Here are the winners in the major categories:
Best Feature Film: Ship of Theseus
Best Hindi Film: Jolly LLB
Best Actor: Rajkummar Rao for Shahid (Hindi) and Suraj Venjaramoodu for Perariyathavar (Malayalam)
Best Director: Hansal Mehta for Shahid
Best Supporting Actor: Saurabh Shukla for Jolly LLBBest Supporting Actress: Amruta Subhash for Astu (Marathi) and Aida El-Kashif for Ship of Theseus (English)
Best Child Artist: SOmnath Avghade for Fandry (Marathi) and Sadhna for Thanga Meengal (Tamil)
Best Children's Film: Kaphal
Best English Film: Coffin MakerBest Film on a Social Issue: Gulabi Gang
Best Non-Feature Film: Rangbhoomi
Best Popular Film providing wholesome entertainment: Bhaag Milkha Bhaag
Best Cinematography: Rajeev Ravi for Liar's Dice
Best Editing: VJ Sabu Joseph for Vallinam (Tamil)
Best Sound Design: Bishwadeep Chatterjee for Madras Cafe (Hindi)
Best Music Direction: Kabir Suman for Jatishwar (Bengali) and Shantanu Moitra for Na Bangaaru Talli (Telugu)
Best Lyrics: Na Muthukumar for the song Ananda Yaazhai in Thanga Meengal (Tamil)
Special Jury Award: Yellow (Marathi) and Miss Lovely (Hindi)
Best Choreography: Ganesh Acharya for Bhaag Milkha Bhaag
It is a proud moment for all Kerallites as well as for the whole
Malayalam industry. Suraj Venjaramoodu, who rose to fame with his comedy
roles in movies and with the Trivandrum slang, has won the National
Award for Best Actor. He shares this award with yet another actor Raj
Kumar.
Also, North 24 Kaatham wins the Best Malayalam film.
Yes, Suraj has made it happen. With his out standing performance in the
movie Perariyathavan, he bagged the National Award for the Best Actor
for the year. He said that he give this award to all the Malayalis and
the Malayalam industry.
Perariyathavan was directed by Dr Biju and Suraj played the role of
a sweeper in the film. It was a de-glam role and it mainly focussed on
the difficulties faced by the marginalised people in the society.
Indrans had also played a pivotal role in the film. This is Suraj's
first National Award. Now, this has proved once again that the Malayalam
industry is indeed blessed with having many profound actors who have
extreme range in acting.
Indian Film News congratulates Suraj Venjaramoodu and North 24 Kaatham team on
winning the National Awards for Best Actor and Best Malayalam movie for
the year.
The award is being shared between Suraj for the malayalam movie Perariyathe and Rajjkumar as Kashmiri Lawyer in Shahid
Actress Remya Nambeesan who was last seen in the superhit Pizza with Vijay Sethupathy has a busy summer ahead for her in Kollywood this year.
She has three back to back releases scheduled in the coming months. Her Daamal Dumeel with Actor Vaibhav is scheduled to release next Friday Apr 18th.
Director CS Amuthan’s Rendavathu Padam is already censored and waiting to release. Vimal, Arvind Aakash and Richard are her co-stars in Rendavathu Padam.After that, she has a movie with Arulnithi – Naalu Policeum Nalla Irundha Oorum. The producers of NKPK and iDhaaba Leo Visions are producing it.
Apart from that, she has another movie Muriyadi with Actor Ganesh Venkatraman which is delayed for some time. Hopefully, these movies help Remya to reach next level in Kollywood.
Actor Dileep has said in an interview to a women’s magazine that he and wife Manju Warrier are separated.
“But I have no plans to talk against her. I am happy being with my daughter,” says the hero.
“But I have no plans to talk against her. I am happy being with my daughter,” says the hero.
The timing of the interview is rather curious with Dileep bouncing back to winning ways with the laugh riot Ring Master and Manju all set to make a comeback to films with How Old Are You? releasing next month.
