OTTplay Awards: The OTTplay Awards were held last night (September 10) with several Bollywood celebrities in attendance. The inaugural pan- India awards aim to celebrate the excellence of OTT films, shows, actors, and filmmakers, from across the nation. These awards appreciate the efforts of those who have mesmerized us with their performances and kept us hooked on to the binge-worthy entertainment throughout the year. The awards had nominees from various platforms in different languages.
OTTplay Awards were selected by a renowned jury from the film fraternity and also veteran journalists. Filmmakers Aanand L Rai, Ashwini Iyer Tiwari, and actors Divya Dutta and Adil Hussain were part of the jury. Shows and films released between June 1, 2021, and July 31, 2022, were eligible for the awards this year.
Here is the list of all the winners-
BEST ACTOR MALE - FILM (JURY)
Arya (Sarpatta Parambai)
Farhan Akhtar (Toofan)
BEST ACTOR FEMALE - FILM (JURY)
Vidya Balan – Jalsa
BEST ACTOR FEMALE - FILM (POPULAR)
Taapsee Pannu (Haseen Dilruba)
BEST ACTOR MALE - FILM (POPULAR)
Kartik Aaryan (Dhamaka)
BEST DEBUT MALE - SERIES
Kunal Kapoor – Empire
BEST DEBUT FEMALE - SERIES
Sonali Bendre - Broken News
BEST ACTOR IN A COMIC ROLE - SERIES
Jameel Khan - Gullak 3
BEST ACTOR IN A GREY ROLE - SERIES
Kishore - She 2
BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR MALE - SERIES
Parambrata Chatterjee – Aranyak
BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR FEMALE - SERIES
Konkona Sen Sharma - Mumbai Diaries
OTTplay Readers' Choice Award: BEST SERIES
Prasanth Pandiyaraj (Vilangu - Tamil)
BEST DIRECTOR - SERIES
R Madhavani, Vinod Rawat, Kapil Sharma - Aarya 2
BEST STORY (SERIES)
Aranyak – Charu Dutta, writer
BEST WEB SERIES (JURY)
Tabbar – Director Ajitpal Singh
BEST WEB SERIES (POPULAR)
Family Man 2 – Raj & DK
EXCELLENCE IN REALITY FICTION
Masaba Gupta (Masaba Masaba 2)
BEST ACTOR MALE - SERIES (JURY)
Manoj Bajpayee - Family Man 2
BEST ACTOR MALE - SERIES (POPULAR)
Tahir Raj Bhasin - Yeh Kaali Kaali Aankhen
BEST ACTOR FEMALE - SERIES (POPULAR)
Raveena Tandon (Aranyak)
BEST ONSCREEN COUPLE ON OTT
Dhruv Sehgal And Mithila Palkar - Little Things Season 4
EMERGING OTT STAR (MALE)
Priyadarshi (Unheard and Loser 2) - Telugu
EMERGING OTT STAR (FEMALE)
Dushara Vijayan (Sarpatta Parambarai - Tamil) and Aishwarya Lekshmi (Kaanekkaane - Malayalam)
BEST DIALOGUES - FILMS
Haseen Dillruba – Kanika Dhillon
OTT PERFORMANCE OF THE YEAR
Rajendra Prasad (Senapathi - Telugu)
BEST STORY - FILM
Malik (Malayalam) – Director Mahesh Narayanan
BEST DEBUT MALE - FILM
Abhimanyu Dassani (Meenakshi Sundareshwar) - Bhagyashree
BEST DEBUT FEMALE - FILM
Nimrat Kaur (Dasvi)
BEST ACTOR IN A COMIC ROLE - FILM
Deepak Dobriyal - Good Luck Jerry
BEST ACTOR IN A NEGATIVE ROLE - FILM
Harshvarshan Rane (Haseen Dilruba)
BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR MALE - FILM
Satish Kaushik (Thar)
BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR FEMALE - FILM
Neha Dhupia (A Thursday)
Saie Tamhankar (Mimi)
BEST WEB ORIGINAL FILM (JURY)
Dasvi (Director – Tushar Jalota, two producers)
BEST WEB ORIGINAL FILM (POPULAR)
Shershaah – Producers – Karan, Shabir, Apurva
Jai Bheem - Director and co-producer
BEST DIRECTOR - FILM
Shoojit Sircar - Uddham Singh
FILMMAKER OF THE DECADE
Pa Ranjith - Tamil
BREAKTHROUGH PERFORMANCE OF THE YEAR (MALE)
Guru Somasundaram (Minnal Murali)
BREAKTHROUGH PERFORMANCE OF THE YEAR
Sara Ali Khan (Atrangi Re)
PIONEERING CONTRIBUTIONS TO NEW WAVE CINEMA
Raj B Shetty and Rishab Shetty (Kannada)
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