Malayalam film Adaminte Makan Abu wins 58th National Film Award for Best Feature

Malayalam film Adaminte Makan Abu directed by Salim Ahmed won the 58^th National Award for Best Feature Film. The 58^th National Film Awards for the year 2010 were announced at a press conference in New Delhi on Thursday.
Vetrimaran won the Best Director for Tamil film Aadukalam. Do Dooni Chaar directed by Habib Faisal was declared the Best Hindi Film. Abhinav Kashyap’s Dabangg won the award for Popular film providing wholesome entertainment.
BEST FEATURE FILM:
Adaminte Makan Abu
INDIRA GANDHI AWARD FOR BEST DEBUT FILM OF A DIRECTOR:
Baboo Band Baaja (Marathi)
NARGIS DUTT AWARD FOR BEST FEATURE FILM ON NATIONAL INTEGRATION:
Moner Manush (Bengali)
BEST HINDI FILM:
Do Dooni Chaar
AWARD FOR BEST POPULAR FILM PROVIDING WHOLESOME ENTERTAINMENT:
Dabangg
BEST FILM ON SOCIAL ISSUES:
Champions (Marathi)
BEST FILM ON ENVIRONMENT CONSERVATION/PRESERVATION :
Bettada Jeeva (Kannada)
BEST CHILDREN’S FILM:
Hejjegalu (Kannada)
BEST DIRECTION:
Aadukalam (Tamil)
Director: Vetrimaran
BEST ACTOR
Dhanush for Aadukalam (Tamil)
Salim Kumar for Adaminte Makan Abu (Malayalam)
BEST ACTRESS
Mitalee Jagtap Varadkar for Baboo Band Baaja (Marathi)
Saranya Ponvannan for Thenmerkku Paruvakkatru (Tamil)
BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR:
J. Thambi Ramaiah for Mynaa (Tamil)
BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS:
Sukumari for Namma Gramam (Tamil)
BEST CHILD ARTIST:
Harsh Mayar for I Am Kalam(Hindi)
Shantanu Ranganekar &  Machindra Gadkar for Champions (Marathi)
Vivek Chabukswar for Baboo Band Baaja (Marathi)
BEST MUSIC DIRECTOR:
Vishal Bhardwaj for Ishqiya
BEST MALE PLAYBACK SINGER:
Suresh Wadkar for Mee Sindhutai Sapkal (Marathi)
BEST FEMALE PLAYBACK SINGER:
Rekha Bhardwaj for Ishqiya (Hindi)
BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY:
Madhu Ambat for Adaminte Makan Abu (Malayalam)
BEST SCREENPLAY:
(Original) :
Vetrimaran for Aadukalam (Tamil)

(Adapted) :
Anant Mahadevan & Sanjay Pawar for Mee Sindhutai Sapkal (Marathi)

Dialogues :
Sanjay Pawar
BEST EDITING  :
T.E. Kishore for Aadukalam (Tamil)
BEST NON-FEATURE FILM:
Germ (Hindi)
Director: Snehal R. Nair
Producer: Satyajit Ray Film and Television Institute, Kolkata

Regional cinema shines at National Film Awards

New Delhi: The 58th National Film Awards brought the spotlight back on regional cinema with Malayalam film 'Adaminte Makan Abu', a simple yet evocative narrative of a man's pursuit of religion, winning best feature and its lead actor Salim Kumar picking up the best actor award.
The prestigious awards, which were announced here on Thursday, recognizes exemplary work in cinema. This year’s Feature Films jury was headed by JP Dutta, the Non-Feature Films jury by AK Bir and Best Writing on Cinema jury was headed by Ashok Vajpeyi.
Bollywood was pushed to the background this year with the Salman Khan starrer 'Dabangg' and Naseeruddin Shah-starrer 'Ishqiya' being the only two films to pick up awards in prominent categories. 'Dabangg' won the award for best popular film providing wholesome entertainment.

Singer Rekha Bhardwaj won the best female playback singer for her sensual rendering of folk-based lilting tracks in Hindi film ‘Ishqiya’. ‘Ishqiya’ also picked up best audiography.
Tamil actor Dhanush and Malayalam actor Salim Kumar shared the award for best actor. Dhanush and Salim were recognized for their work in 'Aadukalam' and 'Adaminde Makan Abu', respectively. The jury acknowledged the "two riveting performances that fuse character and actor into one" and praised Dhanush for his raw and nuanced portrayal of a cocky young man who learns lessons about life the hard way.
Mitalee Jagtap Varadkar and Saranya Ponvannan picked up their best actress national awards for the Marathi film 'Baboo Band Baaja' and Tamil feature 'Thenmerkku Paruvakkatru' respectively for their brilliant portrayal of two mothers concerned about bettering the lives of their children in the face of untold hardship.
Film veteran K Balachander who revived Tamil cinema in the 1970s, was chosen for the Dadasaheb Phalke Award for the year 2010.
Vetrimaran who directed the Tamil film 'Aadukalam' won best director (Feature) while Arunima Sharma picked up the award for Shyam Raat Seher (Hindi & Engish) in the Non-Feature category.
The Rajinikanth starrer 'Enthiran', the most expensive film made in India till date, won best production design. The kudos went to V Srinivas M Mohan of 'Enthiran' or 'Robot' that won an award for best special effects for "bringing of age a spectrum of visual special effects in Indian cinema and creating a space for the practitioners of this art form on the global map."
The Indira Gandhi award for best debut film of a director went to Marathi film - 'Baboo Band Baaja' - a riveting tale of a father reluctant to educate his son, a mother who fiercely believes in its liberatory value, and the son who is caught in the crossfire – and its director Rajesh Pinjani.
Director Goutam Ghose's Bengali film ‘Moner Manush’ won the Nargis Dutt award for best feature film on national integration. The film also won Vikram Gaikwad the best make-up artist award.
Best music direction went to 'Ishqiya' and 'Adaminte Makan Abu' with Vishal Bhardwaj and Issak Thomas Kottakapally directing the scores for the films respectively.