Mumbai, April 25: Shah Rukh Khan starrers "Chak de
India" and "Om Shanti Om" swept the technical awards of the
International Indian Film Academy (IIFA) announced here on Friday.
While "Chak de..." won five titles, "Om Shanti Om"
bagged four of the 14 awards that were announced.
The winners will be presented trophies at the IIFA
weekend that will be held from June 6 to 8 in Bangkok, a press
release issued here said.
Shimit Amin`s "Chak de India" swept the awards for
technical excellence winning for Best Cinematography (Sudeep
Chatterjee), Best Editing (Amitabh shukla), best sound
recording (manas choudhary and ali merchant), Best Sound
re-recording (Anuj Mathur) and Best Screenplay (Jaideep
Sahni), who jointly shared the honours with Anurag Basu for
"Life in a Metro".
Close behind was Farah Khan`s "Om Shanti Om" with four
awards for best art direction (Sabu Cyril), Best Special
Effects (Red Chillies Entertainment Pvt Ltd), Best Costume
Designing (Manish Malhotra, Karan Johar and Sanjiv
Mulchandani) and Best Makeup (Bharat-Dorris, Ravi Indulkar and
Namrata Soni).
The choreography award went to Vaibhavi Merchant for
"Aaja Nachle" for the title number, while Javed Sheikh and
Ejaz sheikh won the Best Action award for "Shootout at
Lokhandwala".
The award for Best Sound Recording went to H Sridhar
for "Guru" for the song `Barso re...`, while A R Rehman won
the IIFA award for best background score for the same flick.
Imtiaz Ali won the IIFA for best dialogues for the
movie "Jab we met".
Bureau Report
First Published: Saturday, April 26, 2008, 00:06
