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SIIMA is the biggest awards event that covers all the four South Film Industries. Like every year, this year too, SIIMA event is going to be held in a grand manner in Dubai. A lot of film personalities, technicians, directors, actors, actresses and others from Telugu, Tamil. Malayalam and Kannada film industries have already left for Dubai. The event was scheduled for yesterday and today.

Nandamuri Balakrishna from Tollywood is the major attraction at the awards event. Keerthy Suresh, Chiyaan Vikram, Sarath Kumar, Radhika Sarath Kumar, Director Hari, Khushboo, Anjali, Sai Kumar, Sushanth, Senthil Kumar, Madhavan, Praneetha, Ektha Rathod, Rahul, Priyadarshi, Atlee, and others were spotted at the Red Carpet.

The lifetime achievement award was presented to P. Susheela. The following is the list of winners for Tamil films that took place yesterday.

BEST FILM: VIKRAM VEDHA
BEST DIRECTOR ATLEE: MERSAL
BEST ACTOR IN A LEADING ROLE (MALE): SIVA KARTHIKEYAN for VELAIKKARAN
BEST ACTOR IN A LEADING ROLE (MALE) – CRITICS: MADHAVAN for VIKRAM VEDHA
BEST ACTOR IN A LEADING ROLE (FEMALE): NAYANTHARA for ARAMM
BEST ACTOR IN A LEADING ROLE (FEMALE) -CRITICS: ADITI BALAN for ARUVI
BEST ACTOR IN A SUPPORTING ROLE (MALE): MS BHASKAR for 8 THOTTAKKAL
BEST ACTOR IN A SUPPORTING ROLE (FEMALE): SHIVADA for ADHE KANGAL
BEST ACTOR IN A NEGATIVE ROLE: SJ.SURYA for MERSAL & SPYDER
BEST MUSIC DIRECTOR: AR Rahman for MERSAL
BEST LYRIC WRITER: VIVEK for AALA PORAAN & MERSAL
BEST PLAYBACK SINGER (MALE): SID SRIRAM for MERSAL
BEST PLAYBACK SINGER (FEMALE): LUKSIMI SIVANESWARALINGAM for BOGAN
BEST DEBUTANT ACTOR( MALE): VASANTH RAVI for TARAMANI
BEST DEBUTANT ACTOR (FEMALE): ADITI RAO HYDARI for KAATRU VELIYIDAI
BEST DEBUTANT DIRECTOR: ARUN PRABHU PURUSHOTHAMAN for ARUVI
BEST COMEDIAN: SOORI for SANGILI BUNGILI KADHAVA THORAE
BEST CINEMATOGRAPHER: RAVI VARMAN for KAATRU VELIYIDAI

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The organizers of South Indian International Movie Awards, SIIMA Awards, have announced the nomination list of Telugu movies for its seventh edition. The awards are presented in separate parts on two different days.

On the first day, the most promising upcoming South Indian film artists are honored at the Generation Next Awards, while the second day is reserved for the main SIIMA Awards. They also announced the nomination list of Telugu movies for the seventh edition of SIIMA.

It is nevertheless to say, SS Rajamouli’s masterpiece Baahubali nominated in 12 categories. In fact, it’s a proud moment for TFI and team Baahubali indeed.

Well, here is the nomination list of Telugu movies for SIIMA.

Best Film

Baahubali-2 The Conclusion

Fidaa

Gautamiputra Satakarni

The Ghazi Attack

Sathamanam Bhavati

Best Director

Krish (Gautamiputra Satakarni)

SS Rajamouli (Baahubali 2)

Sandeep Vanga (Arjun Reddy)

Sankalp Reddy (The Ghazi Attack)

Satish Vegesna (Sathamanam Bhavati)

Best Actor

Nandamuri Balakrishna (Gautamiputra Satakarni)

Prabhas (Baahubali 2)

Vijay Devarakonda (Arjun Reddy)

Jr NTR (Jai Lava Kusa)

Rana Daggubati (Nene Raju Nene Mantri)

