Pulijanmam wins National Award

Priyanandan’s Malayalam film Pulijanmam, which stars Murali, bagged the award for the Best Film.

Pulijanmam the film, which highlights the struggle between oppressors and those who resist society?s exploitative forces, is based on N Prabhakaran?s play by the same name. It stars Murali, Sindhu Menon and Vineeth Kumar. Pulijanmam is the director?s second film after the critically acclaimed Neythukaaran.

The 54th National Film Awards for the year 2006 were announced on Tuesday at Sashtri Bhavan in New Delhi.

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.

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Nayanthara’s solo song in Kuselan

Nayanthara has a solo song in Kuselan. Recently director Vasu picturised the song at the Ramoji Rao studio in Hyderabad.

In the original Malayalam film on which Kuselan is based, the character of Nayanthara comes in just one duet with the superstar. In the Tamil version, Nayan?s character has been created by Vasu to add glamour and glitz to the film.

Ravi Varman – man who shot Dasavatharam

After working for Anniyan and Vettayadu Vilayadu, Ravi Varman was chosen as the cinematographer for 2008’s much talked about film, Dasavathaaram. The film will be released on June 12-13.

Cinematographer Ravi Varman have won an international award. He received the best cinematography award at the 23rd International Film Festival in France for Jayaraj’s Malayalam film, Santham.

Madhavan pairs with Mamta Mohandas

Madhavan pairs with Mamta Mohndas, new film which will be produced by KRG and has Jayaram in a pivotal role.

6″ tall Model-turned-actress Mamta Mohandas made her entry into films with the Malayalam film Mayookham and later moved to Kollywood and Tollywood — as well as a singer hails from Kerala and was brought up in Bahrain.

The film said to be inspired from Yes Boss. Yes Boss is a 1997 Bollywood film starred by Shahrukh Khan and Juhi Chawla — a romantic musical comedy, directed by Aziz Mirza and produced by Ratan Jain.

Hridaya Ragam – Kamal Haasan, Shobana entertains

Hridaya Ragam 2008 a musical evening organised by the World Malayalee Council-Chennai Province, was held at the Jawaharlal Nehru Indoor Stadium on February 24 to raise funds to treat 125 children with congenital heart diseases from poor families.

Kamal Haasan, who is the project ambassador for Hridaya Ragam entertained the audience by singing two songs ? ?Ninaivo Oru Paravai? in Tamil and ?Kiliye Kili Kili Kiliye? in Malayalam.

Actress Shobana along with her students presented a Bharathanatyam performance on the occasion. A total of 32 singers and music directors from the Malayalam film world participated for free.

A cheque worth Rs 75 lakh was handed over to Vergese Eapen of Madras Medical Mission by Praveen from world Malayalee Council. Malayala Manorama Senior General Manager Lal John was also present on the occasion.