National Film Awards for the year 2009 were announced yesterday afternoon i.e. September 15, 2010. Here is the list –
- Best Film Award – Kutty Srank
- The Best film Award providing Wholesome Entertainment – 3 Idiots
- Best Feature Film on National Integration – Delhi 6
- The Best Actor for outstanding performance – Amitabh Bachchan for the Film Paa
- The Best Actress of the year – Ananya Chatterjee for the Film Abohoman
- The Best Director Award – Rituparno Ghosh
- · The Best Music Director Award – Dev D
- The Best Sound Engineer Award – Resul Pokkutty
- The Best Background Music Award – Iilayaraja
- The Best Choreographer of the year – K. Siva Shankar
- The award for the Best Actor in Supporting Role – Farooq Shaikh for the Film Lahore
- The Best Actress in Supporting Role – Arundati Nag
- The Best Children Film of the year – Puttani Party and Ottani Patti
- The best Child Artist Award – Keshu
- The Best Tamil Film of the year – Pasanga
- The Best Lyricist Award – Swanand Kirkire for ‘Behti hawa sa thha woh’ from 3 Idiots
- The Best Playback Singer award (Male) – Rupam Islam
- The Best Playback Singer award (Female) – Nilanjana Sarkar
- · Special Jury Recognition – Vishal Bhardwaj’s ‘Kaminey’, Malayalam film ‘Pazhassi Raja’, and Mammooty starrer ‘Kutty Srank’
- Best Film on social issues – Well Done Abba
- The Best Make Up Award – Paa
- The Best Hindi Film – Paa
(This list has all the major award categories and winner, which I could collect through different news sites, sorry for missing out on any awards.)
This is BigB’s (Amitabh Bachchan) Third National Award, he earlier bagged the National Award for Agneepath and later for Black. Amitabh now equals Kamal Hassan and Mammootty in the National Award number game.
Rupam Islam, who claims to be never satisfied with his work, when asked about his reaction after hearing the Award News, says “I embraced my wife Rupsa and we cried a lot.”
Congratulations!! To all the winners from the Team TSNW, and Hats-off!! BigB.