Anupam Kher gets a BAFTA nomination for his role in 'The Boy with the Topknot' 

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".

The show, which aired on BBC Two in 2017, is based on a critically acclaimed memoir of the same name by journalist Sathnam Sanghera.

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.

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'.

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.

"Thank you @BAFTA for the nomination. I feel honoured and humbled. 'The Boy With The Topknot'," he tweeted.

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'The Crown', 'Line of Duty' and 'Black Mirror' secured the most nominations at the awards which will be held on April 12.

Here is the full list of nominations.

Drama series
The Crown
End of the F***ing World
Line of Duty
Peaky Blinders

Leading actress
Claire Foy - The Crown
Molly Windsor – Three Girls
Sinead Keenan – Little Boy Blue
Thandie Newton – Line of Duty

Leading actor
Jack Rowan - Born To Kill
Joe Cole – Hang The DJ: Black Mirror
Sean Bean – Broken
Tim Pigott-Smith – King Charles III

Entertainment performance
Adam Hill - The Last Leg
Michael McIntyre – Michael McIntyre’s Big Show
Graham Norton - The Graham Norton Show
Sandi Toksvig – QI

Female performance in a comedy programme
Anna Maxwell Martin – Motherland
Daisy May Cooper – This Country
Sharon Horgan – Catastrophe
Sian Gibson – Peter Kay’s Car Share

Male performance in a comedy programme
Asim Chaundry – People Just Do Nothing
Rob Brydon – The Trip to Spain
Samson Kayo – Famalam
Toby Jones – Detectorists

International
Handmaid’s Tale
Big Little Lies
Feud: Bette and Joan
The Vietnam War

Supporting actor
Adrian Dunbar – Line of Duty
Anupam Kher - The Boy with the Top Knot
Brian F O’Byrne – Little Boy Blue
Jimmi Simpson - USS Callister: Black Mirror

Supporting actress
Anna Friel - Broken
Julie Hesmondhalgh - Broadchurch
Liv Hill – Three Girls
Vanessa Kirby – The Crown

Specialist factual
Basquiat: Rage to Riches
Blitz: The Bombs That Changed Britain
Blue Planet II
Elizabeth I’s Secret Agents

Reality and constructed factual
Celebrity Hunted
Love Island
Old People’s Home For Four-Year Olds
The Real Full Monty

Current affairs
Raped: My Story
Syria’s Disappeared: The Case Against Assad - Dispatches
Undercover: Britain’s Immigration Secrets – Panorama
White Right: Meeting The Enemy – Exposure

Entertainment programme
Ant and Dec’s Saturday Night Takeaway
Britain’s Got Talent
Michael Mcintyre’s Big Show
The Voice UK

Scripted comedy
Catastrophe
Chewing Gum
This Country
Timewasters

Comedy and comedy entertainment programme
Murder In Successville
Taskmaster
The Last Leg
Would I Lie to You

Factual series
Ambulance
Catching A Killer
Drugsland
Hospital

Features
Antiques Roadshow
Cruising With Jane McDonald
No More Boys and Girls: Can Our Kid Go Gender Free?
The Secret Life of the Zoo

News coverage
The Battle For Mosul
The Grenfell Tower Fire
The Grenfell Tower Fire (ITV)
The Rohingya Crisis (Sky)

Single documentary
Chris Packham: Asperger’s and Me
Louis Theroux: Talking to Anorexia
One Deadly Weekend in America
Rio Ferdinand: Being Mum and Dad

Single drama
Against The Law
Hang The DJ: Black Mirror
King Charless III
Murdered For Being Different

Sport
Anthony Joshua v Wladimir Klitschko
Six Nations: Wales v England
The grand National
Uefa Women’s Euro Semi-final

Mini-series
Howards End
The Moorside
The State
Three Girls

Virgin’s Must-See Moments
Love Island - Stormzy Makes a Surprise Appearance
Game of Thrones - Viserion is Killed by the Night King
Doctor Who - The Thirteenth Doctor Revealed
Love Manchester – Ariana Grande Sings ‘One Last Time’
Blue Planet II - Mother Pilot Whale Grieves
Line of Duty - Huntley’s Narrow Escape