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16th IIFA Awards
The 2015 IIFA Awards, officially known as the 16th International Indian Film Academy Awards ceremony, presented by the International Indian Film Academy honouring the Bollywood films of 2014, best Hindi films of 2014, took place on 5 June 2015. The official ceremony took place on 7 June 2015 in Ritz Carlton Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. The ceremony was televised in India and internationally on Colors for the first time. The ceremony was co–hosted by actors Arjun Kapoor and Ranveer Singh, for the first time as hosts. This show was telecasted on colors on Sunday 5 July 2015, 8pm. IIFA Rocks, otherwise known as the IIFA Music and Fashion Extravaganza took place on 5 June 2015. Haider (film), ''Haider'' led the ceremony with 14 nominations, followed by 2 States (2014 film), ''2 States'' with 10 nominations, and PK (film), ''PK'' and Queen (2013 film), ''Queen'' with 7 nominations each. ''Haider'' won 9 awards, including IIFA Award for Best Actor, Best Actor (for Shahid Kapoor), IIFA ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Putra Indoor Stadium
Putra Indoor Stadium (Malay: ''Stadium Putra''), currently named as Axiata Arena for sponsorship reasons, is a multi-purpose indoor arena in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Background The stadium is located in the premise of the National Sports Complex of Bukit Jalil, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. It is one of several sports facilities in the National Sports Complex which includes the main stadium, Bukit Jalil National Stadium, National Hockey Stadium, National Squash Centre, and National Aquatic Centre and also a Seri Putra Hall The arena has the highest seating capacity of any indoor venue in Malaysia with a maximum capacity of 16,000 seats. The stadium has 3 main doors which lead to a rectangular arena 69 × 25 meters large, which can adapt to different sports formats like boxing, badminton, basketball, volleyball, table tennis, judo, handball, wrestling and gymnastics. The stadium is also fully customisable for concerts during both day and night due to its opaque roof and can attract ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
IIFA Award For Best Actor
The IIFA Award for Best Actor recognizes leading male actor who has delivered an outstanding performance in a leading role. The recipient is chosen by viewers and the winner is announced at the ceremony. With 4 awards each, Hrithik Roshan and Shahrukh Khan share the record for most wins in this category. Superlatives Multiple winners * 4 Wins: Hrithik Roshan, Shah Rukh Khan * 3 Wins: Shahid Kapoor * 2 Wins: Amitabh Bachchan, Ranbir Kapoor, Ranveer Singh Multiple nominees * 16 Nominations: Shah Rukh Khan * 9 Nominations: Salman Khan, Hrithik Roshan * 8 Nominations: Amitabh Bachchan, Ranbir Kapoor * 7 Nominations: Aamir Khan * 6 Nominations: Ajay Devgn * 5 Nominations: Shahid Kapoor * 4 Nominations: Sanjay Dutt, Saif Ali Khan * Amitabh Bachchan, Irrfan, Farhan Akhtar and Vicky Kaushal are the recipients who also won the IIFA Award for Best Supporting Actor. * Hrithik Roshan, Shahid Kapoor, Ranbir Kapoor, Farhan Akhtar, Ranveer Singh and Vicky Kaushal are the recipients who ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mary Kom (film)
''Mary Kom'' is a 2014 Indian Hindi-language biographical sports film based on the life of the eponymous boxer Mary Kom, directed by Omung Kumar and produced by Viacom18 Motion Pictures and Sanjay Leela Bhansali. The film stars Priyanka Chopra in the lead role, with newcomer Darshan Kumar and Sunil Thapa in supporting roles of her husband and mentor, respectively, and depicts Kom's journey of becoming a boxer to her victory at the 2008 World Boxing Championships in Ningbo. The film marks the Hindi playback singing debut of Chopra, who provided her vocals for a song named "Chaoro" (a lullaby). ''Mary Kom'' was developed by the writer Saiwyn Quadras, who suggested the storyline to Kumar when Kom was not a familiar name in India despite her numerous achievements. Kumar met Kom to ask her permission for the film, before her bronze medal victory at the 2012 Summer Olympics, which brought her recognition. Chopra underwent extensive physical training for four months to attain a mu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Highway (2014 Hindi Film)
