2006 IIFA Awards – Dubai

It doesn't get any better than this, does it?  

If nothing else, the event that took place on June 16th this year  was  an incredible change from the dishevelled confusion of most filmi award shows that take place in Bombay.

Preity Zinta has an I Dream of Jeannie moment

For the UAE event, everyone actually looked like they showered and combed their hair before leaving the house, the sets were shiny and more substantial, plus  the camera work was tighter and more focused.   (And a special thanks to Upen Patel for losing the sunglasses……. and the jacket.)

 

By comparison, the most recent Filmfare awards show was typical for what you’d expect….. rows upon rows of bored actors and family sitting on white plastic garden chairs, looking sullen  and chewing gum, as the camera panned all over the place trying to determine if the winner of any given award was actually making his or her way toward the stage.

66 thoughts on “2006 IIFA Awards – Dubai

  1. Hi. I am a great fan of Hrithik. And I liked the couple dance performed by Hrithik and that girl ‘na tum jano na hum’ ya I liked it the most from the whole award function. I want to know the name of the girl dancing with Hrithik Roshan. Can any one tell? thanx.

  2. I love you you look so prety in Veer-Zaara and as Zaara that was my favorite movie of yours.

    from: sana
    I looooovvvvvvveeeeeeee you s

  3. indian actresses and actors are my favorite.i really like indian a lot….peace to u all out there in india…god bless u all…tekker

    I LOVE INDIA…!!!!>

  4. hello im shahrzad i very very love indio i wish and hope to see shahrukh khan and preity zinta and akshy kumar

  5. IT WAS WASTE THAT SRK WAS NOT THERE.PLZ PASS THIS MESSAGE TO SHARUKH KHAN…………………………………SRK KEEP ON GOIN LOVE UUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU

  6. u stupid sabah.u no nothing about acting.u r not worth of hrithik’s shoes.zara apni sakl aaine mein dekhlena aur phir kisiko mat dikhana apne aap ko bhi nahin.

  7. akshay kumar woh bohut acha hai aur bohut cute bhi hai i love him and is not like that stupid hrithik roshan!!!!

  8. she is so stupid and a girl bad i hate her and i l ove kareena kapoor!!!!

    HEHHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHHEHEHEHHHEHHE……………………

    JOKE YAARRRRRR NO TENSION!

  9. the best i like is iifa awards they are the most beautiful and competition are there which i like mostand best of luck to those who are taking the part in this and i aso says that in best male awards will go to SHARUKH KHAN and the femail award will go tomy faourite actresskatrina kaif she play best role in PARTNER i have also seen all the films of her. and one more time BEST OF LUCK to all of you.

  10. i love india. i wish visit it one day, i hope also indian stars come to visit morocco then to make their awards there. i want bollywood to be the best industry film in the world.

  11. wowww,Hrithik’s performance and preity’s performance were outstanding,I love them together,they are excellent,hrithik’s dance was amazing .

  12. pues que decir, son geniales, son los mejores actores y se merecen sus premios mis mas sinceras felicitaciones desde PERU un besote chao.

  13. hi. i love shah rukh khan. aysha takia . shahid kapoor
    i wish that shah rukh open own academy for new youth . then from this way bollywood can go ahead than hollywood
    i wish that it will be happen .
    Me akbar khan also wants admit in Bollywood

  14. I love HRITHIK , PRIYANKA, and KATHRINA. Hrithik Roshan is like the hottie. He is so hot. Priyanka is so so so so so pretty. Kathrina is tall and pretty.

  15. Akshya kumar it”s cool and i love he moveis i am from norway and I am Pakistan…… Akshay kumare have a moveis the moveis naem it”s a Namastey london the movei it”s god and i laikes Akshay kumar”s movei bye bye

  16. like i lov akshay kumar!! hes soo hotyy!!! no1 can get him hes mine !! hands off !! xx mwha lov u xx

  17. Dar kusi ochai hamat bgom Hindio !!! Megirum hamata megom tez hudutona safed kunen , ki rangi man siyohen !!! Hamata dar sari ker mebardorum !!! Bye Bye !

  18. salut ca va j aime beaucoup regarder les fillms en hindi.
    what i love the most is shahrukh khan i love you i love you iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii llllllooooooovvvveee yyyyyyooouuuuuuuu you qre sow cool

  19. i was just waiting 4 priety performance.
    but unortunatly fader was dere and i had 2 mis my dimple girls perfomance.
    i would realy apreicate if star gold shows againthis show.

