IIFA Awards to be hosted by Boman Irani and Ritesh Deshmukh

With their inimitable humor, Boman Irani and Ritesh Deshmukh had the audience in splits at the International Indian Film Academy (IIFA) awards last year in Bangkok. The duo is all over again set to play hosts to the glitzy cine event that will be held in Macau.

Apart from spoofs on popular movies and their witty jokes, Boman Irani had even donned a Scottish skirt during the show much to the amusement of the viewers. This year as well the Boman and Ritesh are ready to create fun riot on the stage. Sounds interesting !!!

Also completing a decade of its existence, the star-studded event will be held at the Venetian Macao Resort Hotel at Macau starting June 11-13.

There will be host of Indian celebrities as well as international film personalities including brand ambassador megastar Amitabh Bachchan and his family, actors Hrithik Roshan, Jab We Met superstar-Shahid Kapur, Neil Nitin Mukesh, Kangana Ranaut, Priyanka Chopra and Lara Dutta at the three-day-long weekend.

American actor John Terry might also grace the event, it added. Sonam Kapoor, the Delhi 6 cute girl will also be making her debut on stage at this event.

Wizcraft International Entertainment Pvt Ltd, the organizers of the event have promised a whole set of surprises for the 10th year celebrations.

The IIFA Awards 2009 - "Coming Soon"

On its journey of celebrating Indian Cinema across the world, IIFA
Awards has spread the magic of Indian cinema to various exotic locales
around the world.



Toronto with its arge [South] Asian community shall pull through the
10th IIFA Awards, this would mean a tourism boost for Toronto which
was recently demonstrated when 30, 000 visitors poured into Yorkshire
for the awards earlier this year.

Other areas in competition for the 2009 awards show were New York,
Cologne and Turin though Toronto is now finalized as awards
destination. The venue was proposed by IIFA ambassador Amitabh
Bachchan while he was promoting his film The Last Lear in Toronto.

Wherever IIFA has left its mark, it has promoted the business of
Indian Cinema and provided it an impetus. Starting with the Millennium
Dome, London, IIFA has traveled through Sun City, Malaysia,
Johannesburg, Singapore, Amsterdam & Dubai,Yorkshire in 2007 and
Bagkok in 2008.


The IIFA Awards 2009, which are in its tenth year now, had hold its
voting process from 6 - 8 March.Each year actors, directors,
producers, technicians, composers and behind the scenes communities
cast their votes, which would decide the nominations for the main
awards.

The IIFA Voting process is a stringent and methodical procedure that
is closely monitored by Pricewaterhouse Coopers (PwC), the official
auditors for the event. The popular category nominations are put up on
online for the global audience to participate in the voting process.

Around a thousand people on average from the film industry from
directors to spot boys come in each year to vote at the weekend.

IIFA Advisory Board member& Producer Manmohan Shetty said, “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. The Technical Award winners and the Popular Award nominations
are derived from this voting weekend.”