vc on June 3rd, 2009

Kerala State Film Awards for 2008 has been announced by a jury with Kannada Director Girish Kasaravally as the chairman.

Category
Winner

Best Film
Oru Pennum Randannum(Director – Adoor Gopalakrishnan)

Best Director
Adoor Gopalakrishnan(Movie – Oru Pennum Randannum)

Best Actor
Lal (Thalappavu)

Best Actress
Priyanka(Vilapangalkkapuram)

Acting – Comedy
Mamukkoya(Innathe Chinthavishayam)

Best Actor(Runner Up)
Anoop Menon(Thirakatha)

Best Actress(Runner Up)
Praveena (Oru Pennum Randannum)

Best Film (Runner Up)
Vilapangalkkapuram (T.V.Chandran)

Popular Movie
Innathe Chinthavishayam(Sathyan Anthikkad)

Best Screenplay
Adoor Gopalakrishnan(Movie [...]

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vc on April 10th, 2008

We love the State Awards for it brings out all egos out. Last year the wise members of the jury decided to give the best actor award to – believe it or not – Prithviraj ignoring both the superstars, since they had won awards before. With this attitude the jury showed that they were behaving [...]

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vc on April 8th, 2008

Kerala State Film Awards for 2007 has been announced by a jury with Jahnu Barua as the chairman.

Category
Winner

Best Film
Adayalangal(Director – M.G.Sasi)

Best Director
M.G.Sasi(Movie – Adayalangal)

Best Actor
Mohanlal (Paradesi)

Best Actress
Meera Jasmine(Ore Kadal)

Acting – Special Mention by Jury
Jagathi Sreekumar(Paradesi, Veeralipattu,Arabikatha)

Best Actor(Runner Up)
Murali(Veeralipattu,Pranayakalam)

Best Actress(Runner Up)
Lakshmi Gopalaswami (Thaniye)

Best Film (Runner Up)
Ore Kadal (Shyama Prasad)

Popular Movie
Katha Parayumbol

Best Screenplay
Sathyan Anthikad(Vinodayatra)

Best Story
P.T.Kunjumohammed (Paradesi)

Best Song [...]

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vc on August 7th, 2007

53rd National Film awards were announced today after a delay of almost one year. Understandably the awards were announced without much fanfare. Malayalam films were conspicuos by their absence in the winners list.

Category
Winner

Best Film
Kaalpurush-Memories in the mist(Directed by Directed by Budhadeb Dasgupta)

Best Director
Rahul Dholakia(Parzania)

Best Actor
Amitabh Bachan(Black)

Best Actress
Sarika(Parzania)

Best Supporting Actor
Naseeruddin Shah(Iqbal)

Best Supporting Actress
Urvasi(Achuvinte Amma)

Special jury award [...]

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vc on August 1st, 2007

2006 National film awards, which was supposed to have been announced on May 12 was entangled in legal mess and mired in controversies. Shyamli Banerjee Deb, a jury member had filed a law suit in Delhi high court, alleging that the awards were fixed by government officials.
While Sanjay Leela Bhansali’s acclaimed Black has been chosen [...]

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Velu on February 13th, 2007

We have new guest contributor for Varnachitram – Velu Nair.  Velu has always enthralled us with his reviews, they are a treat to read. Now, we are privileged to have Velu commenting on 2006 Kerala Film awards in Varnachitram.
The announcement of the Kerala State Film Awards 2006 has left an entire state and scores of Malayalis across the world, literally [...]

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vc on February 12th, 2007

This time when we heard that [tag]Prithviraj[/tag] won the award for the best actor for his performance in Vasthavam, we were shocked. He did quite well in Vasthavam, but was it better than the performance of [tag]Mammotty[/tag] in Palunku, Karutha Pakshikal and Kaiyoppu or [tag]Murali[/tag]’s performance in Puli Janmam? In our opinion No. So why [...]

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