# 6th IIFA Awards

The 2005 IIFA Awards, officially known as the 6th International Indian Film Academy Awards ceremony, presented by the International Indian Film Academy honoured the best films of 2004 and took place between 9–11 June 2005.
The weekend began with the IIFA Inaugural Press Conference at which IIFA Brand Ambassador, actor Amitabh Bachchan, officially launched the three-day extravaganza.
This was followed by the IIFA World Premiere held at the centuries-old Pathe Tuschinski Theatre. The film screened was Pradeep Sarkar's Parineeta.
This was the first year where the IIFA Film Festival was held which showcased some of the best films Indian Cinema has to offer. It was inaugurated by Yash Chopra and was held at the Pathe Tuschinski Theatre.
An IIFA Workshop was also held which served as a unique meeting between some prominent filmmakers from India and Dutch film professionals. Key speakers at the workshop included Karan Johar, Shabana Azmi, Javed Akhtar and Abhishek Bachchan. The workshop also featured a screening of the blockbuster Kal Ho Naa Ho.
Other events included the FICCI-IIFA Global Business Forum and the IIFA Foundation Celebrity Cricket Match. The IIFA Foundation Celebrity Cricket Match saw teams captained by Shahrukh Khan and Hrithik Roshan face against each other with Hrithik's team emerging as the victors.
The official ceremony took place on 11 June 2005, at the Amsterdam Arena, in Amsterdam, Netherlands. During the ceremony, IIFA Awards were awarded in 29 competitive categories. The ceremony was televised in India and internationally on Star Plus for the first time. Actors Fardeen Khan and Shahrukh Khan along with director Karan Johar co-hosted the ceremony. Along with the award distribution, the ceremony also included performances by international pop group Bombay Rockers, international magician Hans Kolak, Salman Khan, Malaika Arora Khan, Amrita Arora, Esha Deol, Isha Sharvani, Shahid Kapoor, Kareena Kapoor and Daler Mehndi. It also included Abhishek Bachchan's first-ever international performance.
Veer-Zaara led the ceremony with 10 nominations, followed by Mujhse Shaadi Karogi with 9 nominations, Aitraaz with 8 nominations, Swades with 7 nominations, and Dhoom with 6 nominations.
Veer-Zaara won 7 awards, including Best Film, Best Director (for Yash Chopra), Best Actor (for Shah Rukh Khan), Best Supporting Actress (for Rani Mukerji) and Best Music Director (for Late Madan Mohan), thus becoming the most-awarded film at the ceremony.
Other multiple awards winners included Mujhse Shaadi Karogi with 5 awards, Aitraaz, Dhoom and Murder with 3 awards each, and Main Hoon Na and Maqbool receiving 2 awards each.
In addition, movies receiving a single award included, Chameli for (Best Cinematography), Swades for (Best Lyricist), Taarzan: The Wonder Car for (Best Female Debut), Hum Tum for (Best Actress) and Yuva for (Best Supporting Actor).
Shah Rukh Khan received dual nominations for Best Actor for his performances in Swades and Veer-Zaara, winning for the latter.
Rani Mukerji set an unmatched record by becoming the only actress till date to win both popular female acting awards in the same year, winning Best Actress for Hum Tum and Best Supporting Actress for Veer-Zaara. She also received an additional Best Supporting Actress nomination for her performance in Yuva.

## Background

The awards began in 2000 and the first ceremony was held in London at The Millennium Dome. From then on the awards were held at locations around the world signifying the international success of Bollywood. The next award ceremony was announced to be held in Dubai, UAE in 2006.

## Winners and nominees

Winners are listed first and highlighted in boldface.

### Popular awards

| Best Picture | Best Director |
| Veer-Zaara – Yash Raj Films Dhoom – Yash Raj Films Hum Tum – Yash Raj Films Mujhse Shaadi Karogi – Nadiadwala Grandson Entertainment Pvt. Ltd Swades – UTV Motion Pictures and Ashutosh Gowariker Productions | Yash Chopra – Veer-Zaara Ashutosh Gowarikar – Swades David Dhawan – Mujhse Shaadi Karogi Farah Khan – Main Hoon Na Kunal Kohli – Hum Tum |
| Best Performance in a Leading Role – Male | Best Performance in a Leading Role – Female |
| Shah Rukh Khan – Veer-Zaara as Veer Pratap Singh Nana Patekar – Ab Tak Chhappan as Inspector Sadhu Agashe Saif Ali Khan – Hum Tum as Karan Kapoor Salman Khan – Mujhse Shaadi Karogi as Sameer Malhotra Shah Rukh Khan – Swades as Mohan Bhargava | Rani Mukerji – Hum Tum as Rhea Prakash Kareena Kapoor – Aitraaz as Priya Saxena/Malhotra Preity Zinta – Veer-Zaara as Zaara Hayaat Khan Priyanka Chopra – Mujhse Shaadi Karogi as Rani Singh Shilpa Shetty – Phir Milenge as Tamanna Sahni Urmila Matondkar – Ek Hasina Thi as Sarika Vartak |
| Best Performance in a Supporting Role – Male | Best Performance in a Supporting Role – Female |
| Abhishek Bachchan – Yuva as Lallan Singh Amitabh Bachchan – Veer-Zaara as Choudhary Sumer Singh Pankaj Kapur – Maqbool as Jahangir Khan (Abbaji) Paresh Rawal – Aitraaz as Advocate Patel Zayed Khan – Main Hoon Na as Lakshman Prasad Sharma a.k.a. Lucky | Rani Mukerji – Veer-Zaara as Saamiya Siddiqui Divya Dutta – Veer-Zaara as Shabbo Esha Deol – Dhoom as Sheena Kishori Ballal – Swades as Kaveri Amma Rani Mukerji – Yuva as Shashi Biswas |
| Best Performance in a Comic Role | Best Performance in a Negative Role |
| Akshay Kumar – Mujhse Shaadi Karogi as Arun Khanna a.k.a. Sunny Arshad Warsi – Hulchul as Lucky Paresh Rawal – Hulchul as Kishen / Murari (twin brothers) Ritesh Deshmukh – Masti as Amar Uday Chopra – Dhoom as Sub-Inspector Ali Akbar Fateh Khan | John Abraham – Dhoom as Kabir Ajay Devgn – Khakee as Yashwant Angre Priyanka Chopra – Aitraaz as Sonia Roy Saif Ali Khan – Ek Hasina Thi as Karan Singh Rathod Sanjay Dutt – Musafir as Billa Suniel Shetty – Main Hoon Na as Raghavan / Major Raghav Dutta |
| Best Debut Director | Female Debutant Star |
| Farah Khan – Main Hoon Na | Ayesha Takia – Taarzan: The Wonder Car as Priya |

