Kerala State Film Critics Association Award : Mammootty bagged Best Actor

Kerala Film Critics Association awards Announced.

Mammootty bagged the best actor for his performance in ''Pranchiyettan and the Saint''.


''Gaddama'', directed by Kamal was selected the best Malayalam film of the year 2010 by the State Film Critics Association.
Kamal was adjudged the best director, while Kavya Madhavan bagged the best actress award for her performance in ''Gaddama''.

''Makaramanju'' directed by Lenin Rajendran was selected as the second best film. Biju Menon and Samvritha Sunil were adjudged the second best actors for their roles in various films. Ranjith won the award for best script for his work in ''Pranchiyettan and the Saint'' which he himself directed.

''Janakan'' and ''Shikar'' shared the award for best popular film.

Veteran director K S Sethumadhavan was selected for ''Chalachithra Rathnam'' award, while Jagannatha Varma, Santhakumari and Bichu Thirumala were chosen for ''Chalachithra Prathibha'' honours of the Association.

Other awardees are: Vinod Mankara (Best Debut Director (Karayilekku Oru Kadal Dooram), Mohan Raghavan (Story - T D Dasan Std VI B), Kaithapram (Lyrics - Holidays, Neelambari), M Jayachandran (Music Direction - Karayilekku Oru Kadal Dooram), Shankar Mahadevan, Shreya Ghoshal (Playback - Holidays, Agathan), Madhu Ambat (Cinematography - Gramam), Gokul Das (Art Direction) and Salim Kumar (Special Jury Award).

The awards, sponsored by the Atlas Group, were announced by Group chairman M M Ramachandran and Thekkinkad Joseph, President, Film Critics Association.

'Pranchiyettan..' completes 150

In an interesting development, one of the much acclaimed movies in recent times 'Pranchiyettan and the saint' has completed 160 days. The movie is continuing in a lone theatre in Thrissur to become the biggest running Mollywood movie in the last five years, surpassing record by 'Happy husbands' which ran to 150 days in a theatre in the capital city. This Renjith-Mammootty film had a lukewarm start in the first weeks, but managed to keep the box office tingling as the worth of opinion grew far and wide.

The week also will witness the 50 day celebration of 'Traffic' which is announced as the first hit of the year. The movie which also made a difficult start in the opening weeks still continues in around 15 release centers. In the metros, the movie by Rajesh R Pillai is still registering 60-80 percent collections every day.

August 15 confirmed for March 25

The Shaji Kailas-directed suspense thriller August 15, starring Mammootty, has been confirmed for March 25.

The film is a sequel to August 1, which was directed by Siby Malayil more than 20 years back.
Meghana Raj is the heroine and Pradeep Nair is the cinematographer of the film, which is produced by veteran Aroma Mani.


Kochu Preman, Lalu Alex, Thalaivasal Vijay, Biju Pappan and Balachandran Chullikkad are the others in the cast.

Mammootty's 1993 Bombay March 12 Pooja Held at Cochin

Megastar Mammootty's upcoming Project '1993 Bombay March 12' pooja held at Avenue centre, Panambilli Nagar, Cochin.

The film is based on the real life riot incident and bombings that hit Mumbai on March 12, 1993. The film revolves around the effects of the blasts in the lives of three common men. The film will depict the effect of the incident and the sufferers of that. 

Noted Malayalam screenplay writer Babu Janardhanan's debut directorial venture, who penned the scripts for some critically acclaimed movies like ‘Achanurangatha Veedu', 'Vaasthavam' and 'Thalappavu'.

The movie will be made simultaneously in Malayalam,Tamil, Telugu and Hindi.(multi-lingual).

The film will be canned in Rajasthan and Kerala locations.

Mammootty inaugurated the beautified Kozhikode beach

The public should ensure that the beaches here are neat and clean, actor Mammootty has said. He was addressing a gathering after inaugurating the beautified Kozhikode beach here on Saturday. “The beauty of the beach will reflect the aesthetic sense of the people in the coming days,” he said.

The beautification of the 850-metre stretch of beach, from Lions Park to Corporation Office under the Kozhikode-I Assembly Constituency, was completed at a cost of Rs.3 crore. The smartened up coastal stretch has an entrance-gate, pavilions, walkways, lamp posts, fountain and granite-paved seats among other things. A 1500-square-metre parking space is also in place.

A toilet block, cafeteria and gallery steps are the other features. The project, sanctioned by the Tourism Department in 2009, was completed by the Harbour Engineering Department. This is the third stretch of the beach being opened for public after beautification in the city limits in recent months. A. Pradeep Kumar, MLA, presided over the function in which Mayor A.K. Premajam was the chief guest. M.K. Raghavan, MP; district panchayat president Kanathil Jameela; and Tourism Secretary V. Venu and Director A. Shivasankar were present. Tourism Minister Kodiyeri Balakrishnan had inaugurated the beatified Bhat Road Beach recently.

Vanitha Film Awards Announced, Mammootty bags Best Actor

Pranchiyettan and the Saint bagged five awards in the Vanitha film awards announced on Wednesday.

Ranjith who has won three awards will be the star of the award night. He is the best writer, director and the producer of the best film.

Mammootty is the best actor while Mamta walked away with the best actress award. Jagathy Sreekumar got the prestigious Lifetime achievement award.

The other awards include Biju Menon- supporting actor, Mithra Kurien- supporting actress, Yesudas- Best male singer, Shreya Ghoshal- Best female singer, Rafeeque Ahmed-  Best Lyricist, Gopi Sunder- Best Music Director, Siddique- Best Villain, Salim Kumar- Best comedian,  Kunjakko Boban, Archana Kavi Best- Best star pair, Ann Augustine- Best newcocomer, Venu- Best Cameraman.
The awards will be presented at Kozhikode on february 19th.

August 15 Postponed Again

Shaji Kailas directed Mammootty's suspense thriller August 15 produced by veteran Aroma Mani has been postponed again for the third time.
August 15 which was slated for release during Christmas was postponed to February 3, as the shoot got delayed.

The latest we hear is that Aroma has informed theatres that it has been shifted to March 30!
The film is a sequel to August 1 directed by Siby Malayil, more than 20 years back.

The reasons for the postponement are not clear, though the rumours are that Aroma does not want to release the film in February.

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