3rd Galaxy Lollywood Awards 2017 (Nominations)

Galaxy Lollywood Awards are back for the third edition!

Comedy, romance, drama and animation, the year 2016 added so much more to the budding film industry of the country.

Time to recognize that contribution, time to honor the ones who dared, and time for a little token of appreciation for the films that braved you, the audience, at the box office and became hits. Not to forget the ones who weren’t as fortunate at the box office as others, but still managed to impress you one way or the other.

With twenty categories in this edition of Galaxy Lollywood Awards (GALA); and tons of exciting nominations, you would be selecting your opinion-best option (one in each category), and letting us know of which film you think stood out in the respective heads, and finally, the best film in your opinion to have come out of the film year 2016.

So get your judging hats on and vote away, making sure you have contributed your opinion in this edition of Pakistan’s biggest online ‘People’s Choice Awards’

Update: The voting has been closed and the winners will be announced on Sunday, March 5th, 2017 on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter.

Here are the nominations for 3rd Galaxy Lollywood Awards 2017.

Best Film

• Actor in Law – Fizza Ali Meerza
• Bachaana – Rizwan Saeed
• Dobara Phir Se – Salman Iqbal, Mohammad Jerjees Seja and  Mehreen Jabbar
• Ho Mann Jahaan – Sheheryar Munawar and Asim Raza
• Janaan – Hareem Farooq ,Reham Khan, Munir Hussain and  Imran Raza Kazmi
• Lahore se Aagey – Wajahat Rauf and Salman Iqbal

Best Actor in a Leading Role Male

• Adeel Hussain – Dobara Phir Se
• Fahad Mustafa – Actor in Law
• Feroze Khan – Zindagi Kitni Haseen Hay
• Hameed Sheikh – Abdullah
• Mohib Mirza – Bachaana
• Yasir Hussain – Lahore Se Aagey

Best Actor in a Leading Role Female

• Hareem Farooq – Dobara Phir Se
• Mahira Khan – Ho Mann Jahaan
• Mehwish Hayat – Actor in Law
• Noor Bukhari – Ishq Positive
• Saba Qamar – Lahore Se Aagey
• Sajal Ali – Zindagi Kitni Haseen Hay

Best Director

• Anjum Shehzad – Mah e Mir
• Azfar Jaffri – Janaan
• Mehreen Jabbar – Dobara Phir Se
• Nabeel Qureshi – Actor in Law
• Nasir Khan – Bachaana
• Wajahat Rauf – Lahore Se Aagey

Best Story

• Ashir Azeem – Maalik
• Bilal Sami & Mehreen Jabbar – Dobara Phir Se
• Fizza Ali Meerza & Nabeel Qureshi – Actor in Law
• Kamran Khan – 3 Bahadur: The Revenge of Baba Balaam
• Sarmad Sehbai – Mah e Mir
• Shahzad Rafique – Salute

Best Actor in a Supporting Role Male

• Ali Rehman – Janaan
• Aly Khan – Zindagi Kitni Haseen Hay
• Ajab Gul – Janaan
• Om Puri (late) – Actor in Law
• Shamoon Abbasi – Sawal 700 Crore Dollar Ka
• Sheheryar Munawar – Ho Mann Jahaan

Best Actor in a Supporting Role Female

• Hania Aamir – Janaan
• Maira Khan – Revenge of The Worthless
• Samiya Mumtaz – Jeewan Hathi
• Sanam Saeed – Dobara Phir Se
• Sonya Jehan – Ho Mann Jahaan
• Tooba Siddiqui – Dobara Phir Se

Best Performance in a Comic Role

• Abdullah Farhatullah – Lahore Se Aagey
• Ali Rehman – Janaan
• Hina Dilpazeer – Jeewan Hathi
• Hina Rizvi – Ishq Positive
• Mishi Khan – Janaan
• Mohsin Abbas Haider – Teri Meri Love Story

Best Performance in a Negative Role

• Aamir Qureshi – Blind Love
• Jia Ali – Saya e Khuda e Zuljalal
• Hassan Niazi – Maalik
• Nayyar Ejaz – Salute
• Sanam Saeed – Mah e Mir
• Shaz Khan – Dobara Phir Se

Best Male Debut

• Adeel Hussain – Ho Mann Jahaan
• Ali Mohiuddin – Sawal 700 Crore Dollar Ka
• Ali Rehman – Janaan
• Feroze Khan –  Zindagi Kitni Haseen Hay
• Sheheryar  Munawar – Ho Mann Jahaan
• Wali Hamid Khan – Ishq Positive

