Kutty Srank wins Best Feature Film in 57th National Film Awards 2009

Kutty Srank directed by Shaji N. Karun won the Swarna Kamal for Best Feature Film and cash prize of  Rs. 2, 50, 000 in 57^th National Film Awards for the Year 2009. The Directorate of Film Festivals announced the awards on Wednesday.

Rituparno Ghosh won the Best Director for Abohoman. The Bengali film Abohoman lapped up several awards including Best Actress for Ananya Chatterjee and Best Editing for Arghyakamal Mitra. The Best Actor award went to Amitabh Bachchan for Paa.

The awards were announced in three categories: Best Feature Film Category under the Chairpersonship of Ramesh Sippy, Non Feature Film Category under the Chairpersonship of Mike Pandey, and Best Writing on Cinema under the Chairpersonship of Samik Bandhopadhyay.

The complete list of awards is :

         

BEST FEATURE FILM: Kutty Srank (Malayalam)                 

Director: Shaji N. Karun

 

INDIRA GANDHI AWARD FOR BEST DEBUT FILM OF A DIRECTOR:  Lahore (Hindi)

Director: Sanjay Puran Singh Chauhan

 

AWARD FOR BEST POPULAR FILM PROVIDING WHOLESOME ENTERTAINMENT: 3 Idiots (Hindi)

Director: Rajkumar Hirani

 

NARGIS DUTT AWARD FOR BEST FEATURE FILM ON NATIONAL INTEGRATION: Delhi 6

Director: Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra

 

BEST FILM ON SOCIAL ISSUES: Well Done Abba (Hindi)

Director: Shyam Benegal

 

BEST CHILDREN S FILM: Putaani Party (Kannada) & Keshu (Malayalam)

Directors: Ramchandra P.N. (Putaani Party) and Sivan (Keshu)

 

BEST DIRECTION: Abohoman (Bengali)

Director: Rituparno Ghosh

 

BEST ACTOR: Paa (Hindi)

 Amitabh Bachchan

 

BEST ACTRESS: Abohoman (Bengali)

Ananya Chatterjee

 

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR: Lahore (Hindi)

 Farooque Sheikh

 

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS: Paa (Hindi)

Arundhati Naag

 

BEST CHILD ARTIST: Pasanga (Tamil)

Film Characters-  Jeeva & Anba Karasu

 

BEST MALE PLAYBACK SINGER: Mahanager @ Kolkata  (Bengali)              

Rupam Islam

 

BEST FEMALE PLAYBACK SINGER: Houseful (Bengali)      

Neelanjana Sarkar

 

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY: Kutty Srank (Malayalam)

Cameraman : Anjuli Shukla

 

Laboratory Processing :  Adlabs Films Ltd.

 

BEST SCREENPLAY : Kutty Srank  (Malayalam)

Screenplay Writer (Original) : P.F. Mathews & Harikrishna            

 Kanasemba Kudureyaneri (Kannada)

Pasanga (Tamil)

Dialogues :Pandiraj

 

BEST AUDIOGRAPHY : Kaminey (Hindi)

Location Sound Recordist : Subash Sahoo

 

 Kerala Varma Pazhassi Raja (Malayalam)

 Sound Designer : Resool Pookutty

 

3 Idiots (Hindi)

Re-recordist of the final mixed track : Anup Dev

 

BEST EDITING:  Abohomaan (Bengali)

Arghyakamal Mitra

 

BEST PRODUCTION DESIGN: Delhi 6 (Hindi)

Samir Chanda

 

BEST COSTUME DESIGNER: Kutty Srank (Malayalam)

Jayakumar

 

BEST MAKE-UP ARTIST:                 Paa (Hindi)

Christein Tinsley and Dominie Till

 

BEST  MUSIC DIRECTION :Dev D (Hindi)

Music Director (Songs) : Amit Trivedi

Kerala Verma Pazasi Raja             

Music Director (Background Score) : Ilayaraja

 

BEST LYRICS: 3 Idiots (Hindi)

Swanand Kirkire

“ Behti Hawa Sa Tha Woh ¦ ¦ ¦ ¦ ¦ 

 

SPECIAL JURY AWARD: Kaminey (Hindi)

Kutty Srank (Malayalam)

Kerala Varma Pazhassi Raja (Malayalam)

Sreekar Prasad

 

BEST SPECIAL EFFECTS: Magadheera (Telugu)

R. Kamal Kannan

 

BEST CHOREOGRAPHY:  Magadheera(Telugu)

K.Siva Shankar

 

BEST FEATURE FILM IN EACH OF THE LANGUAGE SPECIFIED IN THE SCHEDULE VIII OF THE CONSTITUTION            

               

 BEST ASSAMESE FILM: Basundhara        Director : Hiren Bora

 BEST BENGALI FILM:      Abohomaan       Director : Rituparno Ghosh

BEST HINDI FILM:             Paa                        Director : R. Balakrishnan

BEST KANNADA Film:     Kanasemba Kudureyaneri       Director : Girish Kasaravalli

BEST KONKANI Film:       Palatadcho Munis                      Director : Laxmikant Shetgaonkar

BEST MALAYALAM FILM:  Kerala Varma Pazhassi Raja  Director : T. Hariharan

 

BEST MARATHI FILM:     Natarang             Director : Ravindra Harishchandra Jadhav

BEST TAMIL FILM:            Pasanga                Director : Pandiraj

SPECIAL MENTION:         Padmapriya

 

BEST NON-FEATURE FILM (Sharing): The Postman directed by  B. Manohar

 Bilal directed by Sourav Sarangi

 

BEST DEBUT NON-FEATURE FILM OF A DIRECTOR (Sharing): Vaishnav Jan Toh directed by Kaushal Oza and Ekti Kaktaliyo Golpo by Tathagata Singha

 

BEST COMPILATION FILM: Pancham Unmixed

Director:  Brahmanand S Siingh

 

BEST ENVIRONMENT FILM INCLUDING AGRICULTURE: In for Motion

Director: Anirban Dutta

 

BEST FILM ON SOCIAL ISSUES:    Mr. India

 Director: Haobam Paban Kumar

 

SPECIAL JURY AWARD: Kelkkunnundo

 Child artist :Aasna Aslam

                 

SHORT FICTION FILM: Boond     

Director: Abhishek Pathak

               

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY :  Gaarud         

Cameraman:  Deepu S. Unni

 

BEST AUDIOGRAPHY: Gaarud

Re-recordist (final mixed track) : Lipika Singh Darai

                 

BEST EDITING:In Camera             

Editor: Tarun Bhartiya   

 

BEST NARRATION/VOICE OVER:                In Camera          

Best Voice over : Ranjan Palit    

 

SPECIAL MENTION: VILAY           

Cinematographer :  Nitika Bhagat            

 

In the Best Writing on Cinema Category following awards were announced:

                                                                           

BEST BOOK ON CINEMA: CINEMAA YAANA(Kannada)

Publisher : Hasiru Prakashana

 

Author: Dr. K. Puttaswamy

 

               

SPECIAL MENTION:  Eka Studioche Atmavrutta

Prabhakar Pendharkar  

               

BEST FILM CRITIC : C.S. Venkiteswaran (Malayalam)       

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