1 The votes just poured in, screaming one name. CHAK DE! INDIA wins the t2 Screen Award for the Best Film of the year by a colossal 79.6 per cent votes. Released in the third quarter of the year, the Yash Raj Films production started on a low-key note but soon the word spread that this was something special. Then before you could say SRK, “chak de!” had become a national anthem. The Shimit Amin film about a disgraced hockey star out to salvage lost pride by coaching a team of talented but temperamental girls to the World Cup was definitely the must-watch movie of the year. So what if Shah Rukh didn’t have a heroine and could only strike his arms-stretched-wide pose to congratulate his wards!

2 At the beginning of the year if you would have told Mani Ratnam that his third Hindi film would be the second best Bollywood movie of the year, he sure would have been a happy man. Going for the classic biopic format, Mani Sir tasted success in Mumbai for the first time with GURU. Matching substance with his signature style, he gave Abhishek Bachchan and Aishwarya Rai a much-needed hit (and the chance to know each other better before tying the knot). Given the Chak De! sweep, Guru managed 13 per cent votes.

3 If Ray’s Mahanagar had to be updated and set in Mumbai, LIFE... IN A METRO would not have made the maestro too unhappy, one feels. A relentless journey of myriad characters struggling to cope with life, Metro wins the bronze in the Best Film list with a 5 per cent vote count. Marked by brilliant performances, the UTV production stood out thanks to director Anurag Basu’s intimate storytelling, forcing us to seek and find a bit of ourselves in each of the nine characters. What’s next? A sequel!

4 Not many turned up to watch this poignant period drama from Feroz Abbas Khan but those who did will remember it for a long, long time. GANDHI MY FATHER may not have stormed the box office collections but it stood for good cinema, a rarity in Bollywood. The vote count may have been just around 3 per cent but it shouldn’t stop Khan and producer Anil Kapoor from dreaming big again.

5 It may have been a big hit at the theatres but when it came to the Best Film of the year category, not many went for NAMASTEY LONDON. In fact, just one of you voted for the Akshay Kumar-Katrina Kaif film. Maybe rom coms aren’t taken that seriously when it comes to honours and awards. But the film did bring a smile to many a face this year, so we thought it deserved a place on the list.

1 RAM GOPAL VARMA KI AAG is the clear winner (or should we say loser!) in this final category of the t2 Screen Awards ’07. The much-hyped remake of Sholay was named Worst Film of the year by 61 per cent of respondents. And with good reason. The unfortunate few who caught the film could not curse it enough. Nothing worked for RGV in this Factory flop show — from the sleazy Basanti to the disastrous Gabbar. The one positive: no one dare remake Sholay again!

2 Om Puri is one of our best and has even done well in the West. Anupam Kher is top rung and has just worked with Oscar-winning director Ang Lee. Mahabanoo Mody-Kotwal is a respected theatre actor in Mumbai. So what were they doing in BUDDHA MAR GAYA? If the idea — whoever beds Rakhi Sawant dies — wasn’t bad enough, the implementation was as crass as can be. And to think that Rahul Rawail had made Dacait and Betaab years before unleashing this bed-and-bedlam tale on anyone who dared walk into the theatres. Some of you did, and cast 17 per cent votes to label it Worst Film.

3 The film which made a lot of noise prior to its release went NISHABD soon after it hit the halls. And yes, it was Ram Gopal Varma again who got it horribly wrong. With little big girl Jiah Khan flashing thunder thighs and bad ol’ Bachchan ogling and giggling, the film never really went anywhere. What was the because, Ramu, ask 12 per cent of our voters in the Worst Film category. (Our sources say Ram Gopal Varma thanks t2 for not including a Worst Director category!)