Dhurandhar Won 12 Awards, Including Best Picture and Best Actor for Ranveer Singh, at the 26th IIFA Awards Announced on 30 October 2026

Dhurandhar won 12 awards at the 26th IIFA Awards, the results the International Indian Film Academy published on 30 October 2026. They include Best Picture, Best Direction for Aditya Dhar and the leading-actor award for Ranveer Singh. IIFA released the winners through its website and Instagram account, and Khaleej Times reports that no on-ground awards ceremony was held this year.

Where the 12 come from

IIFA’s own pages do not print a total for any film, so the count here is a tally of its lists. Dhurandhar appears seven times among the popular awards and five times among the technical ones.

The popular awards are Best Picture (credited to Jyoti Deshpande, Aditya Dhar and Lokesh Dhar), Direction (Aditya Dhar), Performance in a Leading Role, Male (Ranveer Singh), Performance in a Supporting Role, Male (Sanjay Dutt), Performance in a Negative Role (Akshaye Khanna), Music Direction (Shashwat Sachdev) and Best Story, Original (Aditya Dhar). The technical awards are Cinematography (Vikash Nowlakha), Screenplay and Dialogues (both Aditya Dhar), Editing (Shivkumar V. Panicker) and Sound Design (Bishwadeep Chatterjee).

The Hans India, Siasat and Indian Television all report the same total of 12. Indian Television adds that Aditya Dhar’s name sits against five of the 12: the picture credit, direction, original story, screenplay and dialogues.

The film behind the tally

Dhurandhar reached cinemas on 5 December 2025, according to India TV News and Gulf News. Gulf News reported on 26 December 2025 that it had crossed Rs 1,000 crore (Rs 10 billion) worldwide and was the highest-grossing Bollywood film of 2025 to that date. Box-office trackers give different lifetime totals, so this article does not quote one.

The sequel, Dhurandhar: The Revenge, opened on 19 March 2026. Variety describes it as written, directed and produced by Aditya Dhar, with Jyoti Deshpande and Lokesh Dhar also producing, and reports that it recorded the highest opening weekend for a Hindi-language film worldwide. The 26th IIFA lists name only the first film.

The film’s account of Karachi’s gang war has been checked against the record in a separate piece: the cop and the gangster in Dhurandhar were both real.

The other winners

Saiyaara took five awards. Aneet Padda won Performance in a Leading Role, Female, and Ahaan Panday won Best Male Debut. Irshad Kamil won Best Lyrics for the title song, Faheem Abdullah won male playback singer for it, and Shreya Ghoshal won female playback singer for the song’s reprise.

Chhaava won three technical awards: Sound Mixing for Alok De, Background Score for A.R. Rahman, and Visual Effects for Assemblage Entertainment and Redefine. IIFA’s technical list gives Background Score to Rahman for Chhaava, and the academy’s press release names Chhaava for sound mixing, background score and visual effects. Dhurandhar’s music prize is the separate Music Direction award, which went to Shashwat Sachdev. For Rahman’s career, see A.R. Rahman, from Roja to the Oscars.

The remaining popular and debut awards went to Huma Qureshi (Supporting Role, Female, for Jolly LLB 3), Rasha Thadani (Best Female Debut, for Azaad) and the three credited writers of Homebound, Basharat Peer, Sumit Roy and Neeraj Ghaywan, for Best Story, Adapted. Bosco Leslie Martis won Best Choreography for “Aavan Jaavan” from War 2. Best International Film went to Avatar: Fire & Ash, credited to 20th Century Studios (distributors in India), Jon Landau and James Cameron.

The digital awards

IIFA published its Digital Awards winners the same day. In films, Baramulla won Best Picture (credited to B62 Studios, Netflix Entertainment Services India and Jio Studios) and Best Story, Original, credited to Aditya Dhar, Monal Thakkar and Aditya Suhas Jambhale. Karan Tejpal won Direction and Abhishek Banerjee the leading male performance, both for Stolen. Sanya Malhotra won the leading female award for Mrs, Monika Panwar the supporting female award for Nishaanchi 2, and Avinash Tiwary the supporting male award for The Mehta Boys.

In series, Aryan Khan’s The Ba***ds of Bollywood won Best Picture, Direction for Khan, and the supporting awards for Anya Singh and Raghav Juyal; its title track “Number 1” won for Ujwal Gupta. Paatal Lok Season 2 took the leading performances for Jaideep Ahlawat and Tillotama Shome and the original-story award, which carries four credits (Sudip Sharma, Tamal Sen, Rahul Kanojia and Abhishek Banerjee). The Roshans won Best Docuseries or Docufilm and The Traitors won Best Reality or Non-Scripted.

Jio Studios says its titles took 15 trophies across both lists: Dhurandhar 12, Baramulla two and Mrs one. The same account says the studio also won 15 at IIFA 2025.

What IIFA is, and what comes next

IIFA’s website carries the copyright line of Wizcraft International Entertainment Pvt. Ltd., and the academy’s own history page dates the first edition to London in 2000. It is a private awards body. The state-run National Film Awards are a separate honour, and the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting’s July 2026 list for the 72nd edition gave Best Music Direction (songs) to Shashwat Sachdev for Article 370. The 72nd National Film Awards are covered separately.

The 27th edition is set for Etihad Arena on Yas Island, Abu Dhabi. IIFA’s page lists the Digital Awards for Friday 22 January 2027 and the main awards for Saturday 23 January 2027, and says IIFA is returning to the arena for the fourth time.

IIFA’s rules for the 27th edition cover films released between 1 January and 10 November 2026, which takes in Dhurandhar: The Revenge. For a select set of popular awards, the rules say nominations are announced and then put to online public voting, with winners decided by a weighted average of industry and public votes, audited by independent auditors. Producers submit their own films under those rules, and IIFA’s home page said voting would start soon when checked on 6 November 2026.