The IIFA Awards 2008 in Bangkok, Thailand, are finally coming up. They'll be held on the weekend from the 6th to 8th of June in the Asian capital. Performances by Katrina Kaif, Govinda, Kareena Kapoor, Akshay Kumar, Priyanka Chopra, Harman Baweja, Shriya Saran, Zayed Khan, Vivek Oberoi, Ritesh Deshmukh and many others are expected. Karan Johar will host the show. Upcoming Amitabh Bachchan-Abhishek Bachchan-Aishwariya Rai Bachchan starrer Sarkar Raj directed by Ram Gopal Varma will celebrate its premiere at the first day of the Award function simultaneously with its release on the 6th of June in India.

Besides his performance Govinda is nominated for Best Performance in a Supporting Role and Best Performance in a Comic Role in Partner for which he already got the Zee Cine Award 2008 earlier this year. Meanwhile Partner is also nominated for Best Picture, Best Direction and Salman Khan is nominated for his role as Best Leading Role (Male). The track Do you wanna Partner could be winning the Best Music Direction award for the duo Sajid & Wajid while Soni De Nakhre is nominated for Best Playback Singer (Male) for Wajid and Laabh Janjuwa.

Other nominations in these categories are:

Best Picture
Guru
Chak De India
Jab We Met
Om Shanti Om
Life In A Metro
Partner

Best Direction
Anurag Basu - Life In A… Metro
Imtiaz Ali - Jab We Met
Mani Ratnam - Guru
Priyadarshan - Bhool Bhulaiyaa
Shimit Amin - Chak De India
David Dhawan - Partner

Performance in a Leading Role (Male)
Abhishek Bachchan - Guru
Akshay Kumar - Bhool Bhulaiyaa
Salman Khan - Partner
Shah Rukh Khan - Chak De India
Shahid Kapoor - Jab We Met

Performance in a Supporting Role (Male)
Anil Kapoor - Welcome
Govinda - Partner
Irrfan Khan - Life In A... Metro
Mithun Chakraborty - Guru
Rajat Kapoor - Bheja Fry

Performance in a Comic Role
Govinda - Partner
Irrfan Khan - Life In A... Metro
Paresh Rawal - Bhool Bhulaiyaa
Rajpal Yadav - Bhool Bhulaiyaa
Vinay Pathak - Bheja Fry

Playback Singer (Male)
KK - Aankhon Mein Teri Om (Shanti Om)
Neeraj Shridhar - Hare Ram Hare Ram (Bhool Bhulaiyaa)
Shaan - Jabse Tere Naina (Saawariya)
Sukhvinder Singh - Chak De India (Chak De India)
Wajid, Laabh Janjuwa - Soni De Nakhre (Partner)

Music Direction
A.R. Rahman - Barso Re Barso Re (Guru)
Mika Ganpat - Ganpat (Shootout At Lokhandwala)
Monty Sharma - Saawariya (Saawariya)
Pritam - Hare Ram Hare Ram (Bhool Bhulaiyaa)
Sajid - Wajid - Do U Wanna Partner (Partner)
Salim - Sulaiman - Chak De India (Chak De India)

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