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  • IIFA Awards mega-event to air on Star Plus on 26 June

    IIFA Awards mega-event to air on Star Plus on 26 June

    MUMBAI: The Samsung IIFA Awards, which was held at the Amsterdam Arena, will be broadcast on Star Plus on 26 June.

    The Samsung IIFA Awards was inaugurated by IIFA brand ambassador Amitabh Bachchan and the Mayor of Amsterdam, Job Cohen.

    The channel will also telecast the mega-event through interesting and exciting episodes over all weekends. The episode will also showcase Samsung IIFA Awards presentation ceremony and the action at the IIFA Weekend in Amsterdam.

    Shahrukh Khan compared the spectacular awards ceremony, with Karan Johar and Fardeen Khan.

    The IIFA Awards ceremony witnessed dazzling performances by the likes of Aishwarya Rai, Salman Khan, Malaika Arora Khan, Amrita Arora, Esha Deol, Isha Sharwani, Shahid Kapoor- Kareena Kapoor.

    The grand finale performance was given by Abhishek Bachchan, he was joined on stage by Aishwarya Rai and as a special surprise by his father Amitabh Bachchan.

    The star cast of film Chocolate and international pop sensations Bombay Rockers and Rouge were present at the occasion.

    The Samsung IIFA Awards saw delegates like Praful Patel – minister of civil aviation India, Lalit Suri – Member of Parliament, Sunil Bharti Mittal, Omkar Singh Kanwar (Apollo Tyres), S. P. Hinduja, G. P. Hinduja, P. P. Hinduja and the delegates from Netherlands included Laetitia Griffith – Alderwoman of Economic Affairs for the city of Amsterdam, Job Cohen- Mayor of Amsterdam, Karla Peijs – Minister for Transport, Public Works and Waterways, Medy Van der Laan – Secretary of State, Eric Niehe – Ambassador of Netherlands in India and Mrs Leela Ponappa – Ambassador of India to Netherlands.

    The special attraction this year at the red carpet was the fashions especially created by designers Anna Singh, Vikram Phadnis and Manish Malhotra.

    The IIFA weekend was replete with a host of exhilarating events like the FICCI-IIFA Global Business Forum, the IIFA Flim Festival, the star studded IIFA Foundation Celebrity cricket match and the IIFA World premiere of Parineeta.

    The blockbuster film Veer Zaara sweept six Samsung IIFA Awards 2005.

  • Surya TV to air AMMA’s mega event

    MUMBAI: Surya TV, part of the Sun Network, will be the official TV channel for the mega event called Ammayodoppam Oru Thara Sandhya, organised by the Malayalam Cine Artists Association (AMMA) in Kerala.
    The show, part of a fund-raising exercise, is scheduled to be held on 4 April 2003 and is being exclusively marketed by New Age Entertainment. It will be held in a football stadium in Calicut with a seating capacity of more than 50,000 people.
    Surya TV, the Malayalam channel, will air the five hour non-stop extravaganza on 12 and 13 April 2003. The channel is confident that the event will boost its TRP ratings. For this purpose, the channel has also scheduled 10 half hour curtain raisers that will start airing from 1 April 2003, leading to the show. Each curtain raiser will have interviews with superstars on their family life and a sneak preview of the show, adds a press release.
    According to the release, the entire Malayalam film industry has signed an agreement and confirmed their participation in this event. The agreement has been signed by the AMMA president Innocent and AMMA secretary superstar Mammooty, who has been bestowed with the Padmashree award.
    The release further states that the agreement debars the stars from performing or appearing in any other show before this mega event. Bollywood superstars will also be present to extend support.
    The event will see the coming together of mega stars like Mamooty, Mohan Lal, Suresh Gopi, Dileep, Murali, Jayaram, Innocent, Nedumudi Venu, TP Madhavan and Jagathy Sreekumar to name a few and popular singers like K J Yesudas, Jayachandran, M G Srikumar, Biju Narayanan, Vidhu Pratap, S Janaki, Chitra, P Susheela and Sujatha.
    A similar exercise had been undertaken by the Tamil Cine Artist Association wherein the events were held in Singapore and Malaysia. All the Tamil film stars , right from Rajnikanth, Kamalhasan and Vijaykant had participated. This created a record in the TRP charts for Sun TV.