India's best actor Prakash Raj

PR, I knew it but never got round to listening to it. Classical-music based movies usually end up strong favourites with national award committees - all 3 of IR's national awards were for movies very deep in classical music quotient - and in recent times, I have developed a bias against such callous, un-nuanced evaluation of music by NA committees.(Annamayya over GURU in 1998 was the trigger, swarabishekam by vidyasagar a few years back - both very lightweight choices with only the classical base going for them).
If Singeetham's Thyagayya project kicks off with IR as planned earlier, oru NA urudhi for IR. Unless Sathish Kaushik(or an equivalent from bollywood) heads the committee in which case Rajesh Roshan's nursery rhymes from the latest kiruthigai hit will get the award.

I once watched about 10 minutes of the film Sringaram. Devadasi woman asserting rights historical. adhukkaaga ? It was hilariously amateurish - acting, costumes etc. I see it has won multiple NAs !

PR, that's why it is difficult to take NAs seriously. For the same reason, one cannot dismiss NAs like Groucho has done here either. Because it all depends on the committee, and sometimes even if the committee is constituted of Balu Mahendra, and Adoor Gopalakrishnan, it might happen that a majority from other interests group carry through their agenda with the numbers they possess. It also depends on how a committee member feels passionately for a particular movie.actor.artiste. For instance, if there is a best lyrics award, and most of the committee members are indifferent to it, and only I am passionate about one particular Vaali song, I might get away with pushing Vaali's name for it - simply because the others are focussing on other disciplines where their favourites are and are content to go with whatever is suggested by an interested member.

As you observed, a movie like Sringaram(I take your word for it) can get awards for havign the 'right intentions'. This is worse than Saif Ali Khan for Hum Tum because nobody is going to take SAK in HT seriously, even if he gets oscar for it.

Sometimes they get it right too. So, onnnyum solradhukkilla.

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Originally Posted by Prabhu Ram

Is the Adoor film the one in which Nandita Das acted in ?

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Yes. It also featured Geetu Mohandas and Padmapriya in title roles. Kavya Madhavan played a supporting role.

Word ellAm take-Adheenga. Naan 10 nimisham dhaan paarthEn

Saif award committee was headed by Sudhir Mishra- who made a big deal about awarding someone who had done a 'light' role. Have not seen Hum Tum and I do not hate Saif like many do. But it felt like Mishra was trying to make a point with that award.

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Originally Posted by Plum

Shreya Ghoshal-ku award vandhirukku

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AdhukkuLayae 3 award vaangiduchchu. Chithra-va beat paNNidum pola.

Best actor category is a flip-flop between north and south. It is heavily biased IMO. Apart from the sham of not awarding a single one to NT, south Indian actors have been deservedly awarded, like Mohanlal in Vaanaprastham (he did miss quite a few though) or Prakash raj this year, but they've got some howlers up north even with a prolific star-actor like Amitabh (leave aside Anil kapoor, Saif for Hum tum), Black and Agneepath :lol2: Black-a adjust pannikalam..but agneepath will be a 'classic' performance only for rasana-ketta mummy daddies.. He richly deserved for "Deewar", but it was up against that actor who played deaf and dumb role in 'ankur', which is quite remarkable and richly deserved the award that year. So indha madhiri compensation and adjustments are often done for North indian actors 'only'.

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Originally Posted by Prabhu Ram

Word ellAm take-Adheenga. Naan 10 nimisham dhaan paarthEn

Saif award committee was headed by Sudhir Mishra- who made a big deal about awarding someone who had done a 'light' role. Have not seen Hum Tum and I do not hate Saif like many do. But it felt like Mishra was trying to make a point with that award.

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periya petromax light role :twisted:

Best Tamil movie : Periyar :)

Jo misses National Award by a whisker!

Jyothika has missed the National Awards by a whisker!

At the 55th National Film Awards for 2007, Jyothika was one of the front runner for her performance in Mozhi, along with Meera Jasmine for the Malayalam Ore Kadal and Umashree for the Kannada Gulabi.

One of the members of the jury noted Malayalam director Sibi Malayil said: “The best actress award was well fought till the end as the jury was divided. We had to choose between three brilliant performances enacted by Jyothika, Meera and Uma, finally Uma squeezed through.”

According to another source after seeing Jo’s outstanding performance in Mozhi, the members at the special screening gave a standing ovation. She was in contention for the award till the last round, when Umashree emerged triumphant.