Here's some good news for Kavya Madhavan and Dileep

Kavya Madhavan has managed to find a spot in the list of nominees for the Best Actor (Female) award at the Indian Film Festival of Melbourne 2017. Kavya will be competing against Bollywood actresses for the award, like Alia Bhatt (for Dear Zindagi) and Vidya Balan (for Kahaani 2).

Kavya Madhavan, who has been grabbing the headlines for all the wrong reasons from last week,  has good news to share with her fans.

The Anchu Sundharikal actress has managed to find a spot in the list of nominees for the Best Actor (Female) award at the Indian Film Festival of Melbourne 2017. Kavya was nominated for her performance in Pinneyum, directed by Adoor Gopalakrishnan. The movie also features her star husband, Dileep.

The movie is about an unemployed man (Dileep) who is dependent on his wife's (Kavya) earnings and who finally finds a job in the Middle-East. But desire takes over, and he does something which changes their lives forever.  

However, Kavya will be competing against Bollywood actresses for the award, like Alia Bhatt (for Dear Zindagi) and Vidya Balan (for Kahaani 2). Also, others like Tannishtha Chatterjee, Ratna Pathak Shah and Konkona Sen Sharma. Well, it's tough competition for Kavya.

Here's the complete list of nominees:

Best Actor Male

• Amitabh Bachchan (Pink)
• Aamir Khan (Dangal)
• Rajkummar Rao (Trapped)
• Hrithik Roshan (Kaabil) 
• Lalit Bhel (Mukti Bhawan) 
• Sushant Singh Rajput (M S Dhoni - The Untold Story) 
• Adil Hussain (Mukti Bhawan)

Best Actor Female

• Alia Bhatt (Dear Zindagi) 
• Vidya Balan (Kahaani 2) 
• Ratna Pathak Shah (Lipstick Under My Burkha) Konkona Sen Sharma (Lipstick Under My Burkha) 
• Tannishtha Chatterjee (Dr Rakhmabai)
• Kavya Madhavan (Pinneyum)

Best Director

• Nitesh Tiwari (Dangal)
• Alankrita Srivastava (Lipstick Under My Burkha) 
• S S Rajamouli (Baahubali: The Conclusion) 
• Konkona Sen Sharma (A Death In The Gunj) 
• Vikramaditya Motwane (Trapped) 
• N Padmakumar (A Billion Colour Story) 
• Nikhil Manjoo (Reservation) 
• Buddhadeb Dasgupta (Tope)

Best Film

• Pink
• Ae Dil Hai Mushkil
• Sultan
• Joker
• M S Dhoni: The Untold Story

Best Indie Film

• A Billion Colour Story
• A Death In The Gunj
• Mukti Bhawan
• Lipstick Under My Burkha
• Loktak Lairembee
• Telstra People's Choice
• Dangal
• Baahubali: The Conclusion
• The Indian Film Festival of Melbourne is scheduled from August 10 to August 22 and will see Vidya Balan return as the ambassador.