Nawazuddin Siddiqui On The Emmy Nomination

Nawazuddin Siddiqui’s performance in Sudhir Mishra’s Serious Men has fetched him a nomination for Best Actor at the international Emmy awards.

Nawaz  is happy, but cautious in his joy. “Of course it means that we’re doing something right. An Emmy, even in  the international section, is a huge endorsement of excellence. But we don’t have to look westward for approval  all the time. Everything we do, we need a pat on the back from the West. This is wrong. To me an acknowledgement of my hard work is just as important from home as it is from abroad.”

Besides, Nawaz is no stranger to international acclaim. “I was in Cannes with with Geetu Mohandas’ Liars Dice, Anurag Kashyap’s Raman Raghav and Nandita Das’ Manto. Manto was the 9th film of mine that I was in Cannes with. In 2018 Hollywood Reporter called me  the Indian Marcello Mastroianni. I couldn’t sleep for days. Marcello Mastroianni is one of my favorite actors. But then so is Dilip Kumar. I’d be just as happy to be compared with him.”