Chetak Screen Awards 2026 Red Carpet Live Updates: Celebrities, Best Dressed, Photos, Nominations, Winner, Highlights

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Chetak Screen Awards 2026 Red Carpet Live Updates: After a long hiatus, the Chetak Screen Awards are back to celebrate Bollywood’s finest. Established in 1995, the Screen Awards’ stage has long been a prominent platform to highlight the best of India’s cinematic talent. Tonight, the event’s biggest attraction is that the nominees and winners across all 31 categories have been handpicked by our prestigious Screen Academy — an independent, not-for-profit body comprising 53 acclaimed filmmakers, artistes and cultural voices — following a rigorous process.

Ahead of the main event, which begins at 8 pm on Sunday, April 5, in Mumbai, we bring you the best from the glittery red carpet. Bollywood icon Alia Bhatt, comedians Zakir Khan and Sunil Grover, and Saurabh Dwivedi (Editor – Hindi, The Indian Express) serve as hosts for the ceremony.

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Built on a foundation of pure merit and artistic integrity, the Chetak Screen Awards—instituted by The Indian Express Group—remain a gold standard for Indian cinema. For the Chetak Screen Awards 2026, the selection process was steered by the Screen Academy, which employed a data-driven voting system for its final selection. Guided by criteria developed by Dr Priya Jaikumar, Chair of Cinema and Media Studies at the University of Southern California School of Cinematic Arts, Los Angeles, and scholar-in-residence at the Screen Academy, the Academy’s 53 members graded films on four key pillars: technical excellence, creative vision, viewer connectivity, and innovation. This structured approach ensures that every award reflects both artistic merit and cultural impact.

The Chetak Screen Awards 2026 stand alone in their commitment to merit-based recognition. Finalised after a formidable review process, the winners carry the endorsement of the Screen Academy’s distinguished members. This peer-led body includes iconic figures such as Shoojit Sircar, Deepa Mehta, Sriram Raghavan, Ram Madhvani, Guneet Monga Kapoor, John Abraham, Kabir Khan, Karan Johar, Mukesh Chhabra, Payal Kapadia, Prosenjit Chatterjee, R.S. Prasanna, Rajiv Menon, Rajkumar Hirani, Resul Pookutty, Rima Das, and Vidya Balan, among others.