Adarsh Gourav nominated for The White Tiger

Bollywood actor Adarsh Gourav has bagged the leading actor BAFTA nod for his performance in the Netflix film 'The White Tiger', shared the British Academy.

The movie is an adaptation of Aravind Adiga’s Booker Prize winning novel of the same name.

The English language film is directed by Ramin Bahrani.

The film also stars Priyanka Chopra Jonas, Mahesh Manjrekar and Vijay Maurya.

Priyanka took to Twitter to celebrate her co-star’s BAFTA nod. “What a proud moment for Indian with 2 BAFTA nominations for an all Indian star cast!! Ecstatic for you @_GouravAdarsh, you are so deserving of this recognition, and congratulations #RaminBahrani, so well deserved,” she wrote.

Gourav will compete against Riz Ahmed for 'Sound Of Metal' and late Chadwick Boseman for 'Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom' and Mads Mikkelsen for the Danish language film 'Another Round'.

Veteran British actor Anthony Hopkins (The Father) and French actor Tahar Rahim (The Mauritanian) are also part of the line-up.