Best Actress

Anushka Shetty (Baahubali 2)

Rakul Preet Singh (Jaya Janaki Nayaka)

Kajal Aggarwal (Nene Raju Nene Mantri)

Ritika Singh (Guru)

Sai Pallavi (Fidaa)

Best Actor In A Supporting Role

Aadhi Pinisetty (Ninnu Kori)

Prakash Raj (Sathamanam Bhavati)

KK Menon (The Ghazi Attack)

Satya Raj (Baahubali 2)

Sri Vishnu (Vunnadhi Okate Zindagi)

Best Actress In a Supporting Role

Bhumika Chawla (MCA)

Jayasudha (Sathamanam Bhavati)

Ramya Krishnan (Baahubali 2)

Hema Malini (Gautamiputra Satakarni)

Raadhika Sarathkumar (Raja The Great)

Best Music Director

SS Thaman (Mahanubhavudu)

Devi Sri Prasad (Khaidi No 150)

MM Keeravani (Baahubali 2)

Shakti Kanth (Fidaa)

Gopi Sundar (Ninnu Kori)

Best Lyric Writer

Suddala Ashok Teja (Vachinde – Fidaa)

Chandra Bose (Nuvvele Nuvvele – Jai Janaki Nayaka)

Siva Shakti Dutta (Saahore Bahubali – Baahubali-2)

Ramajogayya Sastry (Nilavade – Sathamanam Bhavati)

Sri Mani (Bramaramba Ki Nachesanu – Rarandoi Veduka Chudham)

Best Playback Singer (Male)

Armaan Malik (Hello – Hello)

Hema Chandra (Oosupodhu – Fidaa)

Devi Sri Prasad (Ammadu Lets Do Kummudu – Khaidi No.150)

Sid Sriram (Adiga Adiga – Ninnu Kori)

Kaala Bhairava (Dandaalayyaa – Baahubali 2)

Best Playback Singer (Female)

Geetha Madhuri & Mansi (Mahanubhavudu – Mahanubhavudu)

Madhu Priya (Vachchinde – Fidaa)

Neha Basin (Swing Zara – Jai Lava Kusa)

Uma Neha (Paisa Vasool – Paisa Vasool)

Sony (Hamsa Naava – Baahubali 2)

Best Actor In A Negative Role

Rana Daggubati (Baahubali 2)

Tarun Arora (Khaidi No 150)

Rao Ramesh (Duvvada Jagannadham)

Arjun Sarja (Lie)

Vijay Varma (MCA)

Best Debutant Actress

Megha Akash (Lie)

Shalini Pandey (Arjun Reddy)

Kalyani Priyadarshan (Hello)

Aakanksha Singh (Malli Rava)

Nivetha Pethuraj (Mental Madilo)

Best Debutant Director

Sandeep Vanga (Arjun Reddy)

Sankalp Reddy (The Ghazi Attack)

Prabhakar Podakandla (Next Nuvve)

Vivek Athreya (Mental Madilo)

Mahi V Raghav (Anando Brahma)

Best Cinematographer

Senthil Kumar (Baahubali 2)

VS Gnana Shekar (Gautamiputra Satakarni)

R Madhi (The Ghazi Attack)

R Rathnavelu (Khaidi No.150)

Sameer Reddy (Sathamanam Bhavati)

Best Comedian

Rahul Ramakrishna (Arjun Reddy)

Srinivas Reddy (Anando Brahma/Raja The Great)

Praveen (Sathamanam Bhavati)

Prudhvi Raj (PSV Garuda Vega)

Shakalaka Shankar (Anando Brahma)

Indian cinema is one of the fastest growing industries, with South Indian Cinema creating its own mark. Telugu, Tamil, Kannada and Malayalam industries being the center, SIIMA is being organized. SIIMA is conducted annually, to reward the best movies of South India for their excellence.

