President Honours Talent At 62nd National Film Awards

Dressed in a floor sweeping gown, Kangana Ranaut received the Best Actress honour from the president. The Best Actor award was picked up by Vijay for his “subtle and non-stereotypical playing of a woman trapped in a man’s body”, in Kannada film “Nanu Avanalla Avalu”.

The team of “Haider” – a modern-day adaptation of William Shakespeare’s classic tragedy “Hamlet” – set in the backdrop of Kashmir, was also present at the ceremony where the film too won Best Dialogues and Music Direction for the film’s director Vishal Bhardwaj; Best Choreography for Norway-based Sudesh Adhana; and Best Costume Designer for Dolly Ahluwalia.

Vikramaditya Motwane and Vikas Bahl also received the honour for “Queen” for Best Hindi film.

Other films to get awards in Best Film category are “Othello” (Assamese), “Nirbashito” (Bengali), “Harivu” (Kannada), “Nachom – IA Kumpasar” (Konkani), “Ain” (Malayalam), “Killa” (Marathi), “Aadim Vichar” (Odiya), “Punjab 1984″ (Punjabi), “Kuttram Kadithal” (Tamil) and “Chandamama Kathalu” (Telugu).

Omung Kumar, whose “Mary Kom” won the Best Popular Film Providing Wholesome Entertainment, turned up in black ensemble with stripes.

In the Best Children’s Film, there was a tie between Marathi entertainer “Elizabeth Ekadashi” and Tamil movie “Kaakkaa Muttai”, for which actor Dhanush accepted the award.

“The National Film awards stands for the immense honour befitting the highest governmental recognition in the field of cinema. I welcome and congratulate all the recipients for this year. You have done India proud,” said the president.

He also shared that the Indian film industry is “today the largest film industry in the world in terms of number of movies being produced with about 1600 films made every year on an average. The film industry today is a full-fledged economy having a turnover of a magnitude of 1,02,600 crore”.

“By now mainstream Hindi cinema is internationally recognised. We must also make focus on representing our regional films, which are equally impressive and deserve a global attention”.

Finance Minister Arun Jaitley and Minister of State for Information and Broadcasting Rajyavardhan Rathore also attended the award ceremony.
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