Ram Charan, Keerthy Suresh and Vijay Deverakonda swept the eighth annual South Indian International Movie Awards (SIIMA) which was held in Doha, Qatar, on August 15-16, 2019. The two-day festival saw the who's who of Telugu, Kannada, Malayalam and Tamil cinema in attendance.

According to Pinkvilla, Ram Charan won the Best Actor award for Rangasthalam while Vijay Deverakonda grabbed the Best Actor (Critics) award for Geetha Govindam. Vijay's Arjun Reddy was recently remade in Hindi as Kabir Singh with Shahid Kapoor in the lead. In Kannada, the Best Actor award went to Yash for KGF Chapter 1. The movie itself grabbed three awards including Best Director, Best Actress in Supporting Role and Best Cinematographer.