New Delhi. The IIFA Awards 2024 ceremony is going to be held in Abu Dhabi this time. These award ceremonies, starting from today, are going to last for three days. Along with Bollywood artists, famous filmmakers and famous celebrities are going to participate in the function this time too. This event is being hosted in Abu Dhabi for the last three years continuously. Do you know the history of this IIFA Award?
IIFA Awards, which started in London in the year 2000, has completed 25 years today. It is considered the biggest award of the Indian film industry. Every artist dreams of getting this award. Let us tell you about the history of this IIFA Awards…
Amitabh Bachchan is the brand ambassador of IIFA
In the year 2000, this award was organized for the first time in London, the capital of European country England. Bollywood and Hollywood stars participated together in this award. Chinese star Jackie Chan was also honored with an honorary award in this award show. Amitabh Bachchan has been the brand ambassador of IIFA since the beginning.
IIFA awards have been held in different countries
In the year 2001, this award was organized in Suncity, South Africa. This show was hosted by Priyanka Chopra. After this, in 2002 this award was organized in Genting Highland city of Malaysia. In the year 2003, this award was held in Johannesburg city of South Africa and then in the next year in 2004 in Singapore, which was hosted by Rahul Khanna and Selena Jaitley. This award was given in Netherlands in 2005, Dubai in 2006, UK in 2007, Thailand in 2008, Macau in 2009, Sri Lanka in 2010, Canada in 2011, Singapore in 2012, China in 2013, USA in 2014, Malaysia in 2015, 2016 in Spain, the US in 2017 and This award was organized in Thailand in 2018.
IIFA Awards were held in India only in 2019
The year 2019 is the only year when IIFA Awards was held in India. This award show held in Mumbai was hosted by Ayushmann Khurrana and his brother Aparshakti Khurrana.
The event is being held in Abu Dhabi for the third consecutive time from 2022.
After 2019, this award was put on hold due to the Corona epidemic. Then in 2022 this award show was organized in Abu Dhabi. After this, the event was organized here in 2023 also. This year also the IIFA 2024 awards show is being organized in Abu Dhabi only.
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FIRST PUBLISHED: September 27, 2024, 14:31 IST
