There were 2 categories of winners. In first, 3 people fought for the 1st three positions while in the second category 6 people fought for the last two positions. Ironically, the people in the 2nd category fared better than those in the 1st category.

Going by the tie-breaker results, the winner amongst the first category is Fenil (6/10) which makes him the Winner of The Moviemaniax Contest.

Mystiquedew (4/10) is the first-runner up and Rakesh (3/10) is the second-runner up.

Out of the 6 people competing in the second category, two of them (Vikas and AlphabetWorld) surrendered. Amit did not participate.

From the rest, Bhargav got the maximum correct (9/10) (and that’s the highest amongst all in this tie-breaker). It’s unfortunate that in initial contest of guessing the winner, he fell short (else he would have been the clear winner). Perx with his 7/10 is the 5th winner. Overall, he stands at the 2nd position, lest he had guessed highly at the initial guessing contest.

Bhargav and Perx, guys comepeting for fourth and fifth positions did well better in this tie-breaker than the people fighting for first three positions.

Now coming to the prizes:

Fenil (1st) will receive a DVD of an English Classic.

Mystiquedew (2nd) will get a DVD of a Hindi Classic.

Rakesh (3rd) will get the signed copy of “Happionaire’s Cash The Crash” by Yogesh Chabria.

Bhargav (4th) and Perx(5th) will receive “Invest The Happionaire Way” by Yogesh Chabria. Adding to it, Bhargav will receive a special prize from me for cracking 9 out of 10 questions. He deserves it.

A special mention to Sahaja for attempting it first and scoring 5/10, hard luck she fell in the 2nd category. Technically, Sahaja and Perx fared well so they too will receive a prize.

Congratulations to all winners.

P.S. There is no one right answer for the 6th question. There is more than one. For 1st, Shankar Mahadevan got claim to fame with his song ‘Suno Gaur Se Duniya Waalon’ for the Original Dus, which was shelved. And as we are conducting Hindi Films awards, it is less said that we are looking for Hindi songs of his which gave him the fame. Breathless came much later.

Please email me your snail-mail address to vbharti [at] gmail [dot] com so that I can ship your prizes to you.

It was a pleasure conducting The MovieManiax Awards. See you all next year! Adios!

The idea is to find the top five amongst the winners (3) and runner-ups (6) of the Guessing Contest.

Fenil, Rakesh & Mystiquedew will compete for the top three positions.

Sahaja, AlphabetWorld, Bhargav, Vikas, Perx & Amit will fight for the last two slots.

Anyone can participate in the contest but the Prizes winners of  DVDs and Books will be decided amongst above NINE only.

Here are the questions!

1) What was Shankar Mahadevan’s first claim to fame?

2) Other than Priyanka Chopra, which Miss India-World walked the ramp in Madhur’s Fashion?

3) Name the husband-wife director duo that chose Anu Malik as Music Composer in their respective debuts. Name their debut movies too.

4) ‘By God, Mai Touch Ho Gayee’. Who says this to whom in which film?

5) Which Indian actor played a role in Richard Attenborough’s Gandhi who also dubbed for Gandhi’s voice in its Hindi version. Also name the character he plays.

6) U, Me aur Hum had husband directing wife (Ajay directing Kajol). Name another such case.

7) Black won Filmfare award for both Best Film in Popular category and Best Film in Critics Choice Category. Name another such movie.

8 ) Aamir Khan has acted in a movie based on Godfather. What is the name of the movie?

9) Name Sanjay Dutt’s first movie where he played Munnabhai.

10) Connect Paresh Rawal to Bhakti Barve (apart from both being associated with INT – Indian National Theater).

All the Best Guys!

P.S. PLEASE PUT YOUR ANSWERS IN THE COMMENT SECTION.

Winner

1) Best Film:

• A Wednesday

2) Best Director:

• Neeraj Pandey (A Wednesday)

3) Best Actor (Male):

• Naseeruddin Shah (A Wednesday)

4) Best Actor (Female):

• Priyanka Chopra (Fashion)

5) Best Actor in a Supporting Role (Male):

• Paresh Rawal (Mumbai Meri Jaan)

6) Best Actor in a Supporting Role (Female):

• Kangana Ranaut( Fashion)

7) Best Actor in a Negative Role:

• Ila Arun (Jodhaa Akbar)

8 ) Best Actor in a Comic Role:

• Abhishek Bachchan (Dostana)

9) Best Playback Singer (Male):

• Javed Ali for Jashn-e-Bahaara (Jodhaa Akbar)

10) Best Playback Singer (Female):

• Dominique Cerejo for Ye Tumhari Meri Baatein (Rock On!!!)

11) Best Music:

• Shankar-Ehsaan-Loy (Rock On!!!)

