Shyam Benegal receives Dada Saheb Phalke Award

The creative Filmmaker Shyam Benegal gets the honor - Dadasaheb Phalke Award 2005 for his great contribution to Indian Film Industry. Shyam Benegal has known as the most originative Director and maker who generate a number of superb movies to Hindi Cinema. Actually Benegal was recognized through his some biggest intensive movies like Ankur (1973), Nishant (1975), Manthan (1976) etc.The recent Award contains a Swarna Kamal, Rs2,00,000 cash and a shawl for every achiever personality.

Benegal has the membership of Rajyasabha and used to raise the social issues in his movies. His films consists raw material of our ethnical world. He is very conscious about his surroundings incidents in his films. Benegal’s  other gifted works are: Junoon and Kalyug with Shashi Kapoor, Mandi, Trikaal, Suraj Ka Satwaan Ghoda, Mammo, Sardari Begum, The Making of the Mahatma, Bhumika and Zubeida.

Shyam Benegal had been achieved the Prestigious Award Padama Shri (1976) and Padma Bhushan (1991) also. In 2005 he won the Nargis Dutt Award for the Best Feature Film on National Integration “Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose: The Forgotten Hero”. Besides his fabulous films, he had done couple of TV serials such as Yatra and Bharat Ek khoj and some of documentary films like "Child of The Streets", "Satyajit Ray" and "Nature Symphony". This former Ad filmmaker is also the founder of the Hyderabad Film Society. In the beginning of his career he came together with some talented stars such as: Shabana Azmi, Naseeruddin Shah, Om Puri, Smita Patil, Kulbhushan Kharbanda and Amrish Puri. from the FTII and NSD famous acting institutes.
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Tollywood rules 53rd National Film Award

53rd National Film Awards for 2005 have been announced by a panel of judges. The award for the Best Film of the year 2005 is ‘Kaalpurush – Memories in the Mist’ (Bengali) directed by Buddhadeb Dasgupta. The National award winner producer and director of the film gets a Swarna Kamal and Rs 50,000 cash.

Rahul Dholakia has been announced the best director for the film ‘Parzania.  Superstar Amitabh Bachchan has been chosen for the Best Actor Award for the film Black and Black is also, the best feature film in hindi directed by Sanjay Leela Bhansali. The Best actress award goes to blue eyed actress Sarika for her superb acting in the Film ‘Parzania. As the best child artist Sai Kumar has been achieved the award for his performance in Telugu film “Bommalata – A Bellyful of Dreams. THE Best male playback singer Award is given to Naresh Iyer in ‘Rang De Basanti and the best female Playback singer award to Shreya Ghoshal for the song of the film Paheli, directed by Amol Paleker.

Other Film categories awards are: Best Popular Film providing wholesome entertainment is ‘Rang De Basanti’ (Hindi), directed by Rakesh Omprakash Mehra. Nargis Dutt Award for the Best Feature Film on National Integration won by ‘Daivanamathil’ (Malayalam), (directed by Jayaraj). Indira Gandhi Award for the Best First Film of a Director goes to the film ‘Parineeta’ (Hindi), (directed by Pradip Sarkar). The Award for the best film on social issues goes to ‘Iqbal’ (Hindi), (Directed by Nagesh Mukunoor).

The award for the best Non- Feature Film has been won by director Gaurav.A.Jani  for Riding Solo To The Top Of The World” (English).

This National Film Awards 2005 has special news for Tamil film industry because Tamil (Tollywood) feature film ‘Sringaram’, directed by Sharada Ramanathan has been getting the three awards for the Best Music Director, Best Cinematography and Best Choreography.
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