Magic Pot: iifa - "The Bollywood Oscar" 2014

IIFA - International Indian Film Academy Award - 2014 The Bollywood Oscars, is the most talked about and happening event where Bollywood met Hollywood at Tampa Bay, Florida.The venue was the Raymond James Stadium.

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Raymond James Stadium

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In addition to the Indian film stars, several American actors walked down the green carpet.

Many Bollywood glitteratis dazzled at the green carpet of the event, a few made the event extraordinary beautiful with their overwhelming presence.

Deepika Padukone, Malaika Arora Khan, Bipasha Basu, Gauhaur Khan, Yami Gautam, Vani Kapoor are a few amongst many Bollywood divas who shimmered with their beauty on the green carpet there.

Farhan Akhtar starrer ‘Bhaag Milkha Bhaag’, a biographical film on sportsman Milkha Singh, walked away with nine trophies at the IIFA Magic of the Movies and Technical Awards here.

Milkha Singh was in attendance at the last night’s ceremony with director Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra and Farhan, who was seen hugging the sportsman after performing on his hit songs like ‘Zinda’ from ‘Bhaag Milkha Bhaag’, ‘Senorita’ from ‘Zindagi Naa Milegi Dobara’ and ‘Dil Chahta Hai’.

‘Bhaag Milkha Bhaag’ won the Best Cinematography (Binod Pradhan), Best Screenplay (Prasoon Joshi), Best Dialogue (Prasoon Joshi), Best Editing (P S Bharti),Best Sound Design (Nakul Kamte ), Best Sound Mixing (Pranav Shukla),Best Background Score (Shankar-Ehsaan- Loy), Best Costume Designing (Dolly Ahluwalia), and Best Make-Up (Vikram Gaikwad).

Hrithik Roshan starrer superhero film ‘Krrish 3′ won Best Action (Sham Kaushal & Tony Ching Siu Tung) and Best Special Effects – Visuals (Keitan Yadav & Haresh Hingorani – Red Chillies VFX), awards.

“It feels great to be here and get IIFA award for Krrish 3,” Hrithik said.

Hrithik grooved on stage with singer Mika Singh on Shahid Kapoor’s hit song ‘Agal Bagal’ from ‘Phata Poster Nikla Hero’.

Mika was a hit with the crowd as he sang ‘Subah Hone na De’ and other hit songs.

Sonakshi Sinha gave an enthralling performance on her hit masala songs while Bipasha Basu performed on ‘Kamli’, ‘Baby Doll’.

Director Rohit Shetty’s blockbuster hit ‘Chennai Express) won Best Song Recording (Vinod Verma for Lungi Dance) and Best Sound Mixing (Anup Dev) along with ‘Bhaag Milkha Bhaag’ at the ceremony hosted by Saif Ali Khan and Vir Das.

Bollywood actors like Kareena Kapoor Khan, Deepika Padukone, Sridevi, Madhuri Dixit Nene, Anil Kapoor, Shatrughan Sinha, Hrithik Roshan, Anupam Kher, Parineeti Chopra, Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra, Ramesh Sippy, Vaani Kapoor, Siddharth Malhotra, Arshad Warsi, Vive Oberoi and others attended the award ceremony.

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The winners

Best Performance in a Leading Role (Female) – Deepika Padukone

Best Performance in a Leading Role (Male) – Farhan Akhtar for ‘Bhaag Milkha Bhaag’

Best Performance in a Supporting Role (Female) – Divya Dutta for ‘Bhaag Milkha Bhaag’

Best Performance in a Leading Role (Male) – Aditya Roy Kapur for “Yeh Jawaani Hai Deewani’

Best Debut (Male) – Dhanush for ‘Raanjhanaa’.

Best Debut (Female) – Vaani Kapoor for Shudh Desi Romance

Best Director – Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra for ‘Bhaag Milkha Bhaag’.

Best performance in a comic role Arshad Warsi for ‘Jolly L.L.B’

Best performance in a negative role – Rishi Kapoor for ‘D-Day’

Best Playback Singer (Female) – Shreya Ghoshal for Sun Raha Hai Na Tu (Aashiqui 2)

Best Playback Singer (Male) – Arijit Singh for Tum Hi Ho (Aashiqui 2)

Entertainer of the year – Deepika Padukone

‘Outstanding Contribution to Indian Cinema’ – Shatrughan Sinha. The award was presented by his daughter Sonakshi Sinha.

Outstanding Contribution To International Cinema – John Travolta

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