Winners of IIFA 2011 Awards

http://famoushotphoto.blogspot.com/Bollywood stars to celebrated the 12th International India Film Academy (IIFA) awards ceremony in Toronto, Canada. Shahrukh Khan was one of the favourites to win, along with Salman Khan blockbuster Debangg.

"so much love need to return the warmth"

Toronto, Canada, was the host for the 2011 International Indian Film Academy Awards. On Saturday, June 25, 2011 at 8pm, the Rogers Centre in Toronto held the12th IIFA Awards.

The glitzy affair with stars from Bollywood in downtown Toronto meant road closures around the event area. Bollywood fans arrived as early as 7.30am at the Rogers Centre in order to be at the front of the reception to see stars arrive.
As the stars descended on the green, the evening received a raptus reception from thousands of fans screaming and shouting to get a glimpse of some of the biggest names in Bollywood.
Lisa Ray, Irfan Khan, Sunny Deol, Bobby Deol, Anil Kapoor with Hilary Swank (Hollywood actress), Shilpa Shetty, and Bipasha Basu, Shahrukh Khan with Ontario’s premier Dalton McGuinty and Asha Bhonsle were amongst some of the names to be the arrivals wowing the crowds at the venue.
The IIFA awards event sold-out live to accommodate an audience of 22,000 in the Rogers Centre. Television broadcasts and pay per view also attracted approximately another 700 million viewers.
The awards ceremony was hosted by Riteish Deshmukh and Boman Irani. Performances on the night included Shahrukh Khan on stage, who tweeted on Twitter before his performance and said: “Iifa begins…nervous cos of my knee pain…hope I entertain the audience enuff…so much love need to return the warmth,” Kangana Ranuat and the Deols with over colourful 200 dancers on stage.
Here is the list of the winners of the 2011 IIFA Awards:
Best Film
Dabangg
Best Direction
Karan Johar (My Name Is Khan)
Leading Role Male
Shahrukh Khan (My Name Is Khan)
Leading Role Female
Anushka Sharma (Band Baaja Baaraat)
Supporting Role Male
Arjun Rampal (Raajneeti)
Supporting Role Female
Prachi Desai (Once Upon A Time In Mumbaai)
Comic Role
Riteish Deshmukh (Housefull)
Negative Role
Sonu Sood (Dabangg)
Debut Male
Ranveer Singh
Debut Female
Sonakshi Sinah (Dabangg)
Best Story
Shibani Bhatija (My Name Is Khan)
Screenplay
Dilip Shukla, Abhinav Kashyap (Dabangg)
Dialogue
Vishal Bhardwaj (Ishqiya)
Music Direction
Sajid – Wajid & Lalit Pandit (Dabangg)
Lyrics
Niranjan Iyengar (My Name Is Khan – Sajdaa)
Playback Singer Male
Rahat Fateh Ali Khan (Dabangg – Tere Mast Mast Do Nain)
Playback Singer Female
Mamta Sharma (Dabangg – Munni Badnam)
Outstanding Achievement in International Cinema
Irrfan Khan
Lifetime Achievement Award
Asha Bhonsle
Outstanding Contribution to Indian cinema
Dharmendra (50 years in cinema)
Outstanding Achievement in Indian cinema
Sharmila Tagore
Best On-Screen Jodi
Anuksha Sharma and Ranveer Singh (Band Baaja Baaraat)
Special ‘Green’ Award
Priyanka Chopra
On the night before the main awards, the technical awards were given out and Salman Khan’s ‘Dabangg’ and ‘Band Baaja Baaraat’ led the technical award winners with three trophies each. ‘Dabangg’ won Best Choreography for the hit song, ‘Munni Badnaam Hui’ choreographed by Farah Khan, and Leslie Fernandes won Best song recording. The film also won the award for Best Action by S Vijayan.
Maneesh Sharma’s ‘Band Baaja Baaraat’ won three awards/ Best Editing for Namrata Rao, Song Recording for Vijay Dayal’s ‘Ainvayi Ainvayi’ and Costume Designing by Niharika Khan.
Shankar, Ehsaan, Loy won the award for the best background score for ‘My Name Is Khan’ and Pritam Das won for Best Sound Recording for ‘Love, Sex aur Dhoka.’ Sudeep Chatterjee won the award for Best Cinematographer for ‘Guzaarish.’
Rajnikanth and Aishwariya Rai Bachchan film ‘Robot’ won Best Art Director for Sabu Cyril and the awards for Special Effects by Indian Artists and Make-up by Banu.
Looks like the 2011 IIFA Awards were a Dabangg affair and of course SRK didn’t miss out by winning Best Actor. All in all everyone at the event was elated to win or just be there. A great show put together by Wizcraft and Toronto.
Once again IIFA has completed a spectacular show with all the razzmatazz of Bollywood; celebrating a year of exciting, interesting, nostalgic and innovative Indian cinema. This first North American show definitely has opened the doors for brand IIFA and all that comes with it.

