The year 2007 ended on a brilliant note with the release of "Taare Zameen Par". It started off with a highly successful film in the name of "Guru". We had the hutke movies like "Chak De India" rake in a lot of moolah as well. At the same time we had typical masala movies like "Om Shanthi Om" and the comedy flicks like "Welcome", "Heyy Baby", "Partner", "Bheja Fry" and dare I say "Cheeni Kum". We also had duds like "Nishabd" and "RGV ki Aag" from the usually reliable Ram Gopal Varma. Even Yash Raj films came up with a dud like "Jhoom barabar jhoom". There were the critically acclaimed commercial failures like "Ek chaalis ki last local", "Dharm" and "Manorama six feet down under". There were those that were neither critically acclaimed nor were they ever poised for commerical success "Eklavya" is one I can clearly remember.
Let us look at who takes away the honours for the 2007 Hindi film awards as decided by me!
Best art direction: Omung Kumar (Sawariya)
Best dialogue: Sanjeev Dutta (Life In A... Metro)
Best story: Sanjay. M. Khanduri (Ek chaalis ki last local)
Best editing: Aarti Bajaj Kashyap (Black Friday)
Best screenplay: Sanjay. M. Khanduri (Ek chaalis ki last local)
Best choreography: Farah Khan (title track of Om Shanti Om)
Best cinematography: Sudeep Chatterjee (Chak De India)
Best lyricist: Sayed Quadri (In dino from Life in a Metro)
Best music: Shankar - Ehsaan - Loy (Taare Zameen Par, TZP henceforth)
Best playback singer (male): Raman Mahadevan (kholo kholo from TZP)
Best playback singer (female): Shreya Ghosal (Barso re from Guru)
Best background music: Shankar - Ehsaan - Loy (TZP)
Best child artiste: Darsheel (TZP)
Best actor in a comic role: Vinay Pathak (Bheja Fry)
Best actor in a negative role: Pankaj Kapur (Blue Umbrella)
Best actor in a supporting role (male): Aamir Khan (TZP)
Best actor in a supporting role (female): Tisca Chopra (TZP)
Best actor (female): Tabu (Cheeni Kum)
Best actor (male): Abhishek Bachchan (Guru)
Best director: Aamir Khan (TZP)
Best film: TZP
1. The best story screenplay,deirection and music awrds are well deserved by taare zameen par that was an amazing film ever released in india...so it must be honoured.I am a greatest fan of srk even then i can say that the best actor award might have been given to darseel inspite of his age he did a marvellous job abhishek is not a bad choise.Chakde was a defeniotely a different film an awesome movie but when compared to tzp it will be a bit lower when story is considered...