Dhananjayan gets the National Award for Best Writing on Cinema

G. Dhananjayan, author of the book PRIDE OF TAMIL CINEMA received the National Film Award for Best Writing on Cinema (Special Mention) for the year 2014 at the hands of President of India, Shri Pranab Mukherjee on 3rd May at New Delhi.

Dhananjayan brought out a book on Tamil cinema, that can become a proud possession of film makers, researchers, historians and people interested in films by presenting the films, that have won the National and International recognition since the advent of talkies.

Through his research, he arrived at the entire list of films, which won the National Film Awards from Government of India, the films that were selected to be screened at the Indian Panorama of the International Film Festival of India (IFFI). He collected the DVDs of those films and watched them for this book. His extensive research has fetched him the best recognition.