Gollapudi award for Malayalam film 'Melvilasom'

CHENNAI: The 15th Gollapudi Srinivas National Award for best debut film has been awarded to Madhav Ramadasan for the Malayalam film "Melvilasom" for 2011, a press release said.
The film, selected from 23 nominations from across the country, will get a cash prize of 1.5 lakh and a memento, on August 12 at the Music Academy here.
'Melvilasom' (address), a drama, is a narrative of a closed-door army court martial starkly told.The director in his maiden attempt has rewritten the dynamics of filmmaking with just six characters, the release said.