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General
Awareness Updates – October 2009
Awards & Honours
Oscar-winning musician A. R.
Rahman (right) has pipped another great Ilayaraja to win the
‘Grassroot Grammy’ held in the
With over 50,000 members worldwide,
the ‘Just Plain Folks 2009 Music Award’ is aimed at supporting grassroot
songwriters and musicians through networking, education and promotional
support.
National Film Awards 2007
Tamil filmmaker Priyadarshan’s ‘Kanchivaram’
has bagged the National Award for Best Film for 2007, while Tamil actor Prakash
Raaj (left) pipped Bollywood superstars Aamir Khan (for ‘Taare Zameen
Par’) and Shah Rukh Khan (for ‘Chak De India’) to win the Best Actor
Award for his sterling performance as a silk weaver in ‘Kanchivaram’.
Kannada actress Umashree has bagged
the Best Actress Award for her performance in Girish Kasaravalli’s Kannada film
‘Gulabi Talkies’.
Feroz Abbas Khan’s critically acclaimed
film ‘Gandhi My Father’, which explores the troubled relationship
between Harilal Gandhi and Mahatma Gandhi, won a Special Jury award. Best
Screenplay award was also given to ‘Gandhi My Father’. Actor Darshan
Zariwala, who played the role of Mahatma Gandhi in the film, has won the Best
Supporting Actor Award.
Aamir Khan and Shah Rukh Khan may have lost
out in the Best Actor Award category but their films ‘Chak De
Playback singer Shankar Mahadevan
has won the Best Playback Singer Award for the song ‘Meri Maa’ from the
film ‘Taare Zameen Par’ while lyricist Prasoon Joshi won the Best
Lyricist Award for the same song.
The Best Child Actor Award went to
Sharad Goyekar for his role in the Marathi film ‘Tingya’.
The Nargis Dutt Award for Best Film
on National Integration has gone to Bhavna Talwar’s ‘Dharm’.  |
