69th National Film Awards 2023 Live Updates: Kriti Sanon-Alia Bhatt share Best Actress award, Allu Arjun is best actor; Rocketry bags Best Film
69th National Film Awards 2023 Live Updates: Sardar Udham, Chhelo Show, RRR, Pushpa The Rise, The Kashmir Files, and Gangubai Kathiawadi emerged as some of the winners at the National Film Awards announced on Thursday.
69th National Film Awards Announcement Live Updates: The winners of the 69th National Film Awards were announced at 5 p.m. on Thursday. While Allu Arjun was named the Best Actor for the film Pushpa: The Rise, Alia Bhatt and Kriti Sanon shared the award for Best Actress for the films Gangubai Kathiawadi and Mimi respectively. Rocketry: The Nambi Effect won the award for Best Feature Film. The Kashmir Files won the Nargis Dutt Award for Best Film on National Integration at the 69th National Film Awards.
Shoojit Sircar’s biographical historical drama Sardar Udham won several awards at the 69th National Film Awards. Apart from being named the Best Hindi Film, it also bagged Best Cinematography (Avik Mukhopadhyay), Best Audiography (Sinoy Joseph), Best Production Design (Dmitrii Malich and Mansi Dhruv Mehta) and Best Costume Design (Veera Kapur Ee) awards.
National Film Awards are the most prestigious awards, which are announced annually to honor the best filmmaking talent across the country. According to the Directorate of Film Festivals of the Union Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, the National Film Awards “aim at encouraging the production of films of aesthetic and technical excellence and social relevance.”
Explained | The National Film Awards, their history, significance, and recent trends
The awards were first handed out in 1954 and were known as the ‘State Awards’. At the time, only the best films in different regional languages were recognized and awarded. The awards for actors and technicians working on the films were first given in 1967. Nargis was the first actor to win Best Actress for her performance in Raat Aur Din. Uttam Kumar won the Best Actor award for Antony Firingee and Chiriyakhana in the same year.
At the 68th National Film Awards, the Tamil film Soorarai Pottru won in five categories – Best Feature Film, Best Actor for Suriya, Best Actress for Aparna Balamurali, Best Music Direction (Score) for G V Prakash Kumar, and Best Original Screenplay for Sudha Kongara, who also directed the film. Suriya shared his Best Actor win with Ajay Devgn, who won the award for Tanhaji. Asha Parekh was honored with the Dadasaheb Phalke Award in 2022.