Sooriya, Ajay Devgan Share Best Actor Award
Tamil film Soorarai Pottru has been adjudged the best feature film at the National Film Awards 2022, announced today (22nd July). The awards are for year 2020. Tanhaji: The Unsung Warrior has been chosen for the award for the best popular film providing wholesome entertainment at the 68th National Film Awards. The best actor award will be shared by Ajay Devgan and Sooriya for the aforenamed two films.
Sachidanandan K.R. has bagged the award for the best director for his Malayalam film, Ayyappanum Koshiyum posthumously. The award for the best actress has gone to Aparna Balamurali for Tamil Soorarai Pottru. While Biju Menon was named the best supporting actor for Malayalam film Ayyappanum Koshiyum, Lakshmi Priyaa Chandramouli was adjudged the best supporting actress for her performance in Tamil film Sivaranjiniyum Innum Sila Pengalum. Child actor Varun Buddhadeb got a special jury mention for his role in Toolsidas Junior. The film itself won the award for the best Hindi film.
Manoj Muntashir won the award for the best lyrics for Saina. Thaman S. was adjudged the best music director for Telugu film Ala Vaikunthapurramuloo. G.V. Prakash Kumar won the award for the best background score in Tamil film Soorarai Pottru. Soorarai Pottru also fetched the award for the best screenplay for its writers, Shalini Usha Nair and Sudha Kongara. The best dialogues award went to Madonne Ashwin for Mandela (Tamil).
A. Sreekar Prasad has won the award for the best editing for Tamil film Sivaranjiniyum Innum Sila Pengalum. Supratim Bhol won the award for the best cinematography for Avijatrik (Bengali). The best female and male playback singer awards have been bagged by Nanchamma and Rahul Deshpande for Ayyappanum Koshiyum (Malayalam) and Mi Vasantrao (Marathi)respectively. Anish Mangesh Gosavi, Akanksha Pingle and Divyesh Indulkar shared the award for the best child actor. Anish got it for Marathi film Tak-Tak while Akanksha and Divyesh won it for Sumi (Marathi). Harshal Kamat Entertainment and director Amol Vasant Gole’s Sumi (Marathi) won the best children’s film award. The award for the best film on social issues was won by Funral (Marathi), directed by Vivek Dubey. Tamil film Mandela won the Indira Gandhi Award for the best debut film of a director (Madonne Ashwin).
The award for the most film-friendly state has been given to Madhya Pradesh. The jury also made a special mention of Uttarakhand and Uttar Pradesh.
Vipul Shah headed the 11-member jury for the 68th National Film Awards. The other jury members were cinematographers Dharam Gulati and G.S. Bhaskar, actress Sreelekha Mukherjee, music composer A. Karthik Raja, writer-director V.N. Aditya, actor-director Viji Thampi, Sanjeev Rattan, star secretary S. Thangadurai, actor Ravi Khemu and actress Nishigandha Wad.