pattaya just when the city was gearing up for the euro cup final to savour the magic of football on sunday evening the glam brigade from our very own bengali film fraternity spelled magic of a different type in pattaya the whos who of the industry was on the east coast of the gulf of thailand to attend the international bangla film academy ibfa awards 2012 with aparna sen in the audience goutam ghose on the stage and glamour girl rituparna sengupta being the face of the event the programme was a hit even before a single seat was occupied at the thai alangkarn theater the venue for the gala occasion ibfa pitted as tollywoods answer to bollywoods iifa awards conferred awards in 19 categories on actors and technicians for their contribution to bengali cinema in 2011 ibfa is an association to support develop and promote art forms of the moving image the event was organized by jet setters in association with amazing thailand ramada plaza a regional vernacular news channel and a vernacular music channel the starstudded award ceremony was graced by veterans like aparna sen goutam ghose and anjan dutt among others konkona sen sharma bagged the best actor female award for her performance in iti mrinalini and rudranil ghosh became the best actor for portraying a caring father in chaplin the best director award went to srijit mukherjee for baishe srabon somnath guptas ami aadu got the award for best film ace director goutam ghose received award for the best supporting actor he also bagged the hall of fame award bengali film industry should try to take this effort from here to a higher plain it should not end as a threeday affair in the long run they should try to include film industry of bangladesh also he said after receiving the awards echoing his thoughts veteran actress kalyani mondal said bengali film industry should become smart from within apart from films we should also try to include bengali serials in such awards as well the event was a blend of thai performances with songs both bengali and hindi by singers monali thakur and june banerjee singer tata young raised the pitch of the programme by a few notches with her scintillating performance however absence of the bengali culture drew flak from many quarters actor and trinamool mp tapas pal expressed his dissatisfaction over the lack of bengali touch to the event though there were some glitches here and there the cine stars were happy to ignore those and said they will wait for a more entertaining ibfa award function in cairo next yearthis correspondent was in pattaya for ibfa awards 2012 on invitation from jet setters