Best Female Debut

• Hania Aamir – Janaan
• Nimra Khan – Blind Love
• Qurat ul Ain – Sawal 700 Crore Dollar Ka 700
• Sajal Aly – Zindagi Kitni Haseen Hay
• Sanam Saeed – Bachaana
• Ushna Shah – Teri Meri Love Story

Best Playback Singer Male

• Asrar – “Shakar Wandan Re” (Ho Mann Jahaan)
• Hamid Ali Khan – “Tujh Bin Mora” (Ishq Positive)
• Jimmy Khan – “Barish” (Ho Mann Jahaan)
• Rahat Fateh Ali Khan – “Khudaya” (Actor in Law)
• Shafqat Amanat Ali – “Yaari” (Bachaana)
• Sukhwinder Singh – “Kitni Baar” (Zindagi Kitni Haseen Hay)

Best Playback Singer Female

• Aima Baig – “Kalabaz Dil” (Lahore Se Aagey)
• Akriti Kakar – “Rab Diyan Rab” (Ishq Positive)
• Damiya Farooq – “Janiya” (Blind Love)
• Elizabeth Raj – “Qatra Qatra” (Teri Meri Love Story)
• Haniya Aslam – “Dobara Phir Se” (Dobara Phir Se)
• Zebunnisa Bangash – “Mann Ke Jahan” (Ho Mann Jahaan)

Best Music

• Dobara Phir Se – Haniya Aslam & Justin Gray
• Actor in Law – Shani Arshad
• Lahore Se Aagey – Shiraz Uppal
• Zindagi Kitni Haseen Hay – Soch Sohail Haider & Farhan Shah
• Ishq Positive – Wali Hamid Ali Khan, Kamran Akhtar & Saji Ali
• Ho Mann Jahaan – Zebunissa Bangash, Atif Aslam & Faakhir Mehmood

Song of the Year

• “Actor in Law” – Actor in Law
• “Kalabaz Dil” – Lahore Se Aagey
• “Kitni Baar” – Zindagi Kitni Haseen Hay
• “Largaiyan” – Dobara Phir Se
• “Rab Diyan Rab Jaane” – Ishq Positive
• “Shakar Wandan” – Ho Mann Jahaan

Best Choreography

• Hassan Rizvi – “Challi Re Challi” (Hijrat)
• Medeleinne Hanna, Abdul Ghani & Shezi Khan – Dance Kahani
• Nigah Hussain – “Actor in Law” (Actor In Law)
• Nigah Hussain – “Shakar Wandan” (Ho Mann Jahaan)
• Papu Samrat – “Uska Kharam” (Mah-e-Mir)
• Wahab Shah – “Kalabaz Dil” (Lahore Se Aagey)

Best Dance Performance

• Adeel Hussain, Mahira Khan & Sheheryar Munawar – “Shakar Wandan” (Ho Mann Jahaan)
• Fahad Mustafa – “Actor in Law” (Actor in Law)
• Feroze Khan & Sajal Aly – “Chulbul” (Zindagi Kitni Haseen Hay)
• Mohib Mirza, Mohsin Abbas Haider, Omar Shahzad, Salman Shahid, Ushna Shah, Uzma Khan – “Teri Meri Love Story” (Teri Meri Love Story)
• Saba Qamar & Yasir Hussain – “Kalabaaz Dil” (Lahore Se Aagey)
• Sana Nawaz – “Chali Re Chali” (Hijrat)

Best Special Appearance/Cameo

• Ali Azfar, Imran Raza Kazmi & Osman Khalid Butt – Janaan
• Ali Zafar – Lahore Se Aagey
• Fawad Khan – Ho Mann Jahaan
• Humayun Saeed – Actor in Law
• Meera – Salute
• Sonu Sood – Ishq Positive

Best On Screen Couple

• Bilal Ashraf & Armeena Khan – Janaan
• Fahad Musatafa & Iman Ali – Mah e Mir
• Feroze Khan & Sajal Aly – Zindagi Kitni Haseen Hay
• Mohib Mirza & Sanam Saeed – Bachaana
• Wali Hamid Khan & Noor Bukhari – Ishq Positive
• Yasir Hussain & Saba Qamar – Lahore Se Aagey

Cinematic Moment of the Year

• Aksbanh final scene – Aksband
• Bomb scene – Salute
• Dance Off in Jungle – Lahore Se Aagey
• “Larki Larki Hoti Hay” – Bachana
• Mahira Khan and gang singing at Coke Studio with Zohaib Hassan – Ho Mann Jahaan
• Sequence with a drunk Samiya Mumtaz – Jeewan Hathi

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