fashion. How well she played the innocent girl character and the transformation she goes through on her journey to Paris and Amsterdam. I totally hated every award show that kept Tabu in Supporting Actress category, really? Easily 2nd best performer last year.
Best Director : Vikas Bahl (Queen)
• Vishal Bharadwaj (Haider)
• Anurag Kashyap (Ugly)
• Pradeep Sarkar (Mardaani)
• Imtiaz Ali (Highway)
One of the major reasons why Queen worked apart from Kangana’s performance was Vikas Bahl’s execution of the script plus the non-linear narration. I specially liked how he kept linking what Rani’s (Kangana) ex bf kept stopping him doing when they were together, and how all of that she was doing now with ease, be it driving car or dancing in public etc etc. Vishal just missed due to the less dose of insane sequences of Haider, otherwise he got the theme and backdrop of Kashmir spot on.
Best Film : Queen
• Haider
• 2 States
• Mardaani
• PK
Already written on them, read here
Best Supporting Actor Male : Irrfan Khan (Haider)
• Rishi Kapoor (Bewakoofiyaan)
• Manav Kaul (Citylights)
• Darshan Kumar (Mary Kom)
• Inaamul Haq (Filmistaan)
It was just a 10-15 min supporting role, that tells how effective Irrfan Khan was in it, specially that amazing entry scene he had or his conversations with Arshia (Shraddha Kapoor). Rishi Kapoor once again showing how good his choice of roles is, while Manav was the surprise package of Citylights.
Best Supporting Actor Female : Amrita Singh (2 States)
• Lisa Haydon (Queen)
• Divya Jagdale (Gulaab Gang)
• Seema Pahwa (Aankhon Dekhi)
• Adah Sharma (Hasee Toh Phasee)
Amrita Singh was simply too good in a typical Punjabi mom role, nice of the casting director to not opt for Kirron Kher as Amrita brought huge amount of freshness into the role. While Lisa despite not good hindi diction suited the role of Rani’s (Kangana) good friend completely, and liked all the mischievous activities she does along with her.
Best Actor in a Comic Role : Girish Kulkarni (Ugly)
• Varun Dhawan (Main Tera Hero)
• Sharib Hashmi (Filmistaan)
• Sahil Vaid (Humpty Sharma Ki Dulhania)
• Kirron Kher (Khoobsurat)
His 10 min long scene in police station with 2 people who come to report for their missing daughter, was outright hilarious with the kind of questions he asks him along with the conversation shifting to how does a photo comes on mobile with a incoming call. Also not to forget how he describes the song ‘tu mujhe nichod de’ to his senior inspector. Varun came pretty close to how good Govinda-David Dhawan entertainers used to be.
Best Actor in a Negative Role : Riteish Deshmukh (Ek Villain)
• Tahir Raj Bhasin (Mardaani)
• Sushant Singh (Hate Story 2)
• Kay Kay Menon (Haider)
• Nawazuddin Siddiqui (Kick)
Even when the trailer came, I was skeptical that Riteish won’t be able to pull it off but boy how well he did it in the end, his dialogue ‘phikr mat kijiye madam, aaj ke baad aapko shikayat ka mauka nahi milega’ is hard to forget, if Mohit had extracted more out of his character then it would had been one of classic negative roles ever!
Best Music : Ankit Tiwari, Mithoon (Ek Villain)
• Vishal Bharadwaj (Haider)
• Amit Trivedi (Queen)
• A R Rahman (Highway)
• Vishal-Shekhar (Hasee Toh Phasee)
Already written on them, read here
Best Lyricist : Gulzar, Aao Naa (Haider)
• Rashmi Singh, Muskuraane (Citylights)
• Irshad Kamil, Maahi Ve (Highway)
• Anvita Dutt, Kinare (Queen)
• Amitabh Bhattacharya, Locha e ulfat (2 States)
Gulzar once again comes up with lyrics that are addictive as he asks us to take that eternal sleep in the grave in 'Aao Naa’. While Rashmi Singh delivers very romantic lines in Muskuraane, specially love this ‘o re lamhe tu kahin mat jaa, ho sake toh umar bhar tham jaa'.
