6 Awards for Tamil film industry

The 64th National Film Awards have been announced and Tamil industry gets 6 prestigious awards.

Director Raju Murugan’s Joker gets 2 awards, one for the Best Tamil Film and the other for Best Singer (Male) for Sundarayyar. Suriya-Vikram K Kumar’s 24 gets the Best Cinematography award bagged by Tirru and for the Best VFX. Lyricist Vairamuthu gets the Best Lyricist award for the 7th time and this time around, he gets it for Seenu Ramasamy’s Dharma Durai where his lines Endha Pakkam won the jury’s acclaim.

Popular film producer and director of BOFTA, an institute of film studies, Dhananjayan gets the Best critic award. He says, “It is an honour to win the National award for the second time. I have been writing my reviews on Tamil cinema for both English and Tamil media groups/channels. I have compiled all the reviews and sent them for the National award selection. I am glad that they have chosen me as the Best Critic”.