The Hiru Golden Film Awards 2016 will be held at the Nelum Pokuna, Colombo on September 11 at 5.00pm.

The announcement was made at a media briefing held in Colombo on this regard and was attended by Directors of the ABC Network.

The updated webiste www.hirugoldenfilmawards.lk was also launched at the media briefing.

The awards ceremony will felicitate 40 awards after judging 45 films and short films of 150 filmmakers, which were screened in the last two years.

The event will see the awarding of artistic, popular and special awards.

Awards for the most popular cinematic creations will be selected through a process of public voting which will be conducted via sms, phone calls and online.

A host of Bollywood stars including actors and singers are set to dazzle the star studded event. Anil Kapoor, Sunil Shetty, Vivek Oberoi, Bipasha Basu, Alka Yagnik, Neha Dhupia, Madhuri Dixit, SriDevi, Raveena Tandon, Jackie Shroff, Karisma Kapoor and Neil Nitin Mukesh are expected to come down for the event.