58th National Film Awards

Members of the jury for the 58th National Film Awards, 2010, present their report to Minister for Information and Broadcasting Ambika Soni in New Delhi on Thursday. (From left) Ad-film director Prahlad Kakkar, director and Chairman of Feature Films J. P. Dutta, cinematographer G.S Bhaskar and director Bharat Bala. Photo: Shanker Chakravarty 

Dhanush and Salim Kumar bag 'Best Actor' awards, Adaminte Makan Abu wins Best Film. The jury has requested the I&B Ministry to treat all the awardees who have shared the awards in different categories as individual winners.

It was a southern sweep at the 58th National Film Awards, with Malayalam film Adaminte Makan Abu chosen as the best feature film, and Vetrimaran selected as best director for Tamil film Aadukulam. In fact, the two best actors — Salim Kumar and Dhanush — were selected from these two films as well.

In a surprise move, the Awards jury urged the government to shell out an additional Rs.2.5 lakh to ensure that both actors, as well as the two women selected for the Best Actress Award — Tamil actor Saranya Ponvannan for Thenmerkku Paruvakkatru and Marathi actor Mitalee Jagtap Paradhar for her performance in Baboo Band Baaja — and the four children chosen for the Best Child Artist Award, did not have to split the prize money as was usually the case.

“We felt that they were all outstanding and could not be ignored…It was a unanimous decision,” said Bollywood filmmaker J.P. Dutta, who chaired the Awards jury. “We have recommended it to the [Information and Broadcasting] Minister Ambika Soni, and she seemed positive.”

While Tamil films stole the spotlight, bagging 12 Awards, films from the other southern States too did well. Adaminte Makan Abu, which shows “humanist values freeing matters of faith from the constrictions of narrow parochialism”, bagged four awards, while Kannada films won in the categories for children's films and films on environment.

Set in the world of cockfighting, Aadukulam, “a gritty tale of love, jealousy and betrayal in the midst of blood-sport and violence, in the manner of realistic cinema”, bagged five awards. Apart from being selected as Best Director, Vetrimaran was also deemed Best Original Screenplay Writer. The film won top honours in the editing and choreography categories too.

Other Tamil films on the winner's podium include Endhiran (Special Effects and Production Design), Thenmerkku Paruvakkatru (Best Actress for Saranya Ponvannan and Lyrics), Namma Gramam (Best Supporting Actress for Sukumari and Costume Design) and Mynaa (Best Supporting Actor for J. Thambi Ramaiah).

Ten Awards went to Marathi films, including Baboo Band Baaja by debuntant director Rajesh Pinjani, which tells of a child caught in the crossfire of his parents' arguments over his education. It bagged three awards, including one for child actor Vivek Chabukswar, who shared his award with Shantanu Ranganekar and Machindra Gadkar, who portrayed brothers in the Marathi film Champions and Harsh Mayar from the Hindi film I am Kalam. In fact, the jury has reportedly asked the Ministry to expand this section next year by presenting separate awards to male and female child artists.

In the sweep of southern and Marathi films, Bollywood was pushed to the background this year with Dabangg (Best Popular Film) and Ishqiya being the only winners.

“There were some truly great films from the south this year. They bridge the crassness of commercial cinema and the artistry of parallel cinema in a way that is reminiscent of Hollywood,” said jury-member and advertising filmmaker Prahlad Kakkar.

Kolkata Staff Reporter writes:

For ‘greater tolerance'

Eminent filmmaker Gautam Ghose's Moner Manush won the Nargis Dutt Award for Best Feature Film on National Integration.

“What is important to me is that Moner Manush reaches an international audience, as does its message for greater tolerance with the emphasis on secular and liberal values, as embodied in the character Lalan in the film,” he told

Minissha in big trouble

Minissha Lamba detained at airport for carrying jewellery worth Rs 50 lakh
Minissha Lamba was detained at the airport yesterday. The actress was kept back for bringing jewellery worth approximately Rs 50 lakh while returning from Cannes, France.

She arrived by an Emirates flight yesterday morning from Nice via Dubai.


Minissha Lamba at Sahar airport on way to Cannes last week

The actress walked the red carpet at the Cannes film festival last week. But the same red carpet treatment was not meted out to her here at the international airport.

She has been charged with carrying R 50 lakh worth of jewellery above the permitted limit and was detained by custom officials.

She spent the afternoon being questioned about the bling. She was arrested for this. A statement will be recorded and a case will be registered against her, too.

At the time of going to press no one her lawyer, her spokesperson, her family or the media was allowed to meet the actress.

What the customs say....
Minissha Lamba was stopped while walking through the green channel at Mumbai airport yesterday. Sameer Wankhede, deputy commissioner, Customs, and his team intercepted the actress.

According to a senior customs officer, "We got a tip-off about her carrying jewellery above the permissible limit. We intercepted her at the green channel.

We have been interrogating the actress. In case of jewllery worth up to R 5 lakh we give bail on the grounds of being personal jewellery but as she was carrying jewels worth Rs 50 lakh, she had to be detained. She will be produced in court today."

