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1st Zee Cine Awards
1st Zee Cine Awards
Date	14 March 1998
Site	Mumbai
Hosted by	Kitu Gidwani ; Shekhar Suman ; Shahrukh Khan ; Aishwarya Rai ; Salman Khan ; Karisma Kapoor ; Mahima Chaudhry ; Sonali Bendre
Official website	www.zeecineawards.com
Highlights
Best Film	Dil To Pagal Hai
Best Director	J. P. Dutta; (Border)
Best Actor	Shah Rukh Khan; (Dil To Pagal Hai)
Best Actress	Madhuri Dixit; (Dil To Pagal Hai)
Most awards	Dil To Pagal Hai (10)
Most nominations	Dil To Pagal Hai (27)
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The 1st Zee Cine Awards ceremony honouring the winners and nominees of the best of Bollywood cinema films released in 1997. The ceremony was held on 14 March 1998 in Mumbai.^[1]

Dil To Pagal Hai led the ceremony with 27 nominations, followed by Border and Pardes with 19 nominations and Ishq with 10 nominations.

Dil To Pagal Hai won 10 awards, including Best Film, Best Actor (for Shah Rukh Khan), Best Actress (for Madhuri Dixit) and Best Supporting Actress (for Karisma Kapoor), thus becoming the most-awarded film at the ceremony.

Main Awards

The winners and nominees have been listed below:^[2]^[3]^[4]^[5]

J.P. Dutta — Best Director winner for *Border*

Best Film	Best Director
Dil To Pagal Hai Border Chachi 420 Ishq Pardes	J. P. Dutta – Border David Dhawan – Hero No. 1 Kamal Haasan – Chachi 420 Subhash Ghai – Pardes Yash Chopra – Dil To Pagal Hai
Best Actor	Best Actress
Shahrukh Khan – Dil To Pagal Hai Aamir Khan – Ishq Kamal Haasan – Chachi 420 Shahrukh Khan – Pardes Sunny Deol – Border	Madhuri Dixit – Dil To Pagal Hai Juhi Chawla – Ishq Kajol – Gupt Karisma Kapoor – Dil To Pagal Hai Karisma Kapoor – Hero No. 1
Best Supporting Actor	Best Supporting Actress
Akshaye Khanna – Border Ajay Devgan – Ishq Apurva Agnihotri – Pardes Kader Khan – Hero No. 1 Sunil Shetty – Border	Karisma Kapoor – Dil To Pagal Hai Farida Jalal – Dil To Pagal Hai Kajol – Ishq Pooja Batra – Virasat Urmila Matondkar – Judaai
Best Performance in a Villainous Role	Best Performance in a Comic Role
Kajol – Gupt Aditya Pancholi – Yes Boss Amrish Puri – Koyla Ashish Vidyarthi – Ziddi Sadashiv Amrapurkar – Ishq	Kamal Haasan – Chachi 420 Govinda – Deewana Mastana Johnny Lever – Deewana Mastana Johnny Lever – Ishq Kader Khan – Hero No. 1
Best Debut – Male	Best Debut – Female
Akshaye Khanna – Himalay Putra Apurva Agnihotri – Pardes Arbaaz Ali Khan – Mrityudaata Rajeev Goswami – Border Swapnil Joshi – Ghulam-E-Mustafa	Mahima Chaudhary – Pardes Aishwarya Rai – Aur Pyaar Ho Gaya Pooja Batra – Virasat Sapna Bedi – Border Sharbani Mukherjee – Border
Best Music Director	Best Lyrics
Uttam Singh – Dil To Pagal Hai Anu Malik – Border Anu Malik – Ishq Nadeem-Shravan – Pardes Viju Shah – Gupt	Javed Akhtar – "Sandese Aate Hai" – Border Anand Bakshi – "Bholi Si Surat" – Dil To Pagal Hai Anand Bakshi – "Dil To Pagal Hai" – Dil To Pagal Hai Anand Bakshi – "I Love My India" – Pardes Sameer – "Sona Kitna Sona Hai" – Hero No. 1
Best Male Playback Singer	Best Female Playback Singer
Sonu Nigam – "Sandese Aate Hai" – Border Kumar Sanu – "Do Dil Mil Rahe Hain" – Pardes Udit Narayan – "Are Re Are Ye Kya Hua" – Dil To Pagal Hai Udit Narayan – "Bholi Si Surat" – Dil To Pagal Hai Udit Narayan – "Dil To Pagal Hai" – Dil To Pagal Hai	Lata Mangeshkar – "Dil To Pagal Hai" – Dil To Pagal Hai Asha Bhosle – "Le Gayi" – Dil To Pagal Hai Kavita Krishnamurthy – "I Love My India" – Pardes Lata Mangeshkar – "Are Re Are Ye Kya Hua" – Dil To Pagal Hai Poornima – "Sona Kitna Sona Hai" – Hero No. 1
Best Story	Best Screenplay
J. P. Dutta – Border Kamal Haasan – Chachi 420 Pamela Chopra – Dil To Pagal Hai Subhash Ghai – Pardes Rajiv Rai – Gupt	Vinay Shukla – Virasat J. P. Dutta – Border Prakash Jha, Rajan Kothari, Anil Ajitabh – Mrityudand Rumi Jaffrey – Hero No. 1 Yash Chopra, Tanuja Chandra, Pamela Chopra – Dil To Pagal Hai
Best Dialogue	Best Cinematography
Prakash Jha – Mrityudand Aditya Chopra – Dil To Pagal Hai Gulzar – Chachi 420 O. P. Dutta – Border Shama Zaidi – Sardari Begum	Manmohan Singh – Dil To Pagal Hai Ishwar B. Bidri – Border Rajan Kothari – Mrityudand S. M. Kabirlal – Pardes Sanjay Dharankar – Sardari Begum
Best Choreography	Best Action
Shiamak Davar – Dil To Pagal Hai Farah Khan – Virasat Nimesh Bhatt – Hameshaa Rekha Prakash – Gupt Roshan Kumari – Sardari Begum	Tinu Verma – Ziddi Bhiku Verma – Koyla Kala Singh – Mohabbat Sham Kaushal – Yeshwant Veeru Devgan – Ishq
Best Editing	Best Art Direction
Deepak Wirkud, Vilas Ranade – Border Dilip Kotalji, Zafar Sultan – Hameshaa Renu Saluja – Pardes V. N. Mayekar – Bhai V. V. Karnik – Dil To Pagal Hai	Sharmishta Roy – Dil To Pagal Hai Bijon Dasgupta – Gupt Leeladhar S. Sawant – Ziddi Nitin Chandrakant Desai – Ishq Samir Chanda – Sardari Begum
Best Background Score	Best Sound Recording
Vanraj Bhatia – Pardes Aadesh Shrivastava – Border Amar P. Haldipur – Hero No. 1 Salim–Sulaiman – Hameshaa Uttam Singh – Dil To Pagal Hai	Rakesh Ranjan – Pardes Navin Zaveri – Koyla Anuj Mathur – Dil To Pagal Hai Jitendra Chaudhary – Hameshaa V. M. Gandhi – Lahu Ke Do Rang
Best Make Up Artist	Best Re-Recording
Pradeep Premgirikar – Prithvi Kiran R. Naik – Pardes Mustaq Mansur – Deewana Mastana Sadanand Shedge – Tamanna Subodh H. Shelke – Border	B.K. Chaturvedi – Mrityudand Anand Recording – Gudgudee Anup Dev – Pardes Hitendra Ghosh – Sardari Begum
Best Costume Design	Best Song Recording
Pia Benegal – Sardari Begum Kashmera Shah– Gudgudee Manish Malhotra – Dil To Pagal Hai	Satish Gupta – Border Hassan Sheikh – Pardes
Best Special Effects (Visual)
Sai Prasad – Dil To Pagal Hai Ramesh Meer – Pardes

