51st Kerala State Film Awards: Here is the complete list of winners

Jio Baby’s ‘The Great Indian Kitchen’Acclaimed from all quarters for its portrayal of a woman’s daring battle within a oppressive patriarchal family, it has been selected as the best film at the 51st Kerala State Film Awards announced on Saturday afternoon.

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Director Jio Baby also won the award for Best Original Screenplay. According to Jury President, actor-director Suhasini, the selection of the film was a unanimous decision for the jury.

Actor Jayasuriya won his second State Award for Best Actor (Male) For his performance in ‘Vellam’, Which led the story of a drunken alcoholic, while Anna Ben won the Best Actor (Female) award. For his performance in ‘Cappella’ As a naive young woman who has to face many pitfalls as she ventures into the big world. Siddharth Siva won the Best Director award for ‘Ennivers’.

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These are the first awards after the rules were amended to introduce a two-tier mechanism for juries in view of the increase in entries for the awards. The main jury was to see about 30 films selected from a total of 80 submissions by the initial jury. The jury is headed by actor-director Suhasini, while eight-time National Award winner and Kannada director P. Seshadri and director Bhadran were the chairman of two committees of the preliminary adjudication committee.

Announcing the award, Cultural Affairs Minister Saji Cherian said that this award sends a message that it is the need of the hour for women to come forward in all walks of life including cinema. Ms Suhasini said Kerala should be commended for organizing the award during the period of COVID-19 pandemic, while providing inspiration to the artists.

“The quality of all the films has been good. It is only when disaster strikes that people think differently. It will bring different feelings in people. Production during this period would have been difficult, yet we had 80 films for consideration,” Suhasini said. He said the competition for the Best Actor (Female) award was tight with seven contenders in the final round.

Here is the full list of winners

best movie The Great Indian Kitchen (Director: Jio Baby)

Best Actor (Male) Jayasuriya (Vellam)

Best Actor (Female) – Anna Ben (Cappella)

best director – Siddhartha Shiva (Ennivar)

second best film Thinklazcha Nishyam (Director: Sena Hegde)

Best film with popular appeal and aesthetic value – Ayyappanam Koshiyum (Director- Satchidanandan KR)

Best Character Actor (Male) Sudheesh (Ennivar, Bhumiyile Manohara Swakaryam)

Best Character Actor (Female) – Srirekha (Vayil)

best debut director – Muhammad Mustafa (Cappella)

best story – Sena Hegde (Thinklazcha Nishyam)

best musician – M Jayachandran (Sufiyum Sujathayum)

best background music – M Jayachandran (Film – Sufiyum Sujathayum)

Best Playback Singer (Male) – Shahbaz Aman (“Sundarnayavane” from Halal Love Story and “Akashmavale” from ‘Vellam’)

Best Playback Singer (Female) – Nithya Maiman (“Vathukkal Velaripravu” from Sufiyum Sujathayum)

best song – Anwar Ali (“Reminiscence Kadayi” from Bhumiile Manohara Swakaryam and “Theeram” from Malik)

best editor – Mahesh Narayanan (CU Soon)

Best Screenplay (Original) – Jio Baby (The Great Indian Kitchen)

Best Screenplay (Adapted) – no eligible entries

best cinematography – Chandru Selvaraj (Kayattam)

best children’s film – Bonami (Director- Tony Sukumar)

Best Child Actor (Male) – Niranjan S (Kasiminte Kadal)

Best Child Actor (Female) – Arvya Sharma (cup)

Best Art Direction – Santosh Raman) Payali, Malik)

best sync sound – Adarsh ​​Joseph Cherian (Santoshthinte Onnam Rahasham)

best sound mixing – Ajith Abraham George (Sufiyum Sujathayum)

best sound designing – Tony Babu (The Great Indian Kitchen)

Best Dubbing Artist (Male) Shobi Thilakan (Bhumiyile Manohara Swakaryam for Thambidurai)

Best Dubbing Artist (Female) – Riya Saira (Ayyappanam Koshiyum for Kannamma)

best choreography – Lalita Sobi, Babu Xavier (Sufiyum Sujathayum)

best theater artist – Liju Prabhakar (Kayattam)

best makeup – Rashid Ahmed (Article 21)

best dress – Dhanya Balakrishnan (Malik)

Best VFX – Sarays Muhammad (Love)

Jury Mention (Actor) – Siji Pradeep (Bharatappuzha)

Special Award for Transperson or Women for any Category – Nanchiyamma (for singing ‘Kalaktha’ song by Ayyappanam Koshiyum)

Jury Mention (Dress) – Nalini Jameela (Bharatappuzha)

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