Kerala State Film Awards – 2008

vc — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 14:12:11 +0000

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 – Oru Pennum Randannum)
Best Story	Aryadan Shoukath (Vilapangalkappuram)
Best Song Writer	ONV Kurup(Gulmohar)
Best Music Director	M.Jayachandran(Madambi)
Best Male Singer	Sankar Mahadevan (Madambi)
Best Female Singer	Manjari (Vilapangalkkapuram )
Best Background score	Chandran Payyatumel (Bioscope)
Best Editing	Beena Paul(Bioscope)
Best Cinematography	M.J. Radhakrishnan (Adayalangal)
Best Debut Director	Madhupal (Thalappavu)
Best Child Actor	Niveda Thomas (Veruthe Oru Bharya)
Best Art Direction	Madhu Jagat (Kolkotta News)
Best Dubbing artist	Sreeja (Minnaminnikkoottam)
Best Sound Recording	T. Krishnanunni and Harikumar(Oru Pennum Randannum)
Best Dance Direction	Vrinda (Kolkotta News)
Best Lab	Chitranjali (Bioscope)
Best Makeup Artist	Ranjit Ambady (Thirakatha)
Best Costume Design	Kumar Edappal(Vilapangalkkapuram)
Special Jury Mention	Bioscope (Directed by Madhusoodhan)
Cinema related article	Vadakkanpattu cinemakal (P.S.Radhakrishnan)
Cinema related book	Bodhatheerangalil Kalam Midikkumbol (A.Chandrasekharan)

Trivia

MJ Radhakrishnan(Cinematography), M Jayachandran(Music Direction), T. Krishnanunni(Sound Recording), Vrinda(Choreography) won the Kerala state award in 2007 too in their respective fields.
Jury Chairman Girish Kasaravalli commented that no short film, documentary or Children’s film made the mark.
Jury Chairman also commented that there was no confusion this time on selection of awards and he also stated the obvious – that the quality of Malayalam movies have gone down.
Lal has the unique distinction of being a succesful director, producer and now best actor.
This year none of the super stars, minor stars , wannabe stars, meteors, comets or asteroids were anywhere near the awards.

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Indian Panorama – Malayalam movies galore

vc — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 20:04:41 +0000

Amidst the bleak landscape where mediocrity is being celebrated, 7 Malayalam Movies were able to rise above the ordinary and make it to the Indian Panorama section of International Film Festival of India, to be held in Goa in December. Malayalam movies constitute more than a quarter of all the entries.

Pulijanmam
Oru Pennum Randannum
Akasha Gopuram
Vilapangalkkapuram
Adayalangal
Gulmohar
Katha Parayumbol

Pulijanmam got an automatic entry, as it was the National award winning feature film. Katha Parayumbol’s entry took us by surprise – pleasantly though.

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Kerala State Film Awards – 2008

Indian Panorama – Malayalam movies galore