Power-couple Malaika and Arbaaz at IIFA

Bollywood famous celebrities, including the evergreen hottest couple Malaika Arora Khan and Arbaaz Khan and actress Amisha Patel were invited to walk down the green-carpet earlier to the televised screening of the IIFA ceremony at the Ritz Carlton at the DIFC. Screen rough and tough man Salman Khan’s corrupt police officer image in “Dabangg” created waves worldwide and the movie also won a bunch of awards including best picture at the “Bollywood Oscars for the first time in North America.

The movie directed by Abhinav Kashyap won in the highly essential music categories for best female playback singer, best male playback singer and best music direction, as well as best screenplay.Salman Khan, however, could not make it to Toronto this time as he was busy shooting his next movie “Bodyguard,” a romantic action project with actress Kareena Kapoor. Shahrukh Khan’s return to the IIFA awards show after a gap of seven year absence had previously been put in doubt by a knee injury. SRK had vowed to perform at the IIFA show but in the end his dance steps were quiet paining.

Jermaine Jackson also performed his late brother Michael’s hits with Indian pop singer Sonu Nigam at an IIFA concert on Friday. Actress Anushka Sharma won for best leading female role for the romantic comedy “Band Baaja Baaraat” and the film was the directing debut of Maneesh Sharma.Arjun Rampal and Prachi Desai won awards for best supporting characters in the thriller “Raajneeti” and the gangster film “Once Upon A Time In Mumbaai,” as stated. Ritesh Deshmukh, co-hosted the awards show alongwith Boman Irani.

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The inside story of IIFA

Inplace of red colour, the carpet has been now coloured in green to represent the enviroment. The organizers of the show were time conscious and grumbled up security to help the stars flee inside. Holding fashionable purses or waving or simly stuffing their manicured fingers in their Armani or Sabyasachi or Rajesh Pratap Singh or Vikram Phadnis collection they sizzled and rushed inside .

Inside the roof the performing actors rock the whole stadium. Numbered seats never seemed good. The music of Shanker Ehsaan Loy , Jermaine Jackson , the dancing diva Diya , Shamaik Davar group and the Punjabi bhangra twist gives every individual the inspiration to move and swing, clap and tap their toes.The glamour in full presentation at IIFA .Bollywood filmmaker and producer Karan Johar and actress Anushka Sharma were the main invitees too.

Shahrukh Khan represented the best technical cinematography and art direction awards with a spokesperson from the Bay and amazed the audience by quoting dialogues from his film Don. During the day the people in the downtown core near the Eaton centre had caught a glaze of the King Khan visiting the Mayor Rob Ford.Above all, the gorgeous babe, Mallika Sherawat also performed on some numbers . Bipasha Basu, Neha dhupia, walked the ramp like many others. The bhangra group RDB appealed to all ages and lot of masti was spreaded under one roof.

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SRK rocked IIFA with his dance performance

The real king of Bollywood Shahrukh Khan grab the show at IIFA 2011, organized at the Roger Centre in Toronto on Saturday night, by giving out an exhilarating performance at the event with his injured knee. It is said that Shahrukh Khan left his uncountable fans and critics at the awards function with their eyes wide open with shock, when after performing on the ‘Dabangg’ number, the filmstar left the stage with bleeding knees.

Before I forget to mention, an observer at the event a person told that it was a creepy picture that came infront of all present at the event. The organizers had tailored SRK’s dancing steps in keeping with his injury. But Shahrukh completely overlooked the boundaries forced by his injury and started dancing like a crazy man. But soon after the performance was completed he just drooped out.Ace choreographer Shiamak Davar and his team had choreographed painless dance steps for the superstar. However, SRK performed enthusiastically at the IIFA, not putting much attention of easy and tough dance steps and enthralled the crowd at the event.