Best Playback Singer Male : Sonu Nigam, Bhagwan hai kahan re tu (PK)
• Mohammad Irfan, Banjaara (Ek Villain)
• Sukhwinder Singh, Bismil (Haider)
• Arijit Singh, Samjhawan (Humpty Sharma Ki Dulhania)
• Benny Dayal, Hum na rahe hum (Creature)
Sonu was outstanding in the emotional way he portrayed a guy who is searching to find God. Felt bad to not have Irfan at top who was as good in Banjaara too.
Best Playback Singer Female : Jyoti Nooran-Sultana Nooran, Patakha Guddi (Highway)
• Shraddha Kapoor, Galliyan (Ek Villain)
• Nandini Srikar, Harjaiyaan (Queen)
• Jasleen Kaur Royal, Preet (Khoobsurat)
• Kanika Kapoor, Baby doll (Ragini MMS2)
Unlike all award shows, Kanika Kapoor ain’t no.1 for me! Nooran sisters nailed this punjabi composition of Rahman, while Shraddha’s haunting version of Galliyan was a delight to listen.
Best Debut Male : Tahir Raj Bhasin (Mardaani)
• Parth Bhalerao (Bhoothnath Returns)
• Tiger Shroff (Heropanti)
• Fawad Khan (Khoobsurat)
• Girish Kulkarni (Ugly)
There have been instances when the debut actor has looked so comfortable in his performance that you wonder that is it really his 1st movie? Tahir Raj Bhasin is one of them, who was so flawless and had that terrific mannerism going throughout the movie playing the negative character with utmost ease. Special mention to the little kid Parth who looked to have great time working with Amitabh Bachchan.
Best Debut Female : Patralekha (Citylights)
• Surveen Chawla (Hate Story2 and Ugly)
• Kriti Sanon (Heropanti)
• Niharika Singh (Miss Lovely)
• Humaima Malick (Raja Natwarlal)
Patralekha was far ahead of all her competitors here, with her performance in Citylights specially loved her dialect. While Surveen had a great start to career with good performances in both her movies.
Best Debut Director : Nitin Kakkar (Filmistaan)
• Abhishek Varman (2 States)
• Vinil Matthew (Hasee Toh Phasee)
• Omung Kumar (Mary Kom)
• Shashank Khaitan (Humpty Sharma Ki Dulhania)
Very good debut movie by Nitin Kakkar, apart from last 10-15 mins I thoroughly enjoyed Filmistaan. And Abhishek Varman was able to bring Chetan Bhagat’s novel 2 States onto the screen quite effectively specially being a first time director.
Best Story : Rajat Kapoor (Ankhon Dekhi)
• Abhijat Joshi, Raj Kumar Hirani (PK)
• Nitni Kakkar (Filmistaan)
• Aseem Arora (Kya Dilli Kya Lahore)
• Imtiaz Ali (Highway)
Ankhon Dekhi had a very different storyline about a guy who believed in philosophy that he would believe in things that he sees himself or hears himself, and nothing else. Its story was one of main reasons why I got interested in watching the movie apart from presence of Sanjay Mishra. Even PK had a good story about a guy from another planet finding tough to manage on Earth.
Best Scene : A long monologue of Haider on road talking with people gathered around (Haider)
• PK explaining what he thought about Gandhi photo in flashback (PK)
• Rahul and Chaitanya interact with Inspector Jadhav telling what led to Rahul’s daughter disappearance (Ugly)
• Khalu and Babban along with Jaan Muhammad and his men stand whole night with pistols on each other’s head (Dedh Ishqiya)
• Veera lets all her feelings inside out to her family in climax (Highway)
There would be many like me who were waiting for this scene to come in Haider after having seen part of it in trailer ‘Hello Hello, mike testing 1,2,3,4.. awaaz aa rahi hai aap logo ko?’ One of best insane sequences and isn’t a surprise that its from a Vishal Bharadwaj movie. And in PK, the complete Gandhi photo flashback sequence was hilarious, hard to control your laughter.