''Highway'' is a 2014 Indian Hindi-language road drama film written and directed by Imtiaz Ali and produced by Sajid Nadiadwala. The film stars Alia Bhatt and Randeep Hooda. Screened in the Panorama section of the 2014 Berlin International Film Festival, the film released worldwide on 21 February 2014. The film is based on the episode of the same name from the Zee TV anthology series ''Rishtey'', starring Aditya Srivastava and Kartika Rane, which was also written and directed by Imtiaz Ali. It tells the story of a girl (Alia Bhatt) who, for reasons later revealed, discovers freedom after being kidnapped. Upon release, ''Highway'' received positive reviews from critics, with particular praise directed towards Bhatt's performance, thus proving to be a breakthrough for her. It also proved to be a commercial success at the box office. At the 60th Filmfare Awards, ''Highway'' received 9 nominations, including Best Actress (Bhatt) and Best Story (Ali), and won Best Actress (Cr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
VB Pictures
Vishal Bhardwaj (born 4 August 1965) is an Indian film director, screenwriter, producer, music composer and playback singer. He is known for his work in Hindi cinema, and is the recipient of seven National Film Awards and a Filmfare Award. Bhardwaj made his debut as a music composer with the children's film '' Abhay (The Fearless)'' (1995), and received wider recognition with his compositions in Gulzar's ''Maachis'' (1996). He received the Filmfare RD Burman Award for New Music Talent for the latter. He went on to compose music for the films '' Satya'' (1998) and '' Godmother'' (1999). For the latter, he garnered the National Film Award for Best Music Direction. Bhardwaj made his directorial debut with the children's film ''Makdee'' (2002), for which he also composed the music. He garnered critical acclaim and several accolades for writing and directing the Indian adaptations of three tragedies by William Shakespeare: ''Maqbool'' (2003) from '' Macbeth'', '' Omkara'' (2006) fro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
UTV Motion Pictures
UTV Motion Pictures (also known as Disney-UTV) was the feature film unit of UTV Software Communications founded by Ronnie Screwvala and Zarina Screwvala in 1996 as UTV Motion Pictures Plc., the film distribution division of UTV Software Communications. It was one of the leading film studios in India and one of the largest production studios in South Asia. The studio's activities span creative development, production, marketing, distribution, licensing, merchandising and worldwide syndication of films in Indian territories. It was also a distribution label of Disney for feature films produced by Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures in India. UTV Motion Pictures had a library of domestic regional films and animation productions alongside select international productions with the studio moving into film production in Bollywood, and further expanded in Hollywood in partnership with studios such as 20th Century Fox, Walt Disney Pictures and Sony Pictures. In July 2017, Disney-UTV closed ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nadiadwala Grandson Entertainment
Nadiadwala Grandson Entertainment Pvt Ltd (NGE) is an Indian film production company based in Mumbai. The Nadiadwala family have been in film production since 1955, continuing this legacy Sajid Nadiadwala established the company in 2005. It is a part of the Hindi film industry that is involved in Motion picture, radio, television and other entertainment activities. Rakesh Madhotra is the current CEO of the company. Background The Nadiadwala family, who migrated to Mumbai from Nadiad, Gujarat, have been in the film industry for three generations, starting with A. K. Nadiadwala followed by his son Sulieman Nadiadwala and now grandson Sajid Nadiadwala. Presently, they are celebrating 63 years of their existence in the film industry. The first film to be produced under their legacy was '' Inspector'' (1956) by Abdul Karim Nadiadwala. He further went on to produce movies like ''Taj Mahal'' (1963) and '' Chitralekha'' (1964). Productions 1992—1997 The company's first prod ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dharma Productions