Shiamak also said that Shahrukh danced through his pain like a perfect dancer as if nothing had happened to him. Though he was in great pain. Ever since there have been news that Salman Khan and the Bachchans won’t be attending IIFA 2011, assumptions have been lifted that these bigwigs gave the event a miss because of Shahrukh’s presence.However, Shahrukh putting rest at the gossips mentioned that he actually don't understand what media wanted to ask. The actor also said that together they all have been under one crown several times and are always proud of all the award functions,

especially IIFA being the finest, globally and whenever they are invited, they happily attend the function. Raising question about why SRK didn’t turn up to the IIFA for past seven years, he candidly said that he knows a lot of people gossiping that why he didn’t attend IIFA for so many years, the star stated that there were no personal grudges about this issue rather he could’nt make it to IIFA just to spend enough time with his children.Well, we think that stars like SRK make IIFA an unforgettable night. The star will be starred in Ra. One with co-star Kareena Kapoor.

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Dabbang emerged as the winner at IIFA

Salman Khan starrer "Dabangg", which was 2010’s biggest Bollywood success, was considered as the best movie at the sizzling 12th International Indian Film Academy awards held in Toronto. The action-comedy genre received seven awards. Bollywood superstar Shahrukh Khan was named the best male actor for his performance as an asperger patient in Karan Johar's "My Name Is Khan", while Anushka Sharma bagged the best female actress award for her energetic performance of a wedding planner in "Band Baaja Baraat".

Paying tributes to Yash Johar, whose seventh death anniversary falls Sunday, SRK said that he’s honored that he could receive this award on this day. SRK also said that he have received so much love that he felt as if he belongs to Toronto. KaranJohar, who got the best filmmaker award for "My Name Is Khan" and said that this is his first IIFA award. On the whole, “Dabangg" got seven awards, including best female debut for Sonakshi Sinha too.

RanvirSingh won the award for best debut male award for "Band Baaja Baaraat". The award for male supporting role went to Arjun Rampal for playing a politician in the political thriller "Raajneeti" that also starred Ranbir Kapoor and Katrina Kaif. PrachiDesai won the trophy for female supporting role for her performace in "Once Upon a Time in Mumbaai". Whereas, MamtaSharma won the award for best female playback singer for her song "Munni Badnaam hui" from "Dabanng".

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Stars spotted in Toronto

Some of Bollywood film industry’s biggest stars reached Toronto on Tuesday to attend this week's International Indian Film Academy Awards and festival. Crowd of fans studded themselves at Pearson airport's international approaching area to welcome bigwigs like Anil Kapoor, Bobby Deol, Sonu Sood and many others.One of the fan present at the airport said that she always followed the IIFA shows. Coming to the IIFA was a huge thing because it happens once in a lifetime. Similar feedback is expected later this week when baadshah Shahrukh Khan will come in town.

Bubbly actress Dia Mirza arrived the town on Tuesday and asserted that she's excited to be a part of this mega event. Actor Zayed Khan said Toronto is the perfect place to organize the event.Mob of crazy fans, cameras set to hit the click button, to catch a gaze of arriving Bollywood celebrities. Having IIFA in Toronto this year helps to feel a special connection to the stars homeland. Banners and billboards promoting the IIFA Awards and festival are pasted around Toronto, with events also taking place in the nearby cities like Mississauga, Brampton and Markham respectively.

The yearly celebration of Indian's gigantic film fraternity is projected to attract almost 40 thousand audiences to the Greater Toronto Area, with more than six hundred million TV viewers globally expected to take in Saturday's awards broadcast single-handedly.So guys, don’t give IIFA a miss this time. It’s gonna rock!!
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The International Indian Film Academy

The International Indian Film Academy also called as IIFA Awards, are bestowed every year by the International Indian Film Academy to encourage both artistic and technical excellence of professionals in Bollywood film fraternity. Organized in 2000, the IIFA Award function was held in different countries around the globe. This award ceremony has been organized by Wizcraft International Entertainment Pvt Ltd which is one of India’s premier event management and entertainment agency.

