Shah Rukh Wins V Shantaram Award

Come January and the season of Award functions start in Bollywood, for acknowledging all the work done in the calendar year gone by. However, there are some award functions which believe in being ‘the early bird’.

One such award function is the V Shantaram Awards, which was held over the weekend in Mumbai. All the films which were released from September 2006 to August 2007 were entitled for the nominations and needless to say, when it comes to Award Functions Shah Rukh Khan does hog the limelight, as was the case here also.

Shah Rukh bagged the award for Best Actor for his powerful portrayal of hockey coach, Kabir Khan, in Yash Raj Film’s Chak De India. The movie also bagged the awards for Best Film (Gold) and director Shimit Amin bagged two awards for Best Director (Silver) and Best Editing.

Some other prominent winners included Guru which bagged awards for Best Music, Best Cinematography and Best Director while last year’s blockbuster Lage Raho Munnabhai also fetched three awards for Best Supporting Actor, Best Story and Best Screenplay.

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Shah Rukh Khan had two releases this year, Chak De: India and Om Shanti Om and both rocked the box office. It is now time for him to start collecting the awards that must inevitably come his way.

He was conferred the V Shantaram Best Actor award for the film Chak De: India yesterday.

Instituted in the memory of eponymous filmmaker whose illustrious career spanned six decades the awards are unique because they span the entire spectrum of filmmaking in India, instead of being limited to Bollywood films.

Films released in the time period September 2006 to August 2007 were considered for the awards, which means Shah Rukh Khan could win a nomination next year too for the Om Shanti Om which was released November 9.

"Its great. The credit should go to Shimit, Jaideep and the lovely 16 girls," Shah Rukh told the media.

The film Chak De won two additional awards which went to Shimit Amin for Best Director Silver and editing and Yash Raj Films for the Best Film Gold.

Bollywood presence at the awards was restricted to Shah Rukh and Yash Chopra.

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