IIFA 2019: Arijit Singh, Harshdeep Kaur, SKTKS bag music honours

IIFA Awards have always stood out from rest of awards events, one for holding it in second half of year, and or for hosting it abroad. latter reason has changed this time as IIFA 2019 is, for first time, being held in India, and home of Bollywood, Mumbai. After IIFA Rocks, starry appearances on ‘Green Carpet’ set off main IIFA 2019 event, which were followed by performances and hilarious acts on st. However, what fans are most curious to find out is winners of awards. In music department, Arijit Singh, Harshdeep Kaur, team of ‘Sonu Ke Titu Ki Sweety’ and Amitabh Bhattacharya took home coveted trophies. 

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Winners

Arijit Singh, who enjoys a massive popularity, won Best Playback Singer (Male) award for song ‘Ae Watan’ from ‘Raazi’. 

As far as female voice was concerned, again it was ‘Raazi’ as Harshdeep Kaur was houred for her track ‘Dilbaro.’ 

Best Music Award, however, didn’t go to Shankar-Ehsaan-Loy for ‘Raazi’ but to blockbuster ‘Sonu Ke Titu Ki Sweety’, which was scored by Yo Yo Honey Singh, Amaal Mallik, Guru Randhawa, Saurabh-Vaibhav, Rochak Kohli and Zack Knight. 

Amitabh Bhattacharya, meanwhile, won Best Lyrics for ‘Dhadak’.  

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As far as main categories are concerned, ‘Andhadhun’, ‘Badhaai Ho’, ‘Padmaavat’, ‘Raazi’, ‘Sanju’ are in contention for Best Film. 

Alia Bhatt, Deepika Padukone, Neena Gupta, Rani Mukerji, Tabu will be jostling for Best Actress award. In male category, one of Ayushmann Khurrana, Rajkummar Rao, Ranbir Kapoor, Ranveer Singh and Vicky Kaushal will be declared winner. 

It’d be interesting to see if lovebirds, Ranbir and Alia, who had both won Best Actor awards in ir respective categories, at an earlier awards event and had made headlines, will do so again. 

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IIFA till w:

IIFA 2019 had kicked off in grand style with IIFA Rocks event that was held on Monday. re were some stylish red carpet appearances like that of Katrina Kaif, Vicky Kaushal, among ors. re were impressive performances that day including that by Amit Trivedi. technical category awards were also anunced that day.  

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