The 61st National Film awards were announced today. Among the major winners are – Anand Gandhi’s Ship of Theseus as Best Feature Film, Hansal Mehta for Best Director (Shahid), Rajkummar Rao for Best Actor (Shahid) which he shares with Suraj Venjaramoodu for Malayalam-film Perariyathavar. Geetanjali Thapa got Best Actress for Liar’s Dice and Rajeev Ravi for its cinematography. Sourabh Shukla bagged it for Best Supporting Actor (Jolly LLB), Amruta Subhash (Astu – Marathi) and Aida El-Kashif (Ship of Theseus) got it for Best Supporting Actress.
Fandry won the award for Best Debut Film of a Director (Nagraj Manjule). Award for Best Production Design went to Ashim Ahluwalia, Tabsheer Zutshi and Parichit Paralkar for Miss Lovely. The film also won the Special Jury award. Best Children’s Film Award was announced for Batul Mukhtiyar’s Kaphal.
In the non-feature category, Kamal Swaroop’s Rangbhoomi won the Best Film. Shubhashish Bhutiani’s Kush won the award for Best Promotional film. Nishtha Jain’s Gulabi Gang won the awards for Best Film on Social Issues and for Best Editing. Best Investigative Film went to Deepti Kakkar and Fahad Mustafa’s Powerless.
For Fiction films, the 11-member jury was headed by noted directed Saeed Akhtar Mirza.
Here’s the complete list of winners
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I’m really happy for Saurabh shukla’s national award for JOLLY LLB.
Jolly LLB is a complete film in the sense of well written script, direction, performance.
The best thing I loved about the film is characters ARC and characters development. Leave alone the protagonist, or antagonist but all the characters even small one like the security hawaldar go with the arc and development.
And best arcs and character development are with protagonist and Saurabh Shukla. These two characters have conflict, somany decisive moments and developing along with it.
Kallu Mama is back 🙂
It would be good to know whether these ppl had complete ready script or directord developed the characters on set or actors developed the characters through freedom given by director himself. Whatever it is I’d like to give Bronwy points to director, script writer.
Hope to see interviews with all these directors and actors to understand how they developed the story and characters ARC.
THANKS & REGARDS.