New Delhi: The Indian Film Festival of Melbourne (IFFM) has announced its nominations for its 13th award ceremony and films like ‘Gangubai Kathiawadi’, ‘Badhaai Do’, ‘Jai Bhim’ ‘Minnal Murali’ and others have been nominated in the Best Film category.
The festival, which is presented by the Victorian Government, is an annual festival that takes place in Melbourne, Australia, and showcases the best films from India and the subcontinent. This year the festival starts August 12-20. The Awards night is all set to take place on August 14. There are over 100 films across 23 languages being screened at the festival.
This year’s big nominees include ‘Jai Bhim’, ‘The Rapist’, ‘Gangubai Kathiwadi’, ’83’, ‘Badhaai Do’, ‘Sardar Udham’, among others.
Indie film nominations have acclaimed films including ‘Pedro’, ‘Once Upon a Time in Calcutta’, ‘Fair Folk’ amongst others, while ‘Urf’, ‘Ayena’, ‘Ladies Only’ are some of the Best Docu nominees.
The IFFM’s this year festival jury boasts of jury members like global award-winning film editor Jill Bilcock, one of Australia’s renowned actors Vince Colosimo, multi-award-winning director Geoffrey Wright and multi-award-winning filmmaker Nadia Tass.
The Best Film winner automatically gets a nomination nod under the Best Asian Film category at the annual prestigious AACTA (Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts Awards).
This year, too, those awards will include Best Series, Best Actor in a Series, and Best Actress in a Series. In these categories, ‘Mumbai Diaries’, ‘Aranyak’, ‘Mai’ and ‘Yeh Kaali Kaali Ankhein’ are leading the nominations.
Actors Gopal Hegde for ‘Pedro’, Rajkummar Rao for ‘Badhaai Do’, Ranveer Singh ’83’, Suriya, Tovino Thomas, Vicky Kaushal and Abhishek have been named in the Best Actor category.
While in the Best Actor (Female) section, names like Alia Bhatt, Deepika Padukone, Bhumi Pedenkar, Kokona Sen Sharma, Lijomol Jose, Shefali Shah, Sreelekha Mitra and Vidya Balan are nominated.
Pakistani film ‘Joyland’, ‘Lunana: A Yak in the Classroom’ from Bhutan, Bangladesh movies such ‘No Man’s Land’ and Rehana Maryam Noor; and Sri Lankan film ‘The Newspaper’ have made it to the Best Film From Subcontinent.
Here is the complete list of nominations:
BEST FILM
83 / Hindi
Badhaai Do / Hindi
Gangubai Kathiawadi / Hindi
Jai Bhim / Tamil
Minnal Murali / Malayalam
Paka (River of Blood) / Malayalam
Sardar Udham / Hindi
The Rapist / English, Hindi
BEST INDIE FILM
Boomba Ride / Mishing
Dug Dug / No
Jaggi / Punjabi
Once Upon a Time in Calcutta / Bengali
Peter / Kannada
Shankar’s Fairies / Hindi
Shoebox / Hindi
Fairy Folk / Hindi, English
BEST ACTOR (MALE)
Gopal Hegde, Pedro / Kannada
Rajkummar Rao, Badhaai Do / Hindi
Ramnish Chaudhary, Jaggi / Punjabi
Ranveer Singh, 83 / No
Suriya, Jai Bhim / Tamil
Tovino Thomas, Minnal Murali / Malayalam
Vicky KaushalSardar Udham / Hindi
Abhishek Bachchan – Dasvi / Hindi
BEST ACTOR (FEMALE)
Alia Bhatt, Gangubai Kathiawadi / Hindi
Bhumi Pednekar, Badhaai Do / Hindi
Deepika Padukone, Gehraiyaan / Hindi
Konkona Sen Sharma, The Rapist / English, Hindi,
Lijomol Jose, Jai Bhim / Tamil
Shefali Shah, Jalsa / Hindi
Sreelekha Mitra, Once Upon A Time In Calcutta / Bengali
Vidya Balan, Jalsa / Hindi
BEST DIRECTOR
Anmol Sidhu, Jaggi / Punjabi
Aparna Sen, The Rapist / Hindi
Kabir Khan, 83 / No
Pan Nalin, Chhello Show (Last Film Show) / Gujarati
Sanjay Leela Bhansali Gangubai Kathiawadi / Hindi
Shoojit Sircar, Sardar Udham / Hindi
Suresh Triveni, Jalsa / Hindi
TJ Gnanavel, Jai Bhim / Tamil
BEST DOCUMENTARY
A Night of Knowing Nothing
Ayena (Mirror)
Kicking Balls
Ladies Only
Urf (AKA)
BEST FILM FROM SUBCONTINENT
Joyland / Pakistan
Lunana: A Yak in the Classroom / Bhutan
No Land’s Man / Bangladesh
Rehana Maryam Noor / Bangladesh
The Newspaper / Sri Lanka
BEST ACTOR IN A SERIES
Mohit Line – Mumbai Diaries 26/11
Parambrata Chatterjee – Aranyak
Varun Mitra – Guilty Minds
Tahir Raj Bhasin, Yeh Kaali Kaali Ankhein
Dhruv Sehgal – Little Things Final Season
BEST ACTRESS IN A SERIES
Konkona Sensharma – Mumbai Diaries 26/11
Sakshi Tanwar
Madhuri Dixit – Fame Game
Mithila Palkar – Little Things Final Season
Raveena Tandon – Aranyak
Shriya Pilgaonkar / Guilty Minds
BEST SERIES
Aranyak
Mumbai Diaries 26/11
Fame Game
May
Little Things Final Season
Yeh Kaali Kaali Ankhein
(With inputs from IANS)