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.