Indian Film Festival Melbourne 2024 Nominations: Jawan, Chandu Champion, Laapataa Ladies, Made in Heaven 2 Lead

Scheduled from 15th August to 25th August, the festival will see Shah Rukh Khan, Alia Bhatt and others competing for the award along with several films and series.

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The Indian Film Festival of Melbourne (IFFM) 2024 announced the most anticipated nominations of the year, marking the 15th edition of the festival. It is backed and presented by the Victorian Government in Australia as an annual celebration of Indian cinema, showcasing the best films, digital series and talents from India. The festival aims to promote cultural exchange and celebrate the diversity of Indian cinema on an international stage.

Scheduled from 15th August to 25th August, the festival will see Shah Rukh Khan, competing with some of the best talents across languages for the Best Actor category, including Vikrant Massey, Fahadh Faasil, Ranveer Singh, Kartik Aaryan, Mithun Chakraborty, among others.

Similarly, Alia Bhatt will be competing for the Best Actress category alongside Jyothika and Parvathy Thiruvothu, and Nitanshi Goel, Pratibha Ranta- emerging talents from 'Laapataa Ladies'.

In the OTT category, shows and talents of series including 'Heeramandi', 'Poacher', 'Made In Heaven Season 2' among others will be competing for the win. 

Below is the list of nominations:

BEST FILM NOMINATION LIST:

1. 12th Fail (Hindi)
2. Amar Singh Chamkila (Hindi) 
3. Chandu Champion (Hindi)
4. Dunki (Hindi)
5. Jawan (Hindi)
6. Maharaja (Tamil)
7. Premalu (Malayalam)
8. Rocky Aur Rani Kii Prem Kahaani  (Hindi)
 
BEST FILM - CRITICS CHOICE

1. Dear Jassi (Punjabi)
2. Girls Will Be Girls (English/Hindi)
3. Kaathal - The Core (Malayalam)
4. Kabuliwala (Bengali)
5. Laapataa Ladies (Hindi)⁠
6. Rapture (Garo)
7. ⁠Sapta Sagaradaache Ello - Side A (Kannada)
8. ⁠Thadavu (The Sentence) (Malayalam)
 
BEST ACTOR

1. Diljit Dosanjh - Amar Singh Chamkila 
2. Fahadh Faasil - Aavesham
3. Kartik Aaryan - Chandu Champion
4. Mammootty - Kaathal - The Core 
5. Mithun Chakraborty – Kabuliwala
6. Ranveer Singh - Rocky Aur Rani Kii Prem Kahaani  
7. Shah Rukh Khan – Dunki & Jawan
8. Sparsh Shrivastava – Laapataa Ladies 
9. Vicky Kaushal - Sam Bahadur
10. Vikrant Massey - 12th Fail 
 
BEST ACTRESS

1. Alia Bhatt - Rocky Aur Rani Kii Prem Kahaani 
2. Alizeh Agnihotri – Farrey
3. Beena R Chandran - Thadavu (The Sentence)
4. Jyothika – Kaathal - The Core
5. Nitanshi Goel – Laapataa Ladies 
6. Parvathy Thiruvothu – Ullozhukku (Undercurrent)
7. Pratibha Ranta – Laapataa Ladies
8. Preeti Panigrahi - Girls will be Girls
9. Sanya Malhotra for Mrs
10. Swathi Reddy - Month of Madhu 
 
BEST DIRECTOR

1. Imtiaz Ali – Amar Singh Chamkila
2. Kabir Khan – Chandu Champion
3. Karan Johar - Rocky Aur Rani Kii Prem Kahaani 
4. ⁠Nithilan Saminathan – Maharaja
5. ⁠Rahul Sadasivan - Bramayugam
6. ⁠Rajkumar Hirani - Dunki
7. ⁠Vidhu Vinod Chopra - 12th Fail
 
BEST DIRECTOR – CRITICS CHOICE

1. Christo Tomy - Ullozhukku (Undercurrent)
2. Diwa Shah - Bahadur - The Brave
3. Dominic Sangma – Rimdogittanga (Rapture)
4. Hemanth Rao - Sapta Sagaradaache Ello - Side A
5. ⁠Kiran Rao - Laapataa Ladies
6. ⁠Saurav Rai – Guras
7. Shuchi Talati – Girls will be Girls
8. ⁠Sumanth Bhat - Mithya
 
BEST OTT SHOW

1. Dhootha (Telugu)
2. Heeramandi (Hindi)
3. Kohrra (Hindi)
4. Made in Heaven 2 (Hindi)
5. Panchayat Season 3 (Hindi)
6. Poacher (Malayalam)
7. The Railway Men (Hindi)
 
BEST ACTOR OTT

1. Arjun Mathur - Made in Heaven 2 
2. Babil Khan - The Railway Men
3. Gulshan Devaiah – Guns & Gulaabs
4. Jitendra Kumar – Panchayat Season 3
5. Naveen Chandra - Inspector Rishi
6. R. Madhavan - The Railway Men 
7. Roshan Mathew – Poacher
8. Suvinder Vicky - Kohrra
 
BEST ACTRESS OTT

1. Harleen Sethi - Kohrra
2. Karishma Tanna - Scoop
3. Neena Gupta – Panchayat Season 3
4. Nimisha Sajayan – Poacher
5. Parvathy Thiruvothu – Dhootha
6. Shriya Pilgaonkar – The Broken News 2
7. Sobhita Dhulipala - Made in Heaven 2
 
BEST DOCUMENTARY

1. Farming the Revolution
2. Flickering Lights
3. Headhunting to Beatboxing
4. Indi(r)a’s Emergency
5. Insides and Outsides
6. Trolley Times
 
BEST FILM – SUBCONTINENT

1. Barir Naam Shahana (A House Named Shahana) - Bangladesh
2. Paradise – Sri Lanka
3. The Monk and the Gun - Bhutan
4. The Red Suitcase - Nepal
5. Wakhri (One of a Kind) - Pakistan

The winners of the prestigious IFFM 2024 Awards will be announced during the festival at their annual gala night on the 16th which is set to be hosted at the Palais Theatre in Melbourne.