Bebo to dazzle in Manish's outfit at IIFA 2010

Famous designer Manish Malhotra has designed a dress for Bollywood beautiful and gorgeous actresss Kareena Kapoor for her stage performance at the International Indian Film Academy (IIFA) awards 2010 in the Sri Lanka.


He said that he is doing fashion finale there and designing costume for Kareena Kapoor for her blasting performance.

Bollywood actor Aamir Khan has got maximum number of nominations for his super hit movie 3 Idiots, he has received 14 nominations, including best film, best actor, best director and best actress. Manish said that director Rajkumar Hirani deserve all these for his amazing movie.

IIFA will be held in Sri Lanka, in the capital Colombo from 3 June to 5 June. It will be hub of Bollywood stars for three days.

Madhur Bhandarkar wins International Award

Madhur Bhandarkar, National Award winning Indian filmmaker and script writer is anticipating another International Award. His films Chandni Bar, Page 3 and Traffic Signal made good impact in Russia and for his contribution to the Indian Cinema, he will be honored by SOVEX PORT FILM, Ministry of Culture of Russia, in Moscow.




Madhur revealed, both the countries also have quite a lot of similarities when it comes to cultural background.

Meanwhile, his Mugdha and Neil Nitin Mukesh-starrer, Jail, is set for release on November 6.

Madhur Bhandarkar's most recent film, 'Fashion' starring Mugdha Godse, Priyanka Chopra, Kangna Ranaut, Arbaaz Khan, Manish Malhotra and Arjan also won many awards this year in many categories like his earlier films.

Many more to come ...Madhur!

IIFA Glamorous Actor Award

The IIFA Glamorous actor of the Year Award was chosen by the viewers, and the winners for this award were Preity Zinta in 2006, Aishwarya Rai Bachchan and Hrithik Roshan in 2007.




The glamorous girl Preity Zinta was selected as the first brand ambassador for GoAir, a new airline service owned by Jeh Wadia from Wadia Group and also walked the ramp for Manish Malhotra's display Fashion Week 2006, along with actress Kajol.

Preity Zinta will be seen in Main Aur Mrs Khanna which is expected to release on October 16, 2009. The actress is also shooting for Har Pall which is directed by Jahnu Barua.

In 2005, Harpers and Queen's list of 10 Most beautiful women in the world ranked Aishwarya Rai Bachchan at the 9th spot. The upcoming movies of the actress are Raavan, Action Replay and Guzaarish.

The style icon Hrithik Roshan's upcoming movie titled Kites with Barbara Mori is running under post-production and another film featuring Aishwarya Rai Bachchan Guzaarish will be completed next year.

Bollywood at 'Third Asian Film Awards'

Hong Kong’s entered its 100th year of movie-making. To mark the year, the 3rd Asian Film Awards were organised by the Hong Kong International Film Festival Society. The award ceremony was held at Hong Kong on 23rd March. Michelle Yeoh was the president of the jury that decided the awards.

Japanese films walked away with awards in five of the 13 categories. Tokyo Sonata, a story that portrays the breakdown of a Japanese family after its patriarch loses his job at a prominent company, was awarded Best film. Tokyo Sonata also received the best screenwriter award for its screenwriter trio of Kurosawa Kiyoshi, Max Mannix and Tanaka Sachiko from Japan, The Netherlands and Hong Kong respectively.

Hirokazu won the best director award for his Still Walking, a film about a family commemorating the drowning of one of its family members. Oscar award winning film (Best foreign language film) Departures lead star Motoki Masahiro was awarded Best Actor for his performance in the film. In the film Motoki plays a cellist who works in a funeral parlor business after his orchestra is dissolved. India’s Akhsay Kumar was among the nominees for this category for his performance in the Hindi super-hit film Singh is Kinng.

Japan’s Hisaishi Joe won the award for the best composer for his music composition for Ponyo on the Cliff. India’s AR Rahman composition for Jodha Akbar among other’s had also been nominated for this category.

Zhou Xun won the best actress award for the mainland Chinese film The Equation of Love and Death. India’s Deepika Podukone was also in the reckoning for this category for her performance in Chandni Chowk to China.

India’s Nitin Chandrasekhar was one of the nominees for best production designer award for Jodha Akbar. The award was won by Daniel Yan-kong Lee for Three Kingdoms: Resurrection of the Dragon.

The Nielsen Box Office award was bestowed upon India’s ace bollywood actress Priyanka Chopra . Priyanka looked stunning in a traditional white saree designed by Manish Malhotra especially for the occasion.

The Edward Yang New Talent Award was conferred on Taiwanese director Wei Te-Sheng . Hong Kong director Tsui Hark and his wife Shi Nansun were presented with the Outstanding Contribution to Asia Cinema award.

Awards for the other categories went to:

Best Newcomer – Mainland China’s Yu Shaoqun (Forever Enthralled);
Best Supporting Actor – South Korean Jung Woo-sung (The Good, the Bad,
the Weird);
Best Supporting Actress – Filipino Gina Pareno (Service);
Best Cinematographer Europe’s Jola Dylewska (Tulpan) ;
Best Editor South Korea’s Kim Sun-min (The Chaser);
Best Visual Effects – Craig Hayes from the Chinese mainland (Red Cliff).

The noted ceremony was hosted by VJ and MC Derek Li, Monaco born Hong Kong’s top model Lisa S and character actor Terence Yin. The awards ceremony was tastefully inter-spaced with audio visuals and performances by Justin Lo and Alan, among others.