Cinema While Nivin Pauly won Best Actor (male) for 'Moothon' at the New York Indian Film Festival, Garggi won Best Actor (female) for 'Run Kalyani'.Tnm StaffNivin Pauly won the Best Actor award for Moothon at the New York Indian Film Festival (Nyiff). The Geetu Mohandas film bagged three awards after it was selected for the competition on July 24. While Sanjana Dipu won Best Child Actor for her role in the movie, Moothon also won an award under the 'Best Film' category. Set in Lakshadweep and Mumbai, Moothon is about a 14-year-old boy who lands up in Mumbai in search of his elder brother. The film is a bilingual drama in Hindi and Malayalam and has a cast which includes Nivin, Sanjana, Roshan Mathew, Shashank Arora, Sobitha Dhulipala, and others. While it is director's Geetu Mohandas's third project as a filmmaker, Moothon is also Geetu Mohandas’s first full-length film.
- 8/3/2020
- by Sreedevi
- The News Minute
Bollywood youth icons Ayushmann Khurrana and Vicky Kaushal shared the best actor prize at India’s annual national film awards, which were announced Friday.
Kaushal won for his mainstream breakout role in the hit war drama “Uri: The Surgical Strike,” which grossed about $50 million worldwide. First-time helmer Aditya Dhar won best director for the film, which also took home the awards for score and sound design.
Khurrana won for suspense thriller “Andhadhun,” another box office hit with $64 million. The film is an adaptation of Olivier Treiner’s 2010 French short “The Piano Tuner.” Director Sriram Raghavan and co-writers Arijit Biswas, Hemanth Rao, Yogesh Chandekar and Pooja Ladha Suri won the award for adapted screenplay. “Andhadhun” was also named best Hindi-language feature.
Keerthy Suresh won best actress for portraying actress Savitri in the biopic “Mahanati.” The film also won for costume design and best Telugu-language film.
Surekha Sikri was named best supporting actress for Hindi-language “Badhaai Ho,...
Kaushal won for his mainstream breakout role in the hit war drama “Uri: The Surgical Strike,” which grossed about $50 million worldwide. First-time helmer Aditya Dhar won best director for the film, which also took home the awards for score and sound design.
Khurrana won for suspense thriller “Andhadhun,” another box office hit with $64 million. The film is an adaptation of Olivier Treiner’s 2010 French short “The Piano Tuner.” Director Sriram Raghavan and co-writers Arijit Biswas, Hemanth Rao, Yogesh Chandekar and Pooja Ladha Suri won the award for adapted screenplay. “Andhadhun” was also named best Hindi-language feature.
Keerthy Suresh won best actress for portraying actress Savitri in the biopic “Mahanati.” The film also won for costume design and best Telugu-language film.
Surekha Sikri was named best supporting actress for Hindi-language “Badhaai Ho,...
- 8/9/2019
- by Naman Ramachandran
- Variety Film + TV
Day Five at the Jio Mami 18th Mumbai Film Festival with Star saw some great sessions for film as well as television audiences.
Starting from the Oxfam and Jio Mami with Star Women in Film Brunch at Jw Marriot saw some powerful like Mami Chairperson, Kiran Rao, Oxfam head, Nisha Agarwal, Konkana SenSharma, Richa Chaddha, Poonam Dhillon, Ekta Kapoor, Leena Yadav, Deborah Young, Maanvi Gagroo, Nidhi Singh and more.
Oxfam discussed Women and Films with Oxfam Head, Nisha Agarwal, Christine Vachon, Leena Yadav, Rucha Pathak, Tala Hadid, Vibha Bakshi, Tillotama Shome and moderator Rahul BoseThe discussion covered topics like the portrayal of women in Indian cinema and how it affects the way we portray their roles in our society.
Television Vertical screened the world premiere of ‘P.O.W.’ The panel included Primetime Emmy Winner Cary Fukunaga, Gideon Raff, Gaurav Banerjee and Nikkhil Advani in conversation with Nikhil Taneja about...
Starting from the Oxfam and Jio Mami with Star Women in Film Brunch at Jw Marriot saw some powerful like Mami Chairperson, Kiran Rao, Oxfam head, Nisha Agarwal, Konkana SenSharma, Richa Chaddha, Poonam Dhillon, Ekta Kapoor, Leena Yadav, Deborah Young, Maanvi Gagroo, Nidhi Singh and more.
Oxfam discussed Women and Films with Oxfam Head, Nisha Agarwal, Christine Vachon, Leena Yadav, Rucha Pathak, Tala Hadid, Vibha Bakshi, Tillotama Shome and moderator Rahul BoseThe discussion covered topics like the portrayal of women in Indian cinema and how it affects the way we portray their roles in our society.
Television Vertical screened the world premiere of ‘P.O.W.’ The panel included Primetime Emmy Winner Cary Fukunaga, Gideon Raff, Gaurav Banerjee and Nikkhil Advani in conversation with Nikhil Taneja about...
- 10/27/2016
- by Press Releases
- Bollyspice
<img class="size-full wp-image-657095 aligncenter" src="http://www.bollywoodhungama.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/pink-news.jpg" alt="pink-news" width="500" height="277" /> Ever since the time the hard hitting film<em> Pink </em>got released, it has only been garnering appreciation from all over for its hard-hitting subject. Everyone associated with the film, including its producer Shoojit Sircar, director Aniruddha Roy Chowdhury and the starcast Amitabh Bachchan, Tapsee Pannu, Kirti Kulhari and Andrea Tariang have been flooded with compliments galore. Recently, in an attempt to sensitise the police personnel on gender violence and other issues plaguing women, <em>Pink</em>'s producer Rashmi Sharma and the national award winning filmmaker Vibha Bakshi held a special screening of <em>Pink</em> for the Mumbai Police department. The screening was attended by over two hundred top Mumbai Police’s officials, including Mumbai Police Commissioner Dattatray Padsalgikar. Speaking about the event, Rashmi Sharma said, "My motive of associating with <em>Pink </em>was to convey a strong message to the society. With all the injustice happening with women, it is important to make...
- 9/22/2016
- by Bollywood Hungama News Network
- BollywoodHungama
<img class="size-full wp-image-657095 aligncenter" src="http://www.bollywoodhungama.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/pink-news.jpg" alt="pink-news" width="500" height="277" /> Ever since the time the hard hitting film<em> Pink </em>got released, it has only been garnering appreciation from all over for its hard-hitting subject. Everyone associated with the film, including its producer Shoojit Sircar, director Aniruddha Roy Chowdhury and the starcast Amitabh Bachchan, Tapsee Pannu, Kirti Kulhari and Andrea Tariang have been flooded with compliments galore. Recently, in an attempt to sensitise the police personnel on gender violence and other issues plaguing women, <em>Pink</em>'s producer Rashmi Sharma and the national award winning filmmaker Vibha Bakshi held a special screening of <em>Pink</em> for the Mumbai Police department. The screening was attended by over two hundred top Mumbai Police’s officials, including Mumbai Police Commissioner Dattatray Padsalgikar. Speaking about the event, Rashmi Sharma said, "My motive of associating with <em>Pink </em>was to convey a strong message to the society. With all the injustice happening with women, it is important to make...
- 9/22/2016
- by Bollywood Hungama News Network
- BollywoodHungama
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