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Jawani Phir Nahi Ani is the biggest winner at AFA 2016

Jawani Phir Nahi Ani is the biggest winner at AFA 2016

One of ARY's own productions bagged the most gold at its film awards in Dubai
18 Apr, 2016

The ARY Film Awards celebrated a few of the best films to come out of Pakistani cinema in 2015 — and in style. Held at the Madinat Jumeirah in Dubai, the award ceremony flew out the stars, who glittered in their best on the night.

Jawani Phir Nahi Aani was the night's big winner, with its cast and crew sweeping up a majority of the awards. Moor stood out in the technical awards category, and standout performances from films like Karachi Se Lahore, Jalaibee and Wrong No were also rewarded.

Here's a list of the night's winners:

The Best Actor awards went to JPNA's Humayun Saeed and Sohai Ali Abro. Aisha Khan and Hamza Ali Abbasi also picked up the Best Supporting Actor accolades for their performance in the film.

Best Supporting Actors Aisha Khan and Hamza Ali Abbasi
Best Supporting Actors Aisha Khan and Hamza Ali Abbasi

The audience also did not forget one Ahmed Ali Butt, who was awarded Best Actor in a Comic Role for his JPNA performance, and also entertained the attendees with his Taher Shah mimicry at the ceremony.

Other actors awarded in the ceremony include Moor's Ayaz Samoo, who won Best Actor in a Negative Role, Ayesha Omar from Karachi Se Lahore who won for Best Star Debut Female and Danish Taimoor who won Best Star Debut Male for his role in Wrong No.

Ayesha Omar gets stage time
Ayesha Omar gets stage time

Manto's lead cast Sarmad Khoosat and Sania Saeed picked up for the Jury Choice Award for Best Actor and Actress.

Sarmad Khoosat accepts the Jury's Choice Award for Best Actor
Sarmad Khoosat accepts the Jury's Choice Award for Best Actor

The Strings won a well-deserved Best Background Score award for Moor, while Rahat Fateh Ali Khan won Best Singer Male for Halla Gulla and Sara Raza won Best Singer Female for Wrong No. Best Music went to Shani Arshad for their soundtrack of JPNA, while Sheema Khan won for Best Choreography of the same film.

Moor's DoP Farhan Hafeez and special effects team was awarded Best Cinematography and Best Special Effects, while JPNA picked up Best Editing and Best Action.

Vasay Chaudhry became the proudest writer in the room as he picked up Best Story, Best Screenplay and Best Dialogue for JPNA.

Nabila won Best Makeup and Best Costume Design for JPNA. She shared the latter award with Jahanzeb Qamar.

JPNA picked up both Best Film and Best Director in both audience and jury's choice categories.

Nadeem Baig must have been a proud man at the AFAs
Nadeem Baig must have been a proud man at the AFAs

What's an award ceremony without a stage appearance by Mahira and Fawad Khan? Mahira picked up the Radio Spice Entertainer of the Year award, while Fawad Khan received an International Film Icon accolade.

A Lifetime Achievement Award was posthumously awarded to Waheed Murad, while Javaid Sheikh received the Tribute to Legend award.

Comments

Faisa Apr 18, 2016 01:27pm
So nothing for critically acclaimed manto ?
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Faisa Apr 18, 2016 01:27pm
Nothing for manto?
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Madhusudan Apr 18, 2016 04:25pm
Pakistan is shining now with such awards. They should put more efforts in their film industry and devlope the nation.
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Ali Apr 18, 2016 04:56pm
Ofcourse ARY was going to reward its own productions generously :D
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Abbasi Apr 18, 2016 07:02pm
So ARY Film Awards gives awards to ARY Films (that distributed the film 'JPNA').
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Rahi milla Apr 19, 2016 11:24am
@Faisa Ssrmad Khoosat did get an award for Manyo. It is in the article. Please read the whole article. Thanks
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Zeeshan Arshad Apr 19, 2016 05:44pm
I was not very pleased with the awards. Apart from Manto that should have received the best actor rather than just best actor jury every other award seemed destined to be heading to JPNA. Moor also deserved much more. I don't see why Hamza got an award or Humayun , as there were many deserving contenders. Even Mahira didn't have an award when she went to stage and she was confused herself . To top it all the radio station never conducted a poll so it was but bogus. Vinny had to present an award and sana introduced her, but suddenly Mahira was asked by fahad to come up.The event started very late and the song show would commence after a very long break to an extent that many people made the rush to go to the after awards party or leave early . Lux style awards and HUM tv were better organized here. Hopefully this should change in the times to come.
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