Lending an Indian flavour to this year’s prestigious Bafta awards, which are regarded as Britain’s equivalent of the Oscars, is actor Suraj Sharma, who has been nominated for the Rising Star award for his role in director Ang Lee’s acclaimed film Life of Pi .
The teenaged actor from Delhi, who beat more than 3,000 contenders to land the starring role, is the only male actor nominated in this category along with five female artistes — Juno Temple, Andrea Riseborough, Elizabeth Olsen and Alicia Vikander.
The film, based on Yann Martel’s Man-Booker-Prize-winning novel, is in contention for the Best Film with four others, including Steven Spielberg’s Lincoln , and Kathryn Bigelow’s Zero Dark Thirty , which is based on the capture of Osama bin Laden.
Life of Pi has received the second-largest number of nominations — nine — after Lincoln , which leads the pack with ten, including ‘Best Actor’ for Daniel Day-Lewis. Lincoln dwells on the last months in the life of Abraham Lincoln, as the United States President struggled to end the Civil War and pass a constitutional amendment banning slavery.
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