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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.
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Kareena Kapoor is looking forward to bring the house down with her sizzling performance at the IIFA awards in Bangkok.

Today, the three-day IIFA weekend has stared. Bollywood stars except the Khans, are flying towards hai capital for the gala event. The awards night on the final day would see performance by a host of Bollywood stars including Kareena Kapoor , who is shooting Main Aur Mrs Khanna in Australia and will fly to Bangkok soon.

While earlier Kareena never took her stage performances seriously, she has changed her attitude of late.

After shooting ‘Main Aur Mrs Khanna’ everyday, Kareena practices for her IIFA performance at nights with a choreographer sent by Shiamak Davar.

There is a reports that Kareena’s act will present her as a Bollywood diva. She has already roped in her favourite designer and friend Manish Malhotra to do her costumes.
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Three mega Bollywood hits Chak De India , Guru and Jab We Met are leading in the nominations for the prestigious IIFA awards to be held in Bangkok in June this year.These three movies already won several awards in home.
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