OTTplay Awards: Kartik Aaryan, Taapsee Pannu’s big win

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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