Bengaluru: People of the state have a news to feel proud of, as one of the Sandalwood actor has been nominated for the ‘Best Actor’ category in the New Vision International Film Festival (NVIFF) – 2019. Bigg Boss Kannada fame Jayaram Karthik aka JK has achieved this honour.
He is nominated for his performance in the Kannada feature film, a 2018 release ‘Puta 109’, which was a crime/thriller genre movie. Dayal Padmanabhan is the director of the movie, who was also a part of Bigg Boss Kannada.
JK has expressed his joy on being nominated for the ‘Best Actor’ category, on his Instagram and has thanked director Dayal for giving him such a challenging role and also the NVIFF jury members for nominating him.
The message says, “Puta 109” is a wonderful Crime thriller directed by Dayal Padmanabhan. Happy to share that I have been nominated for the Best Actor for Puta109 in the “New Vision International Film Festival awards” 2019 which will be held in Netherlands, Amsterdam on the 26th Sept 2019. I thank the Jury of NVIFF for appreciating my work and nominating for Best Actor Award. I thank Dayal sir for giving me an opportunity to play such a challenging role. Also thank the entire team of Puta 109. Love u all Cheers Jk.”
NVIFF will be held on September 29 this year in Amsterdam.
The film festivals aims at recognizing talents who produce short films and original contents.