Saturday, February 9, 2019

THE annavetticadgoes2themovies BOLLYWOOD AWARDS 2018


ALIA OR TABU? AMIT TRIVEDI OR SEL? MANOJ BAJPAYEE OR RANBIR? A PICK OF 2018’S BEST WORK

As a follow-up to my list of best Bollywood films released in theatres in 2018, here is my pick of nominees and winners in categories recognised at most film awards functions worldwide. I have given a minimum of four and a maximum of seven nominations per slot, except in the case of the Best Film for which I have listed 10 nominees, because my list of 10 best films of 2018 has already been published.


For practical reasons, I have confined myself to films that were released in mainstream theatres. However, in coming years, as the number of films being directly released on online platforms increases, the criteria for this list will perhaps change. That is a consideration for a later date. For the moment, here are my picks of the best that 2018 had to offer in all departments of cinema emerging from what we call Bollywood (i.e. the Mumbai-based industry that produces films largely in the Hindi language), from acting to direction, music and other technical streams:

BEST FILM

I have ranked these from 1-10 in my Best Bollywood Films of 2018 article:

Nominees (all nominee lists are in alphabetical order):
 




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And the award goes to…
 
Raazi
 
BEST DIRECTOR

Nominees:
 
Anurag Kashyap (Mukkabaaz)

Dipesh Jain (Gali Guleiyan)

Meghna Gulzar (Raazi)

Shoojit Sircar (October)

Sriram Raghavan (Andhadhun)

And the award goes to…

Meghna Gulzar (Raazi)
 
BEST WRITING

Nominees:

Anudeep Singh, Anurag Kashyap, Vineet Kumar Singh, Mukti Singh Srinet, K.D. Satyam, Ranjan Chandel, Prasoon Mishra (Mukkabaaz)

Bhavani Iyer, Meghna Gulzar (Raazi)

Dipesh Jain (Gali Guleiyan)

Juhi Chaturvedi (October)

Sriram Raghavan, Hemanth Rao, Arijit Biswas, Pooja Ladha Surti, Yogesh Chandekar (Andhadhun)

And the award goes to…
 
Bhavani Iyer, Meghna Gulzar (Raazi)
 
BEST ACTOR (FEMALE)

Nominees:
 
Alia Bhatt (Raazi)

Anushka Sharma (Pari)

Anushka Sharma (Sui Dhaaga)

Neena Gupta (Badhaai Ho)

Rani Mukerji (Hichki)

Tabu (Andhadhun)

Zoya Hussain (Mukkabaaz)

And the award goes to…
 
Alia Bhatt (Raazi)

BEST ACTOR (MALE)  

Nominees:

Ayushmann Khurrana (Andhadhun)

Gajraj Rao (Badhaai Ho)

Manoj Bajpayee (Gali Guleiyan)

Nawazuddin Siddiqui (Manto)

Rajkummar Rao (Omerta)

Ranbir Kapoor (Sanju)

Vineet Kumar Singh (Mukkabaaz) 

And the award goes to…
 
Ranbir Kapoor (Sanju)
 

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR (FEMALE)

Nominees:

Anuja Sathe (Blackmail)

Gitanjali Rao (October)

Rasika Dugal (Manto)

Shahana Goswami (Gali Guleiyan)

Swara Bhasker (Veere Di Wedding)

And the award goes to…
 
Shahana Goswami (Gali Guleiyan)

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR (MALE)

Nominees:

Abhishek Banerjee (Stree)

Angad Bedi (Soorma)

Aparshakti Khurana (Stree)

Jimmy Sheirgill (Mukkabaaz) 

Prateek Kapoor (October)

Priyanshu Painyuli (Bhavesh Joshi Superhero)

Vicky Kaushal (Raazi)
 
And the award goes to…
 
Vicky Kaushal (Raazi)

BEST CAST

Nominees:

Andhadhun:
Tabu, Ayushmann Khurrana, Radhika Apte, Anil Dhawan, Manav Vij, Chhaya Kadam, Ashwini Kalsekar, Zakir Hussain, Pawan Singh, Kabir Sajid

Gali Guleiyan:
Manoj Bajpayee, Om Singh, Shahana Goswami, Arbaaz Khan, Neeraj Kabi, Ranvir Shorey

Mukkabaaz:
Vineet Kumar Singh, Zoya Hussain, Jimmy Sheirgill, Ravi Kishan

Radhika Madan, Sanya Malhotra, Vijay Raaz, Sunil Grover, Namit Das, Abhishek Duhan, Saanand Verma

Raazi:
Alia Bhatt, Vicky Kaushal, Jaideep Ahlawat, Rajit Kapur, Shishir Sharma, Soni Razdan, Amruta Khanvilkar, Arif Zakaria, Ashwath Bhatt, Aman Vashisht

Stree:
Rajkummar Rao, Shraddha Kapoor, Aparshakti Khurana, Abhishek Banerjee, Pankaj Tripathi, Atul Srivastava

Tumbbad:
Sohum Shah, Jyoti Malshe, Dhundhiraj Prabhakar Jogalekar, Anita Date, Deepak Damle, Ronjini Chakraborty, Mohd Samad

And the award goes to…

Andhadhun
Tabu, Ayushmann Khurrana, Radhika Apte, Anil Dhawan, Manav Vij, Chhaya Kadam, Ashwini Kalsekar, Zakir Hussain, Pawan Singh, Kabir Sajid

BEST MUSIC

Nominees:

