Vidya Balan’s ‘Sherni’, Anurag Basu’s ‘Ludo’ and Suriya’s ‘Soorarai Pottru’ are up for top honours at the Indian Film Festival of Melbourne (IFFM) 2021.

The award ceremony will occur virtually on August 20. The festival is introduced by the Victorian government in Australia. It is an annual festival that happens in Melbourne, Australia now in its 12th edition, the IFFM 2021 has gone virtual as well as physical because of the global pandemic.

The Indian Film Festival Of Melbourne, one of the greatest international Indian film festivals outside of the nation, has recently reported its nominations for its annual awards ceremony.

This year the festival is launching three categories added to the repertoire of web shows. The celebration will perceive Best Series, Best Performance in a series each under the Actor and Actress category.

This list of names incorporates extraordinary movies of 2021, for example, ‘Ludo’ coordinated by Anurag Basu, Vidya Balan-starrer ‘Sherni’ directed by Amit Masukar, ‘Soorarai Pottru’ (Tamil) that stars and is produced by Suriya and directed by Sudha Kongara and ‘God on the Balcony’, an Assamese movie featuring Harish Khanna and directed by Biswajeet Bora.

With more than 100 movies whose screening will be held during the event, this will be a festival of variety and the best of Indian cinema in all its forms.

Staying aware of the developing trend of OTT shows dominating entertainment content consumption, the festival will perceive Best Series, Best Performance in a series each under the Actor and Actress category. The consideration of these shows are restricted to just those platforms which are accessible to the Australian audiences. These current what’s nominations will see movies and content which were released between August 2020 to July 2021.

The nominations for 2021 are listed below.

BEST FILM

1. Kayattam (A’Hr) – Malayalam – Sanal Kumar Sasidharan
2. Lootcase – Hindi – Rajesh Krishnan
3. Ludo – Hindi – Anurag Basu
4. Sherni – Hindi- Amit Masurkar
5. Soorarai Pottru – Tamil – Sudha Kongara
6. Tasher Ghawr – Bengali – Sudipto Roy

BEST INDIE FILM

1. Fire in the Mountains – Hindi – Ajitpal Singh
2. God on the Balcony – Assamese – Biswajeet Bora
3. Laila aur Satt Geet – Gojri, Hindi – Pushpendra Singh
4. Nasir – Tamil – Arun Karthick
5. Pinki Elli? – Kannada – Prithvi Konnanur
6. Seththumaan – Tamil – Thamizh
7. Sthalpuran – Marathi – Akshay Indikar
8. The Great Indian Kitchen – Malayalam – Jeo Baby

BEST DIRECTOR

1. Ajitpal Singh – Fire in the Mountains – Hindi
2. Akshay Indikar – Sthalpuran – Marathi
3. Amit Masurkar – Sherni – Hindi
4. Anurag Basu – Ludo – Hindi
5. Arun Karthick – Nasir – Tamil
6. Biswajeet Bora – God on the Balcony – Assamese
7. Jeo Baby – The Great Indian Kitchen – Malayalam
8. Pithvi Konnanur – Pinki Elli? – Kannada
9. Sanal Kumar Sasidharan – Kayattam (A’hr) – Malayalam
10. Sudha Kongara – Soorarai Pottru – Tamil

BEST ACTOR

1. Benjamin Daimary – Jonaki Porua -Assamese
2. Harish Khanna – God on the Balcony – Assamese
3. Jitin Puthanchery – Santhoshathinte Onnam Rahasyam – Malayalam
4. Koumarane Valavane – Nasir – Tamil
5. Neel Deshmukh – Sthalpuran – Marathi
6. Pankaj Tripathi – Ludo – Hindi
7. Rajkummar Rao – Ludo – Hindi
8. Suriya – Soorarai Pottru – Tamil

BEST ACTRESS

1. Kani Kusruti – Biriyaani – Malayalam
2. Nimisha Sajayan – The Great Indian Kitchen – Malayalam
3. Rasika Dugal – Lootcase – Hindi
4. Rima Kallingal – Santhoshathinte Onnam Rahasyam – Malayalam
5. Swatika Mukjherjee – Tasher Ghawr – Bengali
6. Vidya Balan – Sherni – Hindi
7. Vinamrata Rai – Fire in the Mountains – Hindi

BEST DOCUMENTARY

1. A Rifle in a Bag – Gondi, Madiya, Hindu – Christina Hanes, Isabella Rinaldi and Arya Rothe
2. About Mumma – English – Maanvi Chowdhary
3. Borderlands – Bengali, Hindi, Nepali, Punjabi, Other – Samarth Mahajan
4. Shup Up Sona – English – Deepti Gupta
5. Watch over Me – Hindi, Malayalam – Farida Pacha
6. WOMB – English, Hindi, Tamil, Telugu – Ajitesh Sharma

BEST SERIES

1. Bandish Bandits – Hindi
2. Churails – Urdu, Hindi
3. Mirzapur Season 2 – Hindi
4. Mismatched – Hindi
5. The Family Man Season 2 – Hindi

BEST PERFORMANCE (MALE) – SERIES

1. Ali Fazal – Mirzapur Season 2
2. Divyenndu – Mirzapur Season
3. Manoj Bajpayee – The Family Man Season 2
4. Mohammed Zeeshan Ayyub – Tandav
5. Pankaj Tripathi – Mirzapur Season 2
6. Saif Ali Khan – Tandav

BEST PERFORMANCE (FEMALE) – SERIES

1. Neena Gupta – Masaba Masaba
2. Prajakta Koli – Mismatched
3. Rasika Dugal – Mirzapur Season 2
4. Samantha Akkineni – The Family Man Season 2
5. Shahana Goswami – Bombay Begums
6. Shweta Tripathi Sharma – Mirzapur Season