The leading OTT platform bagged four awards across various categories

Kaafir, Karenjit Kaur - The Untold Story of Sunny Leone & Badnaam Gali emerged winners

The 12th edition of the Gold Awards, one of the most respected awards in the fraternity took place on Friday (October 11) in Mumbai and this year they introduced a new segment of awards which included content across various OTT platforms.

One of India's fastest growing digital video streaming platforms, ZEE5, bagged 4 awards across key categories namely - The Critics Award for Best Web Series (OTT) for Kaafir, The Critics Award for Best OTT/WEB Film for Badnaam Gali, the OTT Icon Of The Year was awarded to Sunny Leone - Karenjit Kaur - The Untold Story of Sunny Leone and The Critics Award for Best Actor (OTT) Female was awarded to Dia Mirza for Kaafir.`

Sharing her excitement on bagging the award Dia Mirza said, `Kaafir will always be close to my heart. Thanks to Tarun Katial and the team of ZEE5 for telling a story so beautiful and special to me, to Siddharth Malhotra and Sapna Malhotra for choosing me and Bhavani and Sonam for their faith in me to play Kainaaz. Also, Mohit Raina and Dishita Jain for being such wonderful co-stars in this journey. I will always cherish the experience of working with an amazing team like Kaafir. Heartiest congratulations to everyone!`

Here's what the respective show teams said about the awards:

Sunny Leone took to Instagram to share her happiness:

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Thanks @goldawardstv for Icon of the Year! Photo credit- @dirrty99 #KarenjitKaur @zee5premium

A post shared by Sunny Leone (@sunnyleone) on Oct 11, 2019 at 11:10am PDT

Kaafir Producer, Siddharth P. Malhotra tweeted:

The love for #kaafir carries on.Thank u for these awards on behalf of my team #bhavaniiyer and me @deespeak @mohituraina @chink_ster @ZEE5India @sapnamalhotra15 my brother @milxind and the one man who let me tell this story and got in when no one would @tarunkatial #alchemyfilms pic.twitter.com/EaL4YFnJw5

— siddharth malhotra (@sidpmalhotra) October 16, 2019

Sharing their excitement Divyenndu and Patralekhaa (Badnaam Gali) tweeted:

Toh yeh ho gayi Good waali Morning news ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤ #BadnaamGali is not badnaam anymore. Congrats to the whole team. 🍻🍻🍻🍻🍻🍾🍾🍾🍾🍾 @Patralekhaa9 @ShabiaW @tarunkatial @ZEE5Premium #RanoNayan❤
Thank you @goldawardsTV pic.twitter.com/B9x8b85YSy

— divyenndu (@divyenndu) October 17, 2019