IFFM nominations: SRK, Mammootty nominated for best actor; ‘Jawan’, ‘12th Fail’ vie for best film
Mumbai: Bollywood stars Shah Rukh Khan, Ranveer Singh, and Diljit Dosanjh are among the nominees for Best Actor, while films like 'Jawan' and '12th Fail' are vying for the Best Film award at the Indian Film Festival of Melbourne (IFFM) 2024.
Scheduled from August 15 to 25, the 15th edition of the festival has unveiled nominations across various categories including Best Actor, Best Film, Best Film Critics' Choice, Best Actress, Best Director, and Best OTT Actors and Actresses.
Competing in the Best Film category are '12th Fail', 'Amar Singh Chamkila', 'Chandu Champion', 'Dunki', 'Jawan', 'Maharaja' (Tamil), 'Premalu' (Malayalam), and 'Rocky Aur Rani Kii Prem Kahaani'.
The Best Actor category features Shah Rukh Khan, Diljit Dosanjh, Fahadh Faasil, Kartik Aaryan, Mammootty, Mithun Chakraborty, Ranveer Singh, Sparsh Shrivastava, Vicky Kaushal, and Vikrant Massey. Nominees for Best Actress include Alia Bhatt, Alizeh Agnihotri, Beena R Chandran, Jyothika, Nitanshi Goel, Parvathy Thiruvothu, Pratibha Ranta, Preeti Panigrahi, Sanya Malhotra, and Swathi Reddy.
The Best Director category highlights talents like Imtiaz Ali, Kabir Khan, Karan Johar, Nithilan Saminathan, Rahul Sadasivan, Rajkumar Hirani, and Vidhu Vinod Chopra. In the OTT category, contenders for Best Actor include Arjun Mathur, Babil Khan, Gulshan Devaiah, Jitendra Kumar, Naveen Chandra, R. Madhavan, Roshan Mathew, and Suvinder Vicky. Actresses in this category include Harleen Sethi, Karishma Tanna, Neena Gupta, Nimisha Sajayan, Parvathy Thiruvothu, Shriya Pilgaonkar, and Sobhita Dhulipala.
Supported by the Victorian Government of Australia, IFFM aims to showcase the best of Indian cinema, digital series, and talents, promoting cultural exchange and celebrating the diversity of Indian cinema on a global platform.
The winners of the prestigious IFFM 2024 Awards will be announced during the festival's annual gala night on August 16, hosted at the Palais Theatre in Melbourne. IANS