A still from Tanu Weds Manu Returns.
Highlights
- This is Kangana's third National award
- Big B won Best Actor for Piku
- Baahubali won Best Feature Film
New Delhi:
Actors Kangana Ranaut and Amitabh Bachchan have won their third and fourth National Awards respectively. Kangana won Best Actress for
Tanu Weds Manu Returns and Big B won Best Actor for
Piku. Kangana, 29, also won the Best Actress National Award last year for
Queen and the Best Supporting Award for
Fashion in 2009. This is 73-year-old Mr Bachchan's fourth win after
Agneepath,
Black and
Paa.
The multi-lingual blockbuster
Baahubali has won Best Feature Film and Sanjay Leela Bhansali has been awarded Best Director for
Bajirao Mastani, which won several other awards. Salman Khan's
Bajrangi Bhaijaan won Best Wholesome Family Entertainer.
Baahubali also won the award for Best Special Effects.
Kalki Koechlin won a Special Jury Award for her performance in
Margarita, With A Straw. Tanvi Azmi won Best Supporting Actress for
Bajirao Mastani.
Nanak Shah Fakir won Best Film on National Integration.
Masaan won Best Debut for a Director.
Visaranai won Best Tamil Film while
Dum Laga Ke Haisha won Best Hindi Film.
Remo D'Souza won Best Choreography for
Bajirao Mastani. The film also won Best Production Design, Best Cinematography and other honours.
Piku's Juhi Chaturvedi and
Tanu Weds Manu Returns' Himanshu Sharma shared the award for Best Screenplay and Dialogue. Vishal Bhardwaj won Best Adapted Screenplay for
Talvar.
Gujarat was named most film-friendly state.
The National Awards were announced in New Delhi on Monday.