After winning a number of awards in India and recently winning a prestigious award at Cardiff International Film Festival, Nawazuddin Siddiqui is all set to receive yet another award at another international film festival.
The Gangs of Wasseypur actor will be bestowed with Lesley Ho Asian Film Talent Award at the 30th edition of Singapore International Film Festival (SIFF). He will be honoured for his work in Netflix original series Sacred Games which also received nominations at the International Emmy Awards. He will also be holding a conversation session at the festival which will commence on 21 November and conclude on 8 December.
He was recently bestowed with the prestigious Golden Dragon Award at Cardiff International Film Festival for excellence in cinema in the global arena.
Nawazuddin Siddiqui is considered as one of the finest actors in Hindi film industry today. Starting with small roles in films to playing substantial characters in critically as well as commercially successful films, he has surely come a long way.
He has also made his presence felt in international arena with Netflix’s series Sacred Games, Ritesh Batra’s Photograph, Tannishtha Chatterjee’s Roam Rome Mein and BBC UK’s McMafia.
In Bollywood, Nawazuddin is currently awaiting the release of his next film Motichoor Chaknachoor that follows the story of a 36 year old man who is looking for a wife and a young girl who wants to get married to a man who works abroad so that she can also live in a foreign country.
The film stars Nawazuddin Siqqiui and Athiya Shetty in lead roles while Vibha Chibber, Navni Parihar, Vivek Mishra, Karuna Pandey, Sanjeev Vats, Abhishek Rawat, Sapna Sand and Usha Nagar will be seen in supporting roles.
The film directed by Debamitra Biswal and produced by Rajiv and Kiran Bhatia is scheduled to be released on 15 November this year.