Vikram, Meera Jasmine bag national awards

Saturday, 14 August , 2004, 17:34

New Delhi: Veteran Bengali film maker Gautam Ghose won the Best Director and Screenplay award for the movie 'Abar Aranye' while Marathi film Shwaas was adjudged the Best Feature Film in the 51st National film Awards 2003, announced on Saturday.

Popular Hindi film 'Munna Bhai MBBS' got the award for Best Popular Film providing wholesome entertainment, even as 'Koi Mil Gaya' grabbed three awards inculding one for the best film on social issues.

Hindi film 'Pinjar' portraying partition bagged the Nargis Dutt Award for Best Film on National Integration, with Actor Manoj Bajpai getting a special jury award for his role as Rashid in the film.

Tamil actor Vikram was adjudged the Best Actor for his role in Pithamagan, while Malayalam actress Meera Jasmine won the Best Actress Award for her role in Padam Onnu Oru Vilapam even as Bollywood star of yesteryears Sharmila Tagore bagged the Best Supporting Actress award for her role in Abar Aranye.

Child actor Arun Chitale, who gave a touching performace as a child about to lose his vision in Shwaas walked away with the honours in the category along with Kalidasan in Malayalam film Ente Veedu Appoontem.

Bengali film Chokher Bali, which was in strong contention for the Best Film, walked away with three awards including the Best Feature Film in Bengali, Best Art Direction and Best Costume Designs.

Hindi singer Sonu Nigam got the Best Male Playback Singer Award for the title song in Kal Ho Na Ho, which also bagged the Best Music Direction Award for Shankar, Ehsaan, Loy.

Bollywood Choreographer Farah Khan was adjudged best for her dance in the song Main idhar chala, main udhar chala in Koi Mil Gaya, that also won the award in the Best Special Effects category.

Rajiv Vijay Raghavan won the Best Debut Director Award for his Malayalam movie Maargam, while Tarali Sarma was crwoned Best Female Playback Singer for her rendition in Akashitorar Kothare in Assamese.

The Award for the Best Book on Cinema was bagged by Ramakrishna for his book Filmi Jagat Mein Ardhashakti Ka Romanch while award for the Best Film Critic went to journalist Saibal Chatterjee for "refreshing style of writing incisive, bold and realistic criticism of the film industry."

- sify.com

NDTV Correspondent

Saturday, August 14, 2004 (New Delhi):

The award for Best Film went to the Marathi film Shwaas. It's the first time that a Marathi film has won this prestigious award in more than 50 years.

Best Director and Best Screenplay went to Gautam Ghosh for his Aabaar Auranney a sequel to Satyajit Ray's classic Auronner Deen Ratree.

"I'm delighted with this very good news. I'm also very proud of the entire crew as well as the musicians who worked on the film. I think this year's jury has been very responsible," said Ghosh.

Ghosh's movie, also won Sharmila Tagore a Best Supporting Actress award. Best Supporting Actor went to Pankaj Kapur for his role as an underworld don in Maqbool.

Critical acclaim

The Best Actress award went to Malayali actress Mira Jasmine for her role as a young woman married to more than one man at the same time.

Hrithik Roshan was nominated for best actor for playing an autistic young man in Koi Mil Gaya but he didn't win.

The jury chose Tamil actor Vikram instead for his brilliant portrayal of an undertaker in Pitamagan.

If Manoj Bajpai had won it, he might well have rejected it, just as he had done when he was chosen as best supporting actor by Screen magazine for Pinjar.

But today, he got a special jury award for the same role and appeared very pleased.

"You feel on top of the world and somehow you feel honoured. I'm happy for the entire team for Pinjar and for everybody who worked on the film and supported me," said Manoj Bajpai.

Kalam to present awards

Koi Mil Gaya did manage to win a few awards for Best Effects, Best Film for Child Welfare and also Best Choreographer's award to Faraha Khan for making Hrithik dance in the rain.

Raghu Romeo has been adjudged the Best Feature Film in Hindi while Munnabhai MBBS has won the Award for wholesome entertainment.

The awards which were announced today, will be given out by the President at an official ceremony later this year.

- ndtv.com

Vikram wins for Pithamagan?!

This has to be the most overrated performance of the year, there was absolutely nothing special about it

Did anyone see "Padam Onnu Oru Vilapam"? I always thought Meera Jasmine was a bad actor, was she really good in this film?

Raghu Romeo has been adjudged the Best Feature Film in Hindi?!

This film was horrible! What were the judges thinking?

Well at least Manoj & Pankaj won - these were well deserved

Btw, did anyone see the 'Shwaas'?

No, I haven't seen Padam Onnu. She is a good actress. Her performances in malayalam movies are excellent. She's also done a wonderful job in Ayutha Ezhuthu but not so well in other tamil movies.

