National Awards leave SRK,AMIR KHAN disappointed

Tamil actor Prakash Raj, won the best actor award in the National Awards for the year 2007. This is his first award in the Best Actor Category. Even the movie 'Knachivaram' bagged the best movie award especially when 'Chak De India' and 'Taare Zameen Par' and 'Gandhi My Father'were also competing.Although the top four awards at the 55th National Awards for the year 2007 were won by Malayalam cinema, Bollywood also fared reasonably well.




Both SRK and Amir were left disappointed to not get the Best Actor award after there spectacular performance in 'Chak De India' and 'Taare Zameen Par' respectively. But some celebration was also in store for them. Sharukh Khan's movie 'Chak De India' won the National Award for Best Overall Entertainment. Amir's movie Taare Zameen Par, also got it’s due. The film won the Best Family Welfare Entertainment award. Playback singerShankar Mahadevan won the award for the song ‘Meri Maa’ from the film ‘Taare Zameen Par’.Lyricist Prasoon Joshi won in Best Lyrics category for Taare Zameen Par. Anil Kapoor's movie Gandhi My Father two awards. While Feroz Khan won the Best Screenplay award, Darshan Jariwala won the Best Supporting Actor award for Gandhi My Father.

Renowned Malayalam film director Adoor Gopalakrishnan got the best director award for the seventh time for 'Naalu Pennungal'.Umashree won the Best Actress award for Gulabi Talkies.Rituparno Ghosh’s The Last Lear won two awards winning the Best Feature Film in English and Shefali Shah got the Best Supporting Actress. Jab We Met also bagged two awards for Best Choreography and Best Female Playback Singer (Shreya Ghoshal).