12) Best Lyrics:

• Javed Akhtar for Jashn-e-Bahara (Jodhaa Akbar)

13) Best Dialogues:

• Oye Lucky! Lucky Oye

14) Best Story:

• A Wednesday

15) Best Debut (Male):

• Rajeev Khandelwal (Aamir)

16) Best Debut (Female):

• Mugdha Godse (Fashion)

17) Best Child Artiste:

• Manjot Singh (Oye Lucky! Lucky Oye)

18) Song of the Year:

• Desi Girl (Dostana)

19) Favorite Jodi of the Year:

• Hrithik Roshan – Aishwarya Rai Bachchan (Jodhaa Akbar)

20) Most Talked About thing of the Year (There is a tie)

• Aamir Khan’s promotional extravaganza for Ghajini
• UTV Motion Pictures’ path breaking films

Thank you, everyone, for your response and support! Jai Ho!

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To give you back for your support, the MM team has come up with a CONTEST that has prizes.

Read here about the contest and win the goodies!!

Results will be announced on 9th April and not 7th April to give you an opportunity to win these prizes.

The voting will be open till 5th April’09 00:00 IST and the winners will be announced on 7th April’09.

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We were as fair as we could be in deciding the nominees. We have not compromised and we expect the same from the voters. Do vote for the best. So Long.

We have made a slight change in the nominees before the polls go live tonight. There has been no deletion of any nominee, however we have added an extra option ‘Other’ wherein you can select that option and enter your choice in the box provided if you do not agree to the 5 nominees already listed. This option was brought in after a lot of debate (and examining the pros and cons of doing so) which ensued upon the release of our Nominees. Please note that this would not be applicable to all categories, but only the popular 6 will come with ‘Other’ option.

The wait for the nominations ends now. After 2 weeks of rigorous discussions and arguments, eagerly awaited list of nominees is finally ready.

There are 20 categories in all. Each category has 5 nominees. However, We at MM Awards feel that getting nominated matters as much as winning. Therefore, categories where a 5^th deserving nominee was not found, we have only 4 nominations.

Movies appear in the chronological order of their release date (January – December’08).

1) Best Film:

• Aamir
• Mithya
• Rock On!!!
• A Wednesday
• Oye Lucky! Lucky Oye

2) Best Director:

• Raj Kumar Gupta (Aamir)
• Rajat Kapoor (Mithya)
• Abhishek Kapoor (Rock On!!!)
• Neeraj Pandey (A Wednesday)
• Dibakar Banerjee (Oye Lucky! Lucky Oye)

3) Best Actor (Male):

• Rajeev Khandelwal (Aamir)
• Ranvir Shorey (Mithya)
• Naseeruddin Shah (A Wednesday)
• Abhay Deol (Oye Lucky! Lucky Oye)
• Vinay Pathak (Dasvidaniya)

4) Best Actor (Female):

• Neha Dhupiya (Mithya)
• Genelia D’Souza (Jaane Tu Ya Jaane Na)
• Preity Zinta (The Last Lear)
• Amrita Rao (Welcome to Sajjanpur)
• Priyanka Chopra (Fashion)

5) Best Actor in a Supporting Role (Male):

• Ravi Jhankal (Welcome to Sajjanpur)
• Paresh Rawal (Mumbai Meri Jaan)
• Anupam Kher (A Wednesday)
• Jimmy Shergill (A Wednesday)
• Manu Rishi (Oye Lucky! Lucky Oye)

6) Best Actor in a Supporting Role (Female):

• Ratna Pathak Shah (Jaane Tu Ya Jaane Na)
• Ila Arun (Welcome to Sajjanpur)
• Sahana Goswami (Rock On!!!)
• Kangana Ranaut( Fashion)
• Richa Chadda (Oye Lucky! Lucky Oye)

7) Best Actor in a Negative Role:

• Ila Arun (Jodhaa Akbar)
• Akshaye Khanna (Race)
• Kay Kay Menon (Shaurya)
• Pradeep Rawat (Ghajini)

8 ) Best Actor in a Comic Role:

• Arshad Warsi (Sunday)
• Akshay Kumar (Tashan)
• Abhishek Bachchan (Dostana)
• Paresh Rawal (Oye Lucky! Lucky Oye)
• Irrfan Khan (Dil Kabaddi)

9) Best Playback Singer (Male):

• Javed Ali for Jashn-e-Bahaara (Jodhaa Akbar)
• Rashid Ali for Kahin Toh Hogi Woh (Jaane Tu Ya Jaane Na)
• KK for Khudaa Jaane (Bachna Ae Haseeno)
• Mohit Chauhan for Kuchh Khaas Hai (Fashion)
• Sukhwinder Singh for Haule Haule (Rab Ne Bana De Jodi)

10) Best Playback Singer (Female):

