Priyamani Received National Award for Best Actress

Actress Priyamani received the National best actress award for the lead role she played as an innocent girl in Paruthiveeran, while Veteran Bengali film actor Soumitra Chatterjee was conferred the best actor award for the Bengali film Podokkhep by the President Smt. Pratibha Devisingh Patil in New Delhi.

Priyamani, along with National Award, recently won the Filmfare South Award and the Osian Cinefan Award for her work in the Tamil film Paruthiveeran, making it a triple celebration.

Priyamani is the 5th tamil actress to win this prestigious National Award winner for best actress from the Tamil film Industry.

55th Filmfare Awards – Malayalam,Kannada

Filmfare Awards South are the oldest and most prominent film awards given for Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam, and Kannada films in India. They are given annually to honour the best talents and provide encouragement and incentive to the South Indian film industry.

South Indian film industry descended in magnificent splendor at the Jawaharlal Nehru Indoor Stadium in Chennai for Filmfare Awards.

Filmfare Awards for the Malayalam film industry

• Best Actor – Mammootty
• Best Actress – Samyuktha Varma

Filmfare Awards for the Kannada film industry

• Best Actor – Puneet Rajkumar
• Best Director – Indrajeet Lankesh

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55th Filmfare Awards – Tamil

Filmfare Awards South are the oldest and most prominent film awards given for Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam, and Kannada films in India. They are given annually to honour the best talents and provide encouragement and incentive to the South Indian film industry.

South Indian film industry descended in magnificent splendor at the Jawaharlal Nehru Indoor Stadium in Chennai for Filmfare Awards.

2008 Filmfare Awards for the Tamil film industry

• Best Director (Ameer)
• Best Actor (Karthi)
• Best Actress (Priya Mani)
• Best Supporting actor (Saravanan)
• Best Supporting actress (Sujatha)
• Best Musician Award (A. R. Rahman )
• Lifetime achievement award (Sivakumar)

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Awards And Titles Won By Kamal Hassan

While Kamal’s Dasavatharam is rocking and getting mixed reviews, we will take a minute to see what are all the awards and titles Kamal has won in his career.

* 4 NATIONAL AWARDS.
* 18 FILMFARE AWARDS.
* 2 BEST ACTOR AWARDS in THE ASIAN FILM FESTIVALS.
* 7 OFFICIAL ENTRIES to OSCARS representing the Nation.
* The title of LIVING LEGEND, conferred by FICCI last year.

54th National Film Awards announced

• Best Actor award has gone to Soumitra Chatterjee for Bengali film “Podokkhep”.
• Best actress award has gone to Priyamani for her role in Tamil film ” Paruthi Veeran”.
• Priyanandan’s Malayalam film Pulijanmam bagged the award for the Best Film.
• Best film Director for the year 2006 has gone to Madhur Bhandarkar for Hindi film ?Traffic Signal?.
• Best Hindi Film went to debutant director Dibakar Bannerjee?s hit film Khosla Ka Ghosla.
• “Lage Raho Munna Bhai” has bagged the National Award for best popular film.

eXtraMirchi.com congratulates National Award winners

Small Screen awards 2007 – Khushboo Best Small Screen Heroine

The Tamil Nadu Government announced Small Screen awards for the year 2007. Actress Khushboo has been selected as the Best Small Screen Actress of the year 2007. Abhishek was selected as the Best Actor for the year.

Best actor: Abhishek (Malargal)
Best Actress: Khushboo
Best Mega serial: Selvi (Rs.2 lakhs cash prize and memento)
Best Serial second price: Sorgam (Rs.1 lakh cash and memento)
Best Character Actress: Devi Priya (Kolangal)
Best supporting actor: Delhi Kumar (Aanandham)
Best Villain: Ajay (Kolangal)
Best actress in Negative role: Brinda Das (Aanandham)
Best script writer: Raj Prabhu (Selvi)
Best Dialogue writer: Kumaresan (Agalya)
Best Director: Samudhirakkani (Selvi)
Best Editor: Prem (Lakshmi)
Best background score: Kiran (Many serials)
Best Dubbing artists: Ravi Shankar, Pramila
Best Thrilling effects: Eshwar (Sindbad

Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu Dr. Karunanidhi will distribute awards to the artists and technicians in a grand ceremony held at Kalaivanar Arangam and the date will be announced soon.