IIFA Awards that are enthralling Bollywood celebs from last 15 years are now coming to South, with their first ever IIFA Utsav event scheduled in Hyderabad city to celebrate the four south tinsel towns of Telugu, Tamil, Kannada and Malayalam film industries.

Coming to nominations in 12 categories, India’s biggest motion picture, SS Rajamouli’s Baahubali has topped the list with 14 nominations while Mahesh and Koratala Siva’s Srimanthudu bagged nominations in 11 categories.

Baahubali has been nominated across a whopping 14 categories including Best Picture – ShobuYarlagadda / Arka Media, Direction – S SRajamouli, Leading Role Female – Tamanna, Leading Role Male – Prabhas, Lyrics – K Shiva Dutta, Music Direction – M M Keeravani, Negative Role – RanaDaggubati,  Supporting Role Female – Ramya Krishna and Supporting Role Male -Satyaraj. It has scored triple nominations for Playback Singer Female – Satya Yamini, GeethaMadhuri and Damini and double nominations for Playback Singer Male – Revanth and Deepu.

Srimanthudu’s 11 Categories include: Best Picture – Y Ravi Shankar / G Mahesh Babu Entertainment, Best Comedian – Vennela Kishore, Direction – Koratala Siva, Leading Role Female – Shruti Hassan, Leading Role Male – Mahesh Babu, Lyrics – RamajogayyaSastry, Music Direction – Devisri Prasad, Negative Role -Sampath, Playback Singer Male – SastrySagar, Supporting Role Female -Thulasi, Supporting Role Male – JagapatiBabu. It missed out the category of Best Singer Female.

While the online voting will be available till midnight of 28th November, the final event will be telecast on January 10th, 2016.