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Wednesday, May 12, 2004

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Padmarajan Puraskaram announced

By Our Staff Reporter

KOCHI, MAY 11. The 12th Padmarajan Puraskaram for the best short story and film have been awarded to S.V. Venugopan Nair and T.V. Chandran respectively.

Announcing this at a press conference here today, the chairman of the jury, C.P. Nair, said the film, `Paadam Onnu oru vilaapam', directed by T.V. Chandran based on a story by Aryadan Shoukath, was selected for the award by a committee consisting of Gandhimathi Balan and Vinu Abraham. While a cash prize of Rs. 20,000 and statuette would be presented to the director of the film, a sum of Rs. 10,000 would be presented to the scriptwriter.

A citation would also be presented to the producer of the film.

The Padmarajan Puraskaram for short story would be presented to S.V. Venugopan Nair for his work, `Bandhanasthanaaya Aniruddhan', which was published in the Kalakaumudi magazine last year.

The award was decided by a committee headed by M.G. Sasibhooshan with Sunil Parameswaran and K.S. Ravikumar as members.

The award carries a cash prize of Rs. 10,000 and a statuette.

The awards, instituted by the Padmarajan Memorial Trust in memory of the film director, P. Padmarajan, would be presented at a function in connection with the birthday of Padmarajan, at the Tagore Theatre on May 23.

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