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‘Jodhaa Akbar’ tops honours at IIFA
MUMBAI: Ashutosh Gowariker‘s Jodhaa Akbar took home eleven awards at the tenth IIFA (International Indian Film Academy) Awards, held at Macau.
While the film won the best picture award, Ashutosh Gowarikar was awarded the best director. Hrithik Roshan bagged the best actor award.
Other categories that featured Jodhaa Akbar wins were AR Rahman for best music director and Javed Akhtar and Javed Ali for best lyrics and best playback singer (male) respectively for Jashan-e-Baharaa.
Madhur Bhandarkar‘s Fashion won Priyanka Chopra the best actress award while Kangana Ranawat won the award for best supporting actor (female) for the same.
Arjun Rampal came out victorious for best male performance in a supporting role for Rock On.
Meanwhile, IIFA brand ambassador Amitabh Bachchan presented the Lifetime Achievement Award to Rajesh Khanna with whom he worked in a couple of notable films like Anand and Namak Haram.
Abhishek Bachchan won the award for best performance in a comic role for Dostana while Akshaye Khanna won for best performance in a negative role for Race. Neeraj Pandey‘s A Wednesday won the award for best story.
The ‘Male Star of the Decade‘ award went to Shah Rukh Khan while Aishwarya Rai Bachchan won in the female category. The star debut of the year was awarded to Asin and Farhan Akhtar.
The IIFA and Green Globe Foundation presented an award to Rahul Bose for his contribution to creating awareness on global warming.
Category Winners
Best Background Score Award: AR Rahman (Jodhaa Akbar)
Best Dialogue: Mano Rishil (Oye Lucky)
Best Editing: Ballu Saluja (Jodhaa Akbar)
Best Art Direction: Nitin Chandrakant Desai (Jodhaa Akbar)
Best Costume Award: Neeta Lulla (Jodha Akbar)
Best Make-up: Madhav Kadam (Jodhaa Akbar)
Best Picture: (Jodhaa Akbar)
Best Screenplay: Neerai Pandey (A Wednesday)
Best Story: Neeraj Pandey – (A Wednesday)
Lyrics: Javed Akhtar – Jashan-e-Baharaa (Jodhaa Akbar)
Music Direction: AR Rahman – (Jodhaa Akbar)
Performance in a Comic Role: Abhishek Bachchan – (Dostana)
Performance in a Negative Role: Akshaye Khanna – (Race)
Playback Singer (Female): Shreya Ghoshal – Teri Ore (Singh Is King)
Playback Singer (Male): Javed Ali – Jashan-e-Baharaa (Jodhaa Akbar)
Best Sound re-editing: Leslie Fernandes (Race)
Sound Recording: Resul Pookutty & Amrit (Ghajini)
Best Action: Peter Steins & Stun Siva (Ghajini)
Special Effects Awards: Ghajini
Sounding Recording Award: Rock On!!
IDEA Style ICON Award (Female): Bipasha Basu
IDEA Style Icon Award (Male): Hrithik Roshan
Debutant Star Female Award: Asin – Ghajini
Debutant Star Male Award: Farhan Akhtar – Rock On
Best Director Ashutosh: Gowariker – Jodhaa Akbar
Performance in a Supporting Role (Female): Kangana Ranawat – (Fashion)
Performance in a Supporting Role (Male): Arjun Rampal – (Rock On !!)
Performance in a Leading Role (Female): Priyanka Chopra – (Fashion)
Performance in a Leading Role (Male): Hrithik Roshan – (Jodhaa Akbar)
Videocon Music of Decade Award: AR Rahman
Videocon Star of Decade (Female): Aishwarya Rai Bachchan
Videocon Star of Decade (Male): Shahrukh Khan
Videocon Movie of the Decade: Lagaan
Videocon Director of Decade Award: Rakesh Roshan
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Jio Studios unveils AI-powered Krishna teaser at NAB Show 2026
Global first look of Krishna uses Galleri5 AI pipeline on Azure, Historyverse slate as Jio’s Dhurandhar crosses Rs 3,000cr worldwide.
MUMBAI: Krishna has just dropped a divine teaser and this time the gods are powered by silicon, not just scripture. Jio Studios and Collective Studios’ Historyverse stole the spotlight at the NAB Show 2026 in Las Vegas with the world’s first teaser for their upcoming theatrical feature Krishna, directed by Manu Anand. The big reveal happened during Microsoft’s keynote “Powering Intelligent Media, From AI Experimentation to Real-World Impact,” where the film’s AI-native production pipeline took centre stage alongside Collective Artists Network’s in-house platform, Galleri5.
At the heart of this mythological spectacle lies a fresh cinematic workflow built by Galleri5 on Microsoft Azure’s advanced AI and cloud infrastructure. Forget bolting AI onto traditional VFX or animation, this is an end-to-end, production-grade system woven into every layer: world-building, character creation, shot design and final output. Yet the storytelling remains firmly director-led, emphasising emotional depth, stillness, music and performance rather than pure spectacle. The result? Large-format theatrical cinema rooted in Indian history and culture, but conceived in ways that were simply not possible before.
Collective Artists Network runs Galleri5 natively on Azure, leveraging Microsoft Foundry and cutting-edge AI tools to handle film, episodic and advertising workflows in a secure enterprise environment. Microsoft highlighted Collective as a “Frontier” organisation successfully moving AI from pilot projects to real production-scale deployment in cinema. The technology is also on display at Microsoft’s NAB booth in the West Hall (Booth W1731).
Jio Studios (Media & Content Business, Reliance Industries), president Jyoti Deshpande said the project advances the studio’s mission to take Indian stories global with scale, ambition and authenticity, “With Krishna, we are embracing cutting-edge AI-led filmmaking while democratising these tools to make them more accessible, intuitive and cost-effective for storytellers everywhere.”
Collective Artists Network founder & group CEO Vijay Subramaniam added, “We’re using technology developed in India to carry our culture and history to audiences worldwide at a scale never seen before.”
Microsoft, vice president for telco media & entertainment, gaming Silvia Candiani noted that the media industry has reached an inflection point, “AI is no longer about experimentation but delivering real impact at production scale… By building AI-native creative systems on Microsoft Azure, Collective exemplifies how storytellers can unlock new formats, move faster and realise a true return on intelligence while keeping human creativity at the centre.”
Krishna forms part of Historyverse, Collective Studios’ ambitious slate of history and culture-driven IPs. The slate draws from iconic figures and traditions that shaped the Indian subcontinent, including stories inspired by Kali, Karna and Durga. It builds on the already-released Mahabharat: Ek Dharmayudh series, showing how ancient narratives can be reimagined for modern screens.
Jio Studios, India’s leading content studio and the media and content arm of Reliance Industries, continues its blockbuster run. The studio’s Dhurandhar franchise led by Dhurandhar and Dhurandhar: The Revenge has become the first Indian film series to cross Rs 3,000 crore worldwide. It also delivered three consecutive years of India’s highest-grossing Hindi films: Stree 2 (2024), Dhurandhar (2025) and Dhurandhar: The Revenge (2026). In just eight years, Jio Studios has assembled a library of over 160 films and series, with more than 60 titles winning over 500 awards. Other notable successes include Laapataa Ladies (India’s official Oscar entry 2025), Stree, Article 370, Shaitaan and Mrs.
The NAB unveiling marks another step in Jio Studios and Collective’s push to blend Indian storytelling talent with frontier technology proving that the future of cinema may well be both ancient in spirit and thoroughly modern in execution. For audiences who love epic tales with a fresh twist, Krishna promises to deliver divine drama, this time with a little help from the cloud.