The seventh edition of South Indian International Movie Awards (SIIMA) 2018 will be held in Dubai on 7th and 8th of September. Get ready for a star-studded and visual extravagant show ? #SIIMA2018 #PantaloonsSIIMA pic.twitter.com/9ZLUDWwYwO

— BARaju (@baraju_SuperHit) July 16, 2018

SIIMA event is to be organized during the dates 7th and 8th September 2018. Every year, a jury decides the best movies of all the South India languages and nominate them. The best movies are recognized for the excellence in the respective jury. Last year’s SIIMA award function was held in Abu Dhabi and witnessed Katrina Kaif and Ranbir Kapoor too. This year SIIMA is to be held in Dubai. Official partner is Pantaloons. More details are to be out soon.

Regina Cassandra at once captured the imagination of all with her talent and beauty. After winning SIIMA award best actress on debut with her performance in Siva Manasulo Shruti she went on to star in Routine Love Story, Kotha Janta, Ra Ra Krishnayya, Power, Pilla Nuvvu Leni Jeevitham, Subramanyam for Sale romancing young heroes of Tollywood.

In a recent interview, she spoke about her love affairs. Regina said ” Well, till three-and-a-half years ago, I was in a serious relationship, but right now, I’m single. I don’t have time for a relationship.

She further added, the actors too will have families, when the family members read about the gossips, it will be a heavy pain for everyone. And don’t believe in rumors, do believe your eyes.

She is currently busy with the Tamil projects.

Veteran actress Meena has hailed the Tamil and Telugu industries in the nineties. As she is leading a happy married life, she is directing her baby daughter Nainika into movies.

This cute girl has debuted into movies with Ilayathalapathi’s Theri movie. Nainika has impressed all with her cute acting skills sharing screen space with superstar Vijay. For her performance, she has won the best debut child actress for the movie Theri in the SIIMA awards. She went to take the award along with her mother Meena. After taking the award, the organizers asked her to sing a song. Nainika shocked all by singing her mother’s superhit song Thilana Thilana on the stage. The attended celebrities fell flat with her cute singing.

Movie lovers say that Nainika is talented like her mother. They hint a great future as a lead actress for Nainika replacing her mother’s place in the movie field.

Anchor turned actress Anasuya Bharadwaj is very much emotional now for collecting her first SIIMA Award. She was very much happy with the way she received acclaims and appreciation for her role in the film Kshanam. The spectators at the event have revealed that Anasuya got emotional and she almost had mist-eyes when she got onto the stage. This is something really very good to happen for an actress and their hard work is getting paid off.

Many waited for the response of Anasuya at the event but she was at loss for words and she said that it was her first award in her career. She played a powerful cop in the film Kshanam and impressed everyone with her amazing performance. She is now playing a key role iN Ram Charan’s next film.

Young Rebel Star Prabhas is a happy person as he achieved fame with the film Baahubali. The film has made him stand as a National star in Indian cinema. On the other side, Prabhas is happy with the way the things are progressing regarding Saaho but the makers did not confirm the female lead yet. Meanwhile, the interesting buzz is that Katrina Kaif is showing interest to romance Prabhas. She recently attended the SIIMA Awards event that took place in Abu Dhabi.

While speaking at the awards event, the actress revealed that she liked Prabhas in Baahubali. She said that she would be ready to work with Prabhas and added that she likes Chiyaan Vikram in the Tamil film industry.

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All-rounder Manchu Lakshmi has become an English teacher for Allu Sirish during the recently concluded SIIMA awards event.

When Sirish said that he became friends with a girl on facebook, Lakshmi satirically asked if he had put his own photo as a profile pic? Sirish replied that he used Bunny’s photo to impress her. ‘I got cold feet when she asked to talk on a phone. I was scared that she would ditch me after hearing by Indian English. Would you teach me how to speak American English,’ asked Sirish.

Lakshmi taught Sirish how to pronounce ‘Water’ and ‘I Love You’ in American slang. Sirish then made the entire auditorium split in laughter by saying that she had taught him the entire American slang with just a few words.

The duo was acting as hosts of the awards function.

