The Karnataka state government announced awards under various categories for the film industry on Tuesday. The annual awards for the year 2016 have been unveiled and Jeer Jimbe has won the highest number of awards bagging a total of four of awards, including for Best Children's Film, Best Music Director, Best Child Actor (female) and Best Lyricist categories.
While Amaravathi bagged the First Best Film Award, Railway Children won the Second Best Film Award. Antarjala has bagged the third price.
Music director V Manohar has been selected by the Lifetime Achievement by the jury committee along with the former KFCC president KC Chandrashekar and journalist Rukkoji. The awards will be presented on the April 24th, 2017.
Here is the complete list:
· Social Concern Film: Mudla Seemeyalli
· Popular Entertaining Film: Kirik Party
· Best Children's Film: Jeer Jimbe
· Best Debutant Director: D Satyaprakash for Rama Rama Re
· Best Regional Film: Madipu (Tulu)
· Best Actor (male): Achyuth Kumar for Amaravathi
· Best Actor (female): Sruthi Hariharan for Beautiful Manasugalu
· Best Supporting Actor (male): Naveen D Padil for Kudla Cafe (Tulu)
· Best Supporting Actor (female): Akshata Pandavpura for Palata
· Best Story: Nandita Yadav for Raju Yedegebidda Akshara
· Best Screenplay: Arvind Shastry for Kahi
· Best Dialogue: BM Giriraj for Amaravathi
· Best Cinematography: Shekar Chandra for Mungaru Male 2
· Best Music Director: Charan Raj for Jeer Jimbe
· Best Editing: C Ravichandran for Mummy
· Best Child Actor (male): Master Manohar for Railway Children
· Best Child Actor (female): Baby Sirivanalli for Jeer Jimbe
· Best Child Actor (female): Baby Revathy for Beti
· Best Art Director: Shashidhar Adappa for Uppina Kagada
· Best Lyricist: Karthik Saragur for Jeer Jimbe
· Best Playback Singer (male): Vijay Prakash for Beautiful Manasugalu
· Best Playback Singer (female): Sangeeta Ravindranath for Jalwa
· Special Jury Award
· Best Costume: Chinmayee for Santheyalli Nintha Kabira
· Best Production Controller: KV Manjaiah for Mungaru Male 2
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