68th National Film Awards : Soorarai Pottru wins Best Film award

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Tamil movie “Soorarai Pottru” got national awards for the Best Feature Film, Best Actor, Best Actress, Best Background Score and the Best Screenplay at the 68th National Film Awards-2020 announced on 22 July.

Important facts

• The movie also won the prize of Best Popular Film Providing Wholesome Entertainment.

• The film is inspired by the real-life story of GR Gopinath, the founder of India's first low-cost airline.

• The story of this film focuses on the dream of providing low cost air travel to common people.

• Soorarai Pottru is produced by Suriya and Guneet Monga under their 2D Entertainment and Sikhya Entertainment banners.

• Bollywood actor Ajay Devgn shared the best actor title with Suriya for his performance in the period drama 'Tanhaji: The Unsung Warrior'.

• This year, the winners were selected from 305 feature films in 30 languages and 148 non-feature films in 28 languages that were received as entries.

• The winners were selected by a 10-member jury headed by Hindi filmmaker Vipul Shah.

• The awards were announced by jury member Dharam Gulati.

All the notable awards are as follows-

• Best Feature Film - 'Soorarai Pottru'

• Best Actor (shared) - Suriya for 'Soorarai Pottru' Ajay Devgn for 'Tanhaji: The Unsung Warrior'

• Best Actress - Aparna Balamurali for 'Soorarai Pottru'

• Best Popular Film - Providing Wholesome Entertainment 'Tanhaji: The Unsung Warrior'

• Best Director (posthumous award) - KR Sachidanandan, better known as Sachy, for 'Ayyappanum Koshiyum'

• Best Supporting Actor Award - Biju Menon for 'Ayyappanum Koshiyum'

• Best Supporting Actress - Lakshmi Priyaa Chandramouli for 'Sivaranjiniyum Innum Sila Pengalum' (Tamil)

• Best Screenplay - Shalini Usha Nair and Sudha Kongara for 'Soorarai Pottru'

• Best Music Direction (Background Score) - GV Prakash Kumar for 'Soorarai Pottru'

• Best Action Direction (Stunt Choreography) - 'Ayyappanum Koshiyum'

• Best Playback Female Singer - Nanchamma for 'Ayyappanum Koshiyum'

• Best Playback Singer Male - Rahul Deshpande for 'Mi Vasantrao' (Marathi)

• Best Editing - Sreekar Prasad for 'Sivaranjaniyum Innum Sila Pengallum'

• Best Hindi Film - 'Toolsidas Junior'

• Best Music Direction (Songs) - Thaman S for 'Ala Vaikunthapurramuloo' (Telugu)

• Best Lyrics - Manoj Muntashir for 'Saina' (Hindi)

• Best Make-up Artist - TV Rambabu for 'Natyam' (Telugu)

• Best Choreography - Sandhya Raju for 'Natyam'

• Indira Gandhi Award - Best Debut Film of a Director Madonne Ashwin for 'Mandela' (Tamil)

• Best Dialogue Writer - Madonne Ashwin for 'Mandela'

• Best Cinematography - Supratim Bhol for 'Avijatrik' (Bengali)

• Most Film-Friendly State - Madhya Pradesh, Uttarakhand and Uttar Pradesh 

• Best Book on Cinema - Kishwar Desai for 'The Longest Kiss'

About National Film Awards

• It was established in 1954.

• This Awards is one of the most prestigious and much looked-forward-to events in the country.

• Awards are given in three categories - Feature, Non-Features and Best Writing on Cinema.

• The winners of the awards are decided by a jury consisting of eminent persons in the fields of cinema, other allied arts and humanities.