Adoor’s ‘Oru Pennun Randu Annum’ sweeps state film awards

October 2nd, 2009 PANAJI - Laxmikant Shetgaonkar, a Goan director who won an award at the 34th Toronto film festival, Friday criticises the state government for giving a cold shoulder to filmmakers and allowing businessmen to control creative and cultural endeavours in the state. "I do not want to dig into the past.

October 1st, 2009 Tamil Nadu Government has announced the winners list of State Government Awards for 2007 and 2008. Reigning superstars Rajnikanth and Kamal Haasan have won the best actor awards for ‘Sivaji’ (2007) and ‘Dasavatharam’ (2008).

September 29th, 2009 CHENNAI - Southern superstars Rajnikant and Kamal Haasan have bagged the best actor awards for "Sivaji - The Boss" and "Dasavatharam" respectively announced by the Tamil Nadu government. Chief Minister M.

September 7th, 2009 BANGALORE - Kannada actress Uma Shri, winner of best actress National Award for "Gulabi Talkies", gives credit to her director Girish Kasaravalli for the honour and says that for her role she had to "unlearn many things and just submit to the director". "The National and state government award for 'Gulabi Talkies' is certainly the biggest achievement of my career and I should only thank Girish Kasaravalli sir for that," Uma Shri told IANS.

September 7th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Director Priyadarshan's off-beat Tamil film "Kanjeevaram" has won the best feature film award at the 55th National Film Awards 2007, while southern actor Prakash Raj has been adjudged best actor for his performance in the same film, it was announced here Monday. Renowned Malayalam film director Adoor Gopalakrishnan is best director for "Naalu Pennungal" while Kannada actress Uma Shri is best actress for "Gulabi Talkies".

August 8th, 2009 Malayalam-Tamil actor, Murali, who died on Thursday, April 6, was cremated with full state honors on Friday evening. The cremation was on the banks of the river Karamana at Aruvikkara near Thiruvananthapuram and the funeral pyre was lit by Deepu, the actor’s nephew.

July 30th, 2009 THIRUVANANTHAPURAM - Award winning Malayalam director Adoor Gopalakrishnan refuses to accept that he only makes art films. "I'm in the middle of a mainstream movie so it is wrong to say that I only make art films.

July 23rd, 2009 The state government is to set up a permanent venue for conducting the popular International Film Festival of Kerala (IFFK). As per the State minister for Education and Culture M A Baby, a Government appointed committee headed by film maker Adoor Gopalakrishnan, had recently submitted its report on the matter, which also proposes to start a Film Institute, a video park and film archive by Kerala Chalachithra Academy.

July 7th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Artist and acclaimed short filmmaker K.M. Madhusudhanan, who has directed award-winning Malayalam film "Bioscope", says that regional cinema is now getting noticed because Bollywood is going through a slump.

July 1st, 2009 THIRUVANANTHAPURAM - The Kerala film industry has lots more to cheer about - it is set to get a film institute, a film park and an archives centre, state Culture Minister M.A. Baby announced in the assembly Wednesday.

June 27th, 2009 THIRUVANANTHAPURAM - Multi-faceted Malayalam film personality Lal, who has just won the Kerala state best actor award, Saturday said that acting is the easiest part of filmmaking and production is the most lucrative, but directing a movie is the most satisfying. The 50-year-old Lal won his first ever state award for the best actor for film "Thalappavu".

June 13th, 2009 MACAU - Hindi film star Hrithik Roshan and dusky beauty Bipasha Basu were honoured with the Bollywood Style Icon awards at the Idea International India Film Academy (IIFA) awards here Saturday. Ever since he stepped into Bollywood in 2000, Hrithik wowed the audiences with a variety of roles in films like "Kaho Naa Pyaar Hai", "Krrish", "Dhoom 2" and "Jodhaa Akbar".

June 13th, 2009 MACAU - In true Oscar-style, Ashutosh Gowariker's historical romance "Jodhaa Akbar" swept the International Indian Film Acadmey (IIFA) awards 2009 here Saturday with a perfect 10 bag of trophies, being named the best film and fetching its male lead Hrithik Roshan the best actor award and Gowariker the best director award. Priyanka Chopra was named the best actress for essaying the trials and tribulations of the style industry in "Fashion".

June 8th, 2009 THIRUVANANTHAPURAM - Malayalam actress Priyanka, who won the state film award for the best actress for director T.V. Chandran's "Vilaapangalkappuram", says she is not interested in exposing on screen.

June 5th, 2009 THIUVANANTHAPURAM - Two days after acclaimed director Adoor Gopalakrishnan's "Oru Pennun Randu Annum" swept the state film awards, veteran Malayalam filmmaker T.V. Chandran Friday said that the awards were given to a "TV serial and not a movie".