Rana Daggubati has clicked a Mega selfie at the SIIMA 2016 awards event in Singapore, and the selfie pegged to be the biggest of the year, is going viral on social media.

The glamor of the selfie having celebrities from all corners of the southern film industry is enhanced by the presence of one and only Megastar of Tollywood. After Chiranjeevi had been felicitated at the SIIMA awards ceremony, the whole of the film fraternity present at the event went on stage to click a selfie with Megastar. Rana Daggubati was the one to click this selfie and share it online.

Now this is a picture that speaks a 1000 words and more!! pic.twitter.com/KG0YZlo6oz

— Rana Daggubati (@RanaDaggubati) June 30, 2016

In the selfie, we can see actors Rajendra Prasad, Suhasini, Khushbu Sundar, Radhika Sharath Kumar, Sai Kumar Allu Arjun, Lakshmi Manchu, Sirish Allu, Samantha, Shruti Haasan, VarunTej, Sudheer Babu, Mehreen Pirzada, Urvashi Rautela, Shubra Ayappa, Allu Arvind and many others.

After the felicitation, SIIMA management, and the celeb fraternity wished megastar all the best for his 150th film.

Here comes the exciting news for the fans of superstar Mahesh Babu from the SIIMA awards ceremony held in Singapore.

The star has been adjudged the best actor for his inspiring performance in Koratala Siva’s directorial blockbuster film ‘Srimanthudu’. This is one of the many awards the actor has won for the path breaking movie. While fans of Mahesh are elated, fans of NTR and Prabhas are not happy feeling that the efforts of their favorite stars were not recognized.

Stylish Star Allu Arjun conferred with the critics best actor award for his splendid performance as Gona Gannareddy in Gunasekhar’s historical drama ‘Rudhramadevi’. Akhil Akkineni and Pragya Jaiswal received the best debut actor male and female respectively for their performances in ‘Akhil’ and ‘Kanche’.

Legendary singer S Janaki was awarded the Life Time Achievement trophy for having a memorable career.

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A host of stars from the southern film industry are gearing up to enthrall the audiences at SIIMA Awards event this year.

SIIMA management has spent a bomb this year just like every other year to rope in some of the biggest stars of south film fraternity to attend the two-day mega awards event.Going by the latest reports, the organizers of SIIMA Awards have done the remarkable thing by roping in mega star Chiranjeevi to grace the event this year.

Reports further added that Chiranjeevi has been paid a mammoth amount to perform live on stage for the first time at an awards function. Sources from SIIMA Awards function revealed that Chiranjeevi’s 150th project will be promoted during this function. The presence of the mega star is expected to raise the craze for this award function to be held at this June end.

Young Tiger Jr NTR has scored a big hit with the film Temper last year. The film ended his failure streak and helped him to gain the confidence. His performance in the film as Inspector Daya is appreciable but unfortunately, he was denied a nomination in the SIIMA Awards. The award nominations stirring a new controversy. Without giving a nomination for Tarak, the awards committee gave Allu Arjun a nomination in Best Actor category for Rudhramadevi, but Bunny is actually a character artist for the film.

In this scenario, Tarak’s heroine in Kantri, Hansika Motwani has made some sensational comments on the awards in Singapore where she is promoting the event. The actress stated that SIIMA Awards is the only genuine awards show in South. She is actually a brand ambassador for the awards event. An actress like Hansika giving such statement is really unprofessional says critics.

Fans of Jr NTR are angry at the organizers of SIIMA awards function which is slated to take place on June 30 and July 1st in Singapore.

Prabhas, Mahesh Babu, Nani, Varun Tej and Allu Arjun have been nominated in the best actor category leaving NTR behind. When the actor was not even nominated in the best actor category, the actor’s fans started expressing their anger on social media with RIP messages. Most of times the organizers of Award events have to bear the brunt of the fans when their favorite heroes don’t get awards and nominations.

The organizers must also act wisely and nominate the best performers instead of those actors who attend and dance at functions. As a matter of fact, NTR has delivered the best performance of 2015 with his powerful role in ‘Temper’.