8th IIFA Awards

The official logo of the 2007 IIFA Awards

Date

7 June 2007–
9 June 2007

Site

Hallam FM Arena
Sheffield, England

Host

Highlights

Best Picture

Rang De Basanti

Best Direction

Rajkumar Hirani
(Lage Raho Munna Bhai)

Best Actor

Hrithik Roshan
(Krrish)

Best Actress

Rani Mukerji
(Kabhi Alvida Naa Kehna)

Most awards

Rang De Basanti (11)

Most nominations

Rang De Basanti (21)

Television coverage

Channel

Star Plus

Network

STAR TV

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The 2007 IIFA Awards, officially known as the 8th International Indian Film Academy Awards ceremony, presented by the International Indian Film Academy honoured the best films of 2006 and took place between June 7–9, 2007. The official ceremony took place on June 9, 2007, at the Hallam FM Arena in Sheffield, England. During the ceremony, IIFA Awards were awarded in 29 competitive categories. The ceremony was televised in India and internationally on Star Plus. Actors Boman Irani and Lara Dutta co-hosted the ceremony for the first time.

Some other salient events held during this weekend included the IIFA World Premiere, IIFA-BAFTA Film Workshop, FICCI-IIFA Global Business Forum and the IIFA Foundation Celebrity Charity Cricket Match.^[1]

The tag line of the IIFA 2007 was IIFA 2007: Yorkshire "Love At First Sight".

Rang De Basanti received twenty one nominations out of the total twenty nine and won eleven awards, two of which were popular awards: (Best Picture, Best Performance In A Supporting Role Female) Omkara and Lage Raho Munna Bhai won four awards each. Other multiple winners included Krrish with three awards and Dhoom 2 and Fanaa with two each. In addition movies receiving a single awards included, Kabhi Alvida Naa Kehna for (Best Performance In A Leading Role Female), Golmaal: Fun Unlimited for (Best Performance In A Comic Role), 36 China Town for (Male Debutant Star) and Gangster for (Female Debutant Star).

Rajkumar Hirani and A. R. Rahman each won three awards in the event.

Background

The awards began in 2000 and the first ceremony was held in London at The Millennium Dome. From then on the awards were held at locations around the world signifying the international success of Bollywood. The next award ceremony was announced to be held in Bangkok, Thailand in 2008.^[2] The award ceremonies are held in various places around the world.

Winners and nominees

Winners are listed first and highlighted in boldface.^[1]^[3]

Popular awards

Rajkumar Hirani (Best Director)

Hrithik Roshan (Best Actor)

Rani Mukerji (Best Actress)

Arshad Warsi (Best Supporting Actor)

Soha Ali Khan (Best Supporting Actress)