### Musical awards

| Best Music Director | Best Lyrics |
| Late Madan Mohan – Veer-Zaara Anu Malik – Main Hoon Na Anu Malik – Murder Himesh Reshammiya – Aitraaz Pritam – Dhoom Sajid–Wajid – Mujhse Shaadi Karogi | "Pal Pal Hai Bhari" from Swades – Javed Akhtar "Bheege Honth Tere" from Murder – Sayeed Quadri "Lal Dupatta" from Mujhse Shaadi Karogi – Arun Bhairav "Saaki Saaki" from Musafir – Dev Kohli "Tere Liye" from Veer-Zaara – Javed Akhtar "Woh Tassavur Ka Aalam" from Aitraaz – Sameer |
| Best Male Playback Singer | Best Female Playback Singer |
| Kunal Ganjawala for "Bheege Honth Tere" – Murder Sonu Nigam for " Main Hoon Na" – Main Hoon Na Udit Narayan for "Aankhen Bandh Karke" – Aitraaz Udit Narayan for "Lal Dupatta" – Mujhse Shaadi Karogi Udit Narayan for "Yeh Taara Woh Taara" – Swades | Sunidhi Chauhan for "Dhoom Machale" – Dhoom Alka Yagnik for "Aankhen Bandh Karke" – Aitraaz Alka Yagnik for "Hum Tum" – Hum Tum Alka Yagnik for "Lal Dupatta" – Mujhse Shaadi Karogi Sunidhi Chauhan for "Sajna Ve" – Chameli |
| Best Song Recording | Best Background score |
| Murder – Satish Gupta | Mujhse Shaadi Karogi – Salim–Sulaiman |

### Backstage awards

| Best Story | Best Screenplay |
| Veer-Zaara – Aditya Chopra Murder – Anurag Basu Aitraaz – Shiraz Ahmed and Shyam Goel Ab Tak Chhappan – Sandeep Shrivastava Swades – Ashutosh Gowariker and M. G. Sathya | Maqbool – Abbas Tyrewala and Vishal Bhardwaj |
| Best Dialogue |
| Maqbool – Vishal Bhardwaj |

### Technical awards

| Best Art Direction | Best Action |
| Mujhse Shaadi Karogi – Sharmista Roy | Dhoom – Allan Amin |
| Best Cinematography | Best Choreography |
| Chameli – Aseem Bajaj | Mujhse Shaadi Karogi – Farah Khan |
| Best Costume Design | Best Editing |
| Mujhse Shaadi Karogi – Vikram Phadnis | Aitraaz – Hussain Barmawala |
| Best Makeup | Best Sound Recording |
| Veer-Zaara – Anil Pimpriker | Aitraaz – Rakesh Rajan |
| Best Sound Re-Recording | Best Special Effects |
| Aitraaz – Anup Dev | Main Hoon Na – Rajtaru Video Sonic & Eagle Video Films |

### Special awards

Source:

#### Lifetime Achievement Award

* V. K. Murthy
* Shabana Azmi

#### Samsung Style Icon Award

* Hrithik Roshan

#### Samsung Style Diva Award

* Preity Zinta

#### Global Indian Media Personality Trophy

* Aishwarya Rai

## Superlatives

Films with multiple nominations :
| Nominations | Film |
| 10 | Veer-Zaara |
| 9 | Mujhse Shaadi Karogi |
| 8 | Aitraaz |
| 7 | Swades |
| 6 | Dhoom |
| 5 | Hum Tum |
| 5 | Main Hoon Na |
| 3 | Murder |
| 2 | Ab Tak Chhappan |
| 2 | Ek Hasina Thi |
| 2 | Hulchul |
| 2 | Musafir |
| 2 | Yuva |
Films with multiple awards :
| Awards | Film |
| 7 | Veer-Zaara |
| 5 | Mujhse Shaadi Karogi |
| 3 | Aitraaz |
| 3 | Dhoom |
| 2 | Main Hoon Na |
| 2 | Maqbool |
| 2 | Murder |