22nd IIFA Awards explained

Number:	22
Award:	IIFA Awards
Date:	3–4 June 2022
Site:	Etihad Arena, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
Host:	Salman Khan Riteish Deshmukh Manish Paul
Best Picture:	Shershaah
Best Direction:	Vishnuvardhan
Best Direction Film:	(Shershaah)
Best Actor:	Vicky Kaushal
Best Actor Film:	(Sardar Udham)
Best Actress:	Kriti Sanon
Best Actress Film:	(Mimi)
Most Wins:	Shershaah (6)
Most Nominations:	Shershaah (13)
Channel:	Colors TV
Network:	Viacom18
Last:	21st
Next:	23rd

The 22nd International Indian Film Academy Awards, also known as the IIFA, was held on 3–4 June 2022, postponed from the original 18–19 March 2022 date, and the 19–21 May 2022 date.^[1] Furthermore, it was supposed to be held in 2021, before being postponed a year, along with the 2020 (2021) edition. The awards was held in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. The nominees were announced in early 2022.

Shershaah led the ceremony with 13 nominations, followed by 83 with 10 nominations and Atrangi Re with 7 nominations.

Shershaah won 6 awards, including Best Film and Best Director (for Vishnuvardhan), thus becoming the most-awarded film at the ceremony.

Pankaj Tripathi received dual nominations for Best Supporting Actor for his performances in 83 and Ludo, winning for the latter.

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 22nd IIFA Awards was supposed to be held in 2021 & 18-19 March 2022 but was postponed to 19-21 May 2022 date due to the surge in COVID-19 cases, it was again postponed to 3–4 June 2022 due to the demise of UAE President & Ruler of Abu Dhabi Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan. The IIFA ceremony held in UAE after 16 years (2006) which was held in Dubai.

Awards

The winners and nominees have been listed below. Winners are listed first, highlighted in boldface, and indicated with a double dagger .^{[2] [3] [4]}

Popular Awards

! style="background:#EEDD82;text-align:center;"	Best Film	! style="background:#eedd82;text-align:center;"	Best Director
Shershaah 83 Sardar Udham Tanhaji: The Unsung Warrior Thappad	Vishnuvardhan – Shershaah Anubhav Sinha – Thappad Anurag Basu – Ludo Kabir Khan – 83 Shoojit Sircar – Sardar Udham
! style="background:#EEDD82;text-align:center;"	Best Actor	! style="background:#eedd82;text-align:center;"	Best Actress
Vicky Kaushal – Sardar Udham as Udham Singh Irrfan Khan – Angrezi Medium as Champak Ghasiteram Bansal Manoj Bajpayee – Bhonsle as Ganpath Bhonsle Ranveer Singh – 83 as Kapil Dev Siddharth Malhotra – Shershaah as Captain Vikram Batra	Kriti Sanon – Mimi as Mimi Rathod Kiara Advani – Shershaah as Dimple Cheema Sanya Malhotra – Pagglait as Sandhya Giri Taapsee Pannu – Thappad as Amrita Sabharwal Vidya Balan – Sherni as Vidya Vincent
! style="background:#EEDD82;text-align:center;"	Best Supporting Actor	! style="background:#eedd82;text-align:center;"	Best Supporting Actress
Pankaj Tripathi – Ludo as Satyendra "Sattu" Tripathi Jiiva – 83 as Krishnamachari Srikkanth Kumud Mishra – Thappad as Sachin Sandhu Pankaj Tripathi – 83 as PR Man Singh Saif Ali Khan – Tanhaji as Udaybhan Singh Rathore	Sai Tamhankar – Mimi as Shama Gauhar Khan – 14 Phere as Zubina Lara Dutta – Bell Bottom as Indira Gandhi Radhika Madan – Angrezi Medium as Taarika "Taaru" Bansal Shalini Vatsa – Ludo as Lata Kutty
! style="background:#EEDD82;text-align:center;"	Best Debut – Male	! style="background:#eedd82;text-align:center;"	Best Debut – Female
Ahan Shetty – Tadap as Ishana	Sharvari Wagh – Bunty Aur Babli 2 as Sonia Rawat / Jasmine "Jazz" (Fake) / Babli Jr.
! style="background:#eedd82; text-align:center;"	Best Music Director	! style="background:#eedd82; text-align:center;"	Best Lyricist
A. R. Rahman – Atrangi Re Tanishk Bagchi, Jasleen Royal, Javed-Mohsin, B Praak, Jaani – Shershaah A. R. Rahman – 99 Songs Pritam – 83 Pritam – Ludo	Kausar Munir – "Lehra Do" – 83 Irshad Kamil – "Rait Zara Si" – Atrangi Re Irshad Kamil – "Shayad" – Love Aaj Kal 2 Tanishk Bagchi – "Raatan Lambiyaan" – Shershaah B Praak & Jaani – "Mann Bharrya" – Shershaah
! style="background:#eedd82; text-align:center;"	Best Male Playback Singer	! style="background:#eedd82; text-align:center;"	Best Female Playback Singer
Jubin Nautiyal – "Raatan Lambiyaan" – Shershaah Arijit Singh – "Lehra Do" – 83 Arijit Singh – "Rait Zara Si" – Atrangi Re Arijit Singh – "Aabaad Barbaad" – Ludo B Praak – "Mann Bharrya" – Shershaah	Asees Kaur – "Raatan Lambiyaan" – Shershaah Jasleen Royal – "Ranjha" – Shershaah Priya Saraiya – "Kalle Kalle" – Chandigarh Kare Aashiqui Shreya Ghoshal – "Chaka Chak" – Atrangi Re Shreya Ghoshal – "Param Sundari" – Mimi