The awards began in 2000 and the first event took place in the heart of London at The Millennium Dome. From then on the awards were organized at locals worldwide showcasing the international success of Bollywood. The next award ceremony will be taking place in Toronto, Canada, from June 23-25, 2011.These awards credit movies from the past calendar year. Actor Amitabh Bachchan has been the Brand Ambassador of the IIFA until 2010 where took retirement from the post due to much controversy that rose in Sri Lanka,

and appointed Salman Khan. In 2009, Star of the decade both male and female category, Movie of the decade, Music of the decade, and Director of the decade.Shahrukh Khan starrer Kal Ho Na Ho released in 2003 until that time apprehended the record for the most number of wins in an award function. Jodha Akbar, a 2008 film follows it with eleven awards. However, all of these records were lately broken by Rajkumar Hirani’s 2009 directed 3 Idiots which bagged sixteen awards.

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Hindi film industry casts vote for IIFA 2011

The International Indian Film Academy (IIFA) voting weekend for the award in Toronto has been opened on Friday to the members of the Indian Film fraternity. It has been speculated that Kareena leads the first vote. Other actors who cast their votes were Arjun Rampal, Sonu Sood, Karan Johar, Riteish Deshmukh, Ramesh Sippy, J.P. Dutta, Manmohan Shetty, Karan Johar and the other members of the film industry and the Advisory Board of IIFA.


In an media interaction Kareena Kapoor reveled that It was a great privilege that has been given to her to cast the first vote and inaugurate the 12th IIFA Voting Weekend. She also added that IIFA has set a high standard with its voting procedure and hence established a benchmark for excellence and credibility. This being the IIFA’s premiere in North America, the actress is eagerly looking forward to the IIFA Weekend in Toronto. This year in 2011 the IIFA celebrations will complete it's 12th year. IIFA will make its North American debut in Ontario, Canada this year wherein the three-day long IIFA Weekend and Awards is all set to take place from the 23 to 25 June.

One of the member from the IIFA Advisory Board, Ramesh Sippy reveled that In the 12th year of IIFA, they will continue the focus of promoting the very best of Indian cinema globally and the IIFA Voting Weekend is a key component of making IIFA, the success it is. He also added that with the Videocon IIFA Weekend and the Micromax IIFA Awards 2011 in Toronto, Cananda they will going to bring the on-screen magic to the Indian industry with the grand celebration of Indian cinema.

IIFA Awards to be held in Toronto

The International Indian Film Academy (IIFA) Awards are set to be organized in Toronto from June 16 till June19, 2011. Bollywood celebrities Vivek Oberoi and Celina Jaitely, announced about the event in the presence of Ontario’s Premier Dalton McGuinty.


McGuinty however mentioned that to win this opportunity to host the 2011 IIFA awards, one has to know that Bollywood is in Ontario, especially Toronto. He also told the stars here that Toronto city is the city of five billion people; 52 percent or half of the people living here were born outside the country. And a big component of that comes from the Asian community, particularly from India. So this is gonna be exciting to have a gathering here. It was also stated that the IIFA awards should attract about 40 thousand visitors to the city and another 350 million audiences to television screens worldwide.

South Asians make up the largest perceptible minority in Toronto, with about 300,000, 12 per cent of the whole city’s population. Bollywood actress Celina Jaitley in an interview that Canada is a big support for Bollywood as there is huge fan following there. She further added that she is pretty sure that this time IIFA will be really big because a large number of fans are from Canada itself. IIFA ceremonies have been earlier hosted by Dubai, Amsterdam, Johannesburg and Bangkok. This time too it’ll be a great evening with stars twinkling all around!!!!

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Awards’ list of Parineeta

The movie Parineeta is the screen portray of Bengali novel, Parineeta which was written by Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay in 1914. The movie was directed by Pradeep Sarkar. This was the debut movie for the director. The movie was produced by Vidhu Vinod Chopra. The movie had Vidya Balan, Saif Ali Khan and Sanjay Dutt in the main roles. A supporting role was played by Raima Sen.
The movie Parineeta bagged many awards. The list of those awards is given below.


