LIVE! 64th National Film Awards: Pranab Mukherjee To Present Facilitate Akshay Kumar And Neerja!
Updated : May 03, 2017 07:01 PM IST
President Pranab Mukherjee is set to congratulate and honour the winners of the 64th National Film Awards. Akshay Kumar will be given the Best Actor award for Rustom while Surabhi will be given the Best Actress Award for Malayalam film Minnaminungu (The Firefly).
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Best Book On Cinema award goes to Lata: Sur Gatha.
Live: #NationalFilmAwards: Best Book 0n Cinema: ‘Lata : Sur Gatha ‘ by #YatindraMishra: https://t.co/yvtvaeZ4j0
— MIB India (@MIB_India) May 3, 2017
#NationalFilmAwards | Winners #AkshayKumar and #SonamKapoor at the event pic.twitter.com/I32KRclrPH
— HT Entertainment (@htshowbiz) May 3, 2017
Akshay Kumar poses for a photo with his wife Twinkle Khanna and son Aarav before heading to the awards:
An important day in my life with the most important people in the world to me, my family #NationalFilmAwards pic.twitter.com/nM2RdhnunG
— Akshay Kumar (@akshaykumar) May 3, 2017
Marathi film Kasaav will be named the Best Feature Film Award while Rajesh Mapuskar wil win the Best Director Award for Ventilator.
Telugu film Sathamanam Bhavathi will be adjudged the Best Popular Film Providing Wholesome Entertainment.
Sonam Kapoor will receive a special mention for Neerja, which also won the Best Hindi Film of the year.
The six industries of the south -- Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam, Kannada, Tulu and Konkani -- will bag a total of 18 awards, while movies from Assam, Bengal, Maharashtra and Manipur will win in different categories.