IIFA

Popular film actress, Preity Zinta was awarded the ‘Samsung Diva’ award while Hrithik Roshan was conferred the prestigious ‘Samsung Style Icon’ award at the Samsung IIFA Awards 2005. ‘Samsung Style Icon’ and ‘Samsung Diva’ awards are given at the Samsung IIFA Awards every year to the film actor / actress who epitomizes the best of style & looks, personality & performance, and most importantly, is rated best on these parameters by the public. This is the third year in succession that these popular awards are being given away by Samsung at the Samsung IIFA Awards. Over the past couple of years these awards have been bagged by Fardeen Khan and Rekha in the year 2003, and Saif Ali Khan and Kareena Kapoor in 2004.

Samsung India had carried out an online voting process on the Samsung India website between May 20th - June 5th 2005 for selecting the recipient of the ‘Samsung Style Icon’ and ‘Samsung Diva’ awards. The same was also promoted extensively on other sites like indya.com and msn.com as well. The Company received a phenomenal response to this online voting contest and both Hrithik and Preity won by a convincing margin. “The ‘Samsung Style Icon’ and ‘Samsung Diva’ awards have been growing in popularity year on year, if we consider the response to the online contest that is being carried out, as an indicator,” stated Samsung India’s Dy Managing Director, Mr. Ravinder Zutshi.