SIIMA Awards Live Updates: Jr NTR won the Best Actor award for RRR.SIIMA Live Updates: The South Indian International Awards (SIIMA) has gone international this year, with the event taking place in Dubai. The two-day awards gala will celebrate movies and film professionals across Telugu, Tamil, Malayalam and Kannada industries. SIIMA 2023 will take place at Dubai World Trade Centre.
Day 1 will celebrate Telugu and Kannada movies, actors and technicians, whereas Day 1 will focus on Telugu and Malayalam cinema.
When the nominations were announced in August, SS Rajamouli’s RRR bagged the highest number of nods – 11. Besides this, Adivi Sesh’s Major and Dulquer Salmaan’s Sita Ramam bagged multiple nominations.
In Tamil, Mani Ratnam’s Ponniyin Selvan 2, Kamal Haasan starrer Vikram will compete in the Best Film Category. In Kannada cinema, Yash’s KGF Chapter 2, Rakshith Shetty’s Charlie 777 are the top contenders, whereas in Malayalam, Bheeshma Parvam, Jana Gana Mana, Hridayam bagged multiple nominations.
The Best Actor list has some popular names this year. In Telugu, RRR actor Jr NTR competes with his co-star Ram Charan. Besides this, Nikhil, Adivi Sesh, Dulquer Salmaan and Siddhu Jonnalagadda are also on the list. In Tamil, Dhanush, R Madhavan, Kamal Haasan, STR and Vikram will compete for the Best Actor trophy. In Kannada and Malayalam, names like Mammootty, Prithviraj Sukumaran, Rakshith Shetty are competing in the acting category. Late actor Puneeth Rajkumar has also been nominated for his role in James.
In the Best Actress (Telugu) category, Mrunal Thakur, Meenakshii Chaudhary, Samantha Ruth Prabhu, Nithya Menen, Neha Shetty and Sreeleela will vie for the trophy.
MM Keeravaani, who brought the Best Song Oscar to India earlier this year, has also got a nomination in the Best Music Director (Telugu) category. He will be competing with Sricharan Pakala, Vishal Chandrashekhar, S Thaman and Bheems Ceciroleo.
Chandrabose received the Best Lyric Writer (Telugu) award at SIIMA 2023 for his song Naatu Naatu in RRR.
Yash bagged the award for best actor for his role in KGF 2. Srinidhi Shetty and Bhuvan Gowda received the award on his behalf.
Actor Diganth Manchale took home the trophy for Best Actor in Supporting Role (Kannada) for his role in the film Gaalipata 2.
Actor Mrunal Thakur took home more than one trophy from SIIMA award. One of them was Best Actress in a Leading Role - Critics, for her performance in Sita Ramam.
Actor Adivi Sesh took home the trophy for Best Actor In A Leading Role - Critics (Telugu) for his portrayal of Sandeep Unnikrishnan in the film Major.
Actor Rakshith Shetty's National Award-winning film Charlie 777 won SIIMA for Best Film in Kannada.
Actor and filmmaker Rishab Shetty won SIIMA in the category of Special Appreciation Award - Pathbreaking Story (Kannada)
Filmmaker SS Rajamouli added another honour to his name after he won SIIMA Best Director Award (Telugu) for his Oscar-winning film RRR. Producer Allu Aravind and the film's leading actor Jr NTR received the award on the director's behalf.
Dulquer Salmaan and Mrunal Thakur starrer film Sita Ramam won the SIIMA award for Best Film (Telugu)
Actor Sreeleela won the SIIMA trophy in the Best Actress in a Leading role category (Telugu) in the film Dhamaka. She played the role of Pranavi Reddy in the film.
Jr NTR wins Best Actor in a Leading Role (Telugu) for RRR.
Actor Rana Daggubati, the face of SIIMA 2023, puts his best fashion foot forward for the awards gala in Dubai.
Oscar-winning lyricist Chandrabose is one of the firsts to arrive for the opening night of SIIMA 2023.
Adivi Sesh, whose films Major and HIT The Second Case have got several nominations, said that he is looking forward to the performances of his friends and colleagues at SIIMA 2023.
The red carpet for the opening night of SIIMA is all set to welcome the stars. Tonight Telugu and Kannada industries will be honoured.
Mrunal Thakur hopes to meet Telugu icons at SIIMA 2023. She is also excited to perform on the SIIMA stage. Check out what she has to say:
Actor Jr NTR was clicked on an Emirates flight to Dubai. His film RRR has bagged several nominations at SIIMA 2023.
Vikram director Lokesh Kangaraj and Malayalam actor Kalyani Priyadarshan arrived in Dubai on Friday ahead of SIIMA 2023. Lokesh's Vikram has received several nominations.
At SIIMA 2023, Mrunal Thakur will perform on her song "Kaanunna Kalyanam" from Sita Ramam and Tamannaah Bhatia's popular Tamil song Kaavaalaa from the movie Jailer.
Actor Sathish will host the Tamil segement of SIIMA 2023.
Mrunal Thakur, whose Telugu film Sita Ramam has bagged several nominations at SIIMA 2023, will perform at the awards gala. Her preparations are in full flow.
Just a few hours before the kick-off of SIIMA Day 1, Charlie 777 fame Rakshith Shetty descended on the red carpet.
Just a few hours ahead of SIIMA awards, the sound testing has begun at the venue of the awards gala.
Mrunal Thakur, Sreeleela, Adivi Sesh, Mukesh Chhabra and Shirley Setia arrive in Dubai for South Indian International Awards (SIIMA) 2023 in Dubai.
Actors Rana Daggubati, Pranita Subhash, Lakhmi Manchu, Sreeleela reached Dubai before the rest of the industry and held a pre-event press meet.
The South India International Movie Awards 2023 will celebrate Mani Ratnam and his cinema.