Love at first sight

Well..that's the theme of this year's IIFA awards at Yorkshire. It's to describe Yorkshire I suppose. The telecast of which is being aired now on Star Plus.

Hmm..the huge ensemble of actors - yesteryear's and today's, sure make it look interesting. Look's like all the Industry's who's who are in. Rani's absence is profound [considering, she just won the best leading actor-female award, which Karan Johar accepted on her behalf, asserting the fact that he was NOT Rani..Like we doubted that!!!!]. Hrithik won the best Leading Role- Male and the Most Glamorous 2007 or something like that...for Krrish and Dhoom2 respectively. Yippeeee!!!

Aishwarya looked very pretty and happy :-) and she also won the Glamor award for Dhoom2 too. SRK did not turn up too. I surely missed Saif's and SRK's antics as hosts [though irritable sometimes] Instead had to do with a very bland Lara Dutta and enduring Boman Irani as Spiderman [or Superman??], James Bond, Raj Kapoor [singing Jeena yahan and dressed like Raj Kapoor in this song] and believe it or not, wearing the Scottish Skirt [donno the exact name] and trying to dance like one!! Sheesh....

Other than Abhishek's performance [with Amitabh joining in later] and Shilpa Shetty's grooves, I think the others - Saif, Bips, Akshay Kumar were ok-ok. And did I see Aftab and Emraan performing..puh-leez!! who selected them???

It also looked like the actors were busy promoting their new movies:
- Jhoon Barabar Jhoom
Abhishek's performance
- Apne
Dharmendra got an award, something close to life-time achievement I guess, and invited not only Sunny and Bobby [who was crying..yeah...or rather being emotional about his dad being the best!], but also the director Anil Sharma. Oh..the award to Veeru was presented by our very own Original Jai. Clippings of Koffee , feat. Jaya Bachchan [telling she'd loved to have played Basanti instead, coz she thought Dharmendra looked like a Greek-god] was also shown; followed by a lot of Dharmendra's snaps. It was a nice touch! :-)
- A Partner
Sallu bhai dancing to the tunes of Salaam-e-ishq and Govinda joining a lil later [ for songs of Partner I suppose]

The trailer of the film on global warming -Global Cool was shown, which featured Amitabh with Tony Blair, among others!

RDB and Lage Raho took most of the awards, which wasn't unexpected.
And I must confess, Ash and Abhi looked good together.