<p class="title">Veteran actor Anupam Kher has secured a nomination in the Best Supporting Actor category at the British Academy Television Awards 2018 for his role in the drama "The Boy with the Topknot".</p>.<p class="bodytext">The show, which aired on BBC Two last year, is based on a critically acclaimed memoir of the same name by journalist Sathnam Sanghera.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Also starring Sacha Dhawan and Deepti Naval, it follows a boy growing up in Wolverhampton to traditional Punjabi parents. Kher and Naval play the parents of the protagonist.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Other fellow nominees in the Best Supporting Actor category are Adrian Dunbar for "Line of Duty", Brian F O'Byrne for "Little Boy Blue" and Jimmi Simpson for "USS Callister" episode of Netflix's "Black Mirror".</p>.<p class="bodytext">Kher, who has appeared in a number of international projects such as "The Big Sick", "Silver Linings Playbook", "Sense8" and others, took to Twitter to express his happiness.</p>.<p class="bodytext">"Thank you @BAFTA for the nomination. I feel honoured and humbled. 'The Boy With The Topknot'," he tweeted.</p>.<p class="bodytext">"The Crown", "Line of Duty" and "Black Mirror" secured the most nominations</p>.<p class="bodytext">at the awards which will be held on April 12.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Both the "The Crown" and "Line of Duty" will battle it out for Best Drama award align with "The End of the F**king World" and "Peaky Blinders". </p>
<p class="title">Veteran actor Anupam Kher has secured a nomination in the Best Supporting Actor category at the British Academy Television Awards 2018 for his role in the drama "The Boy with the Topknot".</p>.<p class="bodytext">The show, which aired on BBC Two last year, is based on a critically acclaimed memoir of the same name by journalist Sathnam Sanghera.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Also starring Sacha Dhawan and Deepti Naval, it follows a boy growing up in Wolverhampton to traditional Punjabi parents. Kher and Naval play the parents of the protagonist.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Other fellow nominees in the Best Supporting Actor category are Adrian Dunbar for "Line of Duty", Brian F O'Byrne for "Little Boy Blue" and Jimmi Simpson for "USS Callister" episode of Netflix's "Black Mirror".</p>.<p class="bodytext">Kher, who has appeared in a number of international projects such as "The Big Sick", "Silver Linings Playbook", "Sense8" and others, took to Twitter to express his happiness.</p>.<p class="bodytext">"Thank you @BAFTA for the nomination. I feel honoured and humbled. 'The Boy With The Topknot'," he tweeted.</p>.<p class="bodytext">"The Crown", "Line of Duty" and "Black Mirror" secured the most nominations</p>.<p class="bodytext">at the awards which will be held on April 12.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Both the "The Crown" and "Line of Duty" will battle it out for Best Drama award align with "The End of the F**king World" and "Peaky Blinders". </p>