Aattam: The Play Wins Top National Award

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.

The
award
for
Best
Actor
went
to
Rishabh
Shetty
for
the
Kannada
hit

Kantara.
The
film
also
won
an
award
for
Best
Popular
Film
Providing
Wholesome
Entertainment.

Neena
Gupta
won
the
Best
Supporting
Actress
award
for

Uunchai.

‘It
is
yet
to
sink
in.
I’ve
got
two
National
Awards
in
the
past
and
I’m
getting
another
National
Award
after
many
many
years,
it’s
a
big
thing
for
me,’
said
Neena
Gupta,
who
bagged
awards
for

Bazar
Sitaram
in
1993
and
for

Woh
Chokri
in
1994.

The
Haryanvi
film

Fouja
won
Pavan
Malhotra
a
Best
Supporting
Actor
and
won
two
other
awards
—
Best
Debut
Film
of
a
Director
for
Pramod
Kumar
and
Best
Lyrics
to
Naushad
Sadar
Khan.

The
Sharmila
Tagore-Manoj
Bajpayee
starrer

Gulmohar
was
adjudged
the
best
Hindi
film.
Its
director
Rahul
V
Chittela
took
home
an
award
for
Best
Dialogue
Writer
along
with
Arpita
Mukherjee.
Bajpayee
also
got
a
special
mention.

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.
Arijit
Singh
was
named
the
Best
Male
Playback
Singer
for
the
song

Kesariya.

The
Ranbir
Kapoor-Alia
Bhatt
starrer
also
bagged
an
award
for
Best
Film
in
AVGC
(animation,
visual
effects,
gaming
and
comic).

Singer
Bombay
Jayashri
won
the
award
for
Best
Female
Playback
Singer
for
the
track

Chaayum
Veyil
in

Saudi
Vellaka
CC
225/2009,
which
also
won
the
Best
Malayalam
Film
award.

Besides
the
Best
Actress
nod,
the
comedy

Thiruchitrambalam
also
earned
an
honour
for
Best
Choreography
for
Jani
Master
and
Sathish
Krishnan.

Niki
Joshi
won
the
trophy
for
Best
Costume
Designer
for

Kutch
Express.

Ravi
Varman
bagged
Best
Cinematography
for
Mani
Ratnam’s

Ponniyin
Selvan,
which
also
took
the
honour
for
Best
Sound
Design
for
Anand
Krishnamoorthi.

Aattam
won
two
more
awards,
including
Best
Screenplay
(original)
for
Anand
Ekarshi
and
Best
Editing
for
Mahesh
Bhuvanend.

The
award
for
Best
Action
Direction
(stunt
choreography)
went
to
Anbumani
and
Arivumani,
jointly
known
as
Anbariv.

The
Best
Child
Artist
award
went
to
Sreepath
for

Malikapurram
in
Malayalam.

From
Bengali
cinema,

Aparajito
won
the
award
for
Best
Make-Up
and
Best
Production
Design
for
Anand
Adhya,
while
the
Best
Bengali
Film
went
to
Kaushik
Ganguly’s

Kaberi
Antardhan.

The
other
regional
films
that
won
awards
include

Kartikeya
2
(Telugu),

Baaghi
Di
Dhee
(Punjabi),

Daman
(Odia),

Vaalvi
(Marathi)
and

KGF:
Chapter
2
(Kannada).
The
Best
Tiwa
film
award
was
won
by

Sikaisal.

From
the
non-feature
category,
the
top
honour
went
to
Siddhant
Sarin’S

Ayena by
director
.

Film-maker
Vishal
Bhardwaj
won
the
Best
Music
Director
for
his
short
film

Fursat.

‘Just
heard
about
the
National
Award
for

Fursat.
I
am
deeply
happy
to
get
my
ninth
National
Award.
It’s
the
biggest
award
of
our
country,
the
only
one
that
truly
matters.
And
winning
this
is
the
greatest
validation
of
my
work!
Thank
you
jury
for
this.
Now
I
need
to
strive
for
a
double
digit,’
the
composer-director
said
in
a
statement.

The
Best
Film
Critic
award
went
to
Deepak
Dua.

Anirudha
Bhattacharjee
and
Parthiv
Dhar
won
the
Best
Book
on
cinema
for

Kishore
Kumar:
The
Ultimate
Biography.

The
awards
were
announced
by
feature
film
jury
head
Rahul
Rawail.