President felicitates National Awards winners in cinema for 2013
A musical gust of the soil seemed to send President Pranab Mukherjee on a nostalgic trip on Saturday evening, when he graced the function to felicitate National Awards winners in cinema for the year 2013 at Vigyan Bhavan.
This year, Bangla films won two of the big awards in the music department. Iconic singer-composer Kabir Suman won Best Music Direction (Songs) awards for the film Jaatishwar. Rupankar won Best Male Playback for the same film.
As the music of Jaatishwar played, President Mukherjee was seen enthusiastically tapping to the rhythm, the faint hint of a smile giving away nostalgia. The 61st National Awards function was otherwise as prim as the sarkari event is every year. Forty awards were handed out in the feature film category while 41 were given to nonfeature films.
Three awards were given to Best Writing on Cinema.
The country's highest honour in cinema, the Dadasaheb Phalke Award, was unanimously accorded to poet-writer-filmmaker Gulzar. The award comprises a Swarn Kamal, cash prize worth Rs10 lakh and a shawl. However, what Gulzar took home was honour in the real sense. As he took to stage to collect his award from the President, he got a standing ovation that lasted nearly five minutes.
The veteran was so overcome with emotions that he could not speak. Anand Gandhi's Ship Of Theseus won Swarn Kamal for Best Feature Film.
Bollywood's Rajkummar Rao shared the Best Actor award with Malayalam actor Suraj Venjaramoodu. Rao's performance in Shahid won him the honour while Suraj received recognition for Perariyath. Geetanjali Thapa was awarded Best Actress award for Liar's Dice while Hansal Mehta won the Best Director award for Shahid.
Bhaag Milkha Bhaag (Best Popular Film), Saurabh Shukla (for Jolly LLB) and Ganesh Acharya (for Bhaag Milkha Bhaag) were among other Bollywood winners.
In all this, there was a sad note, too. A lady named Abha Khetrapal posted this on Facebook, the context being Shweta Ghosh's docufilm Accsex, which won a Special Mention: "It is a path breaking movie in which the issue of sexuality of women with disabilities has been raised... I was one the women with disability in the movie... But Vigyan Bhawan people have a problem with my wheelchair. They want me to leave my wheelchair at the gate and walk till the seat. What else can be so ironic?
The woman who was a part of this documentary is not allowed inside only because of her wheelchair."
This year, Bangla films won two of the big awards in the music department. Iconic singer-composer Kabir Suman won Best Music Direction (Songs) awards for the film Jaatishwar. Rupankar won Best Male Playback for the same film.
Rajkummar Rao shared the Best Actor award with Malayalam actor Suraj Venjaramoodu.
As the music of Jaatishwar played, President Mukherjee was seen enthusiastically tapping to the rhythm, the faint hint of a smile giving away nostalgia. The 61st National Awards function was otherwise as prim as the sarkari event is every year. Forty awards were handed out in the feature film category while 41 were given to nonfeature films.
Three awards were given to Best Writing on Cinema.
The country's highest honour in cinema, the Dadasaheb Phalke Award, was unanimously accorded to poet-writer-filmmaker Gulzar. The award comprises a Swarn Kamal, cash prize worth Rs10 lakh and a shawl. However, what Gulzar took home was honour in the real sense. As he took to stage to collect his award from the President, he got a standing ovation that lasted nearly five minutes.
Bollywood's Rajkummar Rao shared the Best Actor award with Malayalam actor Suraj Venjaramoodu. Rao's performance in Shahid won him the honour while Suraj received recognition for Perariyath. Geetanjali Thapa was awarded Best Actress award for Liar's Dice while Hansal Mehta won the Best Director award for Shahid.
Bhaag Milkha Bhaag (Best Popular Film), Saurabh Shukla (for Jolly LLB) and Ganesh Acharya (for Bhaag Milkha Bhaag) were among other Bollywood winners.
In all this, there was a sad note, too. A lady named Abha Khetrapal posted this on Facebook, the context being Shweta Ghosh's docufilm Accsex, which won a Special Mention: "It is a path breaking movie in which the issue of sexuality of women with disabilities has been raised... I was one the women with disability in the movie... But Vigyan Bhawan people have a problem with my wheelchair. They want me to leave my wheelchair at the gate and walk till the seat. What else can be so ironic?
The woman who was a part of this documentary is not allowed inside only because of her wheelchair."
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