The Telugu nominations for the premiere edition of IIFA Utsavam Awards — to be held from December 4 to 6 in Hyderabad — has been announced, and as expected, the blockbusters Baahubali and Srimanthudu lead the pack.
S.S. Rajamouli’s Baahubali has been nominated in 14 categories including best picture, leading role — female (Tamannaah), leading role — male (Prabhas), lyrics (K. Shiva Dutta), music (M.M. Keeravani), negative role (Rana Daggubati), supporting role — female (Ramya Krishna) and supporting role — male (Satyaraj). The film has also scored triple nominations for playback singer — female (Satya Yamini, Geetha Madhuri and Damini) and double nominations for playback singer — male (Revanth and Deepu).
The Mahesh Babu starrer Srimanthudu has been nominated in 11 categories like best picture, leading role — female (Shruti Haasan), leading role — male (Mahesh Babu), lyrics (Ramajogayya Sastry, music direction (Devi Sri Prasad), negative role (Sampath), playback singer — male (Sastry Sagar), supporting role — female (Thulasi) and supporting role — male (Jagapati Babu).
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