Best Jodi : Shahid-Tabu (Haider)
• Naseeruddin-Arshad (Dedh Ishqiya)
• Siddharth-Shraddha (Ek Villain)
• Arjun-Ranveer (Gunday)
• Varun-Alia (Humpty Sharma Ki Dulhania)
Quite unusual to have jodi of mother-son, but they were simply too good. Love this scene where Haider tries to tell her ‘kabhi toh dusre ke najariye se dekhiye’, and also that final scene where she tries hard to convince him to give up his revenge. Meanwhile, Naseeruddin-Arshad were as fantastic in Dedh Ishqiya as they were in the 1st part, Khalujaan-Babban pair could be iconic if the franchise goes for 2-3 more movies.
Best Trailer : Haider
• Ek Villain
• Kill Dil
• Kick
• CityLights
Haider’s trailer was kickass with that tremendous use of ‘Aao na’ track and the final ‘Hello hello’ dialogue. And Ek Villain also was great because it used the haunting version of ‘Galliyan’ in a very emotional manner in the trailer along with revealing dialogues of Riteish for first time.
Best Screenplay : Gopi Puthran, S Hussain Zaidi, Vibha Singh (Mardaani)
• Anurag Kashyap (Ugly)
• Vikash Bahl, Chaitally Parmar, Parveez Shaikh (Queen)
• Vishal Bharadwaj (Haider)
• Abhishek Varman (2 States)
Mardaani had such a tight screenplay that it made the cat and mouse chase between Rani and Tahir very enjoyable, plus liked the fact that they gave less importance to Rani and her husband scenes or even with her daughter.
Best Dialogue : Abhijat Joshi, Raj Kumar Hirani (PK)
• Sanjeev Dutta (Dedh Ishqiya)
• Imtiaz Ali (Highway)
• Shashank Khaitan (Humpty Sharma Ki Dulhania)
• Milap Zaveri (Ek Villain)
I had never thought that PK would have best dialogues, after I came to know it has Bhojpuri dialogues because I got a certain dislike for that language. But in this film, I totally adored the dialogues specially Aamir referring earth as ‘gola' and all the times he used ‘lul’.
Best Editing : Abhijit Kokate, Anurag Kashyap (Queen)
• Sanjib Datta (Mardaani)
• Aarti Bajaj (Ugly)
• Devendra Murdeshwar (Ek Villain)
• Shweta Venkat Matthew (Hasee Toh Phasee)
I am a fan of non linear editing, and if the film is very good along with it then it most likely turns out to be my fav edited film which is the case with Queen as they narrated Rani’s journey by mixing past and present together as the story went on.
Best Choreography : Sudesh Adhana, Bismil (Haider)
• Ahmed Khan, Jumme ki raat (Kick)
• Remo D’Souza, Shake it like shammi (Hasee Toh Phasee)
• Bosco Caesar, Tu ne maari entriyaan (Gunday)
• Bosco Caesar, Palat (Main Tera Hero)
I don’t know why all award shows avoided Bismil song, it was miles ahead of every other song. Kudos to Sudesh Adhana for such wonderful choreography, I can watch it non-stop without getting bored.
Best Background Score : Raju Singh (Ek Villain)
• Amit Trivedi (Queen)
• Julius Packiam (Mardaani)
• Vishal Bharadwaj (Haider)
• AR Rahman (Highway)
This was a tough one for me as Queen, Mardaani and Haider all were equally stronger nominees to win. In the end went with very personal choice, those alaaps of Shraddha used in movie as bg plus the one where Siddharth closes his eyes to remember her and then that Ritesh evil bg, all worked very well for me.
Best Cinematography : Anil Mehta (Highway)
• Pankaj Kumar (Haider)
• Ayananka Bose (Kick)
• Anil Mehta (Finding Fanny)
• Bobby Singh (Queen)
You can always bank on Anil Mehta to provide you with some breath-taking visuals, and then the film story is based on road journey through hilly areas so that makes it icing on the cake. Even Pankaj Kumar’s work in covering Kashmir was very good in Haider.
