57th National Film Awards

The 57th National Film Awards has given a big boost to veteran director Shaji N Karun, who was ignored by the Kerala State Award Committee.

Shaji’s off-beat and critically acclaimed Kutty Sranku won four major National Awards.

Kutty Sranku has got four National awards, ‘Swarna Kamal’ Award for Best Film, Best Cinematographer Anjali Shukla, Story and Screenplay for PF Mathews and Harikrishnan , Best Costumes Jayakumar . The film also got Sreekar Prasad a special jury award for his editing in the film

Shaji N Karun the director of the film said: “I’m honoured that Kutty Sranku won so many awards in different categories. I feel Mammootty should have got the best actor award for his sincere performance in the film.”

Pazhassi Raja, which had swept Kerala State and Filmfare awards had to be satisfied with only Best Sound for Resul Pookutty and Background Score for Ilayaraja. Mammootty was heavily tipped to get Best Actor award for the film but at the last minute was piped to the post by Amitabh Bachchan for his Paa.

The 57th National Film Awards were announced in New Delhi on 2010 September 15.

Highlights:

Best feature film: Kutti Sranku (Malayalam)

Best Actor: Amitabh Bachchan (Paa/Hindi)

Best Actress: Ananya Chatterjee (Abohomaan/Bengali)

Best popular film providing wholesome entertainment: : 3 Idiots (Hindi)

Best Director: Raju Hirani (3 Idiots/Hindi) / Rituparno Ghosh (Abohomaan/Bengali)

Best Producer: Vidhu Vinod Chopra (3 Idiots/Hindi)

Best Supporting Actor: Farooq Sheikh (Lahore/Hindi)

Best Supporting actress: Arundhati Nag (Paa/Hindi)

Best Child Artists: Jiva, Anba Karasu (Pasanga/Tamil)

Best film on Social issues: Well Done Abba (Hindi)

Best Choreography: K Shivsankar ( Magadhira/Telugu)

Best Kids movie: Ottani Pati & Keshu

Best camera work: Anjali Sukla (Kutti Sranku/Malayalam)

Best Music Director: Amit Trivedi (Dev D)

Best Playback Singer (Male): Rupam Islam (Mahanagar)

Best Playback Singer(Female): Nilanjana Sarkar (Housefull)

Sound Engineer: Resul Pookkutty

Best Lyrics: Swanand Kirkire (3 Idiots/Behti Hawaa)

Best background score: Ilayaraja (Kerala Verma Pazasi Raja)

Best National Integration Film: Delhi 6 (Hindi)

Best Hindi Film: Paa

INDIRA GANDHI AWARD FOR BEST DEBUT FILM OF A DIRECTOR: Lahore (Hindi)

Director: Sanjay Puran Singh Chauhan

AWARD FOR BEST POPULAR FILM PROVIDING WHOLESOME ENTERTAINMENT: 3 Idiots (Hindi)

Director: Rajkumar Hirani

NARGIS DUTT AWARD FOR BEST FEATURE FILM ON NATIONAL INTEGRATION: Delhi 6

Director: Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra

BEST FILM ON SOCIAL ISSUES: Well Done Abba (Hindi)

Director: Shyam Benegal

BEST CHILDREN’S FILM: Putaani Party (Kannada) & Keshu (Malayalam)

Directors: Ramchandra P.N. (Putaani Party) and Sivan (Keshu)

Music Director (Background Score) : Ilayaraja

SPECIAL JURY AWARD: Kaminey (Hindi)

Kutty Srank (Malayalam)

Kerala Varma Pazhassi Raja (Malayalam)

Sreekar Prasad

BEST SPECIAL EFFECTS: Magadheera (Telugu)

R. Kamal Kannan

BEST CHOREOGRAPHY: Magadheera(Telugu)

K.Siva Shankar

BEST FEATURE FILM IN EACH OF THE LANGUAGE SPECIFIED IN THE SCHEDULE VIII OF THE CONSTITUTION

BEST ASSAMESE FILM: Basundhara Director : Hiren Bora

BEST BENGALI FILM: Abohomaan Director : Rituparno Ghosh

BEST HINDI FILM: Paa Director : R. Balakrishnan

BEST KANNADA Film: Kanasemba Kudureyaneri Director : Girish Kasaravalli

BEST KONKANI Film: Palatadcho Munis Director : Laxmikant Shetgaonkar

BEST MALAYALAM FILM: Kerala Varma Pazhassi Raja Director : T. Hariharan

BEST MARATHI FILM: Natarang Director : Ravindra Harishchandra Jadhav

BEST TAMIL FILM: Pasanga Director : Pandiraj

SPECIAL MENTION: Padmapriya

BEST NON-FEATURE FILM (Sharing): The Postman directed by B. Manohar

Bilal directed by Sourav Sarangi

BEST DEBUT NON-FEATURE FILM OF A DIRECTOR (Sharing): Vaishnav Jan Toh directed by Kaushal Oza and Ekti Kaktaliyo Golpo by Tathagata Singha

BEST COMPILATION FILM: Pancham Unmixed

Director: Brahmanand S Siingh

BEST ENVIRONMENT FILM INCLUDING AGRICULTURE: In for Motion

Director: Anirban Dutta

BEST FILM ON SOCIAL ISSUES: Mr. India

Director: Haobam Paban Kumar

SPECIAL JURY AWARD: Kelkkunnundo

Child artist :Aasna Aslam

SHORT FICTION FILM: Boond

Director: Abhishek Pathak