Mumbai, The 12th Indian Film Academy Awards (IIFA) will be held in Ontario, Canada, in 2011. However, organisers are yet to announce the venue for the IIFA awards in 2010.
“Before announcing the location for 2010, we are doing it for 2011. It is very unprecedented on our part. Toronto has shown us the excitement and passion to host IIFA 2011. They have a fantastic infrastructure but they wanted to take time to make sure everything is perfect for the event,” Viraf Sirkari, a director of event management company Wizcraft that organises IIFA every year, told reporters here Wednesday.
Toronto would be the first North American city to host the IIFA.
Commenting upon the venue for IIFA Awards 2010, Sarkari said: “Very soon we will be announcing our destination for 2010. We have quite a few countries very keen and we are in tough negotiations with them.”
Bollywood megastar Amitabh Bachchan, who is the brand ambassador of IIFA, could not attend the event as he had to be present at the Dubai International Film Festival to receive an honour.
But his message was conveyed through a pre-recorded video.
“IIFA has moved forward and has over the time brought people from different cultures and races together on a global stage. It bridges countries, nations, businesses, communities and cinemas and this is our wish too for IIFA, Toronto 2011. As the IIFA brand ambassador, I pledge my complete support to the IIFA celebration and do look for a greener IIFA 2011,” he said.
IIFA has earlier travelled to Britain, South Africa, Malaysia, Singapore, Dubai and Thailand.
IIFA Awards 2011 going to Canada
When it is starting???????????
WHEN ARE THE 2011 AWARDS???? AND WHAT TIME, DATE AND CHANNEL??????????????????????????????
Very excited to see all my bollywood stars……………..
IIFA should be very thankful to SRK, even though in pain he came to Toronto to entertain his Fans. If SRK did not show up, we were pretty sure IIFA would have been a big flop in the history of India.
We were happy that you brought SRK often on the stage to make everybody happy. IIFA should have personally honoured SRK with a very special award and that is how we feel – younger or elder all came to see Shahrukh. In the end he rocked the whole show even though in pain, we should say a real dedication to the film industry – we are so proud of him and pray he gets better soon. We are the student of University and came specially to see SRK, were happy that he was given a Royal Treatment – India should be proud that at his young age he has made progress on his own with his hard work.