The nominees for the upcoming 17th Indian Film Festival of Melbourne (IFFM) have been announced. The film festival will commence on August 13 and will end on August 23.
Kantara: Chapter 1, Haq, and Lokah Chapter 1: Chandra are some of the nominees for the Best Film category in the festival. Meanwhile, Rishab Shetty, Yami Gautam Dhar, and Kalyani Priyadarshan have been nominated for their performances in the above mentioned films.
Full List of Nominees:
Best Film: Haq (Hindi), Jarann (Marathi), Kantara: A Legend - Chapter 1 (Kannada), Lokah Chapter 1: Chandra (Malayalam), Saiyaara (Hindi), Sitaare Zameen Par (Hindi), Sharthopor (Bengali), The Great Shamsuddin Family (Hindi).
Best Indie Film: Ammang Haelbeda (Don't Tell Mother) - (Kannada), Full Plate - (Hindi), Kikkran De Phull (Flowers of Acacia) - (Punjabi), Lala and Poppy - (Hindi), Mayilaa - Semmalar Annam (Tamil), Members of the Problematic Family - (Tamil), Not a Hero - (Assamese, Hindi, English), Pankhudiyaan (Petals in the Wind) - (Hindi).
Best Director: Ashwiny Iyer Tiwari - System (Hindi), Chandrasish Ray - Porshi (Bengali), Mohit Suri - Saiyaara (Hindi), R Gowtham - Members of The Problematic Family (Tamil), Rima Das - Not a Hero (Assamese, English, Hindi), Rishab Shetty - Kantara: A Legend - Chapter 1 (Kannada), RS Prasanna - Sitaare Zamen Par (Hindi), Shazia Iqbal – Dhadak 2 (Hindi).
Best Performance (Male): Aamir Khan - Sitaare Zameen Par (Hindi), Ahaan Pandey - Saiyaara (Hindi), Bhuman Bhargav Das - Kein Held (Not a Hero) - (Assamese), Dulquer Salmaan - Kaantha (Tamil), Mammootty - Kalamkaval: The Venom Beneath (Malayalam), Ranveer Singh - Dhurandhar (Hindi), Rishab Shetty - Kantara: A Legend - Chapter 1 (Kannada), Sanjay Mishra - Vadh 2 (Hindi).
Best Performance (Female): Aneet Padda - Saiyaara (Hindi), Kalyani Priyadarshan - Lokah Chapter 1: Chandra (Malayalam), Kirti Kulhari - Full Plate (Hindi), Neena Gupta - Vadh 2 (Hindi), Rajshri Deshpande - Baapya (Marathi), Rani Mukerji - Mardaani 3 (Hindi), Rituparna Sengupta - Bela (Bengali), Yami Gautam Dhar - Haq (Hindi).
Best Series: Baai Tujhyapayi (Marathi), Kohrra: Season 2 (Punjabi), Matka King (Hindi), Real Kashmir Football Club (Hindi), Sapne Vs Everyone (Hindi), The Ba***ds of Bollywood (Hindi), Perfect Family (Hindi), Freedom at Midnight: Season 2 (Hindi).
Best Performance (Male) - Series: Ambrish Verma - Sapne Vs Everyone: Season 2 (Hindi), Arif Zakaria - Freedom at Midnight: Season 2 (Hindi), Barun Sobti - Kohrra: Season 2 (Punjabi), Kunal Khemu - Single Papa (Hindi), Paramvir Singh Cheema - Sapne Vs Everyone: Season 2 (Hindi), Manav Kaul - Real Kashmir Football Club (Hindi), Manoj Pahwa - Perfect Family (Hindi), Vijay Varma - Matka King (Hindi).
Best Performance (Female) - Series: Anandhi - Arabia Kadali (Telugu), Huma Qureshi - Maharani: Season 4 (Hindi), Lakshmi Priyaa Chandramouli - Kuttram Purindhavan: The Guilty One (Tamil), Mona Singh - Kohrra: Season 2 (Punjabi), Rasika Dugal - Delhi Crime: Season 3 (Hindi), Seema Pahwa - Perfect Family (Hindi), Shefali Shah - Delhi Crime: Season 3 (Hindi), Swastika Mukherjee - Kaalipotka (Bengali).
Best Documentary Film: Flying Tigers - Madhusree Dutta (Bengali, English, Mandarin, German, Polish), Working Girls - Paromita Vohra (Hindi, Tamil, Marathi, Bengali), Loving Karma - Johnny Burke, Andrew Hinton (English, Monpa, Hindi), Njaan Revathi (I am Revathi) - P Abhijith (Tamil), Breaking The Code - Ben Rekhi, Swetlana (English), The Gas Station Attendant - Karla Murthy (English), Music in a Village Named 1PB - Surabhi Sharma (Hindi), Bride of Aravan - Lesley Branagan (Tamil).
Best Film from The Subcontinent: Sand City - Mahde Hasan (Bangladesh), Roid - Mejbaur Rahman Sumon (Bangladesh), Spying Stars - Vimukthi Jayasundara (Sri Lanka), Ek Mutthi Badal (My Share of Sky) - Sahara Sharma (Nepal), No Good Men - Shahrbanoo Sadat (Afghanistan), Goodbye Sisters - Alexander Murphy (Nepal), Delupi - Mohammad Touqir Islam (Bangladesh), In The Room - Brishkay Ahmed (Afghanistan)