2000 Zee Cine Awards

3rd Zee Cine Awards
Date	11 March 2000
Site	Andheri Sports Complex, Mumbai
Highlights
Best Picture	Hum Dil De Chuke Sanam
Best Direction	Sanjay Leela Bhansali (Hum Dil De Chuke Sanam)
Best Actor	Aamir Khan (Sarfarosh)
Best Actress	Aishwarya Rai Bachchan (Hum Dil De Chuke Sanam)
Most awards	Hum Dil De Chuke Sanam (11)
Most nominations	Hum Dil De Chuke Sanam (25)

The 3rd Zee Cine Awards also The 3rd Lux Zee Cine Awards ceremony, presented by Zee Entertainment Enterprises, honored the best Indian Hindi-language films of 1999. The ceremony was held on 11 March 2000 at Andheri Sports Complex, Mumbai.

Hum Dil De Chuke Sanam led the ceremony with 25 nominations, followed by Hum Saath-Saath Hain with 12 nominations, and Sarfarosh and Taal with 11 nominations each.

Hum Dil De Chuke Sanam won 11 awards, including Best Film, Best Director (for Sanjay Leela Bhansali) and Best Actress (for Aishwarya Rai), thus becoming the most-awarded film at the ceremony.

Awards

Sanjay Leela Bhansali — Best Director winner for Hum Dil De Chuke Sanam

Aamir Khan — Best Actor winner for Sarfarosh

Aishwarya Rai Bachchan — Best Actress winner for Hum Dil De Chuke Sanam

Anil Kapoor — Best Supporting Actor winner for Taal

Sushmita Sen — Best Supporting Actress winner for Biwi No.1

The winners and nominees have been listed below. Winners are listed first, highlighted in boldface, and indicated with a double dagger (‡).

Popular Awards

Best Film	Best Director
Hum Dil De Chuke Sanam‡	Sanjay Leela Bhansali – Hum Dil De Chuke Sanam‡ Gulzar – Hu Tu Tu John Matthew Matthan – Sarfarosh Mahesh Manjrekar – Vaastav: The Reality Sooraj Barjatya – Hum Saath-Saath Hain
Best Actor	Best Actress
Aamir Khan – Sarfarosh‡ Ajay Devgn – Hum Dil De Chuke Sanam Salman Khan – Biwi No.1 Salman Khan – Hum Saath-Saath Hain Shah Rukh Khan – Baadshah	Aishwarya Rai Bachchan – Hum Dil De Chuke Sanam‡ Aishwarya Rai Bachchan – Taal Kajol – Dil Kya Kare Kajol – Hum Aapke Dil Mein Rehte Hain Karisma Kapoor – Biwi No.1
Best Supporting Actor	Best Supporting Actress
Anil Kapoor – Taal‡ Anil Kapoor – Biwi No.1 Anupam Kher – Hum Aapke Dil Mein Rehte Hain Mohnish Bahl – Hum Saath-Saath Hain Mukesh Rishi – Sarfarosh	Sushmita Sen – Biwi No.1‡ Moushumi Chatterjee – Aa Ab Laut Chalen Neelam Kothari – Hum Saath-Saath Hain Tabu – Biwi No.1
Best Performance in a Villainous Role	Best Performance in a Comic Role
Ashutosh Rana – Sangharsh‡ Amrish Puri – Baadshah Amrish Puri – Taal Gulshan Grover – Hindustan Ki Kasam Naseeruddin Shah – Sarfarosh	Govinda – Haseena Maan Jaayegi‡ Kader Khan – Haseena Maan Jaayegi Johnny Lever – Baadshah Johnny Lever – Hum Aapke Dil Mein Rehte Hain Saif Ali Khan – Hum Saath-Saath Hain
Best Male Debut	Best Female Debut
Aftab Shivdasani – Mast‡	Rinke Khanna – Pyaar Mein Kabhi Kabhi‡
Best Music Director	Best Lyrics
A. R. Rahman – Taal‡ Anu Malik – Biwi No.1 Anu Malik – Hum Aapke Dil Mein Rehte Hain Ismail Darbar – Hum Dil De Chuke Sanam Raam–Laxman – Hum Saath-Saath Hain	Anand Bakshi – "Ishq Bina" – Taal‡ Anand Bakshi – "Taal Se Taal" – Taal Dev Kohli – "Biwi No.1" – Biwi No.1 Israr Ansari – "Zindagi Maut Na Ban Jaye" – Sarfarosh Mehboob – "Chand Chupa Badal Mein" – Hum Dil De Chuke Sanam
Best Playback Singer – Male	Best Playback Singer – Female
Udit Narayan – "Chand Chupa Badal Mein" – Hum Dil De Chuke Sanam‡	Kavita Krishnamurti – "Nimbooda" – Hum Dil De Chuke Sanam‡

