‘12th Fail’, ‘Kohrra’ win big at Critics’ Choice Awards 2024
‘12th Fail’, ‘Kohrra’ win big at Critics’ Choice Awards 2024
Vikrant Massey-starrer ‘12th Fail’ and Sudip Sharma’s crime series ‘Kohrra’ won top honours at the sixth edition of the Critics’ Choice Awards 2024.
The 2024 award ceremony held on Tuesday is in recognition to the best in feature films, short films, and web series across languages and platforms from India.
In the films category,Vidhu Vinod Chopra directorial
’12th Fail’, bagged the best feature film award, with Massey taking home the trophy for Best Actor.
The movie is based on Anurag Pathak’s best-selling novel about the incredible journey of IPS officer Manoj Kumar Sharma and IRS officer Shraddha Joshi.
Shefali Shah was adjudged as the winner of best actress award for her performance in the drama movie ‘The Three of Us’. The movie registered another win for best cinematography for director Avinash Arun Dhaware.
Tamil drama ‘Koozhangal’, which was India’s official entry for Oscars 2022, won the best director trophy for P S Vinothraj.
Actors Jaideep Ahlawat and Deepti Naval were honoured as for best supporting actor and actress, respectively, for their performances in the movies ‘Jaane Jaan’ and ‘Goldfish’.
Manoj Bajpayee featuring ‘Joram’ won two awards—best writing for Devashish Makhija and best editing for Abhro Banerjee.
‘Kohrra’, featuring Suvinder Vicky and Barun Sobti, bagged the best series award. The show also won awards for best actor for Vicky and best writing for Gunjit Chopra, Diggi Sisodia and Sharma.
Vikramaditya Motwane bagged the best director award for period drama series ‘Jubilee’, which also won Sidhant Gupta the trophy for best supporting actor.
Rajshri Despande was the best actress award winner for the series ‘Trial by Fire’, while Amruta Subhash took home the trophy for best supporting actress for ‘Lust Stories Season 2: The Mirror’.
The winners for the short film segment were also announced at the ceremony.
Reema Maya’s ‘Nocturnal Burger’ won three awards—best short film, best director and best actress for Millo Sunka.
‘Giddh’, featuring Sanjay Mishra, won the best actor and best writing for Ashok Sankhla and Manish Saini. The best cinematography honour went to Jigmet Wangchuk for ‘Last Days of Summer’.
Meanwhile, Ajitpal Singh’s ‘Fire in the Mountains’, which had its world premiere at the 2021 Sundance Film Festival, was honoured with the Gender Sensitivity Award.
Whereas, veteran music director Usha Khanna was felicitated with the Extraordinary Contribution to Cinema Award at the ceremony, organised by Film Critics Guild and Group M Motion Entertainment, in collaboration with Vistas Media Capital.
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