Adarsh
Gourav
was
nominated
for
the
BAFTA
in
the
best
leading
actor
category
for
his
performance
in
Netflix’s
The
White
Tiger.
However,
the
best
actor's
trophy
was
clinched
by
veteran
Welsh
actor,
Sir
Anthony
Hopkins
for
his
performance
in
The
Father.
The
British
Academy
of
Film
and
Television
Arts
(BAFTA)
film
awards
were
held
on
Sunday
night,
April
11
2021.
Meanwhile,
Adarsh
acknowledged
that
no
one
deserved
the
BAFTA
more
than
Anthony
Hopkins.
He
shared
his
reaction
within
minutes
after
losing
the
award.
The
26-year-old
told
journalist
Shubhash
K
Jha,
“It
is
the
biggest
win
of
my
life.”
Anthony
Hopkins
portrayed
an
impossibly
difficult
patriarch
struck
by
dementia
in
The
Father.
The
other
big
winner
at
the
awards
ceremony
was
the
US
road
movie
Nomadland.
The
film
won
in
four
categories
including
best
film,
best
actress
(Frances
McDormand),
and
best
director
(Chloe
Zhao).
Gourav
had
earlier
expressed
his
thoughts
about
working
with
filmmaker
Ramin
Bahrani
in
The
White
Tiger
and
his
BAFTA
nomination.
He
told
PTI,
“It
really
depends
on
the
director
you
are
working
with
and
in
Ramin’s
case,
he
did
not
want
us
to
see
the
playback
so
everything
that
happened
has
been
surprising
and
overwhelming
for
me.
The
BAFTA
nomination
is
really
overwhelming.
It
feels
like
I’m
reading
a
chapter
from
a
book.”
Netflix’s
The
White
Tiger
also
featured
Rajkummar
Rao
and
Priyanka
Chopra.
The
film
is
based
on
Aravind
Adiga’s
Booker
Prize-winning
novel
of
the
same
name.
It
follows
the
extraordinary
journey
of
a
driver
named
Balram
(Gourav)
and
deals
with
topics
as
varied
as
globalisation,
social
and
economic
mobility,
caste
oppression,
morality
and
so
on.