IIFA Rocks 2019, a preceding award ceremony as part of the IIFA Awards format, concluded on September 16 and the Technical Awards Winners' list has now been announced. Sriram Raghavan's crime-thriller AndhaDhun, starring Ayushmann Khurrana, Tabu and Radhika Apte, won big as it took home four honours. Sriram won the Best Screenplay award for AndhaDhun along with Arijit Biswas, Pooja Ladha Surti, Yogesh Chandekar and Hemanth Rao. Best Editing Award went to Pooja Ladha Surti for AndhaDhun while the Best Background Score prize was taken by Daniel B George for film. Ajay Kumar PB too won in the Sound Mixing category for AndhaDhun.
Sanjay Leela Bhansali's period drama Padmaavat won in Best Cinematography and Best Choreography categories while historical horror-thriller Tumbbad won in the Special Effects and Sound Design categories. Akshat Ghildial took home the Best Dialogue award for Badhaai Ho.
Here's the list of winners of the 20th IIFA Technical Awards:
Best Cinematography: Sudeep Chatterjee ISC for Padmaavat
Best Screenplay: Sriram Raghavan, Arijit Biswas, Pooja Ladha Surti, Yogesh Chandekar and Hemanth Rao for Andhadhun
The essence of a Bollywood film comes from its dramatic dialogues and Badhaai Ho had a brilliant bunch of them! Akshat Ghildial truly delivered and took home the IIFA Rocks 2019 Technical Award for Best Dialogue.#iifa #iifahomecoming #nexaexperience pic.twitter.com/GT5Bj7ceI3
— IIFA Awards (@IIFA) September 16, 2019
Best Dialogues: Akshat Ghildial for Badhaai Ho
The essence of a Bollywood film comes from its dramatic dialogues and Badhaai Ho had a brilliant bunch of them! Akshat Ghildial truly delivered and took home the IIFA Rocks 2019 Technical Award for Best Dialogue.#iifa #iifahomecoming #nexaexperience pic.twitter.com/GT5Bj7ceI3
— IIFA Awards (@IIFA) September 16, 2019
Best Editing: Pooja Ladha Surti for Andhadhun
Andhadhun was truly a showcase of editing done right and we have Pooja Ladha Surti to thank for that! Indeed a well-deserved win for Editing!#iifa20#iifahomecoming #nexaexperience pic.twitter.com/IlAYsFHUTi
— IIFA Awards (@IIFA) September 16, 2019
Best Choreography: Kruti Mahesh Midya and Jyothi Tommaar for Ghoomar (Padmaavat)
Best Sound Design: Kunal Sharma for Tumbbad
Best Sound Mixing: Ajay Kumar P.B (Post House) for Andhadhun
Best Background Score: Daniel B. George for Andhadhun
Best Special Effects (Visuals): Filmgate Films AB for Tumbbad
A big congratulations to all the winners! The 20th edition of the IIFA Awards is scheduled for tonight, September 18.
