7th IIFA Awards

The 2006 IIFA Awards, officially known as the 7th International Indian Film Academy Awards ceremony, presented by the International Indian Film Academy honoured the best films of 2005 and took place between 15–17 June 2006. Dubai, with its old world charm and new age dynamism played host to the 3 day IIFA Weekend and its many events.

7th IIFA Awards
The official logo of the 2006 IIFA Awards
Date	15 June 2006– 17 June 2006
Site	Dubai International Convention Centre Dubai, UAE
Hosted by	Fardeen Khan Lara Dutta
Highlights
Best Picture	Black
Best Direction	Sanjay Leela Bhansali (Black)
Best Actor	Amitabh Bachchan (Black)
Best Actress	Rani Mukerji (Black)
Most awards	Black (9)
Most nominations	Parineeta (17)
Television coverage
Channel	Star Plus
Network	STAR TV

The official ceremony took place on 17 June 2006, at the Dubai International Convention Centre, in Dubai, UAE.[1] During the ceremony, IIFA Awards were awarded in 29 competitive categories. The ceremony was televised in India and internationally on Star Plus. Actors Fardeen Khan and Lara Dutta co-hosted the ceremony. Fardeen had also co-hosted the 2005 IIFA awards while Lara had hosted the 2002 awards

The weekend began with the IIFA Inaugural Press Conference. This was followed by the IIFA World Premiere of Jagmohan Mundra's 'Provoked'. The world premiere also featured south Indian films viz., Chandramukhi, Kannathil Muthamittal, Nayakan, Pokiri, Autograph, Anniyan and Ayutha Ezhuthu.[2] A unique IIFA Foundation Fashion Extravaganza was also hosted to raise funds for the IIFA Foundation.[3]

Parineeta received a total of seventeen nominations out of the total twenty nine categories but could only manage to win six, out of which only the (Female Debutant Star) was among the popular one. Black, on the other hand, won nine out of its eleven nominations. Among them the popular awards included: (Best Picture, Best Director, Best Performance In A Leading Role Male, Best Performance In A Leading Role Female and Best Performance In A Supporting Role Female). Other multiple awards winners included Bunty Aur Babli with four awards and Dus, Apaharan and Aashiq Banaya Aapne receiving two awards each. In addition movies receiving a single awards included, Sarkar for (Best Performance In A Supporting Role Male), Salaam Namaste for (Best Performance In A Comic Role), Hazaaron Khwaishein Aisi for (Male Debutant Star) and Iqbal for (Best Story)

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 Sheffield, England in 2007.[4]

Winners and nominees

Winners are listed first and highlighted in boldface.[5][3]

Popular awards

Sanjay Leela Bhansali (Best Director)

Amitabh Bachchan (Best Actor)

Rani Mukerji (Best Actress)

Abhishek Bachchan (Best Supporting Actor)

Ayesha Kapur (Best Supporting Actress)

Best Picture	Best Director
Black – Applause Entertainment Bunty Aur Babli – Yash Raj Films Iqbal – Mukta Arts No Entry – Sahara One and S K Films Enterprises Page 3 – Sahara One and Light House Films Pvt. Ltd. Parineeta – Vinod Chopra Productions	Sanjay Leela Bhansali – Black Pradeep Sarkar – Parineeta Madhur Bhandarkar – Page 3 Nagesh Kukunoor – Iqbal Prakash Jha – Apaharan
Best Performance In A Leading Role Male	Best Performance In A Leading Role Female
Amitabh Bachchan – Black as Debraj Sahai Amitabh Bachchan – Sarkar as Subhash Nagre (Sarkar) Saif Ali Khan – Parineeta as Shekhar Rai Saif Ali Khan – Salaam Namaste as Nikhil "Nick" Arora Shah Rukh Khan – Paheli as Kishanlal/The Ghost as Prem	Rani Mukerji – Black as Michelle McNally Rani Mukerji – Bunty Aur Babli as Vimmi Saluja / Babli Preity Zinta – Salaam Namaste as Ambar "Amby" Malhotra / Hambar Konkona Sen Sharma – Page 3 as Madhvi Sharma Vidya Balan – Parineeta as Lalita
Best Performance In A Supporting Role Male	Best Performance In A Supporting Role Female
Abhishek Bachchan – Sarkar as Shankar Nagre Amitabh Bachchan – Bunty Aur Babli as Dashrath Singh John Abraham – Garam Masala as Shyam "Sam" Naseeruddin Shah – Iqbal as Mohit Sanjay Dutt – Parineeta as Girish	Ayesha Kapur – Black as Young Michelle McNally Juhi Chawla – My Brother…Nikhil as Anamika Lara Dutta – No Entry as Kaajal (Kishan's wife) Shernaz Patel – Black as Catherine McNally Shweta Prasad – Iqbal as Khadija
Best Performance In A Comic Role	Best Performance In A Negative Role
Javed Jaffrey – Salaam Namaste as Jaggu Yadav aka Crocodile Dundee Akshay Kumar – Garam Masala as Makrand 'Mac' Godpure Boman Irani – Waqt: The Race Against Time as Nattu, Pooja's fatherv Eesha Koppikhar – Kyaa Kool Hai Hum as Sub-Inspector Urmila Martodkar Ritesh Deshmukh  – Bluffmaster! as Aditya Srivastav aka Dittu	Nana Patekar – Apaharan as Tabrez Alam Ajay Devgn – Kaal as Kaali Pratap Singh Amrita Singh – Kalyug as Simi Roy Nana Patekar – Bluffmaster! as Chandrakant Parekh aka Chandru Pankaj Kapoor  – Dus as Himmat Mehendi/Jamwaal
Male Debutant Star	Female Debutant Star
Shiney Ahuja – Hazaaron Khwaishein Aisi as Vikram Malhotra	Vidya Balan – Parineeta as Lalita

