national film awards 2006
Gandhigiri was a winner all the way at the 54th National Film Awards for 2006 with Lage Raho Munnabhai sweeping four honours in all, including Best Popular Film, Best Lyrics (Swanand Kirkire), Best Screenplay (Rajkumar Hirani, Vidhu Vinod Chopra and Abhijat Joshi), and Best Supporting Actor (Dilip Prabhavalkar, who portrayed Mahatma Gandhi in the film) and Best Music (Shantanu Moitra). The prequel to the movie, Munnabhai MBBS, had also bagged similar awards in 2003.
The Best Feature Film award has been bagged by Priyanandanan-directed Malayalam film Pulijanmam. The Best Actor award went to veteran Bengali film actor Soumitra Chatterjee for the Bengali film Podokkhep and the Best Actress award was bagged by Tamil actor Priyamani for Paruthi Veeran.
There has been no announcement on the Dadasaheb Phalke Award for outstanding contribution to Indian Cinema.
In the popular cinema category, Madhur Bhandarkar won the Best Director award for his film Traffic Signal and Anupam Kher starrer Khosla Ka Ghosla won the award for the Best Hindi film. This is Bhandarkar’s third national award — he had bagged the award for his films Chandni Bar and Page 3 earlier.
Kabir Khan and Madhu Kaithapram will share the Indira Gandhi Award for Best First Film of a director for their films Kabul Express and Malayalam film Ekantham, respectively.
Prabhavalkar who won the best supporting actor award for Lage Raho Munnabhai also won yet another award for the same category for his Marathi film Shevri.
Konkona Sen Sharma bagged the Best Supporting Actress award for her role in Vishal Bharadwaj’s Omkara, while Bhardwaj himself received the Special Jury Award. The Best Singer (male) and Best Singer (female) awards were awarded to Gurdas Mann and Aarti Annklekar Tikekar respectively.
The Nargis Dutt award for the Best Feature Film on National Integration was given to Kallarali Hoovagi — a movie based on a novel written by BL Venu.
Actor-turned-director Amol Palekar bagged the award for Best Feature Film (English) for his movie Quest that deals with homosexuality. The Best Feature Film on Family Welfare went to Karutha Pakshikal (Malayalam) and Faltu (Bengali).
In the non-feature film category, the Best Film Award went to Bishar Blues by Amitabh Chakravarty.
The Best Feature Film on Social Issues was bestowed upon the Telugu movie Hope that discussed the issue of students committing suicides on failing to meet parental expectations. The Best Film on Children’s issues award went to Telugu movie Care of Footpath and the Best Animation Film award was bagged by yet another Telugu movie Kittu.
The awards were announced by head of jury for feature films category, Buddhadeb Dasgupta, head of jury for non-feature films category, K Bikram Singh, and Madhu Jain, who headed the jury for best writing on cinema. The jury submitted their recommendations to Minister of Information and Broadcasting P R Dasmunsi on Tuesday.
Director (Directorate of Film Festivals) Neelam Kapur said the award ceremony would be held as soon as a suitable date is confirmed from the Rashtrapati Bhavan.
The national award nominations are running a year behind schedule due to a controversy surrounding them, which was later resolved by the Supreme Court.
Best Film: Pulijanmam
Most Popular Film: Lage Raho Munnabhai
Best Hindi Film: Khosla Ka Ghosla
Best Director: Madhur Bhandarkar (Traffic Signal)
Best Actor: Soumitra Chatterjee (Podokkhep)
Best Actress:
Priyamani (Paruthiveeran)
Best Supporting Actor: Dilip Prabhawalkar (Lage Raho Munnabhai)
Best Supporting Actress: Konkana Sen Sharma (Omkara)
Jury Award: Vishal Bharadwaj (Omkara)
Best Song: Lage Raho Munnabhai
Best Lyrics: Lage Raho Munnabhai
Best Screenplay: Lage Raho Munnabhai
Best Male Playback Singer: Gurdas Mann
Best Female Playback Singer: Aarti Anklekar
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