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Priyanka Chopra, Upendra Limaye bag national awards for best actor

Bindu Shajan Perappadan

Bengali film ‘Antaheen’ chosen as the best feature film

The winners: A still from the Tamil film ‘Naan Kadavul’.

NEW DELHI: Bengali film Antaheen has been chosen as the best feature film, while Upendra Limaye and Priyanka Chopra bagged the best male and female actor awards at the 56th National Film Awards for 2008 announced here on Saturday. Antaheen won awards in three other categories, including best cinematography and best lyrics.

Limaye bagged the top honour for the Marathi feature film Jogva, while Priyanka won the award for Madhur Bhandarkar’s Hindi film Fashion. Hariharan and Shreya Ghoshal won the best playback singer awards for Antaheen and Jogva.

Kangana Ranaut and Arjun Rampal have been selected as the best supporting actors for Fashion and Rock On!!. The latter has also bagged the best Hindi film award.

The awards were announced at a press conference by Union Information and Broadcasting Minister Ambika Soni along with jury chairpersons Shaji N. Karun and Arunaraje Patil. The awards will be presented by President Pratibha Patil in March.

The winners: (Clockwise, from right top) Film director Bala, and actors Priyanka Chopra, Arjun Rampal and Kangana Ranaut.

Sh. Bala has won the award for best direction for the Tamil film Naan Kadavul. Kannada film Gubbachigalu gets the best children’s film award. Shams Patel bagged the best child artist award for his role in the Hindi film Thanks Maa.

The special jury award has gone to the Malayalam film Bioscope produced by the National Film Development Corporation. Neeta Lulla has been selected the best costume designer for the Hindi film Jodhaa Akbar.

AFSPA 1958 was adjudged the best non-feature film for courageous depiction of the non-violent resistance of the people of Manipur. Films Division-produced The Assassination of Rajiv Gandhi: A Reconstruction has been selected for an award in the best biographical, historical reconstruction/compilation film category. The jury on best writing on cinema considered 20 entries of books and declared Bollywood Melodies in English by Ganesh Anantharaman the best. Ms. Soni said she was aware of the constraints the jury worked under and was open to suggestions to improve and reinvent the national awards.

Meanwhile, the jury members have called for “limiting censorship” in a manner that does not restrict any film-maker. “We have to relook at censorships without limiting creativity. We would also like an award for experimental films,” said Ms. Patil.

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