Published 22:41 IST, September 19th 2019
Sacred Games at Emmy: Nawazuddin Siddiqui gaga over Anurag Kashyap
‘Sacred Games’ has been nominated at the International Emmy Awards. Nawazuddin Siddiqui praised Anurag Kashyap as the ‘epitome of innovation in cinema’.
Have Anurag Kashyap-Nawazuddin Siddiqui once again proved that they are one of the best partnerships in Bollywood? A journey that started with ‘Black Friday’ and is going strong as ever, as was evident with the recent season of ‘Sacred Games’, is now being recognised on a global platform. After ‘Gangs of Wasseypur’, the duo’s first full-fledged collaboration made it to The Guardian’s list and Nawazuddin was praised by 'The Alchemist' writer Paulo Coelho, now their show ‘Sacred Games’ has been nominated for the International Emmy Award. Nawazuddin Siddiqui couldn’t stop praising his frequent collaborator, terming him an ‘epitome of innovation in cinema’.
Nawazuddin Siddiqui goes gaga over his director
‘Sacred Games’ has been nominated for the Best Drama in the list that was released on Thursday. While Nawazuddin Siddiqui as an actor also deserves the wishes and congratulations for his series being nominated, the actor fully gave its credit to his director.
Taking to Twitter, he wrote, “Congratulations #AnuragKashyap you beauty, the epitome of innovation in Cinema, making Indians proud across the world, First for GOW being the only Indian film shortlisted by the Guardian & secondly Sacred Games being nominated at the Emmy's 3 Cheers to Vikram, Neeraj & Team SG.”
While Anurag Kashyap couldn’t reply on Twitter since he has quit the medium recently, the events definitely called for a celebration for the 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 the track involving Nawazuddin, while that involving Saif Ali Khan and others have been helmed by Vikramaditya Motwane in the first season and Neeraj Ghaywan in the second.
Earlier in the day, Anurag Kashyap had exulted ‘what a day’ after the nominations were announced. The director had two more reasons to be happy because the anthology film ‘Lust Stories’ was nominated for the Best Miniseries, while Radhika Apte, who had featured in Anurag Kashyap’s short film, has been nominated for Best Actress.
Recently, the two-part ‘Gangs of Wasseypur’ was the only Indian film to feature in The Guardian’s list of the 100 best films post the turn of the century. The movie had famously turned out to be the turning point in Nawazuddin’s career.
Previously, Coelho called Nawazuddin a 'great actor' and 'Sacred Games' 'one of the best series'.
Updated 22:55 IST, September 19th 2019