{"id":39275,"date":"2026-07-23T09:39:42","date_gmt":"2026-07-23T04:09:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/srikanth-producer-breaks-silence-on-rajkummar-rao-national-award-snub-racts-to-kartik-aaryans-win-for-chandu-champion-hindi-movie-news\/"},"modified":"2026-07-23T09:39:42","modified_gmt":"2026-07-23T04:09:42","slug":"srikanth-producer-breaks-silence-on-rajkummar-rao-national-award-snub-racts-to-kartik-aaryans-win-for-chandu-champion-hindi-movie-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/srikanth-producer-breaks-silence-on-rajkummar-rao-national-award-snub-racts-to-kartik-aaryans-win-for-chandu-champion-hindi-movie-news\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Srikanth\u2019 producer breaks silence on Rajkummar Rao National Award SNUB; racts to Kartik Aaryan’s win for ‘Chandu Champion’ | Hindi Movie News"},"content":{"rendered":"


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Despite predictions, Rajkummar Rao missed Best Actor at the National Film Awards, which went jointly to Kartik Aaryan and Mammootty. ‘Srikanth’ co-producer Nidhi Parmar Hiranandani denies it’s a snub, praising both actors. She reveals the film and husband Tushar were often overlooked at Bollywood awards, calling this win unexpected and humbling.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/section>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

After \u2018Srikanth\u2019, the biopic on visually-impaired industrialist Srikanth Bolla, hit screens, many predicted it would be a strong contender at the National Awards, with Rajkummar Rao<\/a> tipped by several as the frontrunner for Best Actor. However, while the film did clinch the Best Hindi Feature Film award, the top acting honour ultimately slipped away from him.<\/p>\n

Nidhi Parmar Hiranandani<\/keyword> denies it’s a snub for Rajkummar
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Instead, the Best Actor trophy at the 72nd National Film Awards was shared jointly by Kartik Aaryan<\/a> and Mammootty, for \u2018Chandu Champion\u2019 and \u2018Bramayugam\u2019, respectively. \u2018Srikanth\u2019 co-producer Nidhi Parmar Hiranandani, however, brushes aside any suggestion that this counts as a snub for Rajkummar. \u201cI don’t think you can snub an actor of Raj’s calibre at all. That’s not possible,” she tells News18.\u201cI don\u2019t think the jury of National Awards would do that. I\u2019m sure they had their reasons. Expectation wise, every maker wants a win for their cast, crew and themselves. And Raj has given one of the finest performances of his career in this film. It\u2019s there for everyone to see. As Srikanth, he brought him alive onscreen and we\u2019re very grateful to him for that,” she adds.<\/p>\n

Nidhi Parmar Hiranandani calls Kartik Aaryan’s win well-deserved
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Parmar, who is also married to director Tushar Hiranandani<\/a>, goes on to heap praise on Kartik, convinced that he truly earned the honour. \u201cKartik has done a phenomenal job in Chandu Champion. The National Awards jury knew what they were doing. But would we’ve wanted Raj to win? Definitely. Does that mean we didn’t want Kartik to win? No. They’ve taken the right decision,” she states.Nidhi shares that she never truly expected the predictions around Srikanth’s big win to come true, and points to the fact that both the film and Tushar had been largely snubbed at nearly every Bollywood award function. \u201cI was expecting some nominations for our film. Our cast members received the Best Actor and the Best Supporting Actor awards. The writers got nominated but Tushar didn’t get nominated at all,” she rues.She further continues, \u201cI don\u2019t know how many nominations the film got either. But through the process of being snubbed by everyone, it felt like maybe it\u2019s not happening for us. But it didn\u2019t bother me much because it didn\u2019t mean that we made a lesser film. It just meant that I don\u2019t know how to play the game.”<\/p>\n

Srikanth’s Oscar snub had dampened Nidhi’s hopes
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Srikanth’s failure to be picked as India’s official entry to the Oscars had further dampened her hopes. \u201cThere were talks about our film being considered for Oscars many times, which never happened. So, we never had any hopes. That’s why, National Award was something we didn’t even think about. But then the news came out of nowhere. This is the highest honour,” she exclaims.<\/p>\n

Nidhi Parmar Hiranandani says she and Tushar are ‘still in shock’
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Unsurprisingly, both Nidhi and Tushar are ‘still in shock’. \u201cWe’re very grateful but still processing. The National Award wasn’t a dream that we even held. We weren’t even thinking about it but we knew that we had given our best to the film. We’re very happy. The Best Film award isn’t just for us. It’s for everybody involved with the film,” Nidhi remarks.<\/div>\n


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Despite predictions, Rajkummar Rao missed Best Actor at the National Film Awards, which went jointly to Kartik Aaryan and Mammootty. ‘Srikanth’ co-producer Nidhi Parmar Hiranandani denies it’s a snub, praising both actors. She reveals the film and husband Tushar were often overlooked at Bollywood awards, calling this win unexpected and humbling. After \u2018Srikanth\u2019, the biopic […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":39276,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[299],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39275","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-latest-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t