Best Action : Anal Arasu (Heropanti)
• Greg Powell, Anal Arasu (Holiday)
• Sham Kaushal (Gunday)
• S Ravi Varman (Actin Jackson)
• Parvez Shaikh (Bang Bang)
To be frank, none of these 5 nominees were highly impressive but for the sake of it I had to list and choose best of them. Anal Arasu it was from Heropanti who was marginally likable in the action department.
Best Art Direction : Subrata Chakraborty, Amit Ray (Haider)
• Ashim Ahluwalia, Parichit Paralkar, Dhanya Pilo, Tabasheer Zutshi (Miss Lovely)
• Subrata Chakraborty, Amit Ray (Dedh Ishqiya)
• Akriti Piplani (Daawat e Ishq)
• Mayur Sharma (Ugly)
Good detailing done by Subrata Chakraborty making the already good visuals look even better.
Best Costumes : Dolly Ahluwalia (Haider)
• Rushi Sharma, Manoshi Nath (Queen)
• Manish Malhotra, Shiraz Siddiqui, Natascha Charak (2 States)
• Uma Biju, Karuna Laungani, Raghavendra Rathore (Khoobsurat)
• Ashley, Alvira, Subarna, Manoshi, Rushi, Gaviin, Deepika, Anirudh, Tanya (Kick)
I very much like the Kashmir attire, and Dolly Ahluwalia did a commendable job with good choice of colors, Shahid mostly had black only after that long monologue scene. My fav costumes were the ones in the picture.
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Haider steals the show for me comfortably, winning in 9 categories. While Ek Villian and Queen take away 4 categories each.
Presenting nominees along with the winners, the list is entirely based on my opinion.
Best Actor Male : Shahid Kapur (Haider)
• Aamir Khan (PK)
• Sanjay Mishra (Aankhon Dekhi)
• Rajkumar Rao (Citylights)
• Partho Gupte (Hawa Hawaai)
Shahid was too good in his portrayal of Shakespeare’s Hamlet, and you knew it the moment you saw Haider’s trailer. His eye expressions in entire Bismil song alone was enough for me to keep him as best actor. Aamir Khan and Sanjay Mishra were a close second.
Best Actor Female : Kangana Ranaut (Queen)
• Tabu (Haider)
• Alia Bhatt (Highway)
• Rani Mukherji (Mardaani)
• Vidya Balan (Bobby Jasoos)
Kangana’s best performance ever, even outdid Gangster and Fashion. How well she played the innocent girl character and the transformation she goes through on her journey to Paris and Amsterdam. I totally hated every award show that kept Tabu in Supporting Actress category, really? Easily 2nd best performer last year.
Best Director : Vikas Bahl (Queen)
• Vishal Bharadwaj (Haider)
• Anurag Kashyap (Ugly)
• Pradeep Sarkar (Mardaani)
• Imtiaz Ali (Highway)
One of the major reasons why Queen worked apart from Kangana’s performance was Vikas Bahl’s execution of the script plus the non-linear narration. I specially liked how he kept linking what Rani’s (Kangana) ex bf kept stopping him doing when they were together, and how all of that she was doing now with ease, be it driving car or dancing in public etc etc. Vishal just missed due to the less dose of insane sequences of Haider, otherwise he got the theme and backdrop of Kashmir spot on.
Best Film : Queen
• Haider
• 2 States
• Mardaani
• PK
Already written on them, read here
Best Supporting Actor Male : Irrfan Khan (Haider)
• Rishi Kapoor (Bewakoofiyaan)
• Manav Kaul (Citylights)
• Darshan Kumar (Mary Kom)
• Inaamul Haq (Filmistaan)
It was just a 10-15 min supporting role, that tells how effective Irrfan Khan was in it, specially that amazing entry scene he had or his conversations with Arshia (Shraddha Kapoor). Rishi Kapoor once again showing how good his choice of roles is, while Manav was the surprise package of Citylights.