The rumours about their separation have been doing the rounds for sometime now but Dileep had refused to comment on it until now.On the question on whether Kavya is the reason for their rift, Dileep says that “if it was so, me and Manju were like friends. We could have sorted it all easily.”
Quoting a source, the report adds he has already spoken to a few builders and is looking for a big apartment situated somewhere between Bandra and Juhu. In fact the actor will visit the apartments shortlisted by his agent personally before he finally selects his love nest for his alleged lady love.It is said that Katrina used to visit the actor frequently at Krishna Raj. Her frequent visits were allegedly disapproved by his father Rishi, who often commented on her coming to their residence so often. Hence, Ranbir took this big step and has decided to move out of his parents house and live with Katrina.
Recently, there was a buzz that Ranbir and Katrina are planning to tie the nuptial knot in 2015. However, the actress has denied these rumours.
Of course, filmmakers like Satyajit Ray, Bimal Roy and Mrinal Sen as well as actors like Raj Kapoor meandered their way into hearts across boundaries with their craft, but the visibility of Indian films - Hindi and regional - currently seems to be at an all-time high.
The movies are not just getting screen space at international film festivals but are also getting theatrical releases in an increasing number of non-traditional foreign markets like Peru, Panama and Morocco.That gives Amitabh, whom French director Francois Truffaut once called a "one-man industry", a reason to cheer.
"Internationally, it is very heartening to see the interest in Indian cinema," the 71-year-old told IANS in an interview here.
Going back in time, he said: "For many years in the time when I started, cinema was not marketed or promoted the way it is now. We didn't know about these markets. There were international distributors, but we never knew exactly what used to happen to a film - we used to give it at a pittance because we never realised that people outside would want to watch a Hindi film or any Indian film.
"But once it began, we found the importance of the number of people that are seeing it. The international market has now become a major territory. It bodes really well because there's a large expatriate audience and they have passed on their likes to their friends, and therefore this whole community, even foreigners, have started identifying with our films."
The actor, who made his debut with the 1969 film "Saat Hindustani", remembers having performed to a packed audience at London's Wembley Stadium and at New Jersey's now-demolished Giant Stadium in the 1980s and 1990s.
"We used to have a stadium full of people where we used to sing, dance to numbers of the Hindi film industry - filling up the Wembley Stadium of 65,000 people - it was immense - New Jersey - 75,000 people. I saw the amount of love, affection and interest and that was really a revelation for us.
"But somewhere the generation that came immediately after us - Shah Rukh, Salman, Aamir and (filmmaker) Karan Johar too - they pushed this potential into the international world. So if you want to give credit for the recognition, these are the people who should be credited," Bollywood's once 'Angry young man' told IANS.
He added that it is because of works like "Kabhi Khushi Kabhie Gham", which "became an iconic film in the western world", that it was found that Indian films had a potential abroad.
"Shah Rukh is as popular in Germany as he is here, Hrithik (Roshan) and Salman and Aamir are loved internationally in equal proportion. So, obviously Indian cinema is doing well.
"The fact that there are festivals that invite our films and personalities and stars, is also wonderful. Marrakech, Cannes, Berlin, US, Britain...that's wonderful," said Amitabh, who is due to attend the Melbourne International Film Festival towards the end of July.
Ajith's 55th film directed by Gautham Menon kick started with a formal pooja on April 9. The film stars Anushka as the lead lady and actor Aadhi is said to play an important role in the flick.
Sources have confirmed that the music director of the film will be Harris Jayaraj. Don Macarthur will handle the camera and Anthony will be the editor though there has not been an official word about the cast and crew of the film. Now we hear that the title of the film will be 'Aayiram Thottakkal' and the title will be officially revealed on May 1 coinciding with 'Thala' Ajith's Birthday. Gautham Menon had earlier revealed that he has a script titled 'Ennai Nokki Paayum Thotta' but it is unknown whether Gautham has modified the same script for Ajith film.
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