Zarin
Shihab
in
Aattam:
The
Play.
Malayalam
film
Aattam:
The
Play
has
won
the
award
for
Best
Feature
Film.
Sooraj
R
Barjatya
was
judged
Best
Director
for
the
Hindi
movie
Uunchai
at
the
National
Film
Awards
announced
on
Friday.
The
Best
Actress
award
was
shared
by
Nithya
Menon,
who
won
it
for
the
Tamil
film
Thiruchitrambalam,
and
Manasi
Parekh
for
the
Gujarati
movie
Kutch
Express.
Dhanush
and
Nithya
Menon
in
Thiruchitrambalam.
The
award
for
Best
Actor
went
to
Rishabh
Shetty
for
the
Kannada
hit
Kantara.
Neena
Gupta
won
the
Best
Supporting
Actress
award
for
Uunchai
while
Pawan
Malhotra
won
the
Best
Supporting
Actor
for
the
Haryanvi
film
Fouja.
The
Sharmila
Tagore-Manoj
Bajpayee
starrer
Gulmohar
was
adjudged
the
best
Hindi
film.
Bajpayee
also
got
a
special
mention.
Sharmila
Tagore
and
Manoj
Bajpayee
in
Gulmohar.
A
R
Rahman
won
the
National
Award
for
Best
Music
Director
(background
music)
for
his
work
in
Mani
Ratnam’s
Ponnyin
Selvan-Part
1,
which
was
also
named
the
Best
Tamil
film.
Pritam
won
the
award
for
Best
Music
Director
(songs)
for
Brahmastra-Part
1.
The
awards
were
announced
by
feature
film
jury
head
Rahul
Rawail.
