In the inaugural edition of Sankarabharanam Awards, actors Aamir Khan, Junior NTR and Dhanush have won top laurels, the organisers announced on Monday.
The award ceremony will take place here on Tuesday.
Sankarabharanam Awards, formed in honour of filmmaker K. Vishwanath by actress Tulasi, will honour winners from five film industries which include artists from Telugu, Tamil, Malayalam, Kannada and Hindi.
Explaining why the need to honour artists from five industries, Tulasi told IANS: “My guru and mentor Dadasaheb Phalke awardee, K Viswanath has worked with both the northern and southern industries in his illustrious career. He stands for the unity of our cinema, a beautiful aesthetic medium that knows no boundaries of geography or language.”
She added that though they will be awarding a much longer list of technicians and artists from Telugu cinema, “We have four categories across industries this year. This is because we had less time to organise the event this year. From next year, we will plan much in advance with a more uniform list.”
Tulasi also confirmed Aamir Khan and Alia Bhatt have won Best Actor award for their respective performances in “Dangal” and “Udta Punjab”.
Junior NTR has bagged Best Actor (male) for his performance in “Janatha Garage”.
Dhanush won the Best Director award for his Tamil directorial debut “Pa Pandi”.
Actor Dulquer Salmaan won the Best Actor (male) award for his performance in Malayalam film “Oru Vadakkan Selfie”.
@ Indicine,
This is wrong – Actor Dulquer Salmaan won the Best Actor (male) award for his performance in Malayalam film “Oru Vadakkan Selfie”
Dulquer is not there in that film. The film has Nivin Pauly.
Aamir is Pride of India &
Dangal is a Trendsetter in the History of Indian cinema.
All deserving. But bauna should reject it I’d he has a least sense of shame since he has always said that doesn’t believe in Indian awards.
Let Bauna try for foreign awards since he looks up to white knights.
Dulquer Salmaan is one of my favourite actor
Dulquer salman was not the hero in oru vadakan selfie..please enquire properly before posting..
Dulquer Salman was not in “Oru Vadakkan Selfie”….why don’t you check facts before publishing…? It was Nivin Pauly in “Oru Vadakkan Selfie”
@Aamir the megastar.
Dangal is pride but not a trendsetter.
Its a rip off of Lagaan+Chak de+,Sultan
There are obviously no better news @indicine this Monday to make my day. Not funny
True global megastar Aamir Khan
Jr ntr is best
Its not Oru Vadakkan Selfie…it would be Kammatipadam
Jnr NTR one of best actor of south India.Thope of Tollywood.He has huge craze in south India
@being prem fan. Than what is trendsetter. Tubelight or Bajrangi?
Dangal China success itself took it in trendsetting zone. Even at Indian and other box office it did great. And It’s not a rip off any movie, it’s based on real life story with commercial element. Aise to har movie kisi na kisi tarah se kisi other movie ko match karti h. Anyways what you think can’t be opinion of majority.
After seeing Dangal humongous success and appreciation, whether it get any award or not, does it matter? I don’t think so.
Aamir well deserve.
Local Canadian imported flop actor with liliput stardom’s ekka dukka dehaati fans are blabbering against biggest global megstar is even more funny than Bangladeshi or Kenya cricket team blabbering against Indian team or Australian team. LOL. Gobar is not even near the toe of aamir in megastardom in India let alone worldwide and please keep china away as it would make them completwly nude. Even Canadian imported Liliput clown gave his award to global emperor aamir in 2009 as he knows his tiny stature compared to megastar aamir khan is too small to keep the award so he gave it away. Get a life Canadian imported Liliput actor fans. Your tiny star doesn’t have any record under his name in his boring flop 26 years old career so kindly keep your mouth shut.