We are the best

This is one of those rare occasions when regional and Bollywood cinema share the same dais.
This year, at the 54th National Film Awards for 2006, they also equally shared the limelight. Though stars came by the dozen to Delhi to attend the evening, the evening lacked the glam and glitter of a Bollywood awards��� nite.
Apart from the stars present, I&B minister Priya Ranjan Dasmunsi was also there, urging filmmakers to ���shoulder a social commitment through their films���.He also announced that as the president had wished, and stated during the presentation of the 53rd national film awards, the award money had been increased five fold.
The world record holder for being the youngest film director, 12-year-old Kishan Shrikanth, took the Best Children���s Film Director award from prez Pratibha Patil with a proud smile. He won the award for the Kannada film, Care of Footpath, which had been directed by Kishan when he was nine years old.
Thespian Dilip Kumar, and veteran actress Saroja Devi received the Lifetime Achievement Awards to commemorate the 60th anniversary of India���s Independence, and Tapan Sinha received the Dadasaheb Phalke Award for contribution to cinema for 2006. As Dilip Kumar, who looked dapper, and remarkably younger than his 86 years, walked up to the stage, he got a standing ovation from those present at Vigyan Bhawan.
And the winners...
The Best Feature Film: Pulijanmam, Malayalam
Best Popular Film (providing wholesale entertainment): Lage Raho Munna Bhai
Best Feature Film in Hindi: Khosla ka Ghosla
Best Feature Film in English: Quest
Best screenplay: Lage Raho Munna Bhai
Best Lyrics: Lage Raho Munna Bhai
Nargis Dutt Award for the Best Feature Film on National Integration: Kallarli Huvagi, Kannada
Indira Gandhi Award for the Best First Film: Eakantham, Malayalam, by Madhu Kaithapuram and Kabul Express, Hindi, by Kabir Khan
Best Film on Social Issues: Hope, Telugu
Best Director: Madhur Bhandarker for Traffic Signal
Best Children���s film Director: Kishan Shrikanth for Care of Footpath
Best Actor: Soumitra Chatterjee for his role in Podokkhep, Bengali
Best Actress: Priyamani, for Paruthiveeran, Tamil
Best Supporting Actor: Dilip Prabhavalkar, for his role as Mahatma Gandhi in Lage Raho Munna Bhai
Best Supporting Actress: Konkona Sen Sharma, for her role in Omkara
Lifetime Achievement Award: Dilip Kumar and Saroja Devi
Dadasaheb Phalke Award: Tapan Sinha
Best Make-up Artist (introduced this year): Anil Motiram Palande for Traffic Signal
Best Animation Feature Film (introduced this year): Kittu, Telugu
Best Child Artist: Divya Chahadkar for Antarnad