Twitterati cheer Anupam Kher’s BAFTA nomination

Anupam Kher has been nominated for his first every international award. Check out how people are reacting to it:

Bollywood actor Anupam Kher has been nominated for his first major international award – British Academy Television Awards this year, for his BBC project. He has been nominated for his role in the BBC TV movie “The boy with the Topknot.

After the announcement, He tweeted: “Thank you for the nomination. I feel honored and humbled”. His competition includes Adrian Dunbar for Line Of Duty, Brian F O’Byrne for Little Boy Blue and Jimmi Simpson for the Black Mirror episode titled USS Callister. The Crown, Line Of Duty and Black Mirror lead the nominations list.

Check out Anupam Kher’s tweet below:

Bollywood actors including Priyanka Chopra, Anil Kapoor, Farhan Akhtar and others congratulated the actor:

The Boy with the Topknot is based on the story of British Sikh Sathnam Sanghera, it is a retelling of his family history of adulthood in Wolverhampton, and about his discovery that his father and elder sister were schizophrenic. Anupam Kher stars as the father in the film.

Other than The Boy with the Topknot, Anupam Kher has also appeared on the show Sense8 and stars in The Indian Detective