Mahira Khan’s production and acting venture Aik Hai Nigar has won the ‘Best Asian film’ at The Septimius Awards.
It is a prestigious award ceremony, with strong emphasis on discovering and encouraging new independent talent, and has a wide range of attendees which include Oscar, Emmy and Grammy winners.
2022 is the year for Pakistani entertainment industry and international feats. The biopic honouring the life and works of Major General Nigar Johar, the first female officer to be promoted to the rank of lieutenant general, won big at Amsterdam! Aik Hai Nigar, a telefilm starring Mahira Khan in the lead, has won in the category of Best Asian Film at the prestigious Septimius Awards.
Along with shedding light on Lt General Nigar’s professional achievements, Aik Hai Nigar also highlighted her personal life, a huge part of which is her husband, Johar Ali Khan, played by actor Bilal Ashraf.
The category for Best Asian Film included eight films in total, such as Farha, a film about a 14-year-old girl in 1948 Palestine watching catastrophe consume her house from a locked cellar; 218: Behind the Wall of Silence, an Emirati film on three women sharing an apartment 218 and their tales of domestic violence, nostalgia for a lost past and the pursuit of revenge; Sermon on the Mount, a documentary on black experiences and Paka (River of Blood), an Indian Malayalam drama based on a river that swells with the blood of two feuding families and a young couple that tries to overcome this hatred with their love.
Earlier the Raees diva has won accolades at UK Asian Film Festival and Distinctive International Arab Festivals Awards.
