'Andhadhun' dominates IIFA Rocks with four wins
Mumbai, Sep 17: Sriram Raghavan's National Award-winning thriller "Andhadhun" bagged four awards, including screenplay and editing, in the technical category at the 20th edition of IIFA.
The ceremony, IIFA Rocks, was held on Tuesday and celebrated the best of Bollywood with the felicitation of winners in the Technical categories.
Raghavan shared the best screenplay trophy with Arijit Biswas, Pooja Ladha Surti and Yogesh Chandekar for the Ayushmann Khurrana and Tabu-starrer "Andhadhun".
Pooja also bagged the top honour for editing while the sound mixing trophy went to Ajay Kumar PB. Daniel B George won the best background music.
"Tumbbad" won two awards in the technical category -- sound design for Kunal Sharma and special effects (visuals) for Filmgate Films AB.
Sudeep Chatterjee ISC bagged the best cinematography trophy for "Padmaavat". The film also won best choreography award for Kruti Mahesh Midya and Jyothi Tommaar for the song "Ghoomar".
Akshat Ghildial was adjudged the winner of best dialogue for "Badhaai Ho".
The IIFA Rocks ceremony, hosted by Radhika Apte and Ali Fazal, saw performances by Amit Trivedi, Salim Sulaiman, Neha Kakkar, Jassi Gill, B Praak, Dhvani Bhanushali, Ranjit Barot, Jonita Gandhi, Nakash Aziz, Kutle Khan and Tulsi Kumar.
A fashion show was also held as part of the ceremony where celebrity duo Shantanu & Nikhil and Masuuma Namjoshi presented their collections, with celebrities like Arjun Rampal, Rakul Preet, Aparshakti Khurrana, being the showstoppers.
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Congress using hijab issue to pacify minority anger, alleges Karnataka LoP R Ashoka
Bengaluru: Leader of Opposition in the Assembly R. Ashoka has accused the Congress government of using the hijab issue to placate what he described as discontent among minority voters after the Davanagere by-election.
In a post on X on Wednesday, Ashoka alleged that the state government, instead of addressing issues such as price rise, corruption, farmers’ distress and law and order, was attempting to retain its minority vote base by reviving the hijab issue.
Referring to the 2022 dress code introduced by the BJP government, which prohibited hijab in schools and colleges, Ashoka said the Karnataka High Court had upheld the policy and emphasised the importance of discipline in educational institutions.
He questioned the Congress government’s move to revisit the issue and asked whether setting aside the court-backed policy to benefit one community could be described as secularism.
Ashoka further alleged that while the government was willing to permit hijab, it continued to prohibit saffron shawls.
He accused the government of dividing students on religious lines rather than treating schools and colleges as spaces of equality.
Drawing a comparison with Mamata Banerjee’s government in West Bengal, Ashoka claimed that excessive appeasement politics had harmed the state and warned that the Congress in Karnataka could face a similar political response.
He said voters in Karnataka would teach the Congress a lesson for what he termed “vote-bank politics” and for compromising constitutional and judicial principles.
