IIFA Awards 2009: Host Nation and Nominations Announced

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IIFA Awards 2009: Host Nation and Nominations Announced

Thursday 30-04-2009

Words: Sangita Sharma

Bollywood megastar Amitabh Bachchan has declared Macau as the host for the 2009 10th International Indian Film Academy (IIFA) awards.

Branded as Asia’s very own Las Vegas, Macau resides in the south eastern coast of China, offering a sky line of grandiose sky scrapers, neon lights and ancient temples.

The city oozes money and boasts 26 gambling facilities along the Cotai Strip, attracting high rollers from around the world - perfect for the Bollywood glitterati attending the ceremony who might fancy their chances on striking it rich.

Since the 2000 inaugural ceremony in London’s Millennium Dome (now the O2 Centre), the prestigious IIFA Awards have taken place in many sexy locations including South Africa’s Sun City (2001), Dubai (2006), [ahem] Yorkshire (2007) and Thailand (2008), therefore Macau seems the natural destination to host this year‘s event.

Big B himself sighted Macau as “a fantastic place, a great tourist attraction. It is perhaps one of the richest states in the world today. I’m quite certain that with the IIFA being held there, there will be a great amount of interest".

Alongside the announcement of the official venue for the 10th IIFA Awards, Amitabh Bachchan also declared the nominations for this year’s ceremony which are decided through a unique voting system. In praise of the ‘transparent’ voting process exercised by IIFA Mr. Bachchan professed the credibility of the awards:

"I know how this [voting system] functions and I think this is a very fair way of doing it. Everyone comes and casts their vote on a computer, no one is provoked, you have your own voting cubicle which is much like the voting which happens in a democratic society”.

The three day affair will commence on June 11th where the likes of Kareena Kapoor and current squeeze Saif Ali Khan, Karan Johar, Ranbir Kapoor and Katrina Kaif will be donning their poker faces as well as their designer gear for the celebrated event.

Until then this will give you something to chew over… the nominations are in - it’s now a waiting game to see who’s won what in which category and in true Brit-Asian fashion, we want to know your thoughts…who do you think should win a gong in each category? Are the nominees worthy of a nod and who do you think was snubbed?

The 2009 IIFA Nominations:

Best Film
A Wednesday
Dostana
Ghajini
Jodhaa Akbar
Race
Rock On

Best Director
A.R. Murugadoss - Ghajini
Madhur Bhandarkar - Fashion
Abhishek Kapoor - Rock On
Ashutosh Gowariker - Jodhaa Akbar
Neeraj Pandey - A Wednesday

Best Actor in a Leading Role (Male)
Aamir Khan - Ghajini
Abhishek Bachchan - Dostana
Hrithik Roshan - Jodhaa Akbar
Naseeruddin Shah - A Wednesday
Shah Rukh Khan - Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi

Best Actor in a Leading Role (Female)
Aishwarya Rai Bachchan - Jodhaa Akbar
Asin - Ghajini
Bipasha Basu - Race
Katrina Kaif - Singh is Kinng
Priyanka Chopra - Fashion

Best Actor in a Supporting Role (Male)
Abhishek Bachchan - Sarkar Raj
Arjun Rampal - Rock On
Irrfan Khan - Mumbai Meri Jaan
Sonu Sood - Jodhaa Akbar
Vinay Pathak - Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi

Best Actor in a Supporting Role (Female)
Bipasha Basu- Bachna Ae Haseeno
Ila Arun - Jodhaa Akbar
Kiron Kher - Dostana
Shahana Goswami - Rock On
Kangana Ranaut - Fashion

Best Actor in a Comic Role
Abhishek Bachchan - Dostana
Anil Kapoor- Race
Rajpal Yadav - Bhoothnath
Tejpal Singh - Jodhaa Akbar
Shreyas Talpade - Welcome to Sajjanpur
Tusshar Kapoor - Golmaal Returns

