Sanjay Leela Bhansali's Black ruled the roost at the seventh International Indian Film Academy awards, bagging almost all trophies in the popular category, including the Best Picture award.
DUBAI: Sanjay Leela Bhansali's Black ruled the roost at the seventh International Indian Film Academy awards, bagging almost all trophies in the popular category, including the Best Picture award, here.
At a glittering fuction at the Airport Expo on Friday night, Amitabh Bachchan and Rani Mukherjee received the Best Actor and Actress awards for their power-packed performances in the film, while Sanjay Leela Bhansali was adjuged Best Director. Bhansali did not attend the function as he was busy shooting for his next venture Sawariya in
Mumbai. The award was collected on his behalf by his sister Bela Sehgal, who won the Best Editor award for the film.
Ayesha Kapoor, who played young Rani in Black, pipped stalwarts to win the Best Supporting Actor (female) trophy.
Abhishek Bachchan won the Best Supporting Actor (male) for Sarkar.
Himesh Reshammiya was adjudged Best Singer (Male) for Aashiq banaya aapne from the movie with the same name while Alisha Chinoy won the Best Playback Singer (female) for her hit number Kajra re in Bunty Aur Babli.
Gulzar won the Best Lyricist award for the song.
Bunty Aur Babli's director Shaad Ali collected the award on
Gulzar's behalf.
Shankar-Ehsan-Loy bagged the Best Music Director award for Bunty Aur Babli. Vaibhavi Merchant walked away the Best Choreographer trophy for Kajra re.
Vidya Balan (Parineeta) and Shiny Ahuja (Hazaaron Khwaishein Aisi) won the Best Debut awards among female and male respectively. Nana Patekar's role in Apharan earned him the award for best performance in a negative role while the best comic performance was Javed Jaffri's in Salam Namaste.
The star-studded extravaganza lasted nearly three hours and Akshay Kumar, Salman Khan, Hritik Roshan, Rani Mukerji and others enthralled the audience with dazzling performances.
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