Not only stars gain fame in the film world, but many of their lookalikes also establish their identity among people. One such artist is Arif Khan who is known as Anil Kapoor’s lookalike. Arif Khan has also become his body double in many of Anil’s films. Arif Khan has been organizing the grand event of ILFA Indian Look Alike Film Awards since last several years. This year Arif Khan (Ailaa Association) and Ashok Saxena (Vaishali Film Creations) presented the ILFA Awards (Indian Look A Like Film Awards 2023) at Mukti Cultural Hall, Mumbai where Farhad Samji, director of Salman khan film Kisi Ka Bhai Kisi Ki Jaan was the chief guest.
Junior Anil Kapoor Arif Khan and BN Tiwari started the program by lighting the lamp. Many celebrities heartily congratulated this award show. Celebrities like Guruji, Sanjay Bedia, Asif Khatri were present here. Arif Khan said that Asif Khatri and Sohail Khandwani Saheb and Karen Raza also helped many people of Ailaa Association during the lock down.
Jackie Shroff, Raza Murad, Johnny Lever, Anup Jalota, Sunil Pal, Ehsaan Qureshi, Zeenat Qureshi etc gave their best wishes to Arif Khan for the ceremony through video messages. Senior actor Ramesh Goyal was also honored, along with Mona was the host of the award function.
Arif Khan told that through BN Tiwari, Salman Khan, Amitabh Bachchan etc helped many members of our organization during the lockdown.
Prema Arun also actively participated in this function.
Arif Khan said that for the last two years we were not able to do this award function, but Ashok Saxena helped a lot and because of his courage we were able to do this show, I have not been able to sleep since 6 days for the preparation of this award function He left no stone unturned in his preparation.
First this award was given to BN Tiwari. Arif Khan also thanked his mentor Sudhir Sinha who gave him break for the first time and till now he has done 3000 shows. Ashok Dubey’s award was accepted by Raja Bhai. Gangeshwar Lal Srivastava also got the honour. Deepu Sharma performed and was also awarded.
Ali Khan gave the award to Archana Sharma. Asif Khatri of Khatri Foundation received the honour. Rajesh Srivastava, who pays the education fees of poor children of Ailaa Foundation, was also honoured. Dr. Nihal, Dr. Farooqui done the duty of humanity during the Corona period, they also got the reward.
Singer Divyani ji, Ali Khan got the award, he also gave trophy to many people.
Director Azhar Hussain, Khali’s lookalike, actress Mamta Saxena, singer Ritu from Kashmir also became entitled to the Salute Award.
Cake cutting was also done to mark the completion of 25 years of Ashok Saxena’s company Vaishali Film Creations, where serial Bhabhi Ji Ghar Par Hain artist Prem Chowdhary was also present. He was also honored.
Poonam Pandey, Mehndi Raza and his wife were also honored.
Voice over artist Ahmed Sayyed, Baba Sanjay Dutt from Amravati also received the award. Wasim Shruti danced on Pathan’s song. Firdous ji gave the award of designer Arif Ahmed to his brother Abshar. Charlie Chaplin was also honored. Leena Haldar Bose, Vinay Fernandez, Vinod Khanna’s lookalike Kadar, Deepu Sharma received the award.
Shawls, bouquets were presented to Arif Khan, BN Tiwari and Ramesh Goel on behalf of Ashok Saxena’s organization.
Ramakant Munde received the award of Indian singer Alka Bhatnagar living in America. Ramakant Munde was also honored as Celebrity Photographer. Munde Media was the official media partner of the event.
Kalpana Chawla, Kanchan also had full cooperation in this program.
Farhad Samji received the Best Director Award. At the end, Arif Khan made the atmosphere pleasant by dancing on the hit song of Ram Lakhan on the stage.
——–Phototographer: Ramakant Munde Mumbai
Ailaa Association and Vaishali Film Creations Presents ILFA Awards 2023 (Indian Look Alike Film Awards) by Arif Khan (Junior Anil Kapoor) Farhad Samji (Director – Kisi Ka Bhai Kisi Ki Jaan), and Alka Bhatnagar from USA received the award
