65th National Film Awards: AR Rahman bags Best Background Score for 'Mom' and Best Music Direction for 'Kaatru Veliyidai'

The 65th National Film Awards were announced on Friday by Shekhar Kapur, the head of the Jury for feature films.

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Music director AR Rahman has been honoured with two prestigious National Awards for the year 2018. He has bagged the Best Music Director award for '

Kaatru Veliyidai

' directed by Mani Ratnam and also won the Best Background Score award for the film 'Mom' starring the late Sridevi.

The 10-member-panel reportedly comprised of screenwriter

Imtiaz Hussain

, lyricist Mehboob, actress

Gautami Tadimalla

and Kannada director P. Sheshadri among others.