The National Film awards were announced by Shekhar Kapur, the head of the Jury for feature films. It is no surprise that the regional cinema overshadowed the Hindi film industry on the lines of technicalities and acting. From AR Rahman winning two National awards for his compositions to Sridevi and Vinod Khanna getting conferred with the prestigious awards, this year’s National Awards were quite celebratory in their own ways.
Renowned actress
Divya Dutta who has been a prominent face in the Hindi and Punjabi film industry has been struggling to fetch the much-deserved attention since 20 years. And finally she bagged the
National Award this year for best supporting
actress
for her film ‘
Irada
’.
Soon after winning the award, she addressed the media and said, “This is my first National Award and it will take time to sink in because when I came to become an actress, this was a dream for me – To win a National Award. For some reason, everyone has always called me a National Award-winner. So, finally, that comes true. It feels really nice.”
She further added, “I just heard Shekhar Kapur say that National Awards give a platform to the films that probably haven’t been seen as much as those in the popular category and this platform makes people aware of these films and make them watch even more. And something as contemporary and relevant as ‘Irada’, I am really glad.”
Starring Naseeruddin Shah and Arshad Warsi in titular roles, ‘Irada’ raised the contemporary ecological issues of uranium poisoning, reverse boring, fertiliser poisoning due to the green revolution and their immediate adverse impact on the people who live in the country’s Malwa region, which includes districts of central part of western Madhya Pradesh and parts of south-eastern Rajasthan. The movie had also won the best film on environmental conservation award at the 65th National Film Awards.
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