The International Indian Film Academy Awards took over an industrial complex in Brampton last night
In Brampton, Bollywood is kind of a spectacle. (Image: Matthew Hague)
On a typical Thursday night, the parking lot of Brampton’s Trinity Common Mall , surrounded as it is by big-box outlets of Addition-Elle , Suzy Shier and Home Depot , is about as sexy as the thought of Stephen Harper stripped to his skivvies. But last night, it hosted the first major event of this year’s Indian International Film Academy Awards —the world premiere of action-comedy Double Dhamaal —and although it was still obviously a parking lot in Brampton, the Bollywood star power made the humdrum surroundings sparkle like a maharaja’s jewellery. Find out which Bollywood stars walked the carpet last night in our gallery after the jump.
The green carpet (so coloured to raise awareness for global warming) was rolled outside of the SilverCity movie theatre and was flanked by hundreds of excited Indian cinema fans waiting patiently for the celebs to arrive from their digs at the Royal York Hotel . Traffic must have been bad on the 410, because the first stars didn’t hit the red, er, green carpet until a good two hours after the event was supposed to start, but the fans went crazy as Double Dhamaal ’s stars—Riteish Deshmukh , Arshad Warsi , Mallika Sherawat , Kangna Ranaut , Aashish Chaudhary , Javed Jaffrey —mugged for the cameras and answered soul-penetrating questions (like this one for Sherawat: “Can you do a bikini shake for us?” Her response: “No, can you show me how it’s done?”) with other Bollywood personalities like Lisa Ray , Anil Kapoor , Irrfan Khan , Aarti Chhabria and Boman Irani .
76422 Ritesh Deshmukh: star of <em>Double Dhamaal</em> and all-round handsome devil. (Image: Matthew Hague) International Indian Film Awards 2011 https://torontolife.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/IIFA1.jpg https://torontolife.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/IIFA1.jpg https://torontolife.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/IIFA1.jpg 656 490 [] https://torontolife.com/culture/iifa-2011-opening-night/slide/iifa1/ iifa1 0 0
76507 Crowds waiting for celebs to walk the green carpet in the Trinity Common parking lot. (Image: Matthew Hague) International Indian Film Awards 2011 https://torontolife.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/IMG_0042.jpg https://torontolife.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/IMG_0042.jpg https://torontolife.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/IMG_0042.jpg 624 466 [] https://torontolife.com/culture/iifa-2011-opening-night/slide/img_0042/ img_0042 0 0
76508 This Bollywood star is so up-and-coming no one seems to know who he is. (Image: Matthew Hague) International Indian Film Awards 2011 https://torontolife.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/IMG_0053.jpg https://torontolife.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/IMG_0053.jpg https://torontolife.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/IMG_0053.jpg 624 835 [] https://torontolife.com/culture/iifa-2011-opening-night/slide/img_0053/ img_0053 0 0
76509 Aashish Chaudhary, star of <em>Double Dhamaal</em>. (Image: Matthew Hague) International Indian Film Awards 2011 https://torontolife.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/IMG_0072.jpg https://torontolife.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/IMG_0072.jpg https://torontolife.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/IMG_0072.jpg 624 835 [] https://torontolife.com/culture/iifa-2011-opening-night/slide/img_0072/ img_0072 0 0
76510 Aashish Chaudhary with <em>Double Dhamaal</em> co-star Javed Jaffrey (yes, he’s wearing a midnight-blue velvet dinner jacket, with the collar flipped up). (Image: Matthew Hague) International Indian Film Awards 2011 https://torontolife.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/IMG_0075.jpg https://torontolife.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/IMG_0075.jpg https://torontolife.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/IMG_0075.jpg 624 466 [] https://torontolife.com/culture/iifa-2011-opening-night/slide/img_0075/ img_0075 0 0
76511 Resurrecting the <em>Godfather</em> look. (Image: Matthew Hague) International Indian Film Awards 2011 https://torontolife.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/IMG_0082.jpg https://torontolife.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/IMG_0082.jpg https://torontolife.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/IMG_0082.jpg 624 466 [] https://torontolife.com/culture/iifa-2011-opening-night/slide/img_0082/ img_0082 0 0
76512 Kangna Ranaut channelling old Hollywood glamour. (Image: Matthew Hague) International Indian Film Awards 2011 https://torontolife.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/IMG_00851.jpg https://torontolife.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/IMG_00851.jpg https://torontolife.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/IMG_00851.jpg 624 466 [] https://torontolife.com/culture/iifa-2011-opening-night/slide/img_0085-2/ img_0085-2 0 0
76513 Nothing says Bollywood quite like a kimono. (Image: Matthew Hague) International Indian Film Awards 2011 https://torontolife.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/IMG_0089.jpg https://torontolife.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/IMG_0089.jpg https://torontolife.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/IMG_0089.jpg 624 466 [] https://torontolife.com/culture/iifa-2011-opening-night/slide/img_0089-2/ img_0089-2 0 0
76514 Canadian actress Lisa Ray looking tough in a Pink Tartan camo dress. (Image: Matthew Hague) International Indian Film Awards 2011 https://torontolife.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/IMG_0094.jpg https://torontolife.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/IMG_0094.jpg https://torontolife.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/IMG_0094.jpg 624 835 [] https://torontolife.com/culture/iifa-2011-opening-night/slide/img_0094/ img_0094 0 0
76515 Mallika Sherawat in a custom-made outfit by Anita Dongre, with Brian J. White, co-star of her crossover English-language movie, <em>Politics of Love</em>. English crossover not to be confused with <em>The Guru</em> or <em>Bollywood, Hollywood</em>. (Image: Matthew Hague) International Indian Film Awards 2011 https://torontolife.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/IMG_0107.jpg https://torontolife.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/IMG_0107.jpg https://torontolife.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/IMG_0107.jpg 624 466 [] https://torontolife.com/culture/iifa-2011-opening-night/slide/img_0107/ img_0107 0 0
76516 Help me hide from the stoic—and therefore, very suspicious—Japanese guy back there. (Image: Matthew Hague) International Indian Film Awards 2011 https://torontolife.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/IMG_0113.jpg https://torontolife.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/IMG_0113.jpg https://torontolife.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/IMG_0113.jpg 624 466 [] https://torontolife.com/culture/iifa-2011-opening-night/slide/img_0113/ img_0113 0 0
76517 <em>Amazing Spider Man</em> star Irrfan Khan. (Image: Matthew Hague) International Indian Film Awards 2011 https://torontolife.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/IMG_01221.jpg https://torontolife.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/IMG_01221.jpg https://torontolife.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/IMG_01221.jpg 624 466 [] https://torontolife.com/culture/iifa-2011-opening-night/slide/img_0122-2/ img_0122-2 0 0
76518 Anil Kapoor seen walking the green carpet in Canali. We couldn’t hear anything else over the screams of his roaring fans. (Image: Matthew Hague) International Indian Film Awards 2011 https://torontolife.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/IMG_0126.jpg https://torontolife.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/IMG_0126.jpg https://torontolife.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/IMG_0126.jpg 624 466 [] https://torontolife.com/culture/iifa-2011-opening-night/slide/img_0126/ img_0126 0 0
76519 <em>Double Dhamaal</em> star Arshad Warsi. (Image: Matthew Hague) International Indian Film Awards 2011 https://torontolife.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/IMG_0139.jpg https://torontolife.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/IMG_0139.jpg https://torontolife.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/IMG_0139.jpg 624 466 [] https://torontolife.com/culture/iifa-2011-opening-night/slide/img_0139/ img_0139 0 0