The synthesis of some new aromatic amide derivatives of Nilutamide (4 an) and their structure determination using 1 H NMR, 13 C NMR and mass spectral analysis was described. The in vitro anti-cancer activity of the compounds (4 an) against several human cancer cell lines like PC3 (prostate), A549 (lung), MCF-7 (breast) and DU-145 (prostate) revealed that the compounds 4 c, 4 h, 4 l, 4 m and 4 n have shown greater activity against all the cell lines than the standard Etoposide. Predominantly, the compound 4 n was displayed excellent activity over PC3, A549, MCF-7 and DU-145 with IC 50 values of 0.14, 0.10, 0.19 and 0.63 μM respectively. Moreover, molecular docking studies of derivatives (4 an) on EGFR receptor suggested that the most potent compound 4 n strongly binds to protein EGFR (pdb id : 4HJO). The energy calculations of in silico studies were also in good agreement with the obtained IC 50 values.