The 60th National Film Awards were held at the Vigyan Bhawan in New Delhi (May 3rd, the day when the Indian Cinema marks its Centenary).
The President Pranab Mukherjee presented the awards while the show was hosted by actors R. Madhavan and Huma Qureshi.
Tigmanshu Dhulia’s “Paan Singh Tomar”, about an athlete-turned-dacoit, won the best film award. Versatile Irrfan, who played the title role in the biopic, was named the best actor for the same film, and he shared the title with Vikram Gokhale for his performance in Marathi film “Anumati”.
Actress Usha Jadhav won the best actress title for playing a rustic housewife in Marathi film “Dhag”, which won the best director’s gong for Shivaji Lotan Patil.
The award for the best female playback singer was given to Samhita for the song “Palakein naa moon don” from Marathi film “Aarti Anklekartikekar”.
In the feature film category, a total of 38 films from 14 languages have been selected for the awards.
From Bollywood, “Kahaani”, “Vicky Donor”, “Paan Singh Tomar”, “OMG: Oh My God!” and “Dekh Indian Circus” won multiple awards.
Sujoy Ghosh won the best screenplay writer (original) for “Kahaani”, which also won Namrata Rao best editor National Award and Nawazuddin Siddiqui got a special mention for the same film.
“Vicky Donor”, a film on a youngster who plays a sperm donor, won three gongs - best film providing wholesome entertainment, best supporting actor for Annu Kapoor and best supporting actress for Dolly Ahluwalia who shared it with Kalpana, who won it for Malayalam movie "Thanichalla Njan".
Actress Parineeti Chopra, looking pretty in a salwar-kameez, came to take the award for a special mention for “Ishaqzaade”.
The best adapted screenplay went to Bhavesh Mandalia and Shri Umesh Shukla for “OMG: Oh My God!”, an adaptation of a Gujarati play.
The best debut film of a director was jointly picked by "101 Chodiyangal" with Hindi film "Chittagong".