The White Tiger actor Adarsh Gourav has bagged a British Academy Film Awards (BAFTA) nod in the Best Actor category as the shortlist was announced on Tuesday. Apart from Adarsh, other nominees in the category include seasoned, international names like Riz Ahmed (Sound Of Metal), late Chadwick Boseman (Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom), Mads Mikkelsen (Another Round), Anthony Hopkins (The Father) and Tahar Rahim (The Mauritanian).
It just so happens, News18 interacted with Adarsh when he had made the longlist of BAFTA nominations and was competing with fifteen other actors, back in February. On how hopeful he was about the international awards season and grabbing a trophy for his performance as Balram Halwai in The White Tiger, Adarsh had said, “It feels great to be nominated alongside your childhood heroes like Anthony Hopkins, Gary Oldman, Tom Hanks, Chadwick Boseman, Riz Ahmed and all these people but I don’t think anybody can predict what can happen. For someone like me who is just starting out, getting nominated is an award. I don’t have any expectations. I don’t try to think about these things. I just try focus on the present."
He continued, “I want to build myself as an actor. Increase my repertoire as a performer and constantly sort of evolve. Anything that happens or comes across my way is a bonus for me and I treat it like that. These awards are a way for you to have the opportunity to talk to filmmakers and writers and discuss things with them and they gain a little more trust in you. They can give me a chance to audition for a film that they are writing or casting for."
Meanwhile, The White Tiger director Ramin Bahrani has also received a BAFTA nomination in the adapted screenplay category.
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