Nominations for India’s first Critics Choice Film Awards announced for Regional Films
The Critics’ Choice Film Awards will be broadcast live on April 21st, 2019 on
Facebook- Critics handle and CCFA website 8 p.m. onwards (IST)
April 9th, 2019, Mumbai: Zoya
Akhtar, a well-known Indian film director and Vidya Balan, a leading Indian
actor, together announced the nominees for India’s first Critics Choice Film
Awards that honors and celebrates talent in cinema across 8 languages in India
including: Tamil, Telegu, Kannada, Marathi, Gujarati, Bengali, Malayalam and of
course Hindi. The awards are brought together by Motion Content Group and The
Film Critics Guild (FCG) in association with Vistas Media.
India produces more
exceptional and artistically diverse movies than any other country, with nearly
2000 films being made every year as per a study released by UNESCO in 20151.
For a country that is known the world over for its diversity of cultures, and
languages, it’s only fitting that regional films that showcased exemplary
performances get to be a part of this prestigious platform. The nominated films from regional languages across the
country include:
Tamil:
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Pariyerum
Perumal
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Vada
Chennai
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Merku
Thodarchi Malai
Marathi:
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Naal
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Lathe
Joshi
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Redu
Telugu:
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Rangasthalam
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Care
of Kancharapalem
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Mahanati
Gujarati:
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Dhh
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Reva
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Ventilator
Malayalam:
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Ee Ma
Yau
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Sudani
From Nigeria
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Eeda
Bengali:
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Pupa
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Rainbow
Jelly
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Ek Je
Chillo Raja
Kannada:
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Ondalla
Eradalla
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Naticharami
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Ammacchiyemba
Nenapu
The awards will be
held on April 21st, 2019 at Rang Mandir, Bandra, Mumbai and will be
hosted by Neha Dhupia, the well-known
Indian film actor. A jury of the country’s most credible film critics who aim to honor and celebrate the
brilliance in Indian cinema will be deliberating over the winners for this
awards ceremony.
About Film Critics Guild:The Film Critics Guild, India’s first registered association of
film critics, is a geographically diverse cross-section of professionals who
have come together to streamline the ethical and quality standards for film criticism
in the country. With India’s most credible critics — representing print, radio,
broadcast, and the web — at its helm, the Guild is dedicated to maintaining the
highest level of integrity amongst its members and evaluating works of cinema
that stand apart in their story-telling.
About Motion Content Group:Motion Content Group is a global content investment and rights
management company. It invests and partners with the world’s leading talent,
producers and distributors to fund, develop, produce and distribute premium
content. Motion supports editorially and commercially vibrant networks and
platforms by helping meet the ever-increasing demand for premium content, for
the benefit of advertisers and its content partners. Headquartered in London and
Los Angeles, Motion currently operates in 26 countries worldwide and has a
broad range of award-winning programming distributed globally.
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