Best Actor in a Negative Role
Akshaye Khanna - Race
Imran Khan - Kidnap
Paresh Rawal - Oye Lucky Lucky Oye
Pradeep Rawat - Ghajini
Vishwas Badola - Jodhaa Akbar

Best Story
Abhishek Kapoor - Rock On
Haidar Ali - Jodhaa Akbar
Madhur Bhandarkar, Ajay Monga, Anuradha Tiwari - Fashion
Neeraj Pandey - A Wednesday
Shiraz Ahmed - Race

Best Music
A.R.Rahman - Jodhaa Akbar
A.R.Rahman- Ghajini
Pritam - Race
Shankar Ehsaan Loy - Rock On
Vishal Shekhar - Dostana

Best Lyrics
Anvita Dutt Gupta - Khuda Jaane (Bachna Ae Haseeno)
Jaideep Sahni - Haule Haule (Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi)
Javed Akhtar - Jashn-E-Bahara (Jodhaa Akbar)
Javed Akhtar- Socha Hai (Rock On)
Sameer - Pehli Nazar Mein (Race)

Best Playback Singer (Male)
Atif Aslam - Pehli Nazar Mein (Race)
Farhan Akhtar - Socha Hai (Rock On)
Javed Ali - Jashn-E-Baharaa (Jodhaa Akbar)
KK- Khuda Jaane (Bachna Ae Haseeno)
Sukhwinder Singh - Haule Haule (Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi)

Best Playback Singer (Female)
Bela Shinde - Man Mohana (Jodhaa Akbar)
Monali - Zara Zara Touch Me (Race)
Shilpa Rao - Khuda Jaane (Bachna Ae Haseeno)
Shreya Ghoshal - Teri Ore (Singh is Kinng)
Sunidhi Chauhan - Desi Girl (Dostana)

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Comments

Comment posted by Italian Stallion on 30 April 2009 12:00

Akshaye Khanna deserves to win the Best Actor in Negative role for his work in Race - he did a great job and deserves recognition.

Comment posted by Ashraf Hussain (British Bangladeshi) on 30 April 2009 16:43

Abishek Bachchan - lead and comic?

Bipasha and katrina for lead actress?

Race - best fil nominee?

Must have been a terrible year for indian cinema - erm sorry i meant bollywood cinema

IIFA awards ryt? so y only bollywood? whats the diference between this one and the national film awards?

BTW (by the way) - Slumdog Millionaire is a British Movie filmed in India!

was Asin in the movie long enuff to be considered lead actress?

Comment posted by RAGINI on 30 April 2009 18:52

bipasha basu-race??
katrina kaif-singh is king?? when haz dat gal eva acted??
anushka sharma waz nominated for best actress in filmdfare??
TERRIBLE NOMINATIONS!!

Comment posted by aghosh m c on 01 May 2009 06:06

where is kajol for u me aur hum...noone in the list can beat her in acting.y those bips and kats are there in the nominations.do they know what is acting?>

Comment posted by aghosh m c on 01 May 2009 06:07

where is kajol for u me aur hum...noone in the list can beat her in acting.y those bips and kats are there in the nominations.do they know what is acting?>

Comment posted by pranav on 01 May 2009 21:34

I guess IIFA, should be called the Amitabh awards or Bachchan awards, guess which ones would SRK call his own, FILMFARE or? and the next actor/superstar his own and next...they can go on and on about themselves, nothing but self absorbed people they are. only saving grace for me was Naseer being nominated after such and such a long time, remember the early 80's, when naseer, shabana, smita, om puri were always in the awards, I guess no one has stepped into their shoes.

Comment posted by kk on 22 May 2009 18:53

where is akshay kumar in nominations only he ROCKS iifa awards

Comment posted by Monique Stuart on 23 May 2009 16:44

I guess IIFA, could be called the Amitabh festival.

I think that Umar Khan also did good in Jodhaa Akbar with
Aishwarya Rai Bachchan.

Aamir Khan deserves to win the Best Actor in a Leading (Male)Role for his work in Ghajini - he did a great job and deserves big time recognition.