style="background:#FFC1CC;" ! style="width="50%" \| Best Picture	style="background:#FFC1CC;" ! style="width="50%" \| Best Director
Rang De Basanti – UTV Motion Pictures Kabhi Alvida Naa Kehna – Dharma Productions and Yash Raj Films Krrish – Filmkraft Productions (I) Pvt. Ltd. Dhoom 2 – Yash Raj Films and AMC Entertainment Vivah – Rajshri Productions Lage Raho Munna Bhai – Vinod Chopra Productions	Rajkumar Hirani – Lage Raho Munna Bhai Rakesh Roshan – Krrish Karan Johar – Kabhi Alvida Naa Kehna Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra – Rang De Basanti Vishal Bhardwaj – Omkara
style="background:#FFC1CC;" ! style="width="50%" \| Best Performance In A Leading Role Male	style="background:#FFC1CC;" ! style="width="50%" \| Best Performance In A Leading Role Female
*Hrithik Roshan – Krrish* as Krishna Mehra / Rohit Mehra / Krrish** Shah Rukh Khan – Don as Don / Vijay Sanjay Dutt – Lage Raho Munnabhai as Murli Prasad Sharma or "Munna Bhai" Ajay Devgn – Omkara as Omkara 'Omi' Shukla Aamir Khan – Rang De Basanti as Daljeet 'DJ' / Chandrashekhar Azad	*Rani Mukerji – Kabhi Alvida Naa Kehna* as Maya Talwar** Aishwarya Rai – Dhoom 2 as Sunehri Kajol – Fanaa as Zooni Ali Beg Kangana Ranaut – Gangster as Simran Vidya Balan – Lage Raho Munna Bhai as Jhanvi Kareena Kapoor – Omkara as Dolly Mishra
style="background:#FFC1CC;" ! style="width="50%" \| Best Performance In A Supporting Role Male	style="background:#FFC1CC;" ! style="width="50%" \| Best Performance In A Supporting Role Female
*Arshad Warsi – Lage Raho Munna Bhai* as Circuit** Amitabh Bachchan – Kabhi Alvida Naa Kehna as Samarjit Singh Talwar (Sexy Sam) Abhishek Bachchan – Kabhi Alvida Naa Kehna as Rishi Talwar Kunal Kapoor – Rang De Basanti as Aslam / Ashfaqullah Khan Atul Kulkarni – Rang De Basanti as Laxman Pandey / Ramprasad Bismil	*Soha Ali Khan – Rang De Basanti* as Sonia / Durga Bhabi** Bipasha Basu – Dhoom 2 as Shonali Bose / Monali Bose Rekha – Krrish as Sonia Mehra Konkona Sen Sharma – Omkara as Indu Kirron Kher – Rang De Basanti as Mitro
style="background:#FFC1CC;" ! style="width="50%" \| Best Performance In A Comic Role	style="background:#FFC1CC;" ! style="width="50%" \| Best Performance In A Negative Role
*Tusshar Kapoor – Golmaal: Fun Unlimited* as Lucky Gill** Chunkey Pandey – Apna Sapna Money Money as Rana Jang Bahadur Paresh Rawal – Phir Hera Pheri as Baburao Ganpatrao Apte Uday Chopra – Dhoom 2 as Ali Akbar Fateh Khan Sharman Joshi – Rang De Basanti as Sukhi / Rajguru	*Saif Ali Khan – Omkara* as Ishwar 'Langda' Tyagi** Hrithik Roshan – Dhoom 2 as Aryan / Mr. "A" Emraan Hashmi – Gangster as Akash Boman Irani – Lage Raho Munna Bhai as Lucky Singh John Abraham – Zinda as Rohit Chopra
style="background:#FFC1CC;" ! style="width="50%" \| Male Debutant Star	style="background:#FFC1CC;" ! style="width="50%" \| Female Debutant Star
*Upen Patel – 36 China Town* as Rocky**	*Kangana Ranaut – Gangster* as Simran**

Musical awards

style="background:#FFC1CC;" ! style="width="50%" \| Best Music Director	style="background:#FFC1CC;" ! style="width="50%" \| Best Lyrics
A. R. Rahman – Rang De Basanti Shankar–Ehsaan–Loy – Kabhi Alvida Naa Kehna Rajesh Roshan – Krrish Pritam – Dhoom 2 Vishal Bhardwaj – Omkara	*"Chand Sifarish" from Fanaa* – Prasoon Joshi** "Beedi" from Omkara – Gulzar "Ru Baroo" from Rang De Basanti – Prasoon Joshi "Kabhi Alvida Naa Kehna" from Kabhi Alvida Naa Kehna – Javed Akhtar "Crazy Kiya Re" from Dhoom 2 – Sameer
style="background:#FFC1CC;" ! style="width="50%" \| Best Male Playback Singer	style="background:#FFC1CC;" ! style="width="50%" \| Best Female Playback Singer
Shaan for ""Chand Sifarish" – Fanaa Zubeen Garg for "Ya Ali" – Gangster Sonu Nigam for "Kabhi Alvida Naa Kehna" – Kabhi Alvida Naa Kehna KK for "Tu Hi Meri shab" – Gangster A. R. Rahman and Naresh Iyer for "Ru Baroo" - Rang De Basanti	Sunidhi Chauhan for "Beedi" – Omkara Shreya Ghoshal for "Pal Pal" – Lage Raho Munnabhai Alka Yagnik for "Kabhi Alvida Naa Kehna" – Kabhi Alvida Naa Kehna Lata Mangeshkar for "Luka Chhupi" – Rang De Basanti Sunidhi Chauhan for "Crazy Kiya Re" – Dhoom 2
style="background:#FFC1CC;" ! style="width="50%" \| Best Song Recording	style="background:#FFC1CC;" ! style="width="50%" \| Best Background score
Rang De Basanti – A. R. Rahman	Rang De Basanti – A. R. Rahman

