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Netflix India has secured 9 nominations astatine the Asian Academy Creative Awards (AACA) for their shows including Black Warrant and IC 814: The Kandahar Hijack.
The nominees volition present spell connected to correspond India and vie successful the Grand Awards, crossed the APAC region, successful December 2024 successful Singapore.
The Greatest Rivalry: India vs Pakistan and Modern Masters – SS Rajamouli are besides nominated.
Black Warrant led the tally with 5 nominations crossed cardinal categories — Best Promo oregon Trailer, Best Editing (Tanya Chhabria), Best Sound (Kunal Sharma), Best Screenplay (Satyanshu Singh and Arkesh Ajay), Best Cinematography (Saumyananda Sahi), and Best Actor successful a Leading Role (Zahan Kapoor), the streamer said successful a release.
Modern Masters – SS Rajamouli was nominated for Best Documentary Programme (One-Off), portion The Greatest Rivalry: India vs Pakistan earned a motion for Best Documentary (Series).
IC 814: The Kandahar Hijack was recognised for Best VFX, credited to Dipen Bhaskar and Vivek Dey.
Tanya Bami, Series Head, Netflix India said, “We are truthful excited and humbled to beryllium acknowledged for specified a divers scope of stories and genres, typical of our bid slate. It is simply a grounds to the astonishing enactment our partners bring to beingness unneurotic with us.”
“What makes this adjacent much peculiar is seeing some our seasoned creators and emerging endowment arsenic good arsenic those who enactment down the scenes, person this recognition. This is Indian creativity astatine its finest, and we couldn't beryllium prouder to enactment these voices.”
Actor Zahan Kapoor, who received a information for Best Actor for his show arsenic Sunil Gupta successful Black Warrant, said, “Being a portion of Black Warrant has been an unforgettable journey, and to beryllium recognised by the Asian Academy Creative Awards for this relation feels genuinely surreal.
"Portraying Sunil Gupta, a antheral who spent decades wrong the walls of Tihar Jail, bearing witnesser to the lives and past moments of decease enactment inmates, was a profound and humbling experience.” Crediting Vikramaditya Motwane, Satyanshu Singh and shows’ writers, Kapoor said it was a erstwhile successful a beingness relation for him.
Sameer Nair, MD of Applause Entertainment, said, “Black Warrant has been a genuinely peculiar travel for each of us, and these galore nominations astatine the Asian Academy Creative Awards are some humbling and gratifying..."
“We’re immensely arrogant that Black Warrant secured the astir National Wins this year, and are looking guardant to the Gala Awards successful December, wherever the amusement volition correspond India successful truthful galore prestigious categories.” At the 2024 edition, Netflix India received nominations for Amar Singh Chamkila, Heeramandi: The Diamond Bazaar, The Railway Men and The Hunt For Veerappan.
