Winners: Bollywood Hungama Surfers Choice Music Awards 2008

Best Female Playback Singer Third in the category of music awards is ‘Best Female Playback Singer’. This one was a toughie as the contenders included newcomers like Shruti Pathak, Monali, Dominique Cerejo to veterans such as Alka Yagnik, Sunidhi Chauhan and Shreya Ghoshal. Finally, ladies and gentlemen, Read More">hold your breath as we spill the beansRead More

Best Female Playback Singer

Third in the category of music awards is 'Best Female Playback Singer'. This one was a toughie as the contenders included newcomers like Shruti Pathak, Monali, Dominique Cerejo to veterans such as Alka Yagnik, Sunidhi Chauhan and Shreya Ghoshal. Finally, ladies and gentlemen, hold your breath as we spill the beans by announcing the winner, who is none other than the lady whose 'sweeter-than-honey' voice and extremely 'down to earth' nature has not just got her immense work, but also made her an inseparable family name. Friends, please put your hands together for the young and supremely talented Shreya Ghoshal who bags the Numero Uno position in the 'Best Female Playback Singer' category for the smash hit track from Singh Is Kinng - 'Teri Ore'. If one has to listen to this song with their eyes closed, the magic of this crooner's voice transports you to a different magical world altogether!

Talking about the first runner up in this category, will be equivalent to holding a torch before the sun. We are indeed talking about Alka Yagnik, whose rendition of the soulful 'Tu Muskura' from Yuvvraaj, gave the listeners reasons to smile aplenty. As far as the second runner up is concerned, it is the very versatile Shruti Pathak, about whom, one can confidently say that, Fashion's music would have been incomplete without the resonating vocals of this talented singer! Way to go, Shruti!

Best Song They say ‘If Music be the food of life, then play on’. Well, it’s indeed ‘Play On’ time for the entire gang of Jaane TuYa Jaane Na, for the reason that it’s ‘Aditi time’ again at the winner’s desk and this time, it’s for the ‘Best Song’. Well, with names like Aamir Khan, Read More">Read More

Best Song

They say 'If Music be the food of life, then play on'. Well, it's indeed 'Play On' time for the entire gang of Jaane TuYa Jaane Na, for the reason that it's 'Aditi time' again at the winner's desk and this time, it's for the 'Best Song'. Well, with names like Aamir Khan, A. R. Rahman, Imran Khan, Genelia D'Souza and the icing on the cake being in the form of the sea-breezy cool vocals of the debutante Rashid Ali, can things evergo wrong !

While its 'Kabhi Kabhi Aditi' at the top, let us also put our hands together for the first runner up: the super melodious 'Haule Haule' from Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi, and also for second runner up position, that's gracefully held by the 'Love-meets-eternity' song of the decade 'Guzarish' from the super hit film Ghajini.

Best Music Video For the ‘Best Music Video’ category, Read More">there were some really wonderfully picturised songs. Be it the grand ‘Azeem O Shaan Shahenshah‘ from Jodhaa Akbar or the funky ‘Desi Girl‘ track from Dostana each one of these songs were vying for the Top Honors in this category. As for the winner… it wasRead More

Best Music Video

For the 'Best Music Video' category, there were some really wonderfully picturised songs. Be it the grand 'Azeem O Shaan Shahenshah' from Jodhaa Akbar or the funky 'Desi Girl' track from Dostana each one of these songs were vying for the Top Honors in this category.

As for the winner... it was indeed the brilliantly shot 'Azeem O Shaan Shahenshah' track from Jodhaa Akbar that came out triumphs in the end. The picturisation of this music video was so very impeccable that a mere look of the delicately crafted sets and the lavish locales, simply transported the cine goers to an era gone by. People, who found history as a boring subject, changed their opinion, especially after watching this Song Royale!

While 'Haule Haule' from Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi bagged the second place, 'Pappu Cant Dance Saala' from Jaane TuYa Jaane Naa, came third.