Best Supporting Actor Female : Amrita Singh (2 States)
• Lisa Haydon (Queen)
• Divya Jagdale (Gulaab Gang)
• Seema Pahwa (Aankhon Dekhi)
• Adah Sharma (Hasee Toh Phasee)
Amrita Singh was simply too good in a typical Punjabi mom role, nice of the casting director to not opt for Kirron Kher as Amrita brought huge amount of freshness into the role. While Lisa despite not good hindi diction suited the role of Rani’s (Kangana) good friend completely, and liked all the mischievous activities she does along with her.
Best Actor in a Comic Role : Girish Kulkarni (Ugly)
• Varun Dhawan (Main Tera Hero)
• Sharib Hashmi (Filmistaan)
• Sahil Vaid (Humpty Sharma Ki Dulhania)
• Kirron Kher (Khoobsurat)
His 10 min long scene in police station with 2 people who come to report for their missing daughter, was outright hilarious with the kind of questions he asks him along with the conversation shifting to how does a photo comes on mobile with a incoming call. Also not to forget how he describes the song ‘tu mujhe nichod de’ to his senior inspector. Varun came pretty close to how good Govinda-David Dhawan entertainers used to be.
Best Actor in a Negative Role : Riteish Deshmukh (Ek Villain)
• Tahir Raj Bhasin (Mardaani)
• Sushant Singh (Hate Story 2)
• Kay Kay Menon (Haider)
• Nawazuddin Siddiqui (Kick)
Even when the trailer came, I was skeptical that Riteish won’t be able to pull it off but boy how well he did it in the end, his dialogue ‘phikr mat kijiye madam, aaj ke baad aapko shikayat ka mauka nahi milega’ is hard to forget, if Mohit had extracted more out of his character then it would had been one of classic negative roles ever!
Best Music : Ankit Tiwari, Mithoon (Ek Villain)
• Vishal Bharadwaj (Haider)
• Amit Trivedi (Queen)
• A R Rahman (Highway)
• Vishal-Shekhar (Hasee Toh Phasee)
Already written on them, read here
Best Lyricist : Gulzar, Aao Naa (Haider)
• Rashmi Singh, Muskuraane (Citylights)
• Irshad Kamil, Maahi Ve (Highway)
• Anvita Dutt, Kinare (Queen)
• Amitabh Bhattacharya, Locha e ulfat (2 States)
Gulzar once again comes up with lyrics that are addictive as he asks us to take that eternal sleep in the grave in 'Aao Naa’. While Rashmi Singh delivers very romantic lines in Muskuraane, specially love this ‘o re lamhe tu kahin mat jaa, ho sake toh umar bhar tham jaa'.
Best Playback Singer Male : Sonu Nigam, Bhagwan hai kahan re tu (PK)
• Mohammad Irfan, Banjaara (Ek Villain)
• Sukhwinder Singh, Bismil (Haider)
• Arijit Singh, Samjhawan (Humpty Sharma Ki Dulhania)
• Benny Dayal, Hum na rahe hum (Creature)
Sonu was outstanding in the emotional way he portrayed a guy who is searching to find God. Felt bad to not have Irfan at top who was as good in Banjaara too.
Best Playback Singer Female : Jyoti Nooran-Sultana Nooran, Patakha Guddi (Highway)
• Shraddha Kapoor, Galliyan (Ek Villain)
• Nandini Srikar, Harjaiyaan (Queen)
• Jasleen Kaur Royal, Preet (Khoobsurat)
• Kanika Kapoor, Baby doll (Ragini MMS2)
Unlike all award shows, Kanika Kapoor ain’t no.1 for me! Nooran sisters nailed this punjabi composition of Rahman, while Shraddha’s haunting version of Galliyan was a delight to listen.
Best Debut Male : Tahir Raj Bhasin (Mardaani)
• Parth Bhalerao (Bhoothnath Returns)
• Tiger Shroff (Heropanti)
• Fawad Khan (Khoobsurat)
• Girish Kulkarni (Ugly)
There have been instances when the debut actor has looked so comfortable in his performance that you wonder that is it really his 1st movie? Tahir Raj Bhasin is one of them, who was so flawless and had that terrific mannerism going throughout the movie playing the negative character with utmost ease. Special mention to the little kid Parth who looked to have great time working with Amitabh Bachchan.
