"Laapaata Ladies" sweeps most categories at International Indian Film Academy Awards 2025

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"Laapaata Ladies" sweeps most categories at International Indian Film Academy Awards 2025

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Writer: Heidi Hsia

Kiran Rao's gem captures Best Picture, Direction and multiple acting honours

12 Mar - "Laapataa Ladies" emerged the big winner at the International Indian Film Academy Awards (also known as the IIFA Awards), sweeping 10 categories in the recently held ceremony.

The Kiran Rao film won not only Best Picture and Best Direction for the filmmaker, but also Best Actress for Nitanshi Goel, Best Supporting Actor for Ravi Kishan, Best Original Story and Best Female Debut for Pratibha Ranta.

It also won Best Music Director (Ram Sampath), Best Lyrics (Prashat Pandey), Best Screenplay, and Best Editing.

The film won major awards at the International Indian Film Academy Awards (IIFA Awards)

On the other hand, Kartik Aaryan won Best Actor for his performance in "Bhool Bhulaiyaa 3".

The IIFA 2025 was held on 8 March in Jaipur and concluded on 9 March.

Kartik Aaryan won Best Actor for "Bhool Bulaiya 3"

The list of winners is as follows:

Best Picture - Laapataa Ladies
Best Direction - Kiran Rao (Laapataa Ladies)

Best Performance In A Leading Role (Male) - Kartik Aaryan (Bhool Bhulaiyaa 3)
Best Performance In A Leading Role (Female) - Nitanshi Goel (Laapataa Ladies)

Best Performance In A Negative Role - Raghav Juyal (Kill)

Best Performance In A Supporting Role (Female) - Janki Bodiwala (Shaitaan)
Best Performance In A Supporting Role (Male) - Ravi Kishan (Laapataa Ladies)

Best Story (Original) In The Popular Category - Biplab Goswami (Laapataa Ladies)
Best Story (Adapted) - Sriram Raghavan, Arijit Biswas, Pooja Ladha Surti, and Anukriti Pandey (Merry Christmas)

Best Directorial Debut - Kunal Kemmu (Madgaon Express)
Best Debut (Male) - Lakshya Lalwani (Kill)
Best Debut (Female) - Pratibha Ranta (Laapataa Ladies)

Best Music Director - Ram Sampath (Laapataa Ladies)
Best Lyrics - Prashant Pandey (Sajni from Laapataa Ladies)
Best Sound Design - Subash Sahoo, Boloy Kumar Doloi, Rahul Karpe (Kill)

Best Singer (Male) - Jubin Nautiyal (Dua from Article 370)
Best Singer (Female) - Shreya Ghoshal (Ami Je Tomar 3.0 from Bhool Bhulaiyaa 3)

Best Screenplay - Sneha Desai (Laapataa Ladies)
Best Dialogue - Arjun Dhawan, Aditya Dhar, Aditya Suhas Jambhale, Monal Thaakar (Article 370)
Best Editing - Jabeen Merchant (Laapataa Ladies)

Best Cinematography - Rafey Mahmood (Kill)
Best Choreography - Bosco-Caesar (Tauba Tauba from Bad Newz)
Best Special Effects - Red Chillies VFX (Bhool Bhulaiyaa 3)

Outstanding Achievement In Indian Cinema - Rakesh Roshan

Cinema Online, 12 March 2025

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