  20. hi i love rithic he is so hotti i wish he makes a move here in surrey because if he did i would be the firat to be thar i have 1258 posters of him bye love you

  21. I love Preity Zinta, Priyanka Chopra, and Hrithik Roshan soooooooo much. They are the best. Their acting and looks are great. I also LOVE award shows, the 2007 Zee Cine awards and the Sony Max awards were teh ebst I always try to stay up as late as I can just to watch them. But I love Preity Zinta soooo much. She is sooo beautiful, sometimes she doesn’t even look Indian

  22. i never seen such an ……… guy like ishman.
    you shuold be happy because u live on planet earth where emraan lives.
    and to an astonishing coincidence ur just a human being like emraan.

  23. I like you Emraan. You are so cool and you are always the best. I am a very big fan of yours and i always collect your pictures. Until now i have collected 312 pictures. I have all songs of yours DVD oh yours. I just want to meet you once and then my dream will be fullfill. Please can i meet you once.
    I am only 11 yerrs old and my birthday is on 16th of march and your birthdays on 23rd of march.Iam so happy that your birthday is in the same month as my birthday.

    Your biggest fan Ishmam……..

  24. I LIKE UPEN PATEL .. He Is SOOOOO HOTTT!! He looks like Peter Andere, he is also So Damnn Hott!!

    I LOVE YOUU ,, UPENN!!!

    x

    Your Biggest Fann Reshma ..

  25. I liked the first couple of Himesh’s songs because of the different sound – but now, it’s just overkill. Have you heard the songs from Rocky? He seems to do almost all of his own singing and well, after a point, I can’t seem to distinguish between one song and the next.

  26. I cant have his voice. the whining makes me wanna slap him (not hard, just a bit *g*) there are some soundtracks he did that i like but his songs never stick with me which is a sign of indifference and getting an indifference tag from me is usually not a good sign 😀

  27. Shoefi, I completely agree with you! The last Filmfare awards show was 25% that only. You almost got whiplash from all the fast cuts to Rekha every other minute. Which is all rather funny, given that I’ve heard rumors that the whole love-triangle bit iver the years was actually a scheme to throw the press off something else…

    And what about Javed Jaffrey? After his gruesome performance at the Filmfare Awards, I heaved a sigh of relief that IIFA was without him, until, uh ohhhhhhhhh, there he was again. Is this the only thing this dude does nowadays? Someone needs to make Boom II and get him off the stage.

  28. Award shows! How I love them-if I can stay up for them. Somewhere between Awards for technical exellence and the nth medley of songs and dancing I invariably zzzzz. Also, why is it that they always cut to AB or Jaya if Rekha’s on stage? Or Rekha when one of the other two are on stage? C’mon people find other threesomes to cover!

  29. Hey Babasko!

    Actually, I gotta admit I do like both, just ’cause they’re different (though the speech really makes me thing he’s pretty flaky).

    The one I really don’t get and don’t like is the guy who’s face often goes with his singing: Emran Hashmi. Much ado about nothing, imho.

    What do you think of him?

  30. Do you like Himesh? I think I´m rocksteady in the “I don´t get what people like about his songs and his voice” camp. So his speech just cemented my stand on him.

  31. Did you catch that weird acceptance speech of Himesh Reshamiya?

    It started out kinda sweet, bringing his Dad up on stage, but then he started a bilious long jag of singing and going on about Amitabh Bachchan, who looked rather uncomfortable when the cameras cut to him.

  32. By a coincidence, the IIFA are being (re?)broadcast on Star Gold, even as I write this. Must say they’re much better than anything put together by the Filmfare people. I’ll stop now and get back to watching Saif dance his way through a medley of hits.

  33. Hi MW,

    Both seen on tape from the local DVD place, though it was broadcast on Star, so I’m guessing my guys here taped and duplicated it from one of the several Star channels locally.

    Not that I’ve even been a fan of the production of the Academy awards, but I gotta admit that this IIFA show is a happy medium between the sloppy Bombay productions and the shlocky but plastically slick Oscars here.

  34. Did you see the awards on TV, Filmfare or IIFA? I remember, how earlier, the broadcasting of the Filmfare awards used to be a huge deal. It was about the only time one got to saw movie stars as normal people. But now there are so many awards, it’s hard to keep track.

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