Technical Awards

Best Story	Best Screenplay
Pratap Karvat, Sanjay Leela Bhansali – Hum Dil De Chuke Sanam‡	Mahesh Manjrekar – Vaastav: The Reality‡ Atul Tiwari – Shaheed Udham Singh John Matthew Matthan – Sarfarosh Sanjay Leela Bhansali – Hum Dil De Chuke Sanam Sanjay–Vivek Vaswani – Sar Ankhon Par
Best Dialogue	Best Cinematography
Amrik Gill – Hum Dil De Chuke Sanam‡ Atul Tiwari – Shaheed Udham Singh Gulzar – Hu Tu Tu Hriday Lani–Pathik Vats – Sarfarosh Sanjay Chhel – Khoobsurat	Anil Mehta – Hum Dil De Chuke Sanam‡ Govind Nihalani – Thakshak Ishwar Bidri – Hindustan Ki Kasam Kabir Lal – Taal Rajan Kothari – Godmother
Best Choreography	Best Action
Saroj Khan – "Nimbooda" – Hum Dil De Chuke Sanam‡ Jay Borade – "Maiyya Yashoda" – Hum Saath-Saath Hain Samir Tanna–Arsh Tanna – "Dholi Taro Dhol Baje" – Hum Dil De Chuke Sanam Shiamak Davar – "Kahin Aag Lage" – Taal Vaibhavi Merchant – "Aankhon Ki Gustakhiyan" – Hum Dil De Chuke Sanam	Tinu Verma – Arjun Pandit‡ Kaushal–Moses – Baadshah Raam Shetty – Vaastav: The Reality Abbas–Hanif – Sarfarosh Jai Singh Nijjar – Hindustan Ki Kasam
Best Editing	Best Art Direction
Mukhtar Ahmed – Hum Saath-Saath Hain‡ Bela Sehgal – Hum Dil De Chuke Sanam Chaitanya Tanna – Hum Aapke Dil Mein Rehte Hain Rahul Rawail – Arjun Pandit Renu Saluja – Godmother	Nitin Chandrakant Desai – Hum Dil De Chuke Sanam‡ Bijon Dasgupta – Hum Saath-Saath Hain Keshto Mandal – Sarfarosh Samir Chanda – Mast Sharmishta Roy – Taal
Best Background Score	Best Sound Recording
Raam–Laxman – Hum Saath-Saath Hain‡ Aadesh Shrivastava – Arjun Pandit Anjan Biswas – Hum Dil De Chuke Sanam Surinder Sodhi – Baadshah Vishal Bhardwaj – Godmother	Jagmohan Anand – Daag‡ Jitendra Chaudhary – Hum Dil De Chuke Sanam Namita Nayak – Sarfarosh Narinder Singh – Hum Saath-Saath Hain Rakesh Ranjan – Taal
Best Make Up Artist	Best Re-Recording
Deepak Bhatee – Sarfarosh‡ Hemchandra Sawant – Vaastav: The Reality Kiran R. Naik – Taal Pappu Gondane – Aa Ab Laut Chalen Suresh S. Harital – Hu Tu Tu	Hitendra Ghosh – Jaanwar‡ Anup Dev – Baadshah B.K. Chaturvedi – Godmother Kuldip Sood – Hum Saath-Saath Hain Suresh Kathuria – Hum Dil De Chuke Sanam
Best Costume Design	Best Song Recording
Mandira Shukla – Godmother‡ Neeta Lulla – Hum Dil De Chuke Sanam Shabina Khan – Hum Dil De Chuke Sanam	Satish Gupta – Kachche Dhaage‡ Bishwadeep Chatterjee – Hum Dil De Chuke Sanam Daman Sood – Khoobsurat Pradeep Choudhury – Baadshah
Best Special Effects (Visual)	Best Technical Director
Prasad Sutar & Madhar Gotad – Hindustan Ki Kasam‡ Kishor–Chetan – Kartoos Manish Sharma – Lo Main Aagaya Nitin Bhalla – Kohram Ramesh Meer – Hum Dil De Chuke Sanam	Mahesh Manjrekar – Vaastav: The Reality‡

Special Awards

Lifetime Achievement Award
Mukhram Sharma	Nasir Hussain
Pran	Ravi
Lux Face of the Year
Aishwarya Rai Bachchan (Hum Dil De Chuke Sanam & Taal)

Superlatives

Multiple nominations

Nominations	Film
25	Hum Dil De Chuke Sanam
12	Hum Saath-Saath Hain
11	Sarfarosh
	Taal
7	Baadshah
	Biwi No.1
5	Godmother
	Hum Aapke Dil Mein Rehte Hain
	Vaastav: The Reality
4	Hindustan Ki Kasam
3	Arjun Pandit
	Hu Tu Tu
2	Aa Ab Laut Chalen
	Haseena Maan Jaayegi
	Khoobsurat
	Mast
	Shaheed Udham Singh

Multiple wins

Awards	Film
11	Hum Dil De Chuke Sanam
4	Taal
2	Hum Saath-Saath Hain
	Sarfarosh
	Vaastav: The Reality

External links

• The Zee Cine Awards (2000) at the Internet Movie Database