I liked Surya's performance in PITHAMAGAN better than Vikram's.

Munna Bhaii rules!!LOL

Oh ok, I have only seen her in tamil films. Though I did not think much of her performance in "ae" (esp after rani's performance in "yuva")

I thought it was well deserved, his performance was amazing - he expressed all of his emotions through his body language which is quite challenging for an actor who has no dialogues in the film...

India should also do something like the "Razzie Awards". And if I were handing them out, movies like LoC, Baghban and Munnabhai MBBS would win top honors.

Agreed.

Speaking of overrated...

Easy choices...

2003
Worst Film: Main Prem Ki Diwani Hoon
Worst Actor: Hrithik Roshan, Main Prem Ki Diwani Hoon
Worst Actress: Kareena Kapoor, Main Prem Ki Diwani Hoon
Worst Director: Sooraj Barjatya, Main Prem Ki Diwani Hoon
Worst Screenplay: Sooraj Barjatya, Main Prem Ki Diwani Hoon
Worst...

Need I go on?

Meera Jasmine is an amazing actress. I recently saw Kasthooriman in malyalam and her performance was WOW. She was absolutely wasted in run. But she was the only good thing about Jhoot.

Rani was that good in Yuva? After seeing hum tum, I feel that rani is very overrated.

Btw, I think Vikram totally deserved the award. Yeah I liked Surya more, but it was not award material. What Vikram did was special.

At least there is one award show in india that gives awards without bias.

I am not a fan of Rani myself, but "yuva" was the first time I thought she did very well

Btw, anyone have the complete results? - w/ nominees, categories...

http://nowrunning.com/news/news.asp?id=1109

Vikram and Meera Jasmine clinches the best actor and actress awards

New Delhi, Aug 14 (IANS): National Awards for 2003 has been announced. Marathi Film 'Shwaas' has been chosen as the best film. Tamil actor Vikram won the best actor award for "Pitha Mahan" while Malayalam actress Meera Jasmin won the best actress for "Padam Onnu Vilaapam".

Following is the list of the 51st National Film Awards for the year 2003 announced here Saturday.

1. Best Feature Film -- "Shwaas" (Marathi)

2. Indira Gandhi Award for Best First Film of a director -- "Maargam" (Malayalam)

3. Best Popular Film Providing Wholesome Entertainment -- "Munnabhai MBBS" (Hindi)

4. Nargis Dutt Award for Best Feature Film on National Integration -- "Pinjar" (Hindi)

5. Best Film on Family Welfare -- "Padam Onnu Oru Vilapam" (Malayalam)

6. Best Film on Other Social Issues -- "Koi Mil Gaya" (Hindi)

7. Best Film on Environment Conservation -- "Juye Poora Xoon" (Assamese)

8. Best Children's Film -- "Tora" (Assamese)

9. Best Direction -- Goutam Ghose

10. Best Actor -- Vikram

11. Best Actress -- Meera Jasmine

12. Best Supporting Actor -- Pankaj Kapoor

13. Best Supporting Actress -- Sharmila Tagore

14. Best Child Artist -- Ashwin Chitale and Kalidasan

15. Best Male Playback Singer -- Sonu Nigam

16. Best Female Playback Singer -- Tarali Sarma

17. Best Cinematography -- Abhik Mukhopadhyay

18. Best Screenplay -- Goutam Ghose

19. Best Audiography -- Anup Mukhopadhyay, Deepon Chatterjee

20. Best Editing -- Aarif Sheikh

21. Best Art Direction -- Indranil Ghosh, Sharmishtha Roy

22. Best Costume Designer -- B.B. Ray, Sushanto Pal

23. Best Music Direction -- Shankar Mahadevan, Aloysis Mendonsa and Ehsaan Noorani

24. Best Lyrics -- Suddala Ashok Teja

25. Special Jury Award -- Manoj Bajpai

26. Best Special Effects -- "Koi Mil Gaya"

27. Best Choreography -- Farah Khan

28. Best Feature Film in language specified in the eighth schedule of constitution

Assamese -- "Aakashitorar Kothare"
Bengali -- "Chokher Bali"
Hindi -- "Raghu Romeo"
Kannada -- "Preethi Prema Pranaya"
Malayalam -- "Sabhalam"
Marathi -- "Not Only Mrs Raut"
Oriya -- "Aw Akkare Aa"
Tamil -- "Eyarkai"
Telugu -- "Aithe"

29. Best Feature Film in each of the languages other than those specified in schedule viii of the constitution.

English -- "Dance Like A Man"

Special mention:
1. "Dathathreya"
2. "Nedumudi Venu"

No awards recommended for Garhwali, Bhojpuri and Santhali languages.

Great, thanks