When Bollywood Hungama asked the ace director Abbas Tyrewala, as to how he felt about 'Pappu Cant Dance' being featured in the Top 3 in the Best Music Video category, he said, "Frankly speaking I don't know how I feel. I don't think I've shot 'Pappu Can't Dance' really well but I guess it's due to the popularity of the song that it featured in the Top 3 in the 'Best Music Video' category. Honestly, I am much happier about 'Kabhi Kabhi Aditi' bagging the Best Song award. That means a lot more to me."

Best Lyricist It’s that section of the awards, when one is simply forced to give the nominees a standing ovation, by merely hearing their names, for this is the award for the ‘Best Lyricist’. The contenders included the likes of Javed Akhtar, Prasoon Joshi, Abbas Tyrewala, Jaideep Sahni, Sayeed Quadri, Read More">Anvita Dutt and Munna DhimanRead More

Best Lyricist

It's that section of the awards, when one is simply forced to give the nominees a standing ovation, by merely hearing their names, for this is the award for the 'Best Lyricist'. The contenders included the likes of Javed Akhtar, Prasoon Joshi, Abbas Tyrewala, Jaideep Sahni, Sayeed Quadri, Anvita Dutt and Munna Dhiman to name a few.

Ultimately the winner was a name which is none other than the Master of Poetry himself, Javed Akhtar for the song 'Jashn-E-Bahaara' from Jodhaa Akbar. Speaking to Bollywood Hungama, Javed saab said, "I am so very happy to be getting this award. It really acts as a mirror to the work that all of us have put in."

Jaideep Sahni, who bagged the second spot for his 'Haule Haule' from Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi, told Bollywood Hungama, "I love writing songs as much as I love writing films, and have been fortunate to have my lyrics too appreciated by the audience. Regarding this compliment, films being a collaborative in nature, it really belongs to our entire 'Rab Ne' team, beginning of course with Salim-Sulaiman and Sukhi, and then Shah Rukh, Anushka, Vaibhavi, and of course, Adi, whose vision our work was a part of."

Prasoon Joshi, whose 'Guzarish' from Ghajini bagged the much coveted third spot, said, "I think that the 'Guzarish' track will go even higher on the popularity charts. According to me, it's on its way up. Still, whatever the people feel, I am happy with it. For me, being appreciated directly by the audiences is what makes every bit of effort worthwhile. I write for the audience and if the work connects with them and moves them, it is fulfilling. I hope to continue writing for them and that it makes a small difference in their lives. I thank each one of you for making this song so likeable. It's indeed a reflection of your sensitivity."

Best Male Playback Singer After having crowned the Best Soundtrack, its time for us to move onto the next category, which is the ‘Best Male Playback Singer’. While Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi missed the trophy in the earlier category, Read More">it has more than made up for it by winning the ‘Best Male Playback Singer’Read More

Best Male Playback Singer

After having crowned the Best Soundtrack, its time for us to move onto the next category, which is the 'Best Male Playback Singer'. While Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi missed the trophy in the earlier category, it has more than made up for it by winning the 'Best Male Playback Singer' award for the 'busier-than-ever' crooner Sukhwinder Singh for his breezy rendition of 'Haule Haule'. They say that you can take man out of India, but cannot take India out of a man. But with Sukhwinder, the case is totally different, as you simply can neither take this man out of music, neither the music out of this man. Needles to say that Salim Sulaiman have extracted one of the best tracks from Sukhwinder once again.

When Bollywood Hungama spoke to Salim (of the duo Salim-Sulaiman), he said, "'Haule Haule' was composed keeping the character of Surinder in mind. As always, we've tried to do our best while composing the Rab Ne... album, but it is the audiences who are responsible for the success of the music. Of course there's a team effort of everyone involved with the film. But it's only because of people understanding and appreciating the music that it has become a super-hit. We thank the audiences for this success."

While the first runner-up of this award happened to be Atif Aslam, whose 'mellow-dious' rendition of 'Pehli Nazar', till date, reignites the magic of first love, the second runner-up was the debutante Rashid Ali, whose rendition of 'Aditi' not just gave all the Aditis the world over a reason to smile about, but also the listeners a reason to feel proud about!