Emmy Awards 2019: Sacred Games, Lust Stories, Radhika Apte nominated

Indian artists will be gearing up to make country proud on a global level as minations for International Emmy Awards was anunced on Thursday. Indian ventures me it to coveted list as ‘Sacred Games’ and ‘Lust Stories’ were among minees for Best Drama and Best Miniseries respectively. t just that, Rhika Apte is in contention to bag Best Actress award. Moreover, reality show ‘ Remix’ is also in contention in n-Scripted Entertainment category. 

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Indian ventures impress

Apart from Netflix and Rhika Apte, or common factor involving ‘Lust Stories’ and ‘Sacred Games’ ventures was Anurag Kashyap. filmmaker exulted over three minations. Sharing screengrabs of minations on Instagram, Kashyap wrote, “What a day . 3 Emmy minations . 1.lust stories (best miniseries) 
2.Sacred Games (best Drama) 
3. Rhika Apte(best actress-Lust Stories)” (sic). 

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Anurag Kashyap is co-director of ‘Sacred Games’, sharing directorial responsibilities with Vikramitya Motwane in first season and with Neeraj Ghaywan in second season, which was released last month. 

series primarily stars Saif Ali Khan, Nawazuddin Siddiqui, while Rhika Apte, Pankaj Tripathi, Kubbra Sait, Kalki Koechlin, Ranvir Shorey, Surveen Chawla have featured in it over two seasons. first season, in particular, was extremely popular and became a sensation for its memes. 

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Power of 4

‘Lust Stories’, meanwhile, is an anthology of four short movies directed by Anurag Kashyap, Karan Johar, Zoya Akhtar and Dibakar Banerjee. Anurag Kashyap's’ short featured Rhika Apte, for which she’s been minated. She h starred alongside ‘Sairat’ star Akash Thosar in film.

Karan Johar’s short film featured Vicky Kaushal, Kiara vani and Neha Dhupia while Zoya Akhtar’s short film featured Bhumi Pednekar and Neil Bhoopalam. Dibarkar Banerjee’s short film h Manisha Koirala, Sanjay Kapoor and Jaideep Ahlawat in le roles. same four directors h similarly directed four short films in anthology ‘Bombay Talkies’ in 2013. Interestingly, quartet is w gearing up to bring four horror stories next, titled ‘Ghost Stories’. 

‘ Remix’, meanwhile, is an Amazon Prime original which is being judged by Sunidhi Chauhan, Amit Trivedi and Nucleya. show h aired in March this year and ran up till May in 10 episodes. 

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