Sacred Games at Emmy: Nawazuddin Siddiqui gaga over Anurag Kashyap

Have Anurag Kashyap-Nawazuddin Siddiqui once again proved that y are one of best partnerships in Bollywood? A journey that started with ‘Black Friday’ and is going strong as ever, as was evident with recent season of ‘Sacred Games’, is w being recognised on a global platform. After ‘Gangs of Wasseypur’, duo’s first full-fledged collaboration made it to Guardian’s list and Nawazuddin was praised by ' Alchemist' writer Paulo Coelho, w ir show ‘Sacred Games’ has been minated for International Emmy Award.  Nawazuddin Siddiqui couldn’t stop praising his frequent collaborator, terming him an ‘epitome of invation in cinema’. 

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Nawazuddin Siddiqui goes gaga over his director

‘Sacred Games’ has been minated for Best Drama in list that was released on Thursday. While Nawazuddin Siddiqui as an actor also deserves wishes and congratulations for his series being minated, actor fully gave its credit to his director. 

Taking to Twitter, he wrote, “Congratulations #AnuragKashyap you beauty, epitome of invation in Cinema, making Indians proud across world, First for GOW being only Indian film shortlisted by Guardian & secondly Sacred Games being minated at Emmy's 3 Cheers to Vikram, Neeraj & Team SG.” 

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While Anurag Kashyap couldn’t reply on Twitter since he has quit medium recently, events definitely called for a celebration for duo.  

It wouldn’t be wrong to say that Nawazuddin Siddiqui’s character of Ganesh Gaitonde has attained a cult following, particularly for its one-liners. Anurag Kashyap directs track involving Nawazuddin, while that involving Saif Ali Khan and ors have been helmed by Vikramaditya Motwane in first season and Neeraj Ghaywan in second. 

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Earlier in day, Anurag Kashyap had exulted ‘what a day’ after minations were anunced. director had two more reasons to be happy because anthology film ‘Lust Stories’ was minated for Best Miniseries, while Radhika Apte, who had featured in Anurag Kashyap’s short film, has been minated for Best Actress. 

Recently, two-part ‘Gangs of Wasseypur’ was only Indian film to feature in Guardian’s list of 100 best films post turn of century. movie had famously turned out to be turning point in Nawazuddin’s career.

Previously, Coelho called Nawazuddin a 'great actor' and 'Sacred Games' 'one of best series'.

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