Mumbai (Maharashtra): Nawazuddin Siddiqui, Ram Madhvani's Aarya and the now-controversial Vir Das are among the host of nominees for the International Emmy Awards, which will honour excellence in television programming at its 49th edition at Casa Cipriani in New York City on Monday night (U.S. Eastern Time).
The event will see awards being handed out in 11 categories for which nominees from 24 countries are in contention. Three titles from India have been named in the nomination list this time.
Siddiqui has been nominated for the best performance by an actor category for the Sudhir Mishra directorial Serious Men. At the 47th International Emmy Awards in London in 2019, he had received the award on behalf of the cast and crew of McMafia, the crime drama.
In Serious Men, Nawaz plays the protagonist in the film, a satire based on the book of the same name by Manu Joseph. It tells the story of a middle-aged man named Ayyan Mani, who works as an assistant at the National Institute of Fundamental Research in Mumbai.
Having lived his life in a slum with his wife and son, and frustrated at the state of his life, Ayyan cooks up a story presenting his child as a science maverick, but matters take a comical turn when the lie gets out of hand. Serious Men is streaming on Netflix.
The second nomination from India is Aarya, a crime thriller series directed by Ram Madhvani (most recently in the news for the Kartik Aryan-starrer Dhamaka). It has been nominated in the Best Drama category.