Thursday, March 8, 2012

Film School Online | "Regional films bag most of the awards"

By: The Asian Age
Source: http://www.asianage.com
Category: film School Online

The Indira Gandhi Award for the best debut film of a director went to Tamil filmmaker Kumararaja Thiagarajan for his movie Aaranyakandam. Anjan Dutt’s film Ronjona Ami Aar Ashbona bagged the best Bengali film award.

The best music direction (songs) went to Neel Dutt for the same film while Mayookh Bhowmick won the best background score award for Bengali film Laptop. The award for best male playback singer went to Anand Bhate for Balgandharva, while Roopa Ganguly was chosen best female playback singer for the film Abosheyshey.
The best Kannada film award went to Kurmavatara, best Malayam film to Indian Rupee and best Dogri film to Dille Ch Vasya Koi. Phijigee Mani won the best Manipuri film award, Shala was named the best Marathi film, the best Punjabi film award was won by Anhe Ghorey Da Daan, Vaagai Sooda Va. Byari star Mallika was given a special mention, as was Sherry for directing Malayalam film Adimadhyantham.
Game won two technical awards — sound design (Baylon Fonseca) and re-recording (Hitendra Ghosh). Fonseca also won the national award for location sound recording in Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara. The award for best editing went to Tamil film Aranyakandam (Pravin K L), while Bengali film Naukadubi won the best production design award.
The number of entries have increased this year to 186 films across 19 languages in feature film category. The best feature film and best direction awards carry a Swarna Kamal and cash prize of `2,50,000 each. The best actor and actress get a Rajat Kamal and `50,000 each. In the non-feature category, the best film award went to And We Play On (Hindi and English), produced and directed by Pramod Puwane.

Source : http://www.asianage.com/india/regional-films-bag-most-awards-317