Winners of 53rd Fair One Filmfare Awards
The 53rd Fair One Filmfare Awards night was a shimmering night with almost all prominent celebrities of Bollywood gracing the occasion.

BEST FILM
Chak De! India
Guru
Jab We Met
Om Shanti Om
Winner: Taare Zameen Par

BEST DIRECTOR
Winner: Aamir Khan (Taare Zameen Par)
Anurag Basu (Life… In A Metro)
Farah Khan (Om Shanti Om)
Imtiaz Ali (Jab We Met)
Mani Ratnam (Guru)
Shimit Amin (Chak De! India)

BEST ACTOR
Abhishek Bachchan (Guru)
Akshay Kumar (Namastey London)
Darsheel Safary (Taare Zameen Par)
Winner: Shahrukh Khan (Chak De! India)
Shahrukh Khan (Om Shanti Om)
Shahid Kapoor (Jab We Met)

BEST ACTRESS
Aishwarya Rai Bachchan (Guru)
Deepika Padukone (Om Shanti Om)
Winner: Kareena Kapoor (Jab We Met)
Madhuri Dixit (Aaja Nachle)
Rani Mukerji (Laaga Chunari Mein Daag)
Vidya Balan (Bhool Bhulaiyaa)

Critics’ Award For Best Actor
Darsheel Safary – Taare Zameen Par

Critics’ Award For Best Actress
Tabu – Cheeni Kum

Critics’ Award For Best Film
Shimit Amin – Chak De India

Best Actor in a Supporting Role (Male)
Irrfan Khan – Life in a… Metro

Best Actor in a Supporting Role (Female)
Konkana Sen Sharma – Life in a… Metro

Best Lyrics
Prasoon Joshi – (Maa – Taare Zameen Par)

Best Playback Singer (Male)
Shaan – (Jab Se Tere Naina – Saawariya)

Best Playback Singer (Female)
Shreya Ghosal – (Barso Re – Guru)

Best Music
A. R. Rahman – Guru

Best Story
Amol Gupte – Taare Zameen Par

Best Screenplay
Anurag Basu – Life in a… Metro

Best Dialogue
Imtiaz Ali – Jab We Met

R. D. Burman Award
Monty Sharma (Saawariya)

Lifetime Achievement Award
Rishi Kapoor

Power Awards
Yash Chopra & Aditya Chopra

Best Debut (Male)
Ranbir Kapoor – Saawariya

Best Debut (Female)
Deepika Padukone – Om Shanti Om

Best Special Effects
Red Chillies Entertainment – Om Shanti Om

Sony Head N Shoulders Fresh Face of the Year Award
Deepika Padukone

Best Background Score
A. R. Rahman – Guru

Best Editing
Amitabh Shukla – Chak De India

Best Choreography
Saroj Khan (Barso Re Megha Re – Guru)

Best Action
Rob Miller – Chak De India

Best Art Direction
Samir Chanda – Guru

Best Sound
Leslie Fernandes – Johnny Gaddaar

Best Cinematography
Sudhip Chatterjee

Best Costumes
Sujata Sharma – Gandhi My Father

Los Angeles, April 17 (DPA) It could be the plot of a particularly unlikely Bollywood movie. A young Greek girl grows up on the Mediterranean island of Crete and falls in love with movies from faraway India.

Every weekend she sits glued to the screen to watch her idols like Raj Kapoor, Dilip Kumar and others. She later moves to America, but never forgets her Indian connection.

She decides to start an Indian Film Festival in the world capital of cinema, Los Angeles. After a few years the festival becomes a major cultural event and a focus of collaboration between Hollywood and Bollywood. The End.

That, in a nutshell, is the story of Christina Marouda, who founded The Indian Film Festival of Los Angeles (IFFLA) in 2002, as a non-profit organisation devoted to promoting a greater appreciation of Indian culture.

The fifth festival opens Tuesday night with the LA premiere of Jag Mundhra’s “Provoked” and closes with Rajnesh Domalpalli’s “Vanaja” on Sunday.

The Indian Film Festival of Los Angeles is a nonprofit organization devoted to paving the way for a greater appreciation of Indian cinema and diverse culture by providing the public with a selection of films from and about the Indian diaspora by Indian and International filmmakers.

The Indian Film Festival of Los Angeles (IFFLA) is a nonprofit organization devoted to promoting a greater appreciation of Indian cinema by showcasing films about India and the diverse perspectives of the Indian Diaspora.

The festival will run from April 22-27, 2008 at ArcLight Hollywood, a state-of-the-art facility located in the heart of Los Angeles. Jury and Audience Choice Prizes will be awarded for Best Feature, Documentary and Short film.