IIFA Awards 2012 – Nominations and Winners

According to latest reports, the IIFA voting weekend began on 30th March with celebs like Arbaaz Khan, Dia Mirza, Parineeti Chopra, Ramesh Sippy, David Dhawan, Zoya Akhtar, Sujoy Ghosh, Genelia D’Souza, Salim-Sulaiman, Shaan, Vivek Oberoi, Sonu Sood and many others, coming forward to cast their respective votes.

The award categories at the IIFA Awards 2012 include the following:

Best Movie
Best Director
Best Actor
Best Actress
Best Actor in Supporting Role
Best Actress in Supporting Role
Best Performance in Comic Role
Best Performance in Negative Role
Star Debut of the Year (Male)
Star Debut of the Year (Female)
Best Playback Singer (Male)
Best Playback Singer (Female)
Best Music Director
Best Lyricist
Best Art Direction
Best Action
Best Background Score
Best Action
Best Cinematography
Best Choreography
Best Makeup
Best Costume Design
Best Editing
Best Dialogue
Best Screenplay
Best Sound Recording
Best Sound Re-recording
Best Special Effects
Best Story
Besides these ‘Popular’ and ‘Technical’ awards, there are a number of special awards which are presented to the members of the most popular film industry of the country. These include:

Outstanding Contribution to Indian Cinema
Outstanding Achievement in Indian Cinema
Outstanding Achievement by an Indian in International Cinema
Style Icon
Style Diva
Contribution to a Greener Earth
Most Glamorous Star of the Year
Best On-Screen Beauty
Face of the Year
Artist of the Decade
The nominations for the awards are announced by the first week of June. The final episode will be telecasted on Star Plus some time in July

Dia Mirza Promotes Awareness Against Animal Skin Trade

It is now famous Bollywood actress Dia Mirza who has joined hands with PETA (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals) to promote awareness against animal skin trade. She has enrolled in an advertising campaign with PETA recently in which she is seen posing in a fake snake skin. The advertisement adorned the words ‘Face It: Exotic Skin Kills, Wild Animals Belong In The Wild, Not In Your Wardrobe’.

The advertisement was targeted to appeal the viewers to avoid the use of animal skin that are used to make products that adorn their wardrobe. Dressed like a snake, the actress looked as if she was dreaded and skinned alive just like the snakes that are skinned and peeled alive to obtain their skin. Jatin Kampani was on the camera for this advertisement.

According to Dia Mirza killing and peeling these animals just to obtain a pair of boots or a fancy purse makes no sense. She added that people should opt for fake snake skin and mock croc to save these animals which would also be a tribute gesture to these animals. People will get the desired product without killing these animals brutally

Dia Mirza has no plans to get married this year

Dia Mirza

Dia Mirza

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Dia Mirza

Dia Mirza

Acrtess Dia Mirza, who feels that Riteish Deshmukh and Genelia D'Souza's have set an example for others by handling their relationship so nicely, says she has no plans to get married this year. 

"Not this year as it is already a packed year and I'll be busy attending the weddings," said Diya who was here Monday to attend the sangeet ceremony of Riteish-Genelia, who are getting married Friday. 
"It's a very, very wonderful example to all of the other newcomers coming into the industry. I would specially like to say that the way Riteish and Genelia have handled their relationship and the way they have gone about it, is beautiful," said the 30-year-old actress. 

Dia Mirza Wears Director’s Hat

Dia Mirza

creativity can make you do many things and that is one of the reasons why actors today who could not make their impact as actors in the movies are now turning to different fields. There are many actors who are now turning into directors, producers and even into TV serials and Dia Mirza is the latest on the block that is now ready to wear the director’s hat. Dia Mirza tried her best in movies like Deewaanapan and Dus but although she looks charming and innocent she failed to make her mark as actress that can give some solid performanceHowever, that does not pull down her confidence and she is now all set to make a romantic drama for her production house. The movie will be shot next year because probably Dia is working on the script at the moment. Dia is recently seen in Love Breakups Zindagi which she actually co-directed with her friend Sahil Sangha. She wanted to make sure that she will be able to handle the job of a director. However, now that the movie is made and about to release she is confident that she can handle the director’s role without any problems.She will also be producing the movie herself along with her best friend and co-producer Zayed Khan. Sahil Sangha will also be a part of that movie so it will be three together working on that movie but it will be Dia’s directorial debut. It also feels like that Dia will be acting in the movie because she has said that she might work in the movie as well, but she has not confirmed about her role yet. It looks like that Dia is now trying her creativity in different ways to come up in the industry rather than just being an actress whom audiences love just for the sake of her innocence and beauty.