IIFA preparation in Sri Lanka

IIFA Awards are in Sri Lanka but Sri Lanka public will get 100 seats and VIP’s will get 400 seats at a Indian film awards. Though hundred of millions of rupees of public was spent but they are not getting more than hundred seats.


The International Indian Film Academy (IIFA) awards ceremony will be held at Sugathadasa stadium. Lakshaman Yapa said that were have reserved 2,200 seats for Indians fans and 400 seats for Sri Lankan VIP’s.

Under which 14.8 percent seats is allotted to VIP’s and 3.7 percent to Sri Lankan fans. But it now clear that Sri Lanka VIP’s will pay for seats or not.

Indian films are famous in Sri Lanka also, there are great number of fans of Bollywood celebrities. From 3 June to 5 June 2010, Sri Lanka will be a hub of Bollywood celebrities. If you want to meet your favorite celebrity then catch them at Colombo, Sri Lanka.

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 Habitat for Humanity

The International Indian Film Academy (IIFA) is in Sri Lanka this year, in the weekend there will be many collaboration of events that will be lead the award night. The ceremony is attended by the almost all the Bollywood celebrities.

IIFA has adopted charity and they have selected Habitat for Humanity. From this charity, they have built number home for homeless. There is expectation from the stars, that they will do more work for the homeless and for their improvement.

Habitat for Humanity globally help underprivileged people to build their house. They are focusing main on housing, to provide decent home to the people. It has a simple way also to volunteer if a person is an engineer than they help in architect. Habitat for Humanity is open for everyone.

So, IIFA Awards are the special place to from which people get help. Many stars support this charity, and help the needy people. Stars also get involve in it, get their hands dirty and build house for this noble cause.

IIFA Awards nomination list

Another successful year passed away of India cinema, now it time for results. The International Indian Film Academy has been announcing the nomination for the IFA Awards 201, which will be at Sri Lanka from 3 June to 5 June 2010. The categories of the IIFA Awards 2010 include Best Film, Best Direction, Performance in a Leading Role (Male and Female), Performance in a Leading Role (Male and Female), Performance in a Comic Role, Performance in a Negative Role, Music Direction, Best Story, Best Lyrics, and Best Playback Singer.


The list of nominations for International Indian Film Academy Awards (IIFA) 2010:

Best Film

• Vidu Vinod Chopra : 3 IDIOTS
• Boney Kapoor : WANTED
• Anurag Kashyap and Ronnie Screwvala : DEV D
• Vishal Bharadwaj and Ronnie Screwvala : KAMINEY
• Sunil Manchanda and AB Corp : PAA

Best Direction

• Rajkumar Hirani- : 3 IDIOTS
• Anurag Kashyap : DEV D
• Ayan Mukerji : WAKE UP SID
• Vishal Bharadwaj : KAMINEY
• Imtiaz Ali : LOVE AAJ KAL
• R.Balki : PAA

Performance in a Leading Role – Male

• Aamir Khan : 3 IDIOTS
• Amitabh Bachchan : PAA
• Saif Ali Khan : LOVE AAJ KAL
• Salman Khan : WANTED
• Shahid Kapoor : KAMINEY
• Ranbir Kapoor : WAKE UP SID

Performance in a Leading Role – Female

• Kareena Kapoor : 3 IDIOTS
• Priyanka Chopra : KAMINEY
• Deepika Padukone :LOVE AAJ KAL
• Vidya Balan : PAA
• Mahie Gill : DEV D

Performance in Supporting Role- Male

• Sharman Joshi : 3 IDIOTS
• Irrfan : NEW YORK
• R. Madhavan : 3 IDIOTS
• Abhimanyu Singh : GULAL
• Abhishek Bachchan : PAA
• Rishi Kapoor : LOVE AAJ KAL

Performance in Supporting Role- Female

• Kalki Koechlin : DEV D
• Arundhati Naag : PAA
• Divya Dutta : DELHI 6
• Supriya Pathak : WAKE UP SID
• Kirron Kher : KURRBAN

Performance in a Comic Role

• Omi Vaidya : 3 IDIOTS
• Ajay Devgn : ALL THE BEST
• Johny Lever : DE DANA DAN
• Govinda : LIFE PARTNER
• Sanjay Dutt : ALL THE BEST

Performance in a Negative Role

• Boman Irani : 3 IDIOTS
• Amol Gupte : KAMINEY
• Prakash Raj : WANTED
• Kay Kay Menon : GULAL
• Arya Babbar : JAIL

Music Direction

• Shantanu Moitra : 3 IDIOTS
• A.R.Rehman : DELHI 6
• Pritam : LOVE AAJ KAL
• Amit Trivedi : DEV D
• Vishal Bharadwaj : KAMINEY

Best Story

• Abhijat Joshi,Raj Kumar Hirani and Vidu Vinod Chopra : 3 IDIOTS
• Ayan Mukherji : WAKE UP SID
• Anurag Kashyap and Vikramaditya Motwane : DEV D
• Imtiaz Ali : LOVE AAJ KAL
• R.Balki : PAA

Best Lyrics

• Swanand Kirkire : 3 IDIOTS
• Prasoon Joshi : DELHI 6
• Irshad Kamil : LOVE AAJ KAL
• Gulzar : KAMINEY
• Amitabh Bhattacharya : DEV D

Playback Singer-Male

• Shaan : Behti Hawa Sa Tha Who (3 IDIOTS)
• Mohit Chauhan : Masakali (DELHI 6)
• Sonu Nigam : All Izz Well (3 IDIOTS)
• Atif Aslam : Tu Jaane Na (AJAB PREM KI GHAZAB KAHANI)
• Rahat Fateh Ali Khan : Aaj Din Chadiya (LOVE AAJ KAL)
• Sukhvinder Singh and Vishal Dadlani : Dan Te Nan (KAMINEY)

Playback Singer- Female

• Shreya Ghoshal : Zoobi Doobi ( 3 IDIOTS)
• Kavita Seth : Ek Tara (WAKE UP SID)
• Rekha Bharadwaj : Sasural Genda Phool (DELHI 6)
• Sunidhi Chauhan : Chor Baazari (LOVE AAJ KAL)
• Shilpa Rao : Moodi Moodi (PAA)
• Tulsi Kumar : Hafiz Khuda (8X10 TASVEER)

Nominations for APSA

Four Indian films have been nominated in different categories for Asia Pacific Screen Awards to be held on 26 November at Australia's Gold Coast. The four films are Dev D, A Wednesday, Tahaan and Mumbai Meri Jaan.



Director of movie Dev D, Anurag Kashyap has been nominated in the best director category for his take on Sharat Chandra Chattopadhyay's novel Devdas. For the screenplay of Mumbai Meri Jaan, Yogesh Vinayak Joshi and Upendra Sidhaye have been nominated. Tahaan is nominated in the Best Children's Film: Shripal Morakhia and Mubina Rattonsey category. The actor Naseeruddin Shah is nominated for the best actor award for his film A Wednesday.

APSA is collaboration between CNN International, UNESCO and FIAPF International Federation of Film Producers Associations. It has announced nominees in nine award categories with 37 films from 16 countries - Australia, Cambodia, India, Indonesia, Iran, Israel, Japan, New Zealand, Palestine, China, South Korea, Russia, Sri Lanka, Thailand and Turkey.