SIIMA Awards 2018 nominations: Vijay's Mersal leads with nine nods, followed by Vikram Vedha
FirstpostThe seventh edition of the South Indian International Movie Awards will be held in Dubai this year The seventh edition of the South Indian International Movie Awards will be held in Dubai this year. The nominations were announced on 16 August and Vijay’s 2017 Tamil drama Mersal is leading with 12 nods. Malayalam film Parava has landed ten nominations followed by R Madhavan and Vijay Sethupathi’s Tamil thriller Vikram Vedha, which is competing in nine categories. Here are the nominations in major Tamil, Telugu Malayalam and Kannada categories: Best Film Tamil Mersal Aruvi Vikram Vedha Aramm Theeran Adhigaaram Ondru Telugu Baahubali-2 The Conclusion Fidaa Gautamiputra Satakarni The Ghazi Attack Sathamanam Bhavati Kannada Bharjari Raajakumara Chamak Chowka Ondu Motteya Kathe Malayalam Thondimuthalum Driksakshiyum Take Off Mayaanadhi Angamaly Diaries Parava Best Actor Tamil Vijay Karthi Sivakarthikeyan Vijay Sethupathi R Madhavan Telugu Nandamuri Balakrishna Prabhas Vijay Devarakonda Jr NTR Rana Kannada Shivarajkumar Puneeth Rajkumar Sri Murali Ganesh Dhruva Sarja Malayalam Mammootty Dulquer Salmaan Tovino Thomas Nivin Pauly Fahadh Faasil Best Actress Tamil Nayanthara Andrea Jeremiah Aditi Balan Jyothika Nithya Menen Telugu Anushka Shetty Rakul Preet Singh Kajal Ritika Singh Sai Pallavi Kannada Shraddha Srinath Niveditha Shanvi Srivastava Rashmika Mandanna Sruthi Hariharan Malayalam Parvathy Aishwarya Lekshmi Nimisha Sajayan Anu Sithara Manju Warrier Best Director Tamil Atlee H Vinoth Pushkar - Gayathri Gopi Nainar Arun Prabu Purushothaman Telugu Jagarlamudi Radhakrishna SS Rajamouli Sandeep Vanga Sankalp Reddy Satish Vegesna Kannada Santhosh Ananddram Chethan Kumar Suni Prakash Jayaram P C Sekhar Malayalam Lijo Jose Pellissery Mahesh Narayan Dileesh Pothan Soubin Shahir Aashiq Abu