It was a gala night at the Indian Film Festival of Melbourne Awards on Thursday. Zoya Akhtar's Gully Boy was awarded the Best Film, Vijay Sethupathi won the Best Actor for his widely acclaimed film Tamil film Super Deluxe and Tabu was named Best Actress for her performance in Andhadhun and Sriram Raghavan won Best Director for the same film.
See full gallery of the awardees here
IFFM also recogninsed superstar Shah Rukh Khan with the Excellence In Cinema Award. SRK, said, “Thank you all of you in Melbourne. It’s an honour and privilege for me. Awards are odd because to me judging an art form for its quality feels counter intuitive. Art is an expression and cinema is the ability to create emotions and share experiences through stories. To be an actor, is to live to know that each one is a mere illusion. When you are making a movie you can change a lot by changing the angle of the light and it strikes you that life is a lot like that as well. It’s the simple things that can alter your journey and pondering makes your story worth telling. I shot a film here 12 years ago and it was a straightforward film about a man who has lost hope in life picks on a team of girls and then they go on to win a world championship. This city had the simplicity I had seen nowhere else. When you get older like me, you realise things. I realised that film changed my life. It’s not the awards you get, it’s just the part of creating process that is an exhilarating experience for an artiste.”
Here’s the complete list of winners
IFFM Best Short Film : My Name is Mohamed and Raghad, We Don't Exist Here Anymore by Ali Mousawi
Be My Brother by Genevieve Clay
IFFM Diversity Award: Onir
Telstra People’s Choice Award: Simmba
Celebrating 20 years of Kuch Kuch Hota Hai: Karan Johar
IFFM Best Director : Sriram Raghavan for Andhadhun
IFFM Best Actor : Vijay Sethupathi for Super Deluxe
IFFM Best Actress : Tabu for Andhadhun
IFFM Best Indie film : Bulbul Can Sing
IFFM Best Film : Gully Boy
PWC Equality in Cinema award an honorary award) - Chuskit and Super Delux
IFFM Excellence in Cinema - Shah Rukh Khan