Musical awards

Best Music Director	Best Lyrics
Shankar–Ehsaan–Loy – Bunty Aur Babli Vishal-Shekhar – Bluffmaster! Vishal-Shekhar – Dus Himesh Reshammiya – Aashiq Banaya Aapne Shantanu Moitra – Parineeta	"Kajra Re" from Bunty Aur Babli – Gulzar "Naam Ada Likhna" from Yahaan – Gulzar "Piya Bole" from Parineeta – Swanand Kirkire "Dheere Jalna" from Paheli – Gulzar "Aashiq Banaya Apne" from Aashiq Banaya Apne – Sameer
Best Male Playback Singer	Best Female Playback Singer
Himesh Reshammiya for "Aashiq Banaya Apne" – Aashiq Banaya Apne Rahat Fateh Ali Khan for "Jiya Dhadak" – Kalyug Sonu Nigam for "Piya Bole" – Parineeta Atif Aslam for "Woh Lamhe" – Zeher Shaan and KK for "Dus Bahane" - Dus	Alisha Chinai for "Kajra Re" – Bunty Aur Babli Shreya Ghoshal for "Piya Bole" – Parineeta Kavita Krishnamurthy for "Main Vaari Vaari" – Mangal Pandey: The Rising Sunidhi Chauhan for "Deedar De" – Dus Sunidhi Chauhan for "Kaisi Paheli" – Parineeta
Best Song Recording	Best Background score
Parineeta – Bishwadeep Chatterjee	Black – Monty Sharma

Backstage awards

Best Story	Best Screenplay
Iqbal – Nagesh Kukunoor Page 3 – Madhur Bhandarkar Black – Sanjay Leela Bhansali Hazaaron Khwaishein Aisi – Sudhir Mishra Parineeta - Pradeep Sarkar and Vidhu Vinod Chopra	Parineeta – Pradeep Sarkar and Vidhu Vinod Chopra
Best Dialogue
Prakash Jha for Apaharan

Technical awards

Best Art Direction	Best Action
Parineeta – Keshto Mondol and Elridge Rodrigues	Dus – Allan Amin
Best Cinematographer	Best Choreography
Black – Ravi K. Chandran	Kajra re from Bunty Aur Babli – Vaibhavi Merchant
Best Costume Design	Best Editing
Parineeta – Subarna Ray Chaudhari	Black – Bela Segal
Best Makeup	Best Sound Recording
Parineeta – Vidyadhar Bhatte	Black – Anup Dev
Best Sound Re-Recording	Best Special Effects
Aashiq Banaya Aapne – P.Balaraman	Dus – Prime Focus Group

Special awards

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IIFA Award for Most Glamorous Star of the Year

• Preity Zinta

Outstanding Achievement In Indian Cinema

• Asha Parekh

Multiple nominations and awards

The following eleven films received multiple nominations: Seventeen: Parineeta Eleven: Black Seven: Bunty Aur Babli Six: Dus Four: Page 3 and Aashiq Banaya Aapne Five: Iqbal Three: Apaharan, Salaam Namaste and Bluffmaster! Two: No Entry, Paheli, Kalyug, Hazaaron Khwaishein Aisi and Garam Masala

The following films received multiple awards: Nine: Black Six: Parineeta Four: Bunty Aur Babli Three:Krrish Two: Dus, Apaharan and Aashiq Banaya Aapne

References

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