Special Awards

Lifetime Achievement Award Dilip Kumar	Lux Face of the Year Mahima Chaudhry

Superlatives

Multiple nominations
Nominations	Film
27	Dil To Pagal Hai
19	Border
19	Pardes
10	Ishq
8	Hero No. 1
6	Chachi 420
	Gupt
	Sardari Begum
4	Hameshaa
	Mrityudand
	Virasat
3	Deewana Mastana
	Koyla
	Ziddi
2	Gudgudee

Multiple wins
Awards	Film
10	Dil To Pagal Hai
7	Border
3	Pardes
2	Mrityudand

Presenters

Name	Role
Sarika Nirupa Roy	Presenters of the award for Best Story
Shabana Azmi Jagjit Singh	Presenters of the award for Best Female Playback Singer Yash Chopra accepted it on behalf of Lata Mangeshkar
Indra Kumar Sadhana Sargam	Presenters of the award for Best Male Playback Singer Anu Malik accepted it on behalf of Sonu Nigam
Shahrukh Khan Aishwarya Rai	Presenters of the award for Best Lyrics
Reena Roy	Presenter of the award for Best Supporting Actress Yash Chopra accepted it on behalf of Karisma Kapoor, although she collected her award after her part of hosting the show with Salman Khan
Asha Parekh	Presenter of the award for Best Supporting Actor Akshay Sethi accepted it on behalf of Akshaye Khanna
Karisma Kapoor Salman Khan	Presenters of the award for Best Performance in a Villainous Role
Bindu Shashikala	Presenters of the award for Best Performance in a Comic Role
Sunil Dutt	Presenter of the award for Best Film
Zeenat Aman	Presenter of the award for Lux Face of the Year
Javed Akhtar	Presenter of the award for Lifetime Achievement Award
Mohammed Zahur Khayyam Sajjad Gul	Presenters of the award for Best Music Director
Jackie Shroff	Presenter of the award for Best Debut - Female
Juhi Chawla Raveena Tandon	Presenters of the award for Best Debut - Male Akshay Sethi accepted it on behalf of Akshaye Khanna
Shatrughan Sinha Sultan Ahmed	Presenters of the award for Best Director
Hema Malini Smita Thackeray	Presenters of the award for Best Actress Yash Chopra accepted it on behalf of Madhuri Dixit
Kajol Govindan Advani	Presenters of the award for Best Actor Shahrukh Khan resigned his award and gave it to Salman Khan, although it wasn’t because Salman Khan because of him being nominated for this award but because of the entertainment Salman Khan gave on stage which turned out to be the best highlight.