Best Debut Female : Patralekha (Citylights)
• Surveen Chawla (Hate Story2 and Ugly)
• Kriti Sanon (Heropanti)
• Niharika Singh (Miss Lovely)
• Humaima Malick (Raja Natwarlal)
Patralekha was far ahead of all her competitors here, with her performance in Citylights specially loved her dialect. While Surveen had a great start to career with good performances in both her movies.
Best Debut Director : Nitin Kakkar (Filmistaan)
• Abhishek Varman (2 States)
• Vinil Matthew (Hasee Toh Phasee)
• Omung Kumar (Mary Kom)
• Shashank Khaitan (Humpty Sharma Ki Dulhania)
Very good debut movie by Nitin Kakkar, apart from last 10-15 mins I thoroughly enjoyed Filmistaan. And Abhishek Varman was able to bring Chetan Bhagat’s novel 2 States onto the screen quite effectively specially being a first time director.
Best Story : Rajat Kapoor (Ankhon Dekhi)
• Abhijat Joshi, Raj Kumar Hirani (PK)
• Nitni Kakkar (Filmistaan)
• Aseem Arora (Kya Dilli Kya Lahore)
• Imtiaz Ali (Highway)
Ankhon Dekhi had a very different storyline about a guy who believed in philosophy that he would believe in things that he sees himself or hears himself, and nothing else. Its story was one of main reasons why I got interested in watching the movie apart from presence of Sanjay Mishra. Even PK had a good story about a guy from another planet finding tough to manage on Earth.
Best Scene : A long monologue of Haider on road talking with people gathered around (Haider)
• PK explaining what he thought about Gandhi photo in flashback (PK)
• Rahul and Chaitanya interact with Inspector Jadhav telling what led to Rahul’s daughter disappearance (Ugly)
• Khalu and Babban along with Jaan Muhammad and his men stand whole night with pistols on each other’s head (Dedh Ishqiya)
• Veera lets all her feelings inside out to her family in climax (Highway)
There would be many like me who were waiting for this scene to come in Haider after having seen part of it in trailer ‘Hello Hello, mike testing 1,2,3,4.. awaaz aa rahi hai aap logo ko?’ One of best insane sequences and isn’t a surprise that its from a Vishal Bharadwaj movie. And in PK, the complete Gandhi photo flashback sequence was hilarious, hard to control your laughter.
Best Jodi : Shahid-Tabu (Haider)
• Naseeruddin-Arshad (Dedh Ishqiya)
• Siddharth-Shraddha (Ek Villain)
• Arjun-Ranveer (Gunday)
• Varun-Alia (Humpty Sharma Ki Dulhania)
Quite unusual to have jodi of mother-son, but they were simply too good. Love this scene where Haider tries to tell her ‘kabhi toh dusre ke najariye se dekhiye’, and also that final scene where she tries hard to convince him to give up his revenge. Meanwhile, Naseeruddin-Arshad were as fantastic in Dedh Ishqiya as they were in the 1st part, Khalujaan-Babban pair could be iconic if the franchise goes for 2-3 more movies.
Best Trailer : Haider
• Ek Villain
• Kill Dil
• Kick
• CityLights
Haider’s trailer was kickass with that tremendous use of ‘Aao na’ track and the final ‘Hello hello’ dialogue. And Ek Villain also was great because it used the haunting version of ‘Galliyan’ in a very emotional manner in the trailer along with revealing dialogues of Riteish for first time.
Best Screenplay : Gopi Puthran, S Hussain Zaidi, Vibha Singh (Mardaani)
• Anurag Kashyap (Ugly)
• Vikash Bahl, Chaitally Parmar, Parveez Shaikh (Queen)
• Vishal Bharadwaj (Haider)
• Abhishek Varman (2 States)
Mardaani had such a tight screenplay that it made the cat and mouse chase between Rani and Tahir very enjoyable, plus liked the fact that they gave less importance to Rani and her husband scenes or even with her daughter.
