IIFA 2017 Nominations List: “Ae Dil Hai Mushkil” And “M.S. Dhoni” Receieved Maximum Nominations!

While we all are still talking about the National Awards, we now have updates on the IIFA (International Indian Film Academy). And After National Awards, the IIFA Awards are regarded as the most eminent awards. With Bollywood’s who and who attending the event night till setting the stage on fire with all the performances, IIFA is always catchy !

The IIFA 2017 will take place in New York this year on the 14th-15th of July. On July 14, there will be IIFA Weekend Press Conference and IIFA Rocks Green Carpet and main event IIFA Rocks. On the second day i.e July 15, there will be IIFA Awards Green Carpet and IIFA Awards.
So the list of nominations are out for current year and Karan Johar’s ‘Ae Dil Hai Mushkil’ has grabbed 8 nominations, while competing with it is Sushant Singh Rajput’s MS Dhoni: The Untold Story bagging 7 nominations.

The films that have been nominated for the Best Film are ‘Pink’, ‘Neerja’, ‘Sultan’, ‘Udta Punjab’, ‘Ae Dil Hai Mushkil’, ‘M.S. Dhoni’.

The actors nominated in the Best Leading Male category

Shahid Kapoor for ‘Udta Punjab’
Ranbir Kapoor for ‘Ae Dil Hai Mushkil’
Shah Rukh Khan for ‘Fan’
Sushant Singh Rajput for ‘M.S. Dhoni’
Amitabh Bachchan for ‘Pink’
Salman Khan for ‘Sultan’.

The nominees for Leading Role Female

Anushka Sharma for ‘Ae Dil Hai Mushkil’
Alia Bhatt for ‘Dear Zindagi’ & ‘Udta Punjab’
Sonam Kapoor for ‘Neerja’
Tapsee Pannu for ‘Pink’.

Other Nomination includes:

Best Director:

Karan Johar- Ae Dil Hai Mushkil
Neeraj Pandey- MS Dhoni
Ram Madhvani- Neerja
Aniruddha Roy Chowdhury- Pink
Ali Abbas Zafar- Sultan
Abhishek Choubey- Udta Punjab

Best Supporting Actor:

Rajat Kapoor- Kapoor and Sons
Rajkummar Rao- Aligarh
Rishi Kapoor- Kapoor and Sons
Anupam Kher- MS Dhoni
Amitabh Bachchan- Wazir
Supporting Actor Female:
Shabana Azmi- Neerja
Andrea Tariang Pink
Ratna Pathak Shah- Kapoor and Sons
Disha Patani- Ms Dhoni
Richa Chadha- Sarbjit

Best Comedian:

Varun Dhawan- Dishoom
Jimmy Shergill- Happy Bhag Jayegi
Rishi Kapoor- Kapoor and Sons
Best Actor in a Negative Role:
Neil Nitin Mukesh- Wazir
Shah Rukh Khan- Fan
Jim Sarbh- Neerja

This is going to be a good and a close watch! Looking forward to it already!