Reema Kagti’s ‘Superboy of Malegaon’ received the ‘Best Film’ award at Australia’s National Indian Film Festival.

Sharing her excitement, Reema Kagti expressed, “I would like to thank Australia’s National Indian Film Festival that to choose ‘Superboy of Malegaon’ as the best film and to show it in cities across Australia, help the film reach the wider audience.

In addition, ‘The Man Hu Hurts News’ Jeeta ‘Best Documentary’ (Short) Award by filmmaker Anant Narayan Mahadevan.

Commenting on the victory, the director said, “Winning the best documentary (short) in Nifa is a very special honor for” The Man Hu Herl News “. The film detects one of the oldest serving newspaper boys in the world (60 years) The opening version of the NIFFA on a special curate plate of special Indian cinema for the world.

Anuj Gulati won the ‘Best Indie feature film’ award by Anuj Gulati, while ‘Parakrama’ was titled ‘Best International Indian Film’ by acclaimed director Gautam Ghosh.

Additionally, ‘Ma Uri Ramayanam’ won the ‘Best Documentary Feature’ by Badrappa Gajula.

Australia’s National Indian Film Festival was inaugurated from 13 February to 2 March 2025.

The festival concluded with a red-carpet gala and the direction of Tannisha Chatterjee, which ended with the night screening, after a visit to an unprecedented seven cities in ‘Rome Meen’, Sydney, Canberra, Gold Coast, Brisbane, Perth, Edelide and Melbourne at Murdoch University, Perth. The festival will continue its celebrations with an encounter screening of selected films in Dandy Cinemaz in the coming weeks.