Amitabh, Aamir compete for Best Actor Award at IFFM 2017

Amitabh, Aamir compete for Best Actor Award at IFFM 2017
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Actors Amitabh Bachchan and Aamir Khan, who are working together for the first time in `Thugs Of Hindostan’, are among the nominees for the Best Actor - Male category at the Indian Film Festival of Melbourne 2017.

Actors Amitabh Bachchan and Aamir Khan, who are working together for the first time in `Thugs Of Hindostan’, are among the nominees for the Best Actor - Male category at the Indian Film Festival of Melbourne 2017.

The nominations were announced on Tuesday via a statement. Amitabh is nominated for `Pink’, while Aamir is in competition for his widely lauded blockbuster `Dangal’. Other nominees in the category include Rajkummar Rao for `Trapped’, Sushant Singh Rajput for `M S Dhoni: The Untold Story’ and Lalit Bhel and Adil Hussain for `Mukti Bhawan’.

The Best Actor - Female nominees include Alia Bhatt for `Dear Zindagi’, Vidya Balan for `Kahaani 2’, Tannishtha Chatterjee for `Dr. Rakhmabai’, Kavya Madhavan for `Pinneyum’, Ratna Pathak and Konkona Sen Sharma for `Lipstick Under My Burkha’.

In the race for the Best Film, there are titles like `Pink’, `Sultan’, `Joker’, `Ae Dil Hai Mushkil’ and `M S Dhoni: The Untold Story’. And in the In the People's Choice category, `Dangal’ and `Bahubali 2: The Conclusion’ are in competition.

The nominated movies for Best Indie Films are `A Billion Colour Story’, `Loktak Lairembee’, `Mukti Bhawan’, `Lipstick Under My Burkha’ and `Death in the Gunj’.

Among those vying for the Best Director award are Nikhil Manjoo (`Reservation’), Nitesh Tiwari (`Dangal’), Vikramaditya Motwane (`Trapped’), N Padmakumar (`A Billion Colour Story’), Buddhadeb Dasgupta (`Tope’), Alankrita Shrivastava (`Lipstick Under My Burkha’), S S Rajamouli (`Baahubali 2 - The Conclusion’) and Konkona Sen Sharma for (`A Death in the Gunj’).

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