The 2011 IIFA Awards: And the winner is…

Were you there? Do you have a story to tell? Do you have photos? We want to hear from you. Give us your comments, upload your pictures. Let’s all share our memories of this night of nights! Toronto photograher Annandi Merhai was there following the event and has already uploaded her pictures from some of the pre-award show events and the big show itself. Check out June 23rd, June 24th, and June 25th.

All of today’s papers are running stories about last night’s event. The glitz and the glamour seems to have enthralled everyone as enthusiasm for both the participants and the audience was running high. The Globe joked that the award ceremony “opened with a Dabangg” as the Salman Khan movie walked away with 10 awards including Best Film and Best Screenplay. However, in a bit of a surprise, Best Actor did not go to Salman Khan but went instead to Shahrukh Khan, the star of the film “My Name is Khan”. This melodrama about Muslims facing backlash after the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks also picked up four other awards including best director for Karan Johar.

CTV reports that of the 22,000 tickets available to the public , roughly 16,000 of the sold out in minutes. If you were lucky enough to get a seat, prices varied between $49 and $125 and supposedly resellers were offering last-minute tickets online for as much as $1,500 each.

Reuters added that while tens of thousands were in attendance at a Toronto stadium for the 12th edition of the IIFA awards, a worldwide TV audience of up to 700 million viewers were expected to have tuned in for the show.

Debuting in 2000 in London, the IIFAs have been held on four continents in cities including Dubai, Bangkok, Colombo, Singapore, Macau and Johannesburg but never in India. The idea, organisers said, is to present Bollywood not in its home country but on a global stage.

(CTV, The Global and Mail, Reuters)

The Toronto Sun: the newspaper’s photo gallery of the Saturday event

FYI: We discovered that there was no live streaming of the big show. Apparently the IIFA awards have never been streamed live. Go figure.

The following video comes from user smsr101’s cellphone. Not the best but it’s something and it’s live.

Uploaded by smsr101 on Jun 26, 2011
IIFA Awards 2011 Toronto

Uploaded by krutinikunj on Jun 26, 2011
IIFA-2011 Toronto – 25th June – Nikunj & Kruti

Uploaded by JaiHindPremi on Jun 26, 2011
Shah Rukh Khan closing dance, “Om Shanti Om” (Deewangi)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=423VNivWOd0

Winners from the 2011 IIFA Awards

Best Film: Dabangg

Best Director: Karan Johar, My Name Is Khan

Best Actor: Shah Rukh Khan, My Name Is Khan

Best Actress: Anushka Sharma, Band Baaja Baaraat

Best Supporting Actor: Arjun Rampal, Raajneeti

Best Supporting Actress: Prachi Desai, Once Upon A Time In Mumbaai

Best Actor In A Comic Role: Riteish Deshmukh, Housefull

Best Performance In A Negative Role: Sonu Sood, Dabangg

Achievement In International Cinema: Irrfan Khan

Best Female Debut: Sonakshi Sinha, Dabangg

Best Male Debut: Ranvir Singh, Band Baaja Baaraat

Hottest Pair 2011: Anushka Sharma and Ranvir Singh

Outstanding Achievement in Indian Cinema: Sharmila Tagore

Best Screenplay Award: Abhinav Kashyap, Dilip Shukla, Dabangg

Best Female Playback Singer: Mamta Sharma, Munni Badnaam Hui in Dabangg

Best Male Playback Singer: Rahat Fateh Ali Khan, Tere Mast Mast Do Nain, Dabangg

Best Music Direction: Sajid-Wajid and Lalit Pandit, Dabangg

Best Lyrics: Niranjan Iyengar for Saajda, My Name is Khan

Best Story Award: Shivani Bhatija, My Name is Khan

Best Costume Designing: Niharika Khan, Band Baaja Baaraat

Best Action: S Vijayan, Dabangg Best Makeup: Banu (for actor Rajinikanth), Robot

Best Background Score: Shankar, Ehsaan, Loy, My Name Is Khan

Best Song Recording: Vijay Dayal, Ainvayi Ainvayi, Band Baaja Baaraat

Best Choreography Award: Farah Khan, Munni Badnaam, Dabangg

Best Editing: Namrata Rao, Band Baaja Baaraat

Best Sound Recording: Pritam Das, Love, Sex Aur Dhokha

Best Sound Re-recording: Leslie Fernandes, Dabangg

Best Cinematography: Sudeep Chatterjee, Guzaarish

Best Art Direction: Sabu Cyril, Robot

Best Special Effects: Indian Artists, Robot

References

Wikipedia: Dabangg

Dabangg (English: Fearless) is a 2010 Indian action film, directed by Abhinav Kashyap in his directorial debut and produced by Arbaaz Khan under the Arbaaz Khan Productions. The lead actors in the film include Arbaaz’s elder brother, Salman Khan and Sonakshi Sinha. The film marks the debut of Sonakshi as an actor, Arbaaz as a producer and Abhinav Kashyap, brother of director Anurag Kashyap, as a director. It also features Arbaaz Khan, Om Puri, Dimple Kapadia, Vinod Khanna, Anupam Kher, Mahesh Manjrekar and Mahie Gill in supporting roles while Sonu Sood plays the main antagonist. Malaika Arora appears in an item number. The theatrical trailer of the film was released on 23 July 2010. Dabangg was released on Eid, 10 September 2010 across nearly 1,800 screens in India and abroad.

The film broke many records at the box office within the first week of its release. It went on to become the highest opening day grosser as well as the highest weekend grossing Bollywood film of all time, breaking the records earlier held by 3 Idiots. The film set another box office record, grossing 80.87 crore (US$18.03 million) in its first week, thus becoming the highest opening week grossing Bollywood film, overtaking the previous record of 3 Idiots. Made on a budget of 42 crore, the film went on to collect Indian Rupee symbol.svg 212 crore worldwide. Box office India declared the film an all-time blockbuster in the second week of its release. It is currently the second highest-grossing Bollywood film of all time and the fourth highest grossing Indian film of all time. It is also the highest-grossing Bollywood film of 2010. The film also went on to win several awards, winning six Filmfare Awards, including the Filmfare Best Film Award, seven Star Screen Awards including the Best Actor Award for Salman, and nine Zee Cine Awards. It also won the National Film Award for Best Popular Film Providing Wholesome Entertainment.

Wikipedia: Shahrukh Khan

Shahrukh Khan (born 2 November 1965), often credited as Shah Rukh Khan, is an Indian film actor, as well as a film producer and television host. Often referred to as “The King of Bollywood”, Khan has acted in over 70 Hindi films.

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