• Shilpa Rao for Ek Lau (Aamir)
• Richa Sharma for Lambi Judaai (Jannat)
• Dominique Cerejo for Ye Tumhari Meri Baatein (Rock On!!!)
• Shruti Pathak for Mar Jawaan (Fashion)
• Alka Yagnik for Tu Muskura (Yuvvraaj)

11) Best Music:

• A. R. Rehman (Jodhaa Akbar)
• Amit Trivedi (Aamir)
• A. R. Rehman (Jaane Tu Ya Jaane Na)
• Shankar-Ehsaan-Loy (Rock On!!!)
• Vishal Shekhar (Dostana)

12) Best Lyrics:

• Javed Akhtar for Jashn-e-Bahara (Jodhaa Akbar)
• Amitabh for Ha Raham (Aamir)
• Abbas Tyrewala for Kahin To Hogi Wo (Jaane Tu Ya Jaane Na)
• Javed Akhtar for Sindbad The Sailor (Rock On!!!)
• Sandeep Nath-Irfan Siddique for Mar Jawaan (Fashion)

13) Best Dialogues:

• Rock On!!!
• A Wednesday
• Oye Lucky! Lucky Oye
• Dil Kabaddi

14) Best Story:

• Aamir
• A Wednesday
• Welcome to Sajjanpur
• Oye Lucky! Lucky Oye

15) Best Debut (Male):

• Anurag Sinha (Black & White)
• Rajeev Khandelwal (Aamir)
• Imran Khan (Jaane Tu Ya Jaane Na)
• Adhvik Mahajan (Contract)
• Farhan Akhtar (Rock On!!!)

16) Best Debut (Female):

• Prachi Desai (Rock On)
• Adah Sharma (1920)
• Mugdha Godse (Fashion)
• Richa Chadda (Oye Lucky! Lucky Oye)
• Asin (Ghajini)

17) Best Child Artiste:

• Aman Siddiqui (Bhootnath)
• Purav Bhandare (Tahaan)
• Dwij Yadav (Heroes)
• Manjot Singh (Oye Lucky! Lucky Oye)

18) Song of the Year:

• Pehli Nazar Me (Race)
• Pappu Can’t Dance Saala (Jaane Tu Ya Jaane Na)
• Kabhi Kabhi Aditi (Jaane Tu Ya Jaane Na)
• Aae Paapi, Aae Paapi (Kismat Konnection)
• Desi Girl (Dostana)

19) Favorite Jodi of the Year:

• Hrithik Roshan – Aishwarya Rai Bachchan (Jodhaa Akbar)
• Imran Khan – Genelia D’Souza (Jaane Tu Ya Jaane Na)
• Abhishek Bachchan – John Abraham (Dostana)
• Shabana Azmi – Boman Irani (Sorry Bhai)
• Shah Rukh Khan – Anushka Sharma (Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi)

Now, we have something for the readers:  The 20^th category is called Most Talked About thing of the Year’08.

Please suggest your nominees for this category. We will pick your 5 best suggestions as nomination. For eg: Aamir Khan’s promotional extravaganza for Ghajini or UTV Motion Pictures’ path breaking films, Farhan’s debut et al. So, do come up with your suggestion for the same.

The voting will go live next week.

Perx got all right except No. 19. Congratulations! Go ahead and flaunt the poster on your page.

Others who came close are: Chittaranjan (16 correct), ~uh~™ (15 correct) and Fenil (13 correct). Rakesh (7 correct) was the next best. Ish (6 correct) did well too.

Here goes the answers for the less-filmy souls:

