Cinema : Indian National Awards Win,

Indian National Awards Win, ‘Dabangg’, ‘Ishqiya’, ‘Do Dooni Chaar’

     Marathi films also put up a great show.
Southern films won the top honors at the 58th National Film Awards announced May 19. While Tamil movie “Aadukalam” was named in six top categories, Malayalam film “Adaminte Makan Abu” picked up four honors.

      Kishore; best choreography for Dinesh Kumar; and special mention for V.I.S. Jayaraman. Among Tamil films, “Aadukalam” walked away with the maximum trophies, including best director award for Vetrimaran; best actor for Dhaush; best original screenplay for Vetrimaran; best editing for T.E. In total, Tamil movies got 14 awards, including best actress for Saranya Ponvannan for “Thenmerkku Paruvakkatru”, which also got Vairamuthu the best lyricist award and was named the best Tamil film.

      V. Srinivas M. Mohan got the best special effects award for “Endhiran”, while Sabu Cyril got the best production design award for the Rajnikanth starrer blockbuster.
 
       Named best feature film, Salim Kumar got the best actor award, Malayalam films got six national awards and “Adaminte Makan Abu” topped the list.  Madhu Ambat picked up the best cinematography trophy and Issak Thomas Kottakapally got the best music director award.

      Sound designer Subhadeep Sengupta won the best audiography award for Malayalam film “Chitrasutram”, while “Veettilekkulla Vazhil” was named the best Malyalam movie.

       An inspiring, true-life story of a Maharashtrian woman’s fight against social ills, and “Baboo Band Baaja” about a tug-of-war between fate and hope, got three awards each in various categories.

 
      Other winners include “Champions”, which was named best film on social issues. The film also got Shantanu Ranganekar and Machindra Gadkar the best child artist awards.

      “Mala Aai Vhhaychay” walked away with best Marathi film trophy.

      The year 2010 was not so good for the Hindi film industry and this was reflected at the national awards’ announcement.