SIIMA Awards 2018 nominations: Vijay's Mersal leads with nine nods, followed by Vikram Vedha

The seventh edition of the South Indian International Movie Awards (SIIMA Awards 2018) will be held in Dubai this year. The nominations were announced on 16 August and Vijay’s 2017 Tamil drama Mersal  is leading with 12 nods. Malayalam film Parava has landed ten nominations followed by R Madhavan and Vijay Sethupathi’s Tamil thriller _Vikram Vedha_ , which is competing in nine categories. [caption id=“attachment_4977031” align=“alignnone” width=“825”]  Vijay in Mersal; Poster of Vikram Vedha. Images from Twitter/@Priyanka_twtz7[/caption] Here are the nominations in major Tamil, Telugu Malayalam and Kannada categories: Best Film Tamil Mersal Aruvi Vikram Vedha Aramm Theeran Adhigaaram Ondru Telugu Baahubali-2 The Conclusion Fidaa Gautamiputra Satakarni The Ghazi Attack Sathamanam Bhavati Kannada Bharjari Raajakumara Chamak Chowka Ondu Motteya Kathe Malayalam Thondimuthalum Driksakshiyum Take Off Mayaanadhi Angamaly Diaries Parava Best Actor Tamil Vijay (Mersal) Karthi (Theeran Adhigaaram Ondru) Sivakarthikeyan (Velaikkaran) Vijay Sethupathi (Vikram Vedha) R Madhavan (Vikram Vedha) Telugu Nandamuri Balakrishna (Gautamiputra Satakarni) Prabhas (Baahubali-2 The Conclusion) Vijay Devarakonda (Arjun Reddy) Jr NTR (Jai Lava Kusa) Rana (Nene Raju Nene Mantri) Kannada Shivarajkumar (Mufti) Puneeth Rajkumar (Raajakumara) Sri Murali (Mufti) Ganesh (Chamak) Dhruva Sarja (Bharjari) Malayalam Mammootty (The Great Father) Dulquer Salmaan (Solo) Tovino Thomas (Mayaanadhi) Nivin Pauly (Njandukalude Nattil Oridavela) Fahadh Faasil (Thondimuthalum Driksakshiyum) Best Actress Tamil Nayanthara (Aramm) Andrea Jeremiah (Taramani) Aditi Balan (Aruvi) Jyothika (Magalir Mattum) Nithya Menen (Mersal) Telugu Anushka Shetty (Baahubali-2 The Conclusion) Rakul Preet Singh (Jaya Janaki Nayaka) Kajal (Nene Raju Nene Mantri) Ritika Singh (Guru) Sai Pallavi (Fidaa) Kannada Shraddha Srinath (Operation Alamelamma) Niveditha (Shuddi) Shanvi Srivastava (Taarak) Rashmika Mandanna (Chamak) Sruthi Hariharan (Beautiful Manasugalu) Malayalam Parvathy (Take Off) Aishwarya Lekshmi (Mayaanadhi) Nimisha Sajayan (Thondimuthalum Driksakshiyum) Anu Sithara (Ramante Edanthottam) Manju Warrier (Udaharanam Sujatha) Best Director Tamil Atlee (Mersal ) H Vinoth (Theeran Adhigaaram Ondru) Pushkar - Gayathri (Vikram Vedha) Gopi Nainar (Aramm) Arun Prabu Purushothaman (Aruvi) Telugu Jagarlamudi Radhakrishna (Gautamiputra Satakarni) SS Rajamouli (Baahubali-2 The Conclusion) Sandeep Vanga (Arjun Reddy) Sankalp Reddy (The Ghazi Attack) Satish Vegesna (Sathamanam Bhavati) Kannada Santhosh Ananddram (Raajakumara) Chethan Kumar (Bharjari) Suni (Chamak) Prakash Jayaram (Taarak) P C Sekhar (Raaga) Malayalam Lijo Jose Pellissery (Angamaly Diaries) Mahesh Narayan (Take Off) Dileesh Pothan (Thondimuthalum Driksakshiyum) Soubin Shahir (Parava) Aashiq Abu (Mayaanadhi)