21st IIFA Awards

21st IIFA Awards
21st IIFA Awards
Date	24 November 2021
Highlights
Best Film	Kabir Singh
Best Direction	Aditya Dhar ; (Uri: The Surgical Strike)
Best Actor	Shahid Kapoor ; (Kabir Singh)
Best Actress	Alia Bhatt ; (Gully Boy)
Most awards	Gully Boy (6)
Most nominations	Gully Boy (17)
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The 21st International Indian Film Academy Awards were supposed to take place in Indore from 27 to 29 March 2020. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, they were postponed.^[1] However, on 24 November 2021, the IIFA organising team declared the name of winners of all categories through their Instagram handle.^[2]

Date24 November 2021

Best FilmKabir Singh

Best DirectionAditya Dhar
(Uri: The Surgical Strike)

Best ActorShahid Kapoor
(Kabir Singh)

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The following is a list of nominees,^[3] technical award winners^[4] and popular award winners.^[5]

Gully Boy led the ceremony with 17 nominations, followed by Article 15 and Kabir Singh with 8 nominations each, and Uri: The Surgical Strike and War with 6 nominations each.

Gully Boy won 6 awards, including Best Actress (for Alia Bhatt) and Best Supporting Actor (for Siddhant Chaturvedi), thus becoming the most-awarded film at the ceremony.

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Best Music Director	Best Lyricist
Kabir Singh – Mithoon, Amaal Mallik, Vishal Mishra, Sachet–Parampara and Akhil Sachdeva Gully Boy – Divine, Naezy, Dub Sharma, Ankur Tewari, Spitfire, Sez on the beat, Rishi Rich, Raghu Dixit, Midival Punditz, Karsh Kale, Chandrashekhar Kunder, Jasleen Royal, Mickey McCleary, Ace, Ishq Bector, Prem-Hardeep, Viveick Rajagopalan and Kaam Bhaari Kesari – Tanishk Bagchi, Arko Pravo Mukherjee, Chirantan Bhatt, Jasbir Jassi, Gurmoh and Jasleen Royal Marjaavaan – Tanishk Bagchi, Meet Bros, Payal Dev, Yo Yo Honey Singh, Aditya Dev and Sanjoy Chowdhury War – Vishal–Shekhar	Manoj Muntashir – "Teri Mitti" – Kesari Divine & Ankur Tewari – "Apna Time Aayega" – Gully Boy Divine & Naezy – "Mere Gully Mein" – Gully Boy Irshad Kamil – "Bekhayali" – Kabir Singh Kumaar – "Tera Ban Jaunga" – Kabir Singh
Best Male Playback Singer	Best Female Playback Singer
Arijit Singh – "Ghungroo" – War Arijit Singh – "Dil Hi Toh Hai" – The Sky Is Pink B Praak – "Teri Mitti" – Kesari Ranveer Singh, Divine & Naezy – "Mere Gully Mein" – Gully Boy Sachet Tandon – "Bekhayali" – Kabir Singh	Shreya Ghoshal – "Yeh Aaina" – Kabir Singh Aakanksha Sharma – "Naina Yeh" – Article 15 Jasleen Royal – "Jahan Tu Chala" – Gully Boy Shilpa Rao – "Ghungroo" – War Vibha Saraf – "Kab Se Kab Tak" – Gully Boy

Best Story	Best Dialogue
Reema Kagti & Zoya Akhtar – Gully Boy Aditya Dhar – Uri: The Surgical Strike Anubhav Sinha & Gaurav Solanki – Article 15 Nitesh Tiwari, Nikhil Mehrotra & Piyush Gupta – Chhichhore Sanjiv Dutta – Super 30	Vijay Maurya – Gully Boy
Best Screenplay	Best Editing
Anubhav Sinha & Gaurav Solanki – Article 15	Nitin Baid – Gully Boy
Best Cinematography	Best Choreography
Jay Oza – Gully Boy	Bosco–Caesar & Tushar Kalia – "Ghunghroo" – War
Best Background Score	Best Special Effects
Shashwat Sachdev – Uri: The Surgical Strike	YFX (YRF Studios) – War
Best Sound Design	Best Sound Mixing
Bishwadeep Dipak Chatterjee & Ravi Soni – Uri: The Surgical Strike	Ravi Soni – Uri: The Surgical Strike

21st IIFA Awards

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Nominations	Film
17	Gully Boy
8	Article 15
8	Kabir Singh
6	Uri: The Surgical Strike
6	War
4	Kesari
3	Badla
3	Good Newwz
2	Super 30
	The Sky Is Pink