Filmfare Awards of 2006

Best Debut (Female) - Vidya Balan
Best Choreography - Howard Rosemeyer
Best Sound - Bishwadeep Chatterjee
Best Art Director - Pradeep Sarkar, Tanushree Sarkar
R D Burman Award - Shantanu Moitra


Zee Cine Awards of 2006

Best Dialogue - Rekha Nigam, Vidhu Vinod Chopra
Best Costume Design - Subarna Ray Chadhuri


Screen Awards of 2006

Best Playback Singer (Female) - Shreya Ghosal
Best Debut (Female) - Vidya Balan


IIFA Awards of 2006

Best Screenplay – Vidhu Vinod Chopra

Awards and nominations of Rang De Basanti

Rang De Basanti must be a favourite movie of many Indians. The movie was released in 2006. It was written and directed by Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra. The movie starred Aamir Khan, Soha Ali Khan, Madhavan, Kunal Kapoor, Siddharth Narayan, Sharman Joshi, Atul Kulkarni and the British actress Alice Patten in the lead roles.


the movie was made with the budget of Rs. 250 million. The whole movie was alomost shot in and around New Delhi. The movie won a lot of awards. Here is the list for the same.

National Film Award for Best Popular Film Providing Wholesome Entertainment

Filmfare Awards (2006) won by rang De Basanti

Filmfare Award for Best Movie

Filmfare Award for Best Director Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra

Filmfare Award for Best Music Director A R Rehman

Critics Best Performance - Male Aamir Khan

Best Editing P. S. Bharathi

Best Cinematography Binod Pradhan

RD Burman Award for New Music (Naresh Iyer) categories.


IIFA Awards (2007) won by Rang De Basanti

IIFA Award for Best Movie,

Best Supporting Actress (Soha Ali Khan),

Best Screenplay (Rensil D'Silva and Rakeysh Mehra)

Some other Awards

Rang De Basanti also won eight awards apiece at the 2006 Global Indian Film Awards and 2007 Star Screen Awards.

The movie also won six awards at the 2007 Zee Cine Awards.

The film was also nominated for the Best Film not in English language at the 2007 British Academy of Film and Television Arts awards.

List Of IIFA Awards 2010 Winners

The 11th International Indian Film Academy or in short the IIFA awards ceremony was organized at Sughathadasa Indoor Stadium in Colombo. This capital city of Sri Lanka hosted the IIFA awards this year. The grand event was hosted by Lara Dutta, Riteish Deshmukh and Boman Irani.

The movie 3 Idiots bagged a lot of awards and was the big winner of this awards night. Another interesting point was that there was a tie between Kareena Kapoor (3 Idiots) and Vidya Balan (Paa) for the Best Actress Award trophy. Anyway, those who missed these awards and want to update themselves about the winners. may go through the list of IIFA awards winners which is given below.

Best Film : Vidu Vinod Chopra For 3 idiots

Best Direction : Rajkumar Hirani For 3 IDIOTS

Best Performance in a Leading Role : Male – Amitabh Bachchan For Paa

Best Performance in a Leading Role : Female – Kareena Kapoor For 3 Idiots and Vidya Balan For Paa

Best Performance in Supporting Role : Male For Sharman Joshi For 3 IDIOTS

Best Performance in Supporting Role : Female For Divya Dutta For Delhi 6

Best Performance in a Comic Role : Sanjay Dutt For All The Best

Best Performance in a Negative Role : Boman Irani For 3 Idiots

Debut of the year (Male) : Omi Vaidya – Jackie Bhagnani

Debut of the year (Female) : Jacqueline Fernandez – Mahie Gill

Best Music Direction : Pritam For Love Aaj Kal

Best Story : Abhijat Joshi,Raj Kumar Hirani and Vidu Vinod Chopra For 3 Idiots

Best Lyrics : Swanand Kirkire For 3 Idiots

Best Playback Singer : Male – Shaan- Behti Hawa Sa Tha Who For 3 Idiots

Best Playback Singer : Female – Kavita Seth- Ek Tara For Wake Up Sid

Outstanding Achievement by an Indian Internationally : Anil Kapoor

IIFA Green Global Award : Vivek Oberoi

Technical Awards Winners :

