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The International Indian
Film Academy awards began on June 3rd 2010
in Sri Lanka. Several prominent stars including
its ambassador Amitabh Bachchan did not make
it to the event following protests from the
Tamil film fraternity.
Shah Rukh Khan, Aamir Khan, Abhishek Bachchan
and Aishwarya Rai Bachchan had cited prior
commitments and evaded the IIFA.
There have been widespread reports that Genelia
flew down to Sri Lanka to take part in the
event, defying the warnings issued by the
Tamil film industry. When director Jayam Raja
was contacted to find out his stance on casting
Genelia in his forthcoming venture Velayudham,
he clarified that the actress is in her Mumbai
residence and the reports are false.
Genelia also made it clear that she received
an invitation to participate in the event
when she was shooting for a film in Switzerland
but on being briefed about the Tamil film
industry’s views on the IIFA being held
in SL, she decided to abide by the decision.
Salman Khan, Vivek Oberoi, Ritesh Deshmukh,
Bipasha Basu, Shilpa Shetty, Anil Kapoor and
Lara Dutta are a part of this event.
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