Technical Awards

! style="background:#EEDD82;text-align:center;"	Best Story (Original)	! style="background:#eedd82;text-align:center;"	Best Story (Adapted)
Anurag Basu – Ludo Himanshu Sharma – Atrangi Re Sandeep Shrivastava – Shershaah Shubham – Eeb Allay Ooo!	Kabir Khan, Sanjay Puran Singh Chauhan, Vasan Bala – 83 Abhishek Chaubey, Hussain Haidry – Ankahi Kahaniya Laxman Utekar, Rohan Shankar – Mimi Om Raut – Tanhaji V. Vijayendra Prasad – Thalaivii
! style="background:#EEDD82;text-align:center;"	Best Screenplay	! style="background:#eedd82;text-align:center;"	Best Dialogue
Sandeep Shrivastava – Shershaah	Anubhav Sinha, Mrunmayee Lagoo Waikul – Thappad
! style="background:#EEDD82;text-align:center;"	Best Cinematography	! style="background:#eedd82;text-align:center;"	Best Editing
Avik Mukhopadhyay – Sardar Udham	Chandrashekhar Prajapati – Sardar Udham
! style="background:#EEDD82;text-align:center;"	Best Background Score	! style="background:#eedd82;text-align:center;"	Best Choreography
A. R. Rahman – Atrangi Re	Vijay Ganguly – "Chaka Chak" – Atrangi Re
! style="background:#EEDD82;text-align:center;"	Best Sound Mixing	! style="background:#eedd82;text-align:center;"	Best Sound Design
Ajay Kumar P.B. & Manik Batra – 83	Lochan Kanvinde – Tanhaji
! style="background:#EEDD82;text-align:center;" colspan="2"	Best Special Effects
NY VFXWAALA – Sardar Udham

Superlatives

Multiple nominations! Nominations !! Film

13	Shershaah
10	83
7	Atrangi Re
6	Ludo
	Sardar Udham
5	Thappad
4	Mimi
	Tanhaji
2	Angrezi Medium

Multiple wins! Awards !! Film

6	Shershaah
4	Sardar Udham
3	83
	Atrangi Re
2	Mimi

Notes and References

1. Web site: IIFA 2022 gets postponed, to be held in July . 16 May 2022 .
2. Web site: The 22nd Nexa IIFA Awards . IIFA . . https://web.archive.org/web/20220610013129/https://iifa.com/iifa-2022 . 10 June 2022 . 13 July 2022 . dead.
3. News: IIFA 2022 Nominations: Shershaah takes the lead with 12 Nominations, Ludo and 83 emerge as strong contenders; check out the complete list . Bollywood Hungama . 1 April 2022 . 13 July 2022 . https://web.archive.org/web/20220401100930/https://www.bollywoodhungama.com/news/bollywood/iifa-2022-nominations-shershaah-takes-lead-12-nominations-ludo-83-emerge-strong-contenders-check-complete-list/ . 1 April 2022 . Bollywood Hungama News Network . live.
4. News: Winners of IIFA Awards 2022: Vicky Kaushal and Kriti Sanon win top honours for Sardar Udham and Mimi . Bollywood Hungama . 5 June 2022 . 13 July 2022 . https://web.archive.org/web/20220605050712/https://www.bollywoodhungama.com/news/features/winners-iifa-awards-2022-vicky-kaushal-kriti-sanon-win-top-honours-sardar-udham-mimi/ . 5 June 2022 . Bollywood Hungama News Network . live.