Best Editing : Rajkumar Hirani For 3 Idiots

Best Screenplay : Abhijat Joshi, Rajkumar Hirani, Vidhu Vinod Chopra For 3 Idiots

Best Cinematography : C.K. Muraleedharan For 3 Idiots

Best Dialogue : Rajkumar Hirani, Abhijat Joshi For 3 Idiots

Best Background Score : Sanjay Wandrekar, Atul Raninga, Shantanu Moitra For 3 Idiots

Best Sound Recording : Bishwadeep Chatterjee, Nihal Ranjan Samel For 3 Idiots

Best Song Recording : Bishwadeep Chatterjee, Sachi K Sanghvi For 3 Idiots

Best Sound Re-recording : Anup Dev For 3 Idiots

Best Choreography : Bosco Martis, Caesar Gonsalves For Love Aaj Kal

Best Costume Designing : Anahita Shroff Adajania, Dolly Ahluwalia For Love Aaj Kal

Best Art Direction : Sabu Cyril For Aladdin

Best Special Visual Effects : Charles Darby – Eyecube Labs For Aladdin

Best Action : Shyam Kaushal For Kaminey

Best Make up Artist : Christien Tinsley, Domini Till For Paa

IIFA 2010 aired on Star Plus

The Micromax IIFA Awards 2010 was aired on the Star Plus at 8.00 pm on 11 July, 2010. This year IIFA was geld in Colombo, Sri Lanka. IIFA Awards or The International Indian Film Academy Awards are the prestigious event for the Bollywood stars.


The IIFA Awards are presented annually by the International Indian Film Academy to honor the artistic and technical excellence of professionals in Bollywood industry. In the past 10 years IIFA has been organized in the various parts of the world like UK, South Africa, Malaysia, Singapore, Holland, UAE, Thailand etc. There are various categories including best Actor, Best Actress, Best Director and producer and many more.

Star Plus has the videos and photos of 11th IIFA Awards 2010. If you have missed IIFA Awards, you can visit Star Plus website to catch your favorite celebrities.

Sri Lanka is ready for IIFA

This year IIFA Awards will be held in Sri Lanka from June 3 to 5 June. The event would further elevate Sri Lanka in the global tourism map. Director General of Sri Lanka, Dilip Mudadenuiya said that Sri Lanka is getting free publicity and now they have to prove themselves.



This event will help them for the further increase yields. And it will increase the tourism in the country. The IIFA would increase Sri Lanka’s potential as a top conference.

Sri Lanka would also get the opportunity, for the shooting for the Bollywood movies, it will open new market for them. Everything is ready, Sri Lankan Ministry of transport have a special air-conditioned train from airport to the Fort during IIFA Awards.

IIFA 2010 in Sri Lanka

This year International Indian Film Festival (IIFA) Awards are going to held in Sri Lanka, before this it was organized in different countries. The IIFA Awards are presently every year to encourage and motivate the moral of Bollywood star, people who has worked hard to make movie. It appreciated both the artist and the technical people for there excellent work.


From the year 2000, IIFA Awards are celebrated in various parts of the world. Last year it was organized in United Kingdom and then Malaysia, South Africa, Singapore, Thailand, Dubai.

This year IFA is going to be in Sri Lanka, it will be a hub of celebrities from June 2 to 4 2010. This will bring big business for both the countries. Sri Lanka has been chosen from many other countries like South Africa, Abu Dhabi, Australia and Korea.

Ministry of Tourism said that it will increase the tourist for the country and this is a great opportunity for them to organize such a big event. They will give there hundred percent for this function.

