Vidya Balan took home
the Best Actress
award at IIFA 2013 for her portrayal of a pregnant woman in search of her husband in Kahaani while Ranbir Kapoor was named Best Actor for his act of a deaf-mute boy in Barfi!.
While receiving her award from Abhishek Bachchan, Vidya dedicated the trophy to her director Sujoy Ghosh. “I want to dedicate this award to my director Sujoy. This award belongs to him. No one has ever loved anyone else’s wife as Sujoy loved Vidya Bagchi (name of her character) in the film.
I won my first award at IIFA Amsterdam after I played Abhishek’s wife in Paa,” she said. Ranbir, who was widely praised for his performance in Barfi!, was not present at the ceremony and the gong was accepted by the film’s director Anurag Basu. These trophies are Ranbir and Vidya’s second best actor awards after they bagged the same honours for Rockstar and The Dirty Picture respectively. Basu’s romantic-comedy Barfi!, which won many awards throughout the year, bagged the best film, director, story and music awards at the 14th edition of the Bollywood extravaganza leaving behind Agneepath, Vicky Donor and Gangs of Wasseypur.
Former flames Ranbir and Deepika Padukone won the best Jodi award. Deepika, on accepting the award, said, “I love Ranbir and am missing him.” Vicky Donor stars Yami Gautam and Ayushmann Khurrana won the best debut awards in the female and male categories, respectively.
English Vinglish helmer Gauri Shinde bagged the best debut director award. “It feels like I am living in a dream. This is going to be my last debut award. In future, if I don’t get any award I will be happy in every situation,” Ayushmann said. (PTI)