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Shah Rukh Khan's "My Name Is Khan" : Questions of religious and national identity

Movie Review: ‘My Name Is Khan’
Director: Karan Johan
 Cast: Shah Rukh Khan, Kajol, Jimmy Shergill, Zarina Wahab

Questions of religious and national identity, of the sense of right and wrong, of combating a certain isolation that comes with a behavioural disorder. But what triumphs over all the complexities unfolding in a tumultuous post 9/11 America is Rizwan Khan and his essential goodness that tells you unwaveringly – his name is Khan and he is not a terrorist.
Director Karan Johar is in unfamiliar territory here. The super intelligent Rizwan, who has Asperger’s Syndrome, a form of autism, his halting voice with his inability to communicate, and his many relationships – with his mother, his brother, and yes, Mandira, and her son Sam.
Rizwan who finds love and loses it some years later when his Khan identity becomes all important in a tense, suspicious America. You sit through three hours waiting to get a glimpse of Shah Rukh through Rizwan Khan, but it doesn’t happen.  All credit to Karan Johar for that.
If Shah Rukh lives and breathes Rizwan in what is one of his finest roles, Kajol as Mandira, the vivacious single mother, is also good – as always. The chemistry between them if not always crackling, then heartwarming..
Like a piece of music that gradually rises to grand crescendo, ‘My Name Is Khan’ begins with Rizwan as a child with his mother – so good to see Zarina Wahab after such a long time – in a tenement in Mumbai and ends with cheers from the US’ first African American president in a crowded rally.
It’s from his mother that Rizwan learns his first lessons of humanity; as the 1983 Mumbai riots rage outside, she tells the young boy that the world is divided into good people and bad people.
It is this essential humanism that carries Rizwan through from Mumbai to San Francisco where his brother stays, then to the suburb of Banville where he moves in with Mandira and Sam, and even when he is taken to be a terror suspect.
Sam, his ‘only best friend’, is subjected to a vicious race attack because he takes on Rizwan’s surname. Mandira hits back, saying that the worst thing she could have done was marry a Khan and Rizwan is out on the roads – unable to articulate his feelings but backpacking his way across the US to meet ‘president sahib’ so he can tell him: ‘My name is Khan and I am not a terrorist.’
It is a road journey through a troubled post 9/11 America towards humanism and the essential goodness of the human spirit.
This is a US where chanting the name of Allah gets you into trouble, where the word terrorist and Khan in conjunction can put you behind bars. Rizwan moves from being a terror suspect to a nationwide hero who exposes a terror mastermind. And then, the man with the mission who travels to Wilhelmina that is literally drowning in a hurricane to supervise a heroic rescue mission.
There’s Afghanistan and Iraq, Bush and Obama too. The US’ first African American president is voted in and, in that final feel good moment Rizwan meets him in front of thousands of people and his goodness is validated.
Plenty of great one liners. When he is refused entry into a presidential fundraiser for the poor in Africa that is only for Christians, he leaves behind $500 saying: ‘This if for those who are not Christians in Africa.’
The music by Shankar Ehsaan Loy is superb. This is not a film without flaws, it is at least 20 minutes too long for one and flags in the pre-interval period, but here is one straight from the heart. It has a message, in these days of tensions over language and religion, one which needs to be heard.