Winners of 4th Apsara Film & Television Producers Guild Awards

Best Actor in a Leading Role
Hrithik Roshan - Jodhaa Akbar

Best Actress in a Leading Role
Priyanka Chopra - Fashion

Best Movie
Aamir Khan - Taare Zameen Par

Best Director
Aamir Khan - Taare Zameen Par

Best Actor in a Supporting Role
Jimmy Shergill - A Wednesday

Best Actress in a Supporting Role
Kangna Ranaut - Fashion

Best Actor in a Comic Role
Anil Kapoor - Welcome

Best Actor in a Negative Role
Akshaye Khanna - Race

Best Debut (Male)
Imran Khan - Jaane Tu... Ya Jaane Na

Best Debut (Female)
Mugdha Godse - Fashion

Best Choreography
Chinni Prakash, Rekha Prakash - Jodhaa Akbar

Best Lyrics
Prasoon Joshi - Taare Zameen Par - Maa

Best Female Playback Singer
Shreya Ghoshal - Singh is King - Teri Ore

Best Male Playback Singer
Shankar Mahadaven - Taare Zameen Par - Maa

Best Music
A.R. Rahman - Jodhaa Akbar

Best Screenplay
Amole Gupte, Neeraj Pandey - Taare Zameen Par, A Wednesday

Best Dialogue
Neeraj Pandey - A Wednesday

Best Story
Amole Gupte - Taare Zameen Par

Best Cinematography
Kiran Deohans - Jodhaa Akbar

Best Costume Design
Neeta Lulla - Jodhaa Akbar

Best Editing
Shree Narayan Singh - A Wednesday

Best Special Effects
Vaibhav Kumaresh, Dhimant Vyas - Taare Zameen Par

Best Sound Recording
Baylon Fonseca - Rock On!!

Best Re-Recording
Hitendra Ghosh - Jodhaa Akbar

Best Art Director
Nitin Chandrakant Desai - Jodhaa Akbar

Jaya Bachchan behind Gowarikar’s anti-Priyanka rant

While almost the entire industry has criticised Ashutosh Gowarikar for saying on stage that Aishwarya Rai should have won the IIFA Best Actress award for her performance in “Jodhaa Akbar” and not Priyanka Chopra for “Fashion”, it has now emerged that the poor guy was indeed obliging Jaya Bachchan.

For those not in the know, it so happened that after Priyanka collected her award at the ceremony in Macau on June 13, it was Ashu went on stage to receive his Best Director award for “Jodhaa Akbar”.

The first thing that he uttered after taking the mike was, “Priyanka, I love you, but I don't know how you got the award for Best Actress when Aishwarya was also nominated in the same category for ‘Jodhaa Akbar’.”

He further added, “Maybe it is because you are very hard-working and she is a natural.”

But when he realised that he was goofing up he said, “Jayaji was just asking me the same thing," pointing to Jaya Bachchan, who was standing next to him.

Subsequently, everyone thought he had just dragged Jaya into the picture as cover-up for his own mistake. However, in an interview, Jaya Bachchan has admitted that she did ask Ashu to say what he did, and that too in public.

"It is being presumed that Ashutosh unnecessarily mentioned my name regarding Aishwarya's omission from the awards. The fact is, I suggested he bring up the question on stage. We were discussing why Aishwarya had not been given any award for 'Jodhaa Akbar'. I suggested Ashutosh bring up the matter. When he mentioned my name, he wasn't doing anything wrong," Jaya has said.

“I wonder why Aishwarya's fine performance [in ‘Jodhaa Akbar’] was ignored,” she has also said, adding that she has not seen “Fashion”.

May be she should see the movie to get the answer.