IIFA at Sri Lanka

Sri Lanka is going to host International Indian Film Academy Award (IIFA). This was a huge celebration for Indian Cinema, since 2000, it has been in a variety of international destination. Previous shows were held in United States, Malaysia, South Africa, Singapore and Thailand.


IIFA Awards will be held at the Sugathadasa Indoor Stadium from 2 to 4 June. Sri Lanka has been chosen from amongst countries such as South Africa, Abu Dhabi, Australia and Korea to host this prestigious event.

The event will garner media coverage from over 400 media organizations worldwide. This event will provide massive opportunities for Sri Lanka and India to strengthen their trade and business ties.

IIFA 2010 in South Korea

South Korea is organizing the International Indian Film Academy Awards 2010 (IIFA). There will be more than hundred of bollywood actors, actress, directors, producers present there.

The first IIFA Award was held in London in the year 2000 than in South Africa, Malaysia, Singapore, Netherlands,and in 2011 IIFA Award will held in June. The main motto of IIFA Awards are to recognise, give honour and celebrate the success of India Film Industry. It is the show which attract audience a worldwide.

It is to promote Indian film to all the world, and its founder-directors are Andre Timmins, Viraf Sarkari and Sabbas Joshep and in advisory board many bollywood super stars are there like -Amitabh Bachchan, Ramesh Sippy, Vinod Khanna,Jaya Bachchan and many more...........

Toronto to host IIFA Awards in 2011

In December 2009 it was announced that members of the Indian Film Fraternity and the IIFA Advisory Board, Canada will be hosting the 2011 International Indian Film Academy Awards (IIFA). The IIFA Weekend and IDEA IIFA Awards ceremony will be held in the Greater Toronto Area from 16th -19th June 2011.

Joined by key members of the Indian Film Industry, Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty also thanked IIFA for the honour of hosting the IIFA Weekend and Awards 2011 in Toronto. Toronto is an ideal choice for IIFA 2011 as it is considered as the global city which is very well known for it's culture and entertainment scene.

The announcement came at a green carpet celebration of cultural ties that bind nearly 600 thousand Ontarians to India. The IIFA Weekend will also cap a four-day celebration of Indian Cinema, including a Film Festival, various film briefings, a world-wide film premiere, a trade and business Forum, an IIFA Foundation event and escalate into the night of nights, the IDEA IIFA Awards.

The organizers have said that the decision for the 2010 edition will be announced soon. The first IIFA Awards were held at the Millennium Dome in London in 2000 and have gone on to various cities like Sun City, Dubai, Amsterdam, Singapore, Yorkshire amongst others, with the most recent being celebrated n Macau.

The IIFA Weekend is expected to witness over 500 people from the Indian film industry and about 40 thousand visitors to Toronto, with an international television audience of more than 350 million.

IIFA 2011 will be held in Canada

The 12th Indian Film Academy Awards (IIFA) will be held in Ontario, Canada, in 2011. The organisers will be announcing the venue for the this awards in 2010.

Earlier IIFA has earlier travelled to Britain, South Africa, Malaysia, Singapore, Dubai and Thailand. Toronto would be the first North American city to host the IIFA Awards. Bollywood megastar the legend of Indian cinema Amitabh Bachchan, who is the brand ambassador of IIFA, could not attend the event as he had to be present at the Dubai International Film Festival to receive an honour.

Amitabh Bachchan stated that "IIFA has moved forward and has over the time brought people from different cultures and races together on a global stage. It bridges countries, nations, businesses, communities and cinemas and this is our wish too for IIFA, Toronto 2011. As the IIFA brand ambassador, I pledge my complete support to the IIFA celebration and do look for a greener IIFA 2011."

Honours bestowed on A R Rahman

The success of A.R. Rehman will be archived with every award he would
receive in India as well as Internationally. A host of awards have
been acquired along the way-a Padma Shri, four national film awards,
four IIFA awards, 12 screen awards, 21 Filmfare awards,and six Zee
awards.

Here are a mention of the Indian Awards bestowed on A R Rahman.