1. What was the color of Rajeev Khandelwal’s briefcase in  ‘Aamir’? RED
2. What object from Imran’s room was visible in the dream sequence in the movie ‘Jaane Tu Ya Jaane Na’? His desk; Computer, telephone on that visible (Only telephone or computer is also acceptable answer.)
3. In ‘Tashan’, before becoming Don, which vehicle Anil Kapoor had? Rickshaw
4. In ‘Tahaan’, who was Birbal? Donkey
5. ‘Shaurya’ was inspired by which famous hollywood movie? A Few Good Men
6. Tum apne aap ko samjhate kya ho, Neetu Chandra asks Abhay Deol in ‘Oye Lucky! Lucky Oye’. What did he reply? Vinod Khanna
7. What is the name of ‘Bhoothnath’s’ old home? Nath Villa
8. Who calls Emran Hashmi to South Africa in the movie ‘Jannat’? Javed Sheikh (or Abu)
9. Which was the movie that got banned in Maharashtra for portraying something against MNS in it? Deshdrohi
10. What was written on the bag that Naseeruddin Shah carried to the police station in ‘A Wednesday’? J&K
11. What exactly Abhay Deol suggests to the policeman to allure the dog in the beginning of ‘Oye Lucky! Lucky Oye’? “Pyaar se bulao sirji, aa jayega; Pyaar se”
12. By what ‘nickname’ Abhishek Bachchan refers his ‘Dostana’ partner John Abraham in the movie? Jigni Poo or was it Jigly Poo. Both acceptable.
13. Loosely on which foreign movie the basic premise of ‘Heroes’ is based? Motorcycle Diaries
14. Who plays Amrita Rao’s husband in ‘Welcome to Sajjanpur’ and the same actor plays the role of a husband in another movie? Name the actor, the another movie and whose husband he played. Kunal Kapoor, Bachna Aae Haseeno and Minisha Lamba
15. Who stops Preity Zinta from entering Amitabh Bachchan’s room in ‘The Last Lear’? Shefali Shah
16. For which government organization Shah Ruk Khan works in ‘Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi’? Punjab Power
17. In the movie ‘Maharathi’ who was the caretaker? Paresh Rawal or Tara Sharma (both acceptable)
18. What does the girl order for lunch when young Lucky takes her out for lunch in ‘Oye Lucky! Lucky Oye’? Butter Chicken
19. Who sets a meeting between Mallika Sherawat and Ranvir Sheorey in ‘Ugly aur Pagli’? The real name please. Zeenat Aman
20. An actress who immediately shot to fame with a movie titled on her screen name gets the same name in one of the biggest box office of 2008. Name the actress, her screen name and the movie name. Neha Dhupia, Julie and Singh is King

Update about MovieManiax Awards: The nominees will be announced today in a short while.

Does this make you believe Abhay Deol is nominated? Well, to start with it yes, he is and so is Oye Lucky! Lucky Oye in 9 other categories in total of 20. No, no we are not trying to influence you here. This is just a teaser to something big, real and rational happening.

For every Shaurya there is a Sarkar Raj. On every Sunday, a Dostana happens. A Tashan complements A Wednesday and Oye Lucky! Lucky Oye gives frozen fight to Rock On!!!

Box Office status is not considered. Nominations under few categories end at 3 or 4 if no deserving one pops up. Filmfare might have scrapped negative role but we do not overlook things. As we are the ones who make or break a film, the onus is on us to choose the best of the best.

Now, participate in Quiz below to test out how much you know your films?

Do you think you are a big movie fan? Do you think you know your movies well? Take the Movie Quiz 2008 and find out!

The team of MovieManiax Awards wants to keep its visitors and readers entertained. Till the polls become live, you can participate in this movie quiz. Write the answers in the comments section. Comments will be held in moderation till the next post where we will declare the results.

1. What was the color of Rajeev Khandelwal’s briefcase in  ‘Aamir’?
2. What object from Imran’s room was visible in the dream sequence in the movie ‘Jaane Tu Ya Jaane Na’?
3. In ‘Tashan’, before becoming Don, which vehicle Anil Kapoor had?
4. In ‘Tahaan’, who was Birbal?
5. ‘Shaurya’ was inspired by which famous hollywood movie?
6. Tum apne aap ko samjhate kya ho, Neetu Chandra asks Abhay Deol in ‘Oye Lucky! Lucky Oye’. What did he reply?
7. What is the name of ‘Bhoothnath’s’ old home?
8. Who calls Emran Hashmi to South Africa in the movie ‘Jannat’?
9. Which was the movie that got banned in Maharashtra for portraying something against MNS in it?
10. What was written on the bag that Naseeruddin Shah carried to the police station in ‘A Wednesday’?
11. What exactly Abhay Deol suggests to the policeman to allure the dog in the beginning of ‘Oye Lucky! Lucky Oye’?
12. By what ‘nickname’ Abhishek Bachchan refers his ‘Dostana’ partner John Abraham in the movie?
13. Loosely on which foreign movie the basic premise of ‘Heroes’ is based?
14. Who plays Amrita Rao’s husband in ‘Welcome to Sajjanpur’ and the same actor plays the role of a husband in another movie? Name the actor, the another movie and whose husband he played.
15. Who stops Preity Zinta from entering Amitabh Bachchan’s room in ‘The Last Lear’?
16. For which government organization Shah Ruk Khan works in ‘Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi’?
17. In the movie ‘Maharathi’ who was the caretaker?
18. What does the girl order for lunch when young Lucky takes her out for lunch in ‘Oye Lucky! Lucky Oye’?
19. Who sets a meeting between Mallika Sherawat and Ranvir Sheorey in ‘Ugly aur Pagli’? The real name please.
20. An actress who immediately shot to fame with a movie titled on her screen name gets the same name in one of the biggest box office of 2008. Name the actress, her screen name and the movie name.

Enter your answers in comment section. As mentioned above, Comments will be held in moderation till the next post where we will declare the results.

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