The spoilers of 26th edition of International Indian Film Academy (IIFA) Awards are here where the spy action drama Dhurandhar, helmed by director Aditya Dhar, has come out as a big winner in some of the major genres.
The winners were announced on Friday via the official Instagram page of the IIFA Awards. Ranveer Singh, who topped the show, Dhurandhar won a number of awards for the Best Film, Best Director, Best Actor in Leading Role etc.
Saiyaara and Chhaava also grabbed several awards, whereas the over-the-top (OTT) segment was introduced by The Ba**ds of Bollywood helmed by Aryan Khan.
The top winners in the various categories of the main films.
Jyoti Deshpande, Aditya Dhar and Lokesh Dhar were the producers of Dhurandhar, who secured Best Film award. Aditya Dhar won second Best Director, second Best Story (Original), and second Best Actor as Lead and also won Best Actor in an Invited Film category.
Sanjay Dutt got the Best Actor (Negative Role) award and Akshaye Khanna won the Best Actor (Supporting Role) award, both for Dhurandhar. Shashwat Sachdev has been awarded Best Music Direction for the same movie.
Aneet Padda won the Best Actress Leading Role award for Saiyaara and Huma Qureshi was the winner for the Best Actress Supporting Role for Jolly LLB 3. Irshad Kamil had won Best Lyricist for Saiyaara and Faheem Abdullah had been declared Best Playback Singer (Male) of the same film in the same show.
International and Adapted Story Honours
Best International Film was Avatar: Fire & Ash, courtesy of 20th Century Studios, Jon Landau and James Cameron.
Homebound was awarded the Best Story (Adapted) to Basharat Peer, Sumit Roy and Neeraj Ghaywan.
Winners span wide from the mainstream cinema of India and the world of international filmmaking or streaming entertainment.