09.11.06
Anniyan sweeps Filmfare Awards 2005
Anniyan, the blockbuster film directed by Shankar, with Vikram as the hero, has bagged eight awards in the 53rd Fairone Filmfare Awards 2005 (Southern films). Vikram bagged the best actor award, while Shankar and producer Oscar Ravichandran won the best director and best film award for the film.
Harris Jayaraj was adjudged the best music director, Vairamuthu the best lyricist and Sabu Cyril the best art director.
Ravi Varman and Manikandan won for cinematography and Peter Hynes for best action in other categories in which Anniyan bagged the awards. Asin, who had two nominations, for Ghajini and Majja, won the best actor award for her role as the quixotic Kalpana in Ghajini. Prakashraj won his fourth Filmfare award, this time for his role in Sivakasi.
Arya and Padmapriya were adjudged the best debutant actors, for their roles in Arindum Ariyamalum and Thavamai Thavamirundu respectively.
The best comic actor in Tamil films went to Vadivelu for his role a perfect foil to Rajnikanth in Chandramukhi. The best Tamil song of the year was Ra ra from the same film.
The prestigious awards, touted by many as India’s own Oscars, saw yet another blockbuster from the south, Nuvosthanante Navodhantana walking away with more than one award.
Directed by Prabhu Deva, starring Siddarth and Trisha among others, the film won the best choreography, Shankar Mahadevan as the best playback singer (Telugu), best lyric to Sitaram Sastri, Srihari as the best supporting actor, best music director to Devi Sriprasad, as well as the best film, while Trisha and Siddarth bagged the best actor award for Nuvosthanante…
In Kannada, Ninne Pareli won the best film, best director, best actor to Prem Kumar and Vidya Venkatesh who played the heroine.
Meera Jasmine bagged the best actor award for her role in the Malayalam film, Achuvinde Amma, while Mohanlal walked off with the best actor role for his phenomenal performance in Tanmathra.
Blessy won the best director award for Tanmathra as well. Thilagan, who has done all the characters that an actor can play in his career, was awarded the Lifetime Achievement award as well as Sukumari, the Malayalam actor who has made a mark in the industry in a career spanning five decades.
Kannada director Rajaratna (Ninne Pareli) in his acceptance speech suggested that since Bangalore had a local population of 35 percent, with Andhraites, Tamils and Malayalis making up 30, 25 and 10 percent respectively, the city would love to host the Filmfare awards there as well.
The event was attended by the ‘who is who’ of Kollywood, including Kamal Hassan, Gouthami, Dhanush, Srikanth, Jeeva, Ramesh, directors Vasanth, Lingusamy, Priyadarshan and many others. Bollywood flavour came in the form of Shilpa Shetty and Rekha.
October 9th, 2006 at 10:32 pm
Anniyan is the best film having a differant idea..and a moral really you know i thought to become anniyan for preventing corruption………thank u
December 28th, 2006 at 7:26 am
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February 7th, 2007 at 12:15 am
anniyan its a variety film.