Indian Awards

Civilian Honors
Filmfare Awards
1995 – Filmfare RD Burman Award for New Music Talent
1996 – Filmfare Best Music Director Award – Rangeela
1999 – Filmfare Best Music Director Award – Dil Se
2000 – Filmfare Best Music Director Award – Taal
2002 – Filmfare Best Music Director Award – Lagaan
2003 – Filmfare Best Music Director Award – Saathiya
2003 – Filmfare Best Background Score – The Legend of Bhagat Singh
2005 – Filmfare Best Background Score – Swades
2007 – Filmfare Best Music Director Award – Rang de Basanti
2008 – Filmfare Best Music Director Award – Guru
2008 – Filmfare Best Background Score – Guru

Global Indian Film Awards (GIFA)
2007 – GIFA Award for Best Music – Rang De Basanti
2007 – GIFA Award for Best Background Music – Rang De Basanti

International Indian Film Academy Awards (IIFA) (India)
2000 – IIFA Best Music Direction – Taal
2002 – IIFA Best Music Direction – Lagaan
2003 – IIFA Best Music Direction – Saathiya
2007 – IIFA Best Music Direction – Rang De Basanti
2008 – IIFA Best Music Direction – Guru
2008 – IIFA Best Background Music – Guru
2008 – Outstanding contribution by an Indian in International Cinema



National Film Awards (India)
1993 – National Film Award for Best Music Direction – Roja
1997 – National Film Award for Best Music Direction – Minsaara Kanavu
2002 – National Film Award for Best Music Direction – Lagaan
2003 – National Film Award for Best Music Direction – Kannathil Muthamittal



Screen-Videocon Awards / Star Screen Awards (India)
1997 – Best Music – Kadhal Desam (South awards edition – Tamil)
1997 – Best Music Direction – Minsara Kanavu (South awards edition – Tamil)
1998 – Best Non-film Album – Vande Mataram (Non-film category)
2000 – Best Music Direction – Taal
2007 – Best Background Music- Rang De Basanti
2008 – Best Music Direction – Guru
2008 – Best Background Music – Guru
2009 – Best Music Direction – Jaane Tu…Ya Jaane Na
2009 – Best Background Music – Jodhaa Akbar


Zee Cine Awards (India)
2000 – Zee Cine Award Best Music Director – Taal
2002 – Zee Cine Award Best Music Director – Lagaan
2003 – Zee Cine Award Best Music Director – Saathiya
2007 – Zee Cine Award Best Music Director – Rang De Basanti
2008 – Zee Cine Award Best Music Director – Guru
2008 – Zee Cine Award Best Background Music – Guru

And the list will only enhance in size and qulaity...cheers!

IIFA Awards 2009's countdown has begun

The Film Industry is excited and feeling the IIFA fever. Each year industry actors, directors, producers, technicians, composers and behind the scenes communities cast their votes, which would decide the nominations for the main awards. The Industry is invited to cast their votes and shortlist nominations in the category of the Popular Awards.

The 6th, 7th and 8th of March marked the 10th year of IIFA's Voting Weekend, where Mr. Amitabh Bachchan, the IIFA Brand Ambassador will cast the first vote as he does each year to initiate proceedings. The IIFA Voting process is a methodical procedure that is closely monitored by the official auditors for the event. The popular category nominations will be put online so that the global audience can also participate in the voting process. Around a thousand people on average from the film industry come in each year to vote at the Weekend.

Manmohan Shetty, Producer and IIFA Advisory Board member said that IIFA has grown into an event of repute over the last 9 years. This year, being the 10th year of IIFA, the celebrations will be bigger! At the IIFA Voting Weekend is the only Awards where the entire film Industry comes to vote.

Farhan Akthar said that he have visited the IIFA's before and is extremely hopeful that ROCK ON will be nominated for the tenth year IIFA Awards.
David Dhavan stated that he had also cast his vote for IIFA several times and will be doing same for this year as well for the biggest IIFA so far.