The IFFM 2021 Winners List: Soorarai Pottru Wins Best Film; Best Actor-Actress Go to Manoj Bajpayee, Vidya Balan- See Full List

Indian Film Festival of Melbourne 2021 Winners List: Melbourne, Australia has grow to be Bollywood’s favorite international vacation spot in the mean time as The Indian Film Festival Of Melbourne (IFFM 2021) is at present going down there and it’s turning out to be fairly a star-studded affair. The Film Festival is Australia’s annual celebration of movie from India and the subcontinent. The IFFM 2021 ceremony kick-started just about on August 20. This 12 months’s pageant boasted a formidable line-up of function and brief movies from throughout the cinemas of India. Representing the theme of Diversity by way of Cinema, IFFM had an awesome response from throughout the globe.Also Read – Vidya Balan And Shefali Shah Unite For The First Time With ‘Jalsa’, Tumhari Sulu Director Suresh Triveni to Direct The Indian Film Festival Of Melbourne 2021 honoured Pankaj Tripathi with the Prestigious Diversity in Cinema Award offered by LaTrobe University. Additionally, the movie Soorarai Pottru walked away with the Best Feature Film and Suriya received the Best Actor award from Soorarai Pottru. Talking about the very best actress, the award goes to Vidya Balan for her extensively acclaimed movie Sherni. Indian fashionable internet sequence Mirzapur 2 was given the Best Series Award. Also Read – Top OTT Releases in August 2021: From Dial 100, Bhuj to Modern Love Season 2 | Watch Video Now Here is The Indian Film Festival Of Melbourne 2021 full winners record:Best Feature Film – Soorarai Pottru Also Read – Shah Rukh Khan-Kajol Reunite For Rajkumar Hirani Film, Vidya Balan-Taapsee Pannu Also Part Of The Film? Best Performance Male (Feature) – Suriya Sivakumar (Soorarai Pottru) Best Performance Female (Feature) – Vidya Balan (Sherni) & Honourable point out to Nimisha Sajayan (The Great Indian Kitchen) Best Director – Anurag Basu (Ludo) & Honorary Mention Prithvi Konanur (Pinki Elli?) Best Series – Mirzapur Season 2 Best Actress in a Series – Samantha Akkineni (The Family Man 2) Best Actor in a Series – Manoj Bajpayee (The Family Man 2) Equality in Cinema (Short Film) – Sheer Qorma Equality in Cinema Award (Feature Film) – The Great Indian Kitchen Best Indie Film – Fire within the Mountains Diversity in Cinema Award – Pankaj Tripathi Disruptor Award – Sanal Kumar Sasidharan Best Documentary Film – Shut Up Sona On successful Best Documentary Award, Sona Mohapatra mentioned, “At a time when the world is discovering its new toes on this new regular IFFM was our first outing after the second wave in India, we’re grateful and we’re in search of higher occasions and hoping to make extra music. Sending you out all loads of love, way more music in our lives, and sure being fearless in telling tales.

On Winning Best Actor in a sequence for The Family Man 2, Manoj Bajpayee mentioned, “Thank you to all the jury members for honoring me. I must mention – cinema or series – are both highly collaborative. It’s Highly embarrassing for me to take away the award to myself without mentioning everyone involved. Amazon, Raj, and DK, but it’s the writers for the series that make a lot of difference. It’s that team of writers, so thank you to them for giving me the space to become this character. The last time I was at this festival I took the Best Actor award for Gali Guleiyan and I’m grateful to the festival.” On successful Best Actress in a sequence for The Family Man 2, Samantha Akkineni mentioned, “First time at this festival. To be here amongst such immense talent. I’m grateful and it’s such a huge honour. Thanks to Raj and DK to see past the cute girl image I have and to give me this role which is so different from what I have done so far. To give me this character that has so many layers and such diverse parts to it. It’s my big dive into OTT and what an amazing show to do it with.” On successful Best Series for Mirzapur 2, filmmaker Gurmeet Singh mentioned, “Overwhelming to be being around here with such amazing talent. It’s all thanks to the writers, OTT is their medium and they gave us such amazing content to work with, so all the credit to them.”

On successful the celebrated Diversity in Cinema Award, Pankaj  Tripathi mentioned, “This award is special for me, I’m humbled – it’s really inspiring for me, my craft. The man who is here to give me this award. He is the one who discovered my talent. So thanks to Anurag Kashyap sir. He is the one who rediscovered my talent. So I’m grateful to you. I’m grateful to all my directors, writers for having me part of their projects.” On successful the Best Actor in a function movie for Sorrarai Pottru, Suriya mentioned, “I’m sure all the nominees have given their best. This film is very special. This is the first award I’m getting for this film. This is one of the first films that came to me during the pandemic. Thanks to all the fans who have given us so much love. In my career, I felt bored with what I was doing after having worked for 20 years. So thanks to my director Sudha – this film was her 10 years dream – she worked 4 years on writing or his film. The character of Maara will not be anything without her. I couldn’t ask for more.” On successful the Best Actress in a function movie for Sherni, Vidya Balan mentioned, “I’m thrilled to be receiving the award for Sherni which was shot during the pandemic. Thanks to my director Amit Masurkar, my producer Abundantia- who pulled all stops to make this film during these uncertain times.”

On successful the Best Director Award for Ludu, Anurag Basu mentioned, “Humbling to be part of the nominees and to be winning the best director. Thankful to Netflix and T-Series. My actors were amazing to stand by me. Such amazing people, my crew, my actors. Such a crazy bunch of people. This award shows us that despite all the situation we are in, shows that cinema will continue to be celebrated.”