National awards: 3 Idiots' wins best popular film

[Bollywood Blu-ray]

Aamir Khan's blockbuster 3 Idiots has been named as the Best Popular Film at the 57th National Film Awards, which were announced today. Meanwhile, Bollywood megastar Amitabh Bachchan has bagged the Best Actor award for his performance in Paa whereas Ananya Chatterjee bagged Best Actress for Bengali film Abohoman

Courtesy NDTV

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PLEASE ADD YOU VEIWS ON WHO SHOULD HAVE GOT THE AWARDS AND WHY IN ALL CATEGORIES .

[Bollywood Blu-ray]

Aamir Khan's blockbuster 3 Idiots has been named as the Best Popular Film at the 57th National Film Awards, which were announced today.

Meanwhile, Bollywood megastar Amitabh Bachchan has bagged the Best Actor award for his performance in Paa whereas Ananya Chatterjee bagged Best Actress for Bengali film Abohoman.

As soon as the awards were announced, Big B's actor son Abhishek Bachchan wrote on microblogging site Twitter: I'm a proud father today.My son just won the national award for his performance in Paa!!!!!! "

He further tweeted: "Paa has won 4 national awards!!! So excuse me for a while going off to do the monkey dance!!!!! Auro, auro, auro!!!!!!"

This is Amitabh's third National Award for Best Actor. He had earlier won for Agneepath and Black. The megastar had also bagged Best Newcomer for his debut film Saat Hindustani in 1970.

Southern superstar Mohan Lal also congratulated Big B on his latest award: "Hearty Congratulations to you sir! Truly a well deserved performance!!"

The Best Supporting actress award went to Arundhati Nag for her performance in award winning Paa.

Best Director went to Rituparno Ghosh for Abohoman.

Renowned actor Farooq Sheikh won Best Supporting actor for his role in Lahore. The actor spoke to NDTV over phone from Delhi said "it was satisfying to get this award."

Here's the list of other winners:

Best Playback Singer (Female): Nilanjana Sarkar for Housefull
Best Playback Singer (Male) Rupam Islam for Mahanagar
Best Film: Kutty Srank (Malayalam)
Best Background Score: Illayaraja
Best Malayalam Film: Pazzhassi Raja
Best Playback Singer (Female): Nilanjana Sarkar
Best Music: Amit Trivedi, Dev D
Best Film on social awareness: Well Done Abba
Best Lyrics Award: Swanand Kirkere for Behti Hawa Sa, (3 Idiots)
Nargis Dutt award for Best Film with Social Message: Delhi-6

Courtesy NDTV

[Bollywood Blu-ray]

Actor Abhishek Bachchan says he feels like a "proud father" after his dad, megastar Amitabh Bachchan bagged the National Award for best actor for Paa Wednesday, and broke into the signature monkey dance from the movie.

In the film, Big B played a progeria patient, a rare condition which causes premature ageing among children. While Abhishek played his dad, Vidya Balan essayed the role of his mother on screen.

"I'm a very proud father today!!! My son just won the National Award for his performance in Paa!!! (sic)," Abhishek posted on his Twitter page soon after the 57th National Film Awards were announced.

Amitabh has earlier received the prestigious award for his iconic films Agneepath and Black.

"Paa has won four national awards!!! So excuse me for a while... going off to do the monkey dance!!! Auro, auro, auro!!!" an excited Abhishek posted.

Many from the film fraternity started posting congratulatory messages for the 67-year-old on Twitter soon after the announcement.

"Well deserved National Award for Mr. Bachchan... not that you need an award to reiterate your greatness as an actor," posted Shilpa Shetty.

Among others who wished Bachchan were Madhur Bhandarkar, Riteish Deshmukh, Sikander Kher, Koel Purie, and Rana Duggabati.

Amitabh isn't the only one from the movie to be awarded. Theatre actress Arundhati Naag, who played his doting grandmother won the best supporting actress for the film.

[Shiaedoeu]

I'm so sorry to ruin the atmosphere here, but WTF is a 'BEST POPULAR FILM' award? How can you award something for being popular? Alcohol is popular, but I don't see anyone giving out ribbons to the cast of Jersey Shore, LOL.

[gangstashady]

Let me ruin the atmosphere further here now...

This is a BLU RAY forum!... Not a bollywood news forum...

[Justice4All]

Originally Posted by gangstashady

This is a BLU RAY forum!... Not a bollywood news forum...

Well said.

[divyansh]

Originally Posted by Shiaedoeu

I'm so sorry to ruin the atmosphere here, but WTF is a 'BEST POPULAR FILM' award? How can you award something for being popular? Alcohol is popular, but I don't see anyone giving out ribbons to the cast of Jersey Shore, LOL.

i think they wanted to give the award to 3idiots anyhow so they made this stupid catagory....!!! newayzzz the film would had got even the best film award.....!!!

[Justice4All]

Originally Posted by divyansh

i think they wanted to give the award to 3idiots anyhow so they made this stupid catagory....!!! newayzzz the film would had got even the best film award.....!!!

Not that I agree with thsi category, but the category has existed for over two decades now. The category was first introduced to add some glamour and mainstream interest in the National Awards, which back then generally did attemt to reward the more deserving films, which by the way were not necessarily always Hindi movies and were generally also what was referred to by some as Art or Parallel cinema. Today, actually for a while now, the National Awards seem to have been reduced to the same level of farce as the other mainstream bollywood awards.