Vishal Bhardwaj's ‘Haider’, an adaptation of William Shakespeare’s famous dramatic masterpiece Hamlet, has swept six awards out of eight nominations in the technical awards category at this year’s International Indian Film Festival (IIFA). It was announced in Wednesday.

The critically acclaimed film, a yet another adaption work from Vishal Bhardwaj, has won the highest number of awards at India’s’ premier and most prestigious international award function. Haider won a total of 6 technical awards including:-

Costume Designing (Dolly Ahluwalia)

Background Score (Vishal Bhardwaj)

Sound Mixing (Debajit Changmai)

Sound Design (Shajith Koyeri)

Production Design (Subrata Chakraborty and Amit Ray)

Makeup (Preetisheel Singh and Clover Wootton)

The film Haider starring Shahid Kapoor and Shraddha Kapoor in the lead with Shahid playing the leading role of Haider has already won national award. The story though is an adaptation of Hamlet it has been executed in keeping with the sense of aesthetics and creative sensibilities of the Indian audience. The film has already come across as a huge box office hit. Both Shahid Kapoor and the film Haider have received much adulation and recognition from the critics.

Aside from Haider, Kangana Ranaut starring successful film ‘Queen’ has bagged two awards at the IIFA. The two awards won are for Screenplay (Vikas Bahl, Chaitally Parmar and Parveez Shaikh) and Editing (Anurag Kashyap and Abhijit Kokate)

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