Filmfare Awards: Siddharth,Trisha best actors!

Chennai: Nuvvasthanante Nenoddantana has made a clean sweep in the Telugu category at a glittering 53rd Fair One Filmfare Awards (South) function held at Nehru Indoor Stadium here on Saturday. It began with producer M S Raju scoring a Filmfare hat-trick.

Prabhu Deva, who also directed the movie, picked up the award for choreography. Also, most of the acting and music awards went for Nuvvasthanante Nenoddantana: best actor and actress awards for Siddharth and Trisha, best supporting actor award for Sri Hari, best music director, male playback singer and best lyricist awards for Devisri Prasad, Shankar Mahadevan and Siri Vennela Sitarama Shastri respectively. Trivikaram Srinivas walked away with the best direction award for Athadu.

In the Kannada category, box-office grosser of the year, Nenapirali, bagged all five awards at stake. The awards are: best actor (Prem Kumar), actress (Vidya Venkatesh), best film, best director (Ratanaja) and and best music director (Hamsalekha).

In the Tamil films category, blockbuster Anniyan bagged eight awards. The Rajnikanth-starrer Chandramukhi, which set the box office on fire earning a neat pile of Rs 100 crore, bagged two awards. Anniyan won the best film award and got Vikram his fourth Filmfare best actor award and music sensation Haris Jeyraj, his third. Director Shankar and lyricist Vairamuthu, too, made merry.

Suave Asin bagged the best actress award for Gajni. The same film also won Kartik the best playback singer. Binny Krishnakumari won the best female playback singer award for the song, Ra Ra.

Tilakan and Sukumari brought cheer to the Malayalam film industry by bagging both lifetime achievement awards in the overall category.

Achuvinde Amma won three awards — best film, best actress (Meera Jasmin) and best music director (Ilayaraja). The other two awards went to Tanmatra — Mohanlal bagged the best actor award and Blessy the best director award.

The 53rd Fair One Filmfare Awards (South) were sponsored by Elder Pharmaceuticals in association with Pantaloon and Prince Jewellery, Chennai, telecast partner Sun TV and radio partner Radio Mirchi. The awards were supported by Airtel, McDowells, ITC Park Sheraton Hotel & Towers, Chennai. The event was managed by 360 Degrees.