The Tenth International Indian Film Academy (IIFA) awards began at Macau in China on Friday, June 11, 2009. As usual, the brand ambassador of IIFA, Amitabh Bachchan kick started the event. An interesting feature of this year’s event is that the wax statute of the Big B has been flown down from Hong Kong’s wax museum, Madame Tussauds.

Amitabh is accompanied by his son Abhishek and daughter in law Aishwarya Rai. Anil Kapoor, Sushmita Sen, Madhur Bhandarkar, Dia Mirza, Govinda among others are attending the IIFA event this year. A surprise addition to this year’s festival is cricketer Sreesanth. It is unclear if the cricketer is there to promote the film Jail, in which he has starred, or to walk the ramp. Sreesanth was not forthcoming in disclosing the details for his visit.