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The 2017 IIFA Awards, officially known as the 18th International Indian Film Academy Awards ceremony, presented by the International Indian Film Academy honouring the best Hindi films of 2016, occurred in
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MetLife Stadium
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in East Rutherford, New Jersey
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on 14–15 July 2017. It was the first time that the awards held there and also IIFA returned to United States
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after 2014
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''Udta Punjab
''Udta Punjab'' () is a 2016 Indian Hindi-language crime drama film written and directed by Abhishek Chaubey, co-written by Sudip Sharma, and produced by Shobha Kapoor, Ekta Kapoor, Sameer Nair and Aman Gill under Balaji Motion Pictures in ass ...
'' led the ceremony with 9 nominations, followed by ''Ae Dil Hai Mushkil
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'' and '' M.S. Dhoni: The Untold Story'' with 8 nominations each, ''Pink'' with 7 nominations and ''Neerja
''Neerja'' is a 2016 Indian Hindi-language biographical thriller film directed by Ram Madhvani and written by Saiwyn Quadras and Sanyuktha Chawla Shaikh. It was produced by Atul Kasbekar's company, Bling Unplugged, alongside Fox Star Stud ...
'' with 5 nominations.
''Ae Dil Hai Mushkil'' won 7 awards, including Best Music Director (for Pritam
Pritam Chakraborty (born 14 June 1971), also popularly known mononymously as Pritam, is a National Award winning Indian composer, instrumentalist, music producer and singer. Graduating from FTII in Sound Engineering, he worked as an ad jin ...
), Best Lyricist (for Amitabh Bhattacharya
Amitabh Bhattacharya (born 16 November 1976) is an Indian Bengali lyricist and playback singer who works in Bollywood films. At the beginning of his career back in 2000's, he was working for few musicians as a singer & met Pritam, who gave him ...
– "Channa Mereya
Channa Mereya () is an Indian Hindustani song from the Bollywood film ''Ae Dil Hai Mushkil''. The song is penned by Amitabh Bhattacharya, composed by Pritam and sung by Arijit Singh. It was released on 29 September 2016 by Sony Music India ...
") and Best Male Playback Singer (for Amit Mishra
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– "Bulleya"), thus becoming the most-awarded film at the ceremony.
Alia Bhatt
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received dual nominations for Best Actress
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for her performances in ''Dear Zindagi
''Dear Zindagi'' () is a 2016 Indian Hindi-language coming-of-age comedy-drama film written and directed by Gauri Shinde. Produced by Gauri Khan, Karan Johar, and Shinde under the banners Red Chillies Entertainment, Dharma Productions, and H ...
'' and ''Udta Punjab'', winning for the latter.
Winners and Nominees
Winners are listed first and highlighted in boldface.
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Musical awards
Technical awards
Special Awards
Superlatives
References
External links
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