56th National film awards 2010

Bengali film “Antaheen”, directed by Annirudh Roy-Chowdhary,starring Rahul Bose, has won four awards including for best feature film.This is second Bangala movie for Rahul Bose which has won National film award. Rahul Bose previously acted in a bangla movie with Mithun Chakrawrthy which also won National Film Award in the past.

Bollywood ruled the 56th National Film Awards Saturday, bagging as many as 13 awards, with films like “Fashion”, “Rock On!!”, “Firaaq” and “Jodha Akbar” winning two awards each in various categories. But Bengali film “Antaheen” won the best feature film award and three more.

While Madhur Bhandarkar’s “Fashion”, a dark tale about the Indian fashion industry, won its heroine Priyanka Chopra the best actress award and got Kangana Ranaut the best supporting actress honour, Farhan Akhtar’s cult music-based film “Rock On!!” got the best Hindi film award. Actor Arjun Rampal won the best supporting actor for the film too.

Ashutosh Gowariker’s epic “Jodha Akbar” won Chinni Prakash and his wife Rekha Prakash the best choreography award for the song “Azeem-o-shaan shehenshah”, a number that depicts dance forms of different Indian states. Fashion designer Neeta Lulla, who styled actress Aishwarya Rai in the film, has won the best costume designer award.

Nandita Das’ directorial debut “Firaaq”, which was based on the 2002 Gujarat riots, has won the awards for best editing (A. Sreekar Prasad) and best art direction (Gautam Sen).

Even films like “A Wednesday”, “Roadside Romeo”, “Oye Lucky! Lucky Oye!”, “Mumbai Meri Jaan” and “Thanks Maa” took one award each.

While Neeraj Pandey’s “A Wednesday” has bagged the Indira Gandhi award for Best First Film of a director, Yash Raj Films’ “Roadside Romeo” bagged the best animation film.

Dibakar Banerjee’s satirical “Oye Lucky! Lucky Oye!” has been adjudged the best popular film providing wholesome entertainment, “Mumbai Meri Jaan” directed by Nishikant Kamat has got the award for best special effects (Govardhan), and “Thanks Maa” has got Shams Patel the best child artist award.

The award for best direction has gone to Bala for Tamil film “Naan Kadauul”, while the best actor is Upendra Limaye for Marathi film “Jogva”.

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'Kaanchivaram' Best film, Prakash Raj Best actor at National Film awards

Tamil filmmaker Priyadarshan's "Kanchivaram" has bagged the National award for Best film for 2007 while Tamil actor Prakash Raaj pipped Bollywood hearthrobs Aamir and Shahrukh to win the Best actor award for his performance in "Kanchivaram", sources said on Monday.

Shahrukh and Aamir, who were in the fray for the best actor award for 'Chak De India' and 'Taare Zameen Par' respectively, lost the prestigious award to Tamil-Telugu-Kannada actor Prakash Raj.

Prakash Raj won the award for his sterling performance as a silk weaver in Priyadarshan's Kanchivaram.

This would be his second National award. He earlier won the best supporting actor award for Mani Ratnam's 'Iruvar'.

Kannada actress Umashree has bagged the best actress award for her performance in Girish Kasaravalli's Kannada film "Gulabi Talkies" while Feroz Abbas Khans critically acclaimed film "Gandhi My Father", which explores the troubled relationship between Harilal Gandhi and Mahatma Gandhi, won a special jury award, the sources said.

Best Screenplay Award was also given to 'Gandhi My Father'.

Actor Darshan Zariwala, who played the role of Mahatma Gandhi in the film, has won the best supporting actor award.

Aamir and Shahrukh may have lost out in the Best actor award category but their films 'Chak De India' and 'Taare Zameen Par' have bagged Best film awards in the wholesome entertainment and the family welfare category.

Playback singer Shankar Mahadevan has won the award for the song "Meri Maa" from the film "Taare Zameen Par" while lyricist Prasoon Joshi won the Best lyricist award for the lyrics of the song.

The best child actor award has gone to Sharad Goyekar for his role in the Marathi film "Tingya".

The sources said the Nargis Dutt award for Best Film On National Integration has gone to Bhavna Talwar's 'Dharm'.

The film has pipped other contenders in the category such as Anil Kapoor's 'Gandhi My Father' and SRK's 'Chak De India'.

The feature film jury was headed by noted filmmaker Sai Paranjpe; other members included Ashok Viswanathan and Namita Gokhale.

About 102 films and 106 non-feature films were considered.

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