National Awards are a joke ! they never recognised any major southern star or director in big a way till southern regional players started forming collision govt in centre. Few examples of the pastQuote:
Originally Posted by Avadi to America
1) When BJP was at center - Pukar won Nargis Dutt Award for Best Feature Film on National Integration and the National Film Award for Best Actor for Kapoor's performance. (Anil Gapur was with BJP at that point in time)
2) Dr. Deve Gowda (Muudea Maaga) - Gave Aanvaru Dadasaheb Phalke Lifetime Achievement Award over NT * which was big deal (No one waited for this award more than NT)
Aadukalam was a good choice indeed :clap:
