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Awards and accolades all the way
Seven Tamil films bagged most of the Reliance
Mobile Vijay Awards at a recent function
MOMENT OF PRIDEDirector Maniratnam receiving the
Chevalier Sivaji Ganesan Award from Director K.
Balachandar at the second annual Reliance Mobile
Vijay Awards 2007
“Paruthiveeran” and “Polladhavan” bagged four
jury awards each (including Best Film and Best
Director respectively) as “Pokkiri” shared
honours in the popular category, winning four
statuettes each as well. With “Chennai 28”, “Mozhi”,
“Kattrudhu Tamizh” winning two pieces each, 20
out of the 30 Reliance Mobile Vijay Awards were
clearly dominated by these seven films.
Satyaraj was adjudged the best actor for
“Onbathu Rooba Nottu” and the industry awarded
the Best Entertainer Award to Vijay. Karthi and
Anjali won the best debut actor awards for
“Paruthiveeran” and “Kattradhu Tamil”. Priyamani
was adjudged Best Actress and Nayanthara was
voted Favourite Actress.
All of this took over five hours to unfold as
one man decided to make it an enduring
experience for the audience. When Yuhi Sethu
announced “I am back,” little did we know what
we were in for. Clearly lacking in brevity and
wit, Sethu decided to pun-ish us with his brand
of dry humour that was received with an
appropriately dry response from the crowd.
“Cinema was moving closer to realism as news was
becoming larger than life,” he observed on
behalf of the jury that included Bhagyaraj,
Madhan, Priyadarshan, Lizzy and Yuhi Sethu
himself.
“Vijay is regarded as one of the smartest Tamil
language channels,” said Ajay Vidyasagar,
president — Content, STAR TV, recalling how
“Kathai Illai Nijam” was the first live reality
show in Tamil ever and now Jodi No. 1 rated as
highest viewed non-fiction show ever. He said
that STAR’s association with the Tamil film
industry goes back to Channel V’s Quick Gun
Murugan ads made in 1996 that popularised the
catchphrase: Mind it, today used by the Chennai
Super Kings team mascot Dhoni in the latest
Pepsi commercial.
The emotional highpoint of the event was when a
frail Film News ‘Anandan’ was honoured for his
contribution to Tamil Cinema by Manorama who
called him the ‘Chitraguptan’ of Tamil Cinema.
Later in the evening, K. Balachander gave away
the Chevalier Sivaji Ganesan award for
excellence to Mani Ratnam, who said it was
honour to get the Sivaji award and wished he had
the opportunity to have worked with the veteran.
And, A.R.Rahman said, “Ella Pugazhum Iraivanukke.”
Among the acceptance speeches, the most
sentimental were by the directors Vetrimaran and
Venkat Prabhu, the most unassuming speeches were
by Prakash Raj and Prabhu Deva (Prakash Raj said
other people from his team probably did a better
job and a visibly thrilled Prabhu Deva said how
he didn’t expect this as he admired all
filmmakers nominated, including Vishnuvardhan
for “Billa”) and the actors thanked the
directors (Satyaraj gave Thankar Bachan all
credit, Karthi did a crowd-pleaser saying a
couple of lines from the movie before thanking
Ameer ).
The Best singers Neha Bhasin (who said she it
was her first award ever) and Krish performed,
the king of bling BlaaZe did a hip-hop act and
there were item numbers by Kamna, Samiksha,
Rahasya and Sada who were accompanied by John
Britto’s energetic bunch of dancers.
Overall, it’s a show best seen on TV where you
have the option of changing channels to escape
Yuhi’s longish academic preludes to each of the
thirty categories.
AND THE
AWARD GOES TO…
Eva Best Actor –
Female Debut: Anjali, “Kattradhu Tamizh”
Best New Actor –
Male Debut: Karthi, “Paruthiveeran”
Best Film:
“Paruthiveeran”
Best Director:
Vetrimaran,
“Polladhavan”
Hitachi Best Actor –
Male: Sathyaraj, “Onbathu Rooba Nottu”
Best
Actress
Female:
Priyamani, Paruthiveeran
Best Music Director:
A.R.Rahman
Favourite Director:
Prabhu Deva, “Pokkiri”
Reliance Mobile Favourite Film:
“Pokkiri”
Entertainer of the Year:
Vijay, “Pokkiri”
Chevalier Sivaji Award for Excellence in
Cinema:
Mani
Ratnam
Contribution to Tamil Cinema:
Film News
Anandan
Courtesy: Hindu
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