Sri Rama Rajyam and Rajanna ignored

National awards for the year 2011 were announced this morning and out Telugu films got a raw deal from the jury. Despite having award worthy films from last year, jury didn’t announce the best film of Tollywood when one from every regional language has been awarded one.

Sri Rama Rajyam and Rajanna movies should have won the awards in various categories. At least one of these should have fetched the best Telugu film award. For some unexplained reasons our movies have been ignored.

Here is the complete list of National award winners of 2011:

Best Film – Kannada film ‘Byari’ and Marathi film ‘Deool’
Best Actor – Girish Kulkarni (Marathi film ‘Deool’)
Best Actress – Vidya Balan (The Dirty Picture)
Best Director – Gurvinder Singh (Punjabi film ‘Anhe Ghore Da Daan’)
Best Child Actor – Partho Gupte (Stanley Ka Dabba) and Chillar Party kids
Best Supporting Actor – Appu Kutty (Tamil film ‘Azhagar Samiyin Kuthirai’)
Best Supporting Actress – Leishangthem Tonthoingambi Devi (Manipuri film ‘Phijigee Mani’)
Best Children’s Film – Chillar Party
Best First Film by a director – Thiagarajan Kumararaja (Aranya Kandam)
Best Lyrics – Amitabh Bhattacharya (I Am)
Best Choreography – Bosco, Caesar for ‘Senorita’ (Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara)
Best Visual Effects – Ra.One
Best Costumes – Neharika Khan (The Dirty Picture) and Neeta Lulla (Bal Gandharva)
Best Makeup – Vijram Gaekwad (The Dirty Picture)
Best Screenplay – Nitish Tiwari, Vikas Bahl, Vijay Maurya, Rajesh Bajaj (Chillar Party)
Best Adapted Screenplay Writer – Avinash Deshpande
Best Dialogues – Girish Kulkarni (Deool)
Best Editing – Praveen KL (Aranya Kandam)
Best Audiography – Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara
Best Playback Singer (Male)– Anand Bhate
Best Playback Singer (Female) – Rupa Ganguly
Best Book – Anirudha Bhattacharjee, Balaji Vittal (RD Burman The Man The Music)
Best Film Critic – Manoj P Pujari
Special Mention – Director Shari for Malayalam film ‘Adi Madhyantam’ and Mallika Kannada film ‘Byari’
Special Jury Award – Anjan Dutta (Ranjana Ami Aar Ashbo Na)

Best Malayalam film – Indian Rupee
Best Bengali Film – Ranjana Ami Aar Ashbo Na
Best Tamil Film – Vaagai Sooda Vaa
Best Marathi Film – Shaala
Best Hindi Film – I Am