4th Screen Awards

Awards for Hindi-language films of 1997

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The 4th Screen Awards also The fourth Annual Screen–Videocon Awards ceremony, presented by Indian Express Group, honoured the best Indian Hindi-language films of 1997. The ceremony was held on 17 January 1998 at Andheri Sports Complex, Mumbai, hosted by Jaaved Jaaferi and co-hosted by Achala Sachdev.^[1]

Virasat led the ceremony with 15 nominations, followed by Border with 11 nominations, Pardes with 9 nominations and Dil To Pagal Hai with 8 nominations.

Border won 7 awards, including Best Film and Best Director (for J. P. Dutta), thus becoming the most-awarded film at the ceremony.

Awards

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

The winners and nominees have been listed below. Winners are listed first, highlighted in boldface, and indicated with a double dagger (‡).^[2]^[3]^[4]^[5]

Jury Awards

Best Film	Best Director
Border‡ Chachi 420 Mrityudand Pardes Virasat	J. P. Dutta – Border‡ Kamal Haasan – Chachi 420 Prakash Jha – Mrityudand Priyadarshan – Virasat Subhash Ghai – Pardes
Best Actor	Best Actress
Anil Kapoor – Virasat‡ Aamir Khan – Ishq Govinda – Deewana Mastana Kamal Haasan – Chachi 420 Shah Rukh Khan – Dil To Pagal Hai	Madhuri Dixit – Mrityudand‡ Juhi Chawla – Yes Boss Rekha – Aastha: In the Prison of Spring Sridevi – Judaai Tabu – Virasat
Best Supporting Actor	Best Supporting Actress
Amrish Puri – Virasat‡ Om Puri – Gupt: The Hidden Truth Paresh Rawal – Chachi 420 Sayaji Shinde – Darmiyaan: In Between Shivaji Satam – Ghulam-E-Mustafa	Shabana Azmi – Mrityudand‡ Aruna Irani – Ghulam-E-Mustafa Karisma Kapoor – Dil To Pagal Hai Pooja Batra – Virasat Smriti Mishra – Sardari Begum
Most Promising Newcomer – Male	Most Promising Newcomer – Female
Akshaye Khanna – Himalay Putra‡ Apurva Agnihotri – Pardes Arif Zakaria – Darmiyaan: In Between	Aishwarya Rai – Aur Pyaar Ho Gaya‡ Mahima Chaudhry – Pardes Pooja Batra – Virasat
Best Actor in a Negative Role	Best Background Music
Mohan Joshi – Mrityudand‡ Deepa Sahi – Aar Ya Paar Jackie Shroff – Aar Ya Paar Milind Gunaji – Virasat Mohan Joshi – Yeshwant	Aadesh Shrivastava – Border‡
Best Music Director	Best Lyricist
Nadeem–Shravan – Pardes‡ Anu Malik – Border Anu Malik – Virasat Jatin–Lalit – Yes Boss Uttam Singh – Dil To Pagal Hai	Javed Akhtar – "Sandese Aate Hai" – Border‡ Anand Bakshi – "Do Dil Mil Rahe Hain" – Pardes Anand Bakshi – "I Love My India" – Pardes Gulzar – "Labon Se Chumlo" – Aastha: In the Prison of Spring Javed Akhtar – "Main Koi Aisa Geet Gaoon" – Yes Boss
Best Male Playback Singer	Best Female Playback Singer
Abhijeet Bhattacharya – "Main Koi Aisa Geet Gaoon" – Yes Boss‡ Hariharan – "Hum Tumse Na Kuchh" – Ziddi Kumar Sanu – "Do Dil Mil Rahe Hain" – Pardes Roopkumar Rathod, Sonu Nigam – "Sandese Aate Hai" – Border Udit Narayan – "Dil To Pagal Hai" – Dil To Pagal Hai	K. S. Chithra – "Payalay Chunmun" – Virasat‡ Alka Yagnik – "Tanhai Tanhai" – Koyla Asha Bhosle – "Le Gayi" – Dil To Pagal Hai Kavita Krishnamurti – "Mr. Lova Lova" (Ankhiyaan Tu Mila Le) – Ishq Shweta Shetty – "Kaale Kaale Baal" – Ziddi

Technical Awards

Best Story	Best Screenplay
Kamal Haasan – Virasat‡ J. P. Dutta – Border Sahiwal – Mrityudand	J. P. Dutta – Border‡ Anil Ajitabh, Prakash Jha, Rajan Kothari – Mrityudand Kamal Haasan – Virasat
Best Dialogue	Best Cinematography
Hriday Lani – Yeshwant‡ O. P. Dutta – Border Sanjay Chhel – Yes Boss	Kabir Lal – Pardes‡ Manmohan Singh – Dil To Pagal Hai Ravi K. Chandran – Virasat
Best Editing	Best Production Design
M. Gopala Krishana – Virasat‡	Sharmishta Roy – Dil To Pagal Hai‡
Best Choreography	Best Action
Shiamak Davar – Dil To Pagal Hai‡	Biku Verma, Tinu Verma – Border‡
Best Audio-graph-er	Best Re-recording
Deepan Chatterji – Virasat‡	Suresh Kathena – Border‡

Special awards

Lifetime Achievement Award
Suraiya
Special Jury Award
Govinda
Ramnath Goenka Award
Dilip Kumar

Superlatives

Multiple nominations
Nominations	Film
15	Virasat
11	Border
9	Pardes
8	Dil To Pagal Hai
7	Mrityudand
5	Yes Boss
4	Chachi 420
2	Aar Ya Paar
	Aastha: In the Prison of Spring
	Darmiyaan: In Between
	Ghulam-E-Mustafa
	Ishq
	Yeshwant
	Ziddi

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

References

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