Backstage awards

style="background:#FFC1CC;" ! style="width="50%" \| Best Story	style="background:#FFC1CC;" ! style="width="50%" \| Best Screenplay
Lage Raho Munna Bhai – Rajkumar Hirani Dhoom 2 – Aditya Chopra Krrish – Rakesh Roshan Omkara – Vishal Bhardwaj Rang De Basanti - Kamlesh Pandey	Rang De Basanti – Rensil D'Silva and Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra Dhoom 2 – Vijay Krishna Acharya Lage Raho Munnabhai – Abhijat Joshi, Rajkumar Hirani and Vidhu Vinod Chopra Omkara – Vishal Bhardwaj, Abhishek Chaubey and Robin Bhatt Gangster - Anurag Basu
style="background:#FFC1CC;" ! style="width="50%" \| Best Dialogue
Abhijat Joshi and Rajkumar Hirani for Lage Raho Munnabhai Girish Dhamija for Gangster Sanjay Masoom for Krrish Vishal Bhardwaj for Omkara Prasoon Joshi and Rensil D’silva for Rang De Basanti

Technical awards

style="background:#FFC1CC;" ! style="width="50%" \| Best Art Direction	style="background:#FFC1CC;" ! style="width="50%" \| Best Action
Rang De Basanti – Samir Chanda	Krrish – Tony Siutung and Shyam Kushal
style="background:#FFC1CC;" ! style="width="50%" \| Best Cinematographer	style="background:#FFC1CC;" ! style="width="50%" \| Best Choreography
Rang De Basanti – Binod Pradhan	Beedi Jalaile from Omkara – Ganesh Acharya
style="background:#FFC1CC;" ! style="width="50%" \| Best Costume Design	style="background:#FFC1CC;" ! style="width="50%" \| Best Editing
Dhoom 2 – Anaita Adajania	Rang De Basanti – P.S. Bharathi
style="background:#FFC1CC;" ! style="width="50%" \| Best Makeup	style="background:#FFC1CC;" ! style="width="50%" \| Best Sound Recording
Dhoom 2 – G.A. James	Rang De Basanti – Nakul Kamte
style="background:#FFC1CC;" ! style="width="50%" \| Best Sound Re-Recording	style="background:#FFC1CC;" ! style="width="50%" \| Best Special Effects
Rang De Basanti – Hitendra Gosh	Krrish – EFX studios

Special Award for Best Adaptation

Vishal Bhardwaj for Omkara, adapted from Shakespeare’s Othello

Outstanding Achievement by an Indian in International Cinema

Deepa Mehta

Lifetime Achievement Award

Multiple nominations and awards

The following eleven films received multiple nominations:

Twenty One: Rang De Basanti
Thirteen: Omkara
Twelve: Dhoom 2
Ten: Lage Raho Munna Bhai
Nine: Kabhi Alvida Naa Kehna and Krrish
Seven: Gangster
Three: Fanaa

The following films received multiple awards:

Eleven: Rang De Basanti
Four: Omkara and Lage Raho Munna Bhai
Three:Krrish & Dhoom 2
Two: Fanaa

References

↑ 1.0 1.1 ":: Welcome To International Indian Film Academy::". Iifa.com. Retrieved 2012-06-13.
↑ "Showcase: IIFA 2008 – Thailand". IIFA. Retrieved 2012-06-13.
↑ 3.0 3.1 Andre Soares (2007-06-02). "Indian Film Academy Awards 2007". Altfg.com. Retrieved 2012-06-13.

IIFA Awards

Main awards	Best Movie Best Director Best Actor Best Actress Best Supporting Actor Best Supporting Actress Best Performance in a Negative Role Best Performance in a Comic Role Star Debut of the Year – Male Star Debut of the Year – Female Best Music Director Best Lyricist Best Playback Singer Male Best Playback Singer Female

Technical awards	Best Art Direction Best Action Best Background Score Best Cinematography Best Choreography Best Costume Design Best Dialogue Best Editing Best Makeup Best Screenplay Best Sound Recording Best Sound Re-Recording Best Special Effects Best Story

Special awards	Style Icon Style Diva Most Glamorous Star of the Year Hottest Pair Lifetime Achievement Award

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