The Ministry of Information and Broadcasting has announced the names of actors and filmmakers for the Dadasaheb Phalke Awards for the South’s film industry. The list includes many well-known names in Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam and Kannad film industry. This year the names of Ajit Kumar, Dhanush and Jyothika have emerged from the Tamil industry. Here is the list.
Names in Tamil industry
Ajith Kumar will be given the Most Versatile Actor Award. Whereas Dhanush will be given the Best Actor for the film ‘Asuran’ while Jyothika will be given the Best Actress Award for the film ‘Raatchasi’. Award for Best Director for the film ‘Otatha Seruppu Size 7’ is announced for R. Parathiban. ‘To Let’ will receive the Best Film Award while Anirudh Ravichander will be given the Best Music Director.
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Award list for Malyalam industry
Talking about Malayali film industry, this time Mohanlal will get the Most Versatile Actor Award and Sooraj Venjaramudu will get the Best Actor Award. Parvati Thiruvothu will be given the Best Actress award while Madhu C Narayanan will be given the Best Director award for ‘Kumbalangi nights’. The award for Best Film will be given to ‘Uyare’ while Deepak Dev will be given the award for Best Music Director.
Names for Telugu industry
Talking about the Telugu film industry, Nagarjuna Akkineni will be awarded the Most Versatile Actor while the best actor award will be given to Naveen Polisetti. Rashmika Mandana will be given Best Actress for ‘Dear Comrade’. The Best Director award will be given to Sujit for ‘Saaho’. This year’s Best Film Award has been given to ‘Jersey’, while S. Thaman will be awarded as the Best Music Director.
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Kannada industry
Talking about Kannada films, Shivarajkumar will be given the Most Versatile Actor while Rakshit Shetty will be given the Best Actor Award. Tanya Hope has been chosen as the best actress of the year while Ramesh Indira has been named as the best director of this year.
This year ‘Mookajjia Kanasugalu’ will receive the Best Film Award while V Harikrishna will be awarded the Best Music Director.