Andhadhun:
Songs: Amit Trivedi
Background score: Daniel B. George

Songs: Pravin Kunwar, Oni-Adil, Ranjan Sharma
Background score: Ranjan Sharma

Songs: Amit Trivedi
Background score: Hitesh Sonik

Songs: Niladri Kumar and Joi Barua
Background score: Hitesh Sonik

October:
Shantanu Moitra, Anupam Roy, Abhishek Arora

Raazi:
Songs: Shankar Ehsaan Loy
Background score: Shankar Ehsaan Loy and Tubby

And the award goes to…
 
Raazi:
Songs: Shankar Ehsaan Loy
Background score: Shankar Ehsaan Loy and Tubby

Note: Fabulous though it is, I have not included the music of Dhadak here (songs: Ajay-Atul, background score: John Stewart Eduri) only and only because a bulk of it has been transposed here from Ajay-Atul’s soundtrack for the 2016 Marathi blockbuster Sairat of which Dhadak was a Hindi remake.

BEST SONG

Nominees:

Ae Watan (from Raazi):
Music: Shankar Ehsaan Loy
Lyrics: Gulzar (incorporating lines from Allama Iqbal’s Lab pe aati hai dua)
Singing: Sunidhi Chauhan and the Shankar Mahadevan Academy children’s chorus

Dilbaro (from Raazi):
Music: Shankar Ehsaan Loy
Lyrics: Gulzar
Singing: Harshdeep Kaur, Vibha Saraf and Shankar Mahadevan

Meri Ankhein (from Angrezi Mein Kehte Hain):
Music: Pravin Kunwar
Lyrics: Yogesh
Singing: Shaan, Vaishali Mhade and Pravin Kunwar

Naina Da Kya Kasoor (from Andhadhun):
Music: Amit Trivedi
Lyrics: Jaideep Sahni
Singing: Amit Trivedi

Namo Namo (from Kedarnath):
Music: Amit Trivedi
Lyrics: Amitabh Bhattacharya
Singing: Amit Trivedi

O’ Meri Laila (from Laila Majnu):
Music: Joi Barua
Lyrics: Irshad Kamil
Singing: Atif Aslam and Jyotica Tangri

And the award goes to…

Ae Watan (from Raazi):
Music: Shankar Ehsaan Loy
Lyrics: Gulzar (incorporating lines from Allama Iqbal’s Lab pe aati hai dua)
Singing: Sunidhi Chauhan and the Shankar Mahadevan Academy children’s chorus (Soham Vavekar, Advait Raman Shankar, Tanirika Chakraborty, Vasudha Tiwari, Ananya Halarnkar, Tejas Tambe, Ghazal Javed, Archana Hegdekar & Satyajeet Jena)
 

BEST EDITING
 
Nominees:
 
Aarti Bajaj, Ankit Bidyadhar (Mukkabaaz) 

Aditya Warrior (Omerta)

A. Sreekar Prasad (Manto)

Chris Witt (Gali Guleiyan)

Nitin Baid (Raazi)

Pooja Ladha Surti (Andhadhun)

Sanyukta Kaza (Tumbbad)

And the award goes to…
 
Chris Witt (Gali Guleiyan)
 
BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY

Nominees:

Avik Mukhopadhayay (October)

Avinash Arun (Karwaan)

Kai Miedendorp (Gali Guleiyan)

K.U. Mohanan (Andhadhun)

Pankaj Kumar (Tumbbad)

Ranjan Palit (Pataakha)

Sachin K. Krishn (Daas Dev)

And the award goes to…
 
Avik Mukhopadhayay (October)
 

BEST SOUND DESIGN

Nominees:

Anish John (Pari)

Dipankar Jojo Chaki (October)

Kunal Sharma (Raazi)

Kunal Sharma (Tumbbad)

Madhu Apsara (Andhadhun)

Mandar Kulkarni (Omerta)

Shajith Koyeri & Savitha Nambrath (Stree)

And the award goes to…
 
Kunal Sharma (Tumbbad)

 
BEST PRODUCTION DESIGN

Nominees:

Aditya Kanwar (Bhavesh Joshi Superhero)

Meenal Agarwal (Pari)

Nitin Zihani Choudhury, Rakesh Yadav (Tumbbad)

Rita Ghosh (Manto)

Shazia Zahid Iqbal (Mukkabaaz) 

Snigdha Karmahe, Pankaj Poal, Anita Lata Rajagopalan, Donald Reagen Gracy (Andhadhun)

Sujata Sharma Virk (Gali Guleiyan)

And the award goes to…
 
Nitin Zihani Choudhury, Rakesh Yadav (Tumbbad)

MOST INTERESTING DEBUTANT IN A LEAD OR SUPPORTING ROLE
 
Nominees:

Gitanjali Rao (October)
 
Om Singh (Gali Guleiyan)

Radhika Madan (Pataakha)

Sara Ali Khan (Kedarnath)

Zoya Hussain (Mukkabaaz)

And the award goes to…
 
Zoya Hussain (Mukkabaaz)

Note: I am not nominating Dulquer Salmaan in this category, although Karwaan was his first Bollywood film, because he is already an established actor (a superstar, to be precise) of Mollywood with hits also in Kollywood and Tollywood. Nominating him in a debutant category for Bollywood films makes about as much sense as Hollywood nominating Priyanka Chopra as a debutant.

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Photographs courtesy:



October poster: https://www.facebook.com/OctoberFilm2018/      


Gali Guleiyan poster: https://www.facebook.com/GaliGuleiyan/      

Tumbbad poster: https://www.facebook.com/TumbbadFilm/     


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