Minissha's missing bag at Nice airport
On her way back to Mumbai, Minissha Lamba found one of her bags missing at Nice airport. The actress had been tweeting about her loss on the micro-blogging site...

"Disaster has struck. A baggage of mine has been stolen at Nice airport. I can't believe something like this has happened.

The reason they won't go over the CCTV footage is that there is nothing recorded on it. Sadly, something like this has happened during the festival.

If it was 'stolen' or 'misplaced'. For some reason, they are just refusing to confirm via their CCTV. Standing at the Emirates counter for one hour.

Even with two CCTV camera's right over the baggage, police or airline still won't confirm."

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Chitrangada and Arjun Rampal to get steamy

Chitrangda Singh will perform some bold bedroom scenes with Arjun Rampal

Chitrangda Singh will be seen doing some bold bedroom scenes in Prakash Jha's next opposite Arjun Rampal.

However, the scenes in Jha's flick would not titillate but instead add to the film's effect which revolves around the theme of sexual harassment at the workplace.



No fears
A source reveals, "Chitrangda and Arjun haven't worked before, and both plan to sit down and discuss the scenes before shooting them.

However, neither of them had any apprehensions since the script of the film demands the same.



In the past, Chitrangda was offered steamy scenes in other movies, but she declined because she wasn't convinced they were an intrinsic part of the story line."

Both Arjun and Chitrangda have shot lovemaking scenes in the past in their films. "They both understand the demand of the script.

There was no hesitation from their part as Jha is known to treat every subject aesthetically."

With John too!
Chitrangda Singh will also be doing some steamy scenes with John Abraham in Shrishti Arya's next as reported 'No Kiss Miss Misses Out' (Hitlist, May 3) as Prachi Desai refused to lock lips with Johnny boy.

I can do much more than just don a bikini: Yana Gupta

Believe it or not but Yana Gupta has not yet seen her own latkas and jhatkas in her recent item song Laila O Laila.

The item girl has better things to do, she says. Yana, who was busy with singing and writing songs and a book on nutrition before she made her comeback, says she now wants to be taken a bit more seriously.

"There is much more that I can give to the industry than just being a seductress." The Czech chick, who has reportedly replaced Bipasha Basu in another item number, talks to CS:

What matters
I don't choose to do item numbers. I am a music lover and it's the music that turns me on. Even when I started with Babuji, I loved the song and the whole country feel that the song had. Popularity doesn't matter to me, but what matters is my work.

Even now, after I did Laila O Laila, and compliments are coming my way, I don't really know how well I've done. It's the process that matters and not the end result.

And once I am convinced that I have given my 100 per cent, who cares about the outcome or what people think about me?

In a fix
People say that I am going Helenji's way and that's a compliment (laughs). But personally, I feel that I can do much more than just don a bikini and add glamour to a film. I can act well and can do non-glamorous roles as well, but I am not yet taken that seriously.

A few weeks back, when I wasn't in India, I was hearing a script over the phone. I heard the entire script and enquired about my role in the film. He went silent for a while and then said that I didn't have many dialogues.

I was so angry that I just wanted to cut the call right away. But I pushed myself to behave right. I think once you get typecast, it's a tough job to break free. And you can't complain and crib all the time about it.

Write side
But I don't let all this bother me much. I am still on the path of self-discovery. I can only say that I am not what I appear on screen. I am a fun-loving but also a composed person.

Every time I take a closer look at myself, I find something new within. Not many know that I sing and write songs myself. When I discovered that I could write well, I wrote a book on nutrition.

It is going to be published by a popular publishing company by this year-end. I'll say, look beyond the camera, and you will see a different Yana!

Inner beauty

We had a hard time trying to close gaping mouths in this event. An international lingerie brand is celebrating its 125th year and the occasion was marked by a contest at a nightclub in a star -studded hotel in Delhi. Indian contestants showcased their lingerie interpretations. The winners will now compete with their global counterparts.

King Khan's Rs 1 crore suit goes digital now

The 3D action hero's outfit for Ra.One will get more expensive as Shah Rukh Khan insists on 'computerising' it to add special effects

The blue coloured costume made in Los Angeles especially for the 3D action hero flick Ra.One and costing a whopping rupees one crore is now being converted into CG (computer generated graphics.

This means the bodysuit donned by Shah Rukh Khan's character G.One that the audience will finally see on screen will be created with the help of special effects.


SRK is leaving no stone unturned to get a perfect look for his character G.One in the upcoming 3D action flick

A well-placed source informs, "The perfectionist SRK is leaving no stone unturned to make sure that the film is made well.

He doesn't want to compromise on any front. After seeing the rushes of G. One's look, he felt it wasn't up to the mark and could be improved. So after brainstorming sessions with the animation and marketing team he decided to add special effects to the costume."

"A lot of interesting effects like rays emitting out of the outfit have been added.

It goes perfectly with SRK's character who is made of solid electricity and has come in the real world from a virtual world to fight against Ra.One the evil force."

Director of the movie, Anubhav Sinha said, "It is natural to have myths and legends associated with a superhero film. This will be one of the early legends of G.One."

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