International Emmys: 'Aarya', Nawazuddin Siddiqui & Vir Das nominated

With the usual Emmy Awards concluding a few days ago and with quite a conversation going around it, the expectation instantly was that the nominations for the International Emmy Award 2021 will be announced soon. And that has has now come out where we have some loved Indian names being nominated in multiple categories.

Actors Nawazuddin Siddiqui and Vir Das along with Sushmita Sen-starrer series Aarya have bagged nominations for India as part of the 2021 International Emmy Awards, the International Academy of Television Arts & Sciences announced on Thursday.

Siddiqui has secured a nomination in the best performance by an actor category for his Netflix movie Serious Men. 

He is pitted against British star David Tennant (Des) as well as actors Roy Nik of Israel (Normali) and Christian Tappan of Colombia (El Robo del Siglo or The Great Heist).

Sushmita Sen’s Disney+ Hotstar series Aarya, directed by Ram Madhvani, has made it to the final four of the best drama series category.

The show is nominated alongside Chile’s El Presidente, Israel’s Tehran and UK show There She Goes season two.

Das’ Netflix comedy special Vir Das: For India has been nominated in the comedy segment along with popular French show Call My Agent, UK’s Motherland: Christmas Special and Colombia series Promesas de Campana.

The special, which was Das’ third with Netflix, released in January 2020.India’s three nominations comes a year after India registered a strong performance at the 48th International Emmy Awards with filmmaker Richie Mehta’s Delhi Crime winning the best drama series honour in November 2020.

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