National Film Awards: ‘12th Fail’ named best feature, ‘The Kerala Story’ director among winners

The winners at the 71st National Film Awards for movies and documentaries made in 2023 included Vidhu Vinod Chopra’s 12th Fail, Sudipto Sen’s The Kerala Story and Ramkumar Balakrishnan’s Parking. The awards, selected by a jury headed by Ashutosh Gowariker, were announced today in Delhi.

12th Fail won the Best Feature Film award across languages as well bagged its lead, Vikrant Massey, the best actor award. Massey shared the honour with Shah Rukh Khan for Atlee’s Jawan.

Sudipto Sen was named best director for The Kerala Story. The Hindi movie also won an award for cinematography for Prasantanu Mohapatra.

The Tamil-language Parking shared the Best Screenplay award for Ramkumar Balakrishna with Sai Rajesh Neelam for the Telugu movie Baby. Parking was also named the Best Tamil Film.

Karan Johar’s Rocky Aur Rani Ki Prem Kahaani won in the Best Feature Film Providing Wholesome Entertainment category. Meghna Gulzar’s Sam Bahadur was named Best Film Promoting National, Social Values. Sam Bahadur’s make-up designer Shrikant Desai and costume designers Sachin Lovalekar, Divvya and Nidhiii Gambhir also won awards.

Rani Mukerji won the Best Actress prize for Mrs Chatterjee vs Norway. Urvashi for Ullozhukku and Janki Bodiwala for Vash shared the supporting actress award. Christo Tomy’s Ullozhukku and Krishnadev Yagnik’s Vash were named the best films in Malayalam and Gujarati respectively.

The Best Supporting Actor award was split between Mutthupettai Somu Bhaskar for Parking and Vijayaraghavan for Pookkaalam. The Best Child Artist...

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