With Awards season going on in India, many awards are set to hit the screens. Stardust and a few other awards ignored our Pakistani stars in their nominations list but Filmfare which is one of the most popular awards in India released the list of nominees recently and we found some popular Pakistani stars name proudly standing in the list in their respective categories .
Fawad Khan got nominated for the Best Supporting Actor for Kapoor and Sons! Competing with him are Diljit Dosanjh for Udta Punjab, Jim Sarbh for Neerja, Rajat Kapoor for Kapoor & Sons, Rajkummar Rao for Aligarh and Rishi Kapoor for Kapoor and Sons. Fawad had earlier too bagged the Best Male Debut Award at Filmfare for his 1st Bollywood movie, Khoobusrat.
Atif Aslam and Rahat Fateh Ali Khan also bagged the nomination for Best Playback Singer (Male). Atif made waves with his “Teray sang yara” song in Rustom while Rahat’s “Jag Ghoomeya” in Sultan was one of the hit tunes of 2016. Qurat-ul-Ain Balouch got nominated in the category of Best Playback Singer (Female) for her strong vocals in Kari kari from the movie, Pink!