61st National Film Awards Winners List      19 hours ago

61st National Film Awards Winners List

Winners of the prestigious 61st National Film Awards and their names was announced by

the Directorate of Film Festivals .Bollywood actor Rajkummar Rao, who impressed all with

his performance of a Kashmiri lawyer in ‘Shahid’ won the Best Actor award.If this was not

all, Shahid’s director Hansal Mehta also bagged the Best Director award.Rajkummar shared

the Best Actor award with Suraj Venjaramoodu for Malayalam movie

Perariyathavar.Bolywood super hit flick Bhaag Milkha Bhaag was announced as Best

popular film.

None of the tollywood movie showed it mark on the awards list except Naa Bangaru Talli

which was selected under Best Telugu Film category. The National Film Awards will be

given out on May 3

Here is the list of 61st National Film Awards Winners

Best Feature Film : Ship Of Theseus.

Best Non-Feature Film: Rangbhoomi

Best Popular Film: Bhaag Milkha Bhaag

Best Film on Social Issues: Gulaab Gang

Best Film on National Integration: Thalaimuraigal

Best Telugu Film : Naa Bangaru Talli

Best Hindi Film: Jolly LLB

Best Tamil Film: Thanga Meengal

Best Kannada Film: December 1

Best Malayalam Film: 24 North Kaatham

Best English Film: The Coffinmaker

Best Actor (Male): Raj Kumar Rao (Shahid) & Suraj Venjarmood (Adaminte Makan

Abu – Malayalam)

Best Actor (Female): Geetanjali Thapa (Liar’s Dice)

Best Supporting Actor (Male): Saurabh Shukla (Jolly LLB)

Best Supporting Actor (Female): Aida Elkashef (Ship of Theseus) and Amruta Subhash

(Astu)

Best Director: Hansal Mehta (Shahid)

Best Choreography: Bhaag Milkha Bhaag

Best Background Score: Shantanu Moitra (Naa Bangaru Talli)

Best Sound Design: Madras Cafe

Best Special Effects: Jal

Best Lyrics: Na Muthukumar (Aanandha Yaazha – Tamil)

Best Playback Singer (Male): Rupankar (Bengali film Jatishwar)

Best Playback Singer (Female): Bela Shinde (Marathi song ‘Koda Koda’)

Best Cinematography: Rajiv Rai

Best Dialogue: Astu (Marathi Film)

Best Child Artiste – Sadhana and Shelly (Thanga Meengal)

Special Jury Award – Actress: Anjali Patil (Naa Bangaru Talli)

Special Jury Award for Best Editing: Sabu Joseph (Vallinam)

Special Jury Award for Yellow and Miss Lovely