'Sultan' dominates Zee Cine Awards nominations

Salman Khan starer "Sultan" is contending in a most extreme of nine classifications, including the Best Film, for the Zee Cine Grants 2017m with Akshay Kumar-starer "Airdrop" close behind.

The channel declared its selections of Jury Honors on Thursday in an announcement.

Aside from Best Film, "Sultan" has been assigned to Best Chief, Best On-screen character - Male, Best Performer - Female, Best Male Playback Artist, Best Female Playback Vocalist, Best Music, Best Story and Best Choreography classifications.

Raja Krishna Menon's directorial "Airdrop", then again, has been assigned in Best Film, Best Story, Best On-screen character and furthermore in Specialized Honors.

Alternate movies contending in the Best Film and Best Chief classes incorporate "Pink" (Aniruddha Roy Chowdhury), "M.S. Dhoni: The Untold Story" (Neeraj Pandey), "Neerja" (Smash Madhvani), "Udta Punjab" (Abhishek Chaubey) and "Kapoor and Children" (Shakun Batra).

Among those assigned to Best On-screen character - Female classification is Alia Bhatt ("Udta Punjab" and "Dear Zindagi"), Vidya Balan ("Kahaani 2: Durga Rani Singh), Sonam Kapoor ("Neerja") and Anushka Sharma ("Sultan").

Akshay Kumar ("Airdrop"), Salman Khan ("Sultan"), Manoj Bajpayee ("Aligarh"), Sushant Singh Rajput (M.S. Dhoni: The Untold Story"), Amitabh Bachchan ("Pink") and Shahid Kapoor ("Udta Punjab") are in the race for the Best On-screen character Male Honor.

The Best Supporting Performer - Female class has names like Shabana Azmi ("Neerja"), Ratna Pathak Shah ("Nil Battey Sannata"), Konkona Sen Sharma ("Akira"), Tabu ("Floor") and Kareena Kapoor Khan ("Udta Punjab") in a rivalry.

Performing artist Rajkummar Rao has been selected in the class of the Best Supporting Performer Male, which has veteran on-screen characters like Rishi ("Kapoor and Children"), Rajat ("Kapoor and Children"), Anupam Kher ("M.S. Dhoni: The Untold Story") and Amitabh Bachchan ("Wazir").

In the music classifications, Best Music has just Vishal-Shekhar and Pritam contending with each other for their work in "Sultan" and "Ae Dil Hai Mushkil", separately. The Best Verses class likewise has just Amitabh Bhattacharya ("Ae Dil Hai Mushkil" and Irshad Kamil ("Sultan") in the race.

Alternate classifications incorporate Best Performing artist in a Negative Part, Best Debutant Executive, Best Debutant - Female, Best Debutant - Male, Best Story, Best Choreography, Best Male Playback Artist and Best Female Playback Vocalist.

To guarantee decency in the determination procedure, Zee has delegated a jury board comprising of producers Boney Kapoor, Pradeep Sarkar and Tigmanshu Dhulia, cinematographer Sudeep Chatterjee, lyricist and playback artist Swanand Kirkire, vocalist Kavita Krishnamurti Subramaniam and sound supervisor Resul Pookutty.