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“Chak De India,” a film about a field hockey player who returns to the game to coach a women’s team, swept nine honours at the glittering ninth IIFA awards in Bangkokat on Sunday.King Khan receives the best actor award for his inspiring role as a hockey coach in the film.

King Khan, who gave a miss to the ceremony in Bangkok Sunday night, virtually ruled the awards function as his home production Om Shanti Om also won five trophies. His award was collected by the film’s producer Yash Chopra.

The film’s director Shimit Amin received the best director’s award. Jaideep Sahani received the award for best story for the film.

The awards in the technical section won by the film were : cinematography, Sound recording and sound re-recording, editing.

Jaideep Sahani shared the screenplay award for the film with Anurag Basu (Life in a Metro).

Om Shanti Om, Khan’s home production bagged awards for art direction, costumes, special effects and make up. Javed Akhtar also won the best lyricist award for the song Main Agar Kahoon.

The awards ceremony was held at the Siam Niramit complex in the heart of Bangkok city.

Ritesh Deshmukh and Boman Irani were the hosts of the awards ceremony .They joked about actors having a new “weapon” called blog to take on their fellow actors. There was also a spoof on the films nominated in the best film category.

Kareena Kapoor received the best actress trophy for her performance in Jab we met while Ifran Khan and Konkana Sen Sharma who were adjudged the best actor and actress in a supporting role were not present to collect their awards.

Shaan (Jab se tere naina in Saawariya) and Shreya Ghosal (Barso re megha in Guru) were the best playback singers.

A R Rehman received the best music composer — song recording, background score — for Guru. Vivek Oberoi won the best actor in negative role trophy while Govinda was the recipient of the best actor in comedy role award.

Ranbir Kapoor and Deepika Padukone were the recipients of the best debutants of 2007. Akshay Kumar, who lived in Bangkok prior to embarking on path to stardom in Bollywood, was awarded the IIFA honour from Thailand.

Idea style icon trophy was given to Abhishek Bachchan and Glamorous diva title went to Katrina Kaif. The Idea fresh face of the year was Neil Nitin Mukesh for his debut film Johnny Gaddar.

Noted actress Mumtaz, renowned filmmaker Shyam Benegal and music composer A R Rehman were felicitated for their outstanding contribution to Indian cinema.

The nearly three-hour extravaganza was marked by scintillating performances from Govinda, Katrina, Kareena, stars of films like Acid Factory, Mission Istanbul, De Taali and Love Story 2050.

The highlight was the finale by Akshay Kumar who made a dashing entry on stage by sliding down a cable from a corner of the auditorium.He performed a number from his forthcoming film Singh is King.

Other films who were adjudged winners in different categories were Shootout at Lokhandwala (action), Jab we met (dialogue), Vaibhavi Merchant (Choreography of Aaja Nachle).

Hundreds of fans greeted their favourite stars as they arrived at the posh downtown Bangkok theatre.

The gorgeous Aishwarya Rai Bachchan arrived in a full-length, strapless red satin fishtail gown and elicited screams from fans.

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Tags: IIFA awards, Kareena Kapoor, King Khan