The 54th National Film Awards were awarded by Indian President Pratibha Patil at the Vigyan Bhawan in the Capital on Tuesday after a delay of almost one year. This award was the 54th National Film awards for the year 2006. It was the country’s regional cinema that dominated the ceremony with Priyanandanan bagging the best film award for his Malyalam film Pulijanmam.
Soumitra Chatterjee was named the best actor for Bengali film Podokkhep, while Priyamani was judged best actress for her performance in Tamil film Paruthi Veeran.
The Best Popular award went to Sanjay Dutt starrer Lage Raho Munna Bhai, Vidhu Vinod Chopra and Rajkumar Hirani were present to receive the award.
Lifetime Achievement Awards were presented to Dilip Kumar, veteran actress Saroja Devi and Lata Mangeshkar whose award was collected by Adinath Mangeshkar on her behalf.
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Dhanush plays the lead role in Padikathavan movie. After Yaaradi Nee Mohini the next venture of Dhanush is Padikathavan movie. Padikathavan movie directed by Suraj. Featuring Tamanna opposite Dhanush, the movie Padikathavan is produced by Vijaya Vauhini Productions. Dhanush, son in law of actor rajnikanth is following his footsteps in selecting the title. After the success of polladhavan dhanush now choos Padikathavan as his new film title.
Actor Vijay is all set to become the hunter in his next movie Vettaikarran, which he is expected to star after the completion of his current movie Villu. The film is being produced by M. Balasubramanian and B.Gurunath Meiyappan.
This is the first time the actor is doing a movie under the AVM banner. The buzz is that actress Asin might be paired opposite Vijay in this movie.
It can be recalled that Vettaikaran is the title of the yesteryear superhit movie by M.G.R. Wishing Vijay all the success for this movie.
J D Chakravarthy, Ram Gopal Varma’s Sathya hero is on a roll in Kollywood.
Coming out of hibernation, JD, as he is better known, has signed on the dotted line to do Vishnuvardhan’s Sarwam as the villain. Shankar saw JD’s rushes in the film and immediately signed him up to do Robot, again as the villain opposite Rajinikanth.
JD is thrilled to play villain in the film, because he will be getting international exposure simply by sharing screen space with the superstar.
It’s also a well known fact that the villains in Rajinikanth’s films always get decent footage, so that the superstar is able to triumph in the end and establish his “heroism”.
Both Sarvam and Robot are being produced by Ayagaran films. Sources say that Rajini liked JD’s earlier work and Shankar was also happy to get bulk dates from the villain!
Sarath Kumar’s next movie Jaggubhai has started rolling in Bangkok without much fanfare and will continue shooting for the next couple of months. Sarath will be shuttling between Chennai and Bangkok to manage his movie and political engagements.
The film would portray Sarath Kumar in two get-ups. One as a young man and the other as the father of a teenage daughter. The daughter’s role will be played by Shriya Saran.
The movie will be directed by K.S Ravikumar. It can be recalled that the film Cheran Pandiyan directed by K.S Ravikumar was his first hit and also was Sarath Kumar’s first film as hero. The Sarath-Ravi Kumar pair has also given the super blockbuster Nattami. Lets hope they repeat the success story in this movie too.
