Bollywood blockbusters Kick and Bang Bang! have been nominated for several gongs at the Taurus World Stunt Awards alongside Hollywood biggies such as The Amazing Spider-Man 2 and Transformers: Age of Extinction.
Salman Khan's Kick is up against The Expendables 3, 22 Jump Street and Transformers: Age of Extinction for Best High Work Award. It is also nominated in Best Stunt Rigging category along with 22 Jump Street, Captain America: The Winter Soldier, Transformers: Age of Extinction and X-Men: Days of Future Past.
Hrithik Roshan's Bang Bang!, which features several death-defying stunts, may bag the Best Fight award if it manages to pip 300: Rise of an Empire, Captain America: The Winter Soldier and John Wick.
It is also nominated for Best Work With a Vehicle alongside The Amazing Spider-Man 2, Captain America: The Winter Soldier, Need for Speed and Nightcrawler, and for Best Specialty Stunt award. Other films in the category are Dumb & Dumber To, Fury, Need for Speed and Pompeii.
Bang Bang!, which also stars Katrina Kaif, is also in the running for Best Overall Stunt By a Stunt Woman alongside Need for Speed, Pompeii, The Sacrament and X-Men: Days of Future Past.
The awards will be presented at a ceremony in California on May 9.
Taurus World Stunt Awards are handed out annually to members of the Taurus World Stunt Academy for outstanding stunt and stunt-related achievements in eligible, theatrically released motion pictures.
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