Dharma Productions Pvt. Ltd., commonly known and doing business as Dharma Productions, is an Indian film production and distribution company established by Yash Johar in 1979. It was taken over in 2004, after his death, by his son, Karan Johar. Based in Mumbai, it mainly produces and distributes Hindi films. In July 2016, a new sector of the company was launched called Dharma 2.0, which focuses on producing advertising commercials. Another subsidiary of the studio was created in November 2018, called Dharmatic Entertainment, which produces film and television content for online distribution platforms. History 1980–1998 The company's first production was Raj Khosla's '' Dostana'' (1980) starring Amitabh Bachchan, Shatrughan Sinha, and Zeenat Aman. The film was the highest-grossing Bollywood film of the year. The company then went on to produce '' Duniya'' (1984) and '' Muqaddar Ka Faisla'' (1987), neither of which performed well at the box office. This was followed by ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Phantom Films
Phantom Films was an Indian film production and distribution company established by Anurag Kashyap, director Vikramaditya Motwane, producer Madhu Mantena and the former head of UTV Spotboy, Vikas Bahl. It was founded in 2011 by all four of them, and is cited as the "directors' company". In March 2015, Reliance Entertainment picked up 50% stake in the company. The company’s first production was the period romance ''Lootera'' (2013), directed by Motwane and starring Ranveer Singh and Sonakshi Sinha. the film was co-produced by Balaji Motion Pictures. Next year, the company co-produced the romantic-comedies ''Hasee Toh Phasee'' and ''Queen'', starring Kangana Ranaut. Both the films were critical and commercial successes, with the latter also winning the National Film Award for Best Feature Film in Hindi. It was followed by the thrillers '' Ugly'' and '' NH10'' (2015). The latter marked the production debut of Anushka Sharma. '' Hunterrr'' (2015), '' Bombay Velvet'' (2015) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
IIFA Award For Best Director
The IIFA Best Director Award is chosen by the viewers and the winner is announced at the ceremony. The nominations for the category are given by the film fraternity. Sanjay Leela Bhansali has 4 and Rajkumar Hirani with 3 awards. Rakesh Roshan and Ashutosh Gowariker has the most wins with 2 awards. The winners are listed below:- See also * IIFA Awards * Bollywood Hindi cinema, popularly known as Bollywood and formerly as Bombay cinema, refers to the film industry based in Mumbai, engaged in production of motion pictures in Hindi language. The popular term Bollywood, is a portmanteau of "Bombay" (fo ... * Cinema of India External links Official site {{IIFAAwardBestDirector International Indian Film Academy Awards ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
IIFA Award For Best Movie
The IIFA Best Movie Award is chosen via a worldwide poll and the winner is announced at the ceremony. UTV Motion Pictures won 3 awards each, followed by Sanjay Leela Bhansali & Yash Chopra with 2 awards each. Winners and nominees 2010's 2018 (19th) 2019 ( 20th) 2020's 2020 ( 21st) 2022 ( 22nd) 2023 Events Predicted and scheduled events * January 1 ** In the United States, books, films, and other works published in 1927 will enter the public domain, assuming there are no changes made to copyright law. ** Croatia will adopt the eu ... ( 23rd) References External links Official site {{IIFA Awards International Indian Film Academy Awards Awards for best film ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kay Kay Menon
Krishna Kumar Menon (born 2 October 1966), better known by the stage name Kay Kay Menon, is an Indian actor who works predominantly in Hindi cinema, and also in Gujarati, Tamil, Marathi and Telugu cinema. Early life Menon was born in a Nair family in Thiruvananthapuram and raised in Ambarnath and Pune, Maharashtra. He studied at the St. Joseph High School in Khadki, Pune. He passed his 10th grade in 1981. He did his Bachelors (Physics) from Mumbai University and his MBA from Department of Management Sciences (PUMBA) at the University of Pune, graduating in 1988 with a major in Marketing. Menon's initial focus was working in the advertising industry including Kinetic Honda and Marlboro cigarette advertisements in India. Career He started his career in theatre productions where he met Nivedita Bhattacharya, whom he married. His first theatre break was opposite Naseeruddin Shah in Feroz Abbas Khan's ''Mahatma vs Gandhi''. In the early years of his career, Menon worked o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
