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By Our Staff Reporter
Ajay Devgan
Budhadeb Dasgupta's much acclaimed Mondo Meyer Upakhyan won the best film award in the feature film segment, while his biographical work on renowned painter Manjeet Bawa, Meeting Manjit, bagged the best biographical film award. Bollywood action hero Ajay Devgan will collect his second Rajat Kamal for best actor in this golden jubilee year of the National Awards for his performance in The Legend of Bhagat Singh. Bengali actress Konkana Sen wins her first National Film Award for her strong portrayal of a Tamil Brahmin in the film Mr. and Mrs Iyer. Bollywood's most expensive tragedy, Devdas, bagged five awards, including the best popular film providing wholesome entertainment, best costume, best choreography, art direction and female playback singer. It was awarded for its "technical finesse and its modern re-interpretation of an enduring classic". The mother-daughter duo, Aparna Sen and Konkana Sen, walked away with the awards for best direction and acting for Mr. and Mrs. Iyer, which also bagged the Nargis Dutt Award for the best film on national integration and best screenplay.
Keerthana
In the supporting actor and actress category, Tamil actor Chandrashekhar was chosen for the Rajat Kamal for his portrayal of a physically challenged man in Nanba Nanba, while Rakhee's role of an "unlikely" detective in Rituparno Ghosh's Shubho Muhurat has won her the award. A.K. Bir's Baaja will receive the best children's film award. Sharing the best child artiste award will be Shweta Prasad and Keerthana for their spontaneous and lively performance in Makdee (Hindi) and Kannathil Muthamittal (Tamil). The Indira Gandhi Award for the best debut film of a director went to Bengali film makers Abhijit Chaudhari and Subhadro Chaudhary for Patal Ghar and Prohor. The jury announced that no film was found up to the mark in the family welfare category. Anwar Jamal's soon-to-be-released Swaaraj won the best film on a social issue for its strong depiction of women's empowerment in rural India. Singers Udit Narayan and Shreya Ghoshal won honours for their songs Chhote Chhote Sapne (from Zindagi Khubsoorat Hai) and Bairi Piya (Devdas), while A.R. Rahman bagged the best music director award for Mani Ratnam's Kannathil Muthamittal.
Konkana Sen
Abhik Mukhopadhyaya won the best cinematography award for the Bengali film Patalghar, while A.S. Laxmi Narayan will receive the best audiography award for Kannathil Muthamittal, which has also won the best editing award for Sreekar Prasad. Devdas has earned awards for Nitin Chandrakant Desai (art direction), Saroj Khan (choreography) and Neeta Lulla, Abu Jani and Sandeep Khosla (costume designing). In the regional category, Jahnu Barua's Konikar Ramdhenu (Assamese), Rituparno Ghosh's Shubho Muhurat (Bengali), Raj Kumar Santoshi's The Legend of Bhagat Singh (Hindi), Adoor Goplakrishnan's Nizhalkoothu (Malayalam), Sumitra Bhave and Sunil Sukhantar's Vastupurush (Marathi), Mani Ratnam's Kannathil Muthamittal (Tamil), Nagabharana's Singaravva (Kannada) won the top honours. Prakash Belawadi's Stumble will get the best English feature film award.
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