Best Dialogue : Abhijat Joshi, Raj Kumar Hirani (PK)
• Sanjeev Dutta (Dedh Ishqiya)
• Imtiaz Ali (Highway)
• Shashank Khaitan (Humpty Sharma Ki Dulhania)
• Milap Zaveri (Ek Villain)
I had never thought that PK would have best dialogues, after I came to know it has Bhojpuri dialogues because I got a certain dislike for that language. But in this film, I totally adored the dialogues specially Aamir referring earth as ‘gola' and all the times he used ‘lul’.
Best Editing : Abhijit Kokate, Anurag Kashyap (Queen)
• Sanjib Datta (Mardaani)
• Aarti Bajaj (Ugly)
• Devendra Murdeshwar (Ek Villain)
• Shweta Venkat Matthew (Hasee Toh Phasee)
I am a fan of non linear editing, and if the film is very good along with it then it most likely turns out to be my fav edited film which is the case with Queen as they narrated Rani’s journey by mixing past and present together as the story went on.
Best Choreography : Sudesh Adhana, Bismil (Haider)
• Ahmed Khan, Jumme ki raat (Kick)
• Remo D’Souza, Shake it like shammi (Hasee Toh Phasee)
• Bosco Caesar, Tu ne maari entriyaan (Gunday)
• Bosco Caesar, Palat (Main Tera Hero)
I don’t know why all award shows avoided Bismil song, it was miles ahead of every other song. Kudos to Sudesh Adhana for such wonderful choreography, I can watch it non-stop without getting bored.
Best Background Score : Raju Singh (Ek Villain)
• Amit Trivedi (Queen)
• Julius Packiam (Mardaani)
• Vishal Bharadwaj (Haider)
• AR Rahman (Highway)
This was a tough one for me as Queen, Mardaani and Haider all were equally stronger nominees to win. In the end went with very personal choice, those alaaps of Shraddha used in movie as bg plus the one where Siddharth closes his eyes to remember her and then that Ritesh evil bg, all worked very well for me.
Best Cinematography : Anil Mehta (Highway)
• Pankaj Kumar (Haider)
• Ayananka Bose (Kick)
• Anil Mehta (Finding Fanny)
• Bobby Singh (Queen)
You can always bank on Anil Mehta to provide you with some breath-taking visuals, and then the film story is based on road journey through hilly areas so that makes it icing on the cake. Even Pankaj Kumar’s work in covering Kashmir was very good in Haider.
Best Action : Anal Arasu (Heropanti)
• Greg Powell, Anal Arasu (Holiday)
• Sham Kaushal (Gunday)
• S Ravi Varman (Actin Jackson)
• Parvez Shaikh (Bang Bang)
To be frank, none of these 5 nominees were highly impressive but for the sake of it I had to list and choose best of them. Anal Arasu it was from Heropanti who was marginally likable in the action department.
Best Art Direction : Subrata Chakraborty, Amit Ray (Haider)
• Ashim Ahluwalia, Parichit Paralkar, Dhanya Pilo, Tabasheer Zutshi (Miss Lovely)
• Subrata Chakraborty, Amit Ray (Dedh Ishqiya)
• Akriti Piplani (Daawat e Ishq)
• Mayur Sharma (Ugly)
Good detailing done by Subrata Chakraborty making the already good visuals look even better.
Best Costumes : Dolly Ahluwalia (Haider)
• Rushi Sharma, Manoshi Nath (Queen)
• Manish Malhotra, Shiraz Siddiqui, Natascha Charak (2 States)
• Uma Biju, Karuna Laungani, Raghavendra Rathore (Khoobsurat)
• Ashley, Alvira, Subarna, Manoshi, Rushi, Gaviin, Deepika, Anirudh, Tanya (Kick)
I very much like the Kashmir attire, and Dolly Ahluwalia did a commendable job with good choice of colors, Shahid mostly had black only after that long monologue scene. My fav costumes were the ones in the picture.
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