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* SUNDAY TIMES OF , 2 TIMES CITY | AWARD NITE JULY 13, 2014 AT THE 61ST IDEA AWARDS (SOUTH) VETERANS STOLE THE SHOW, BAGGING SOME OF THE MAJOR AWARDS STARS OF THE SEASON

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SHOW STOPPERS: 1 Performers dazzle at the awards ceremony 2 (L to R) Actor , Saira IDEA Thanga with husband AR 3 Actor with wife Aishwarya FILMFARE Meengal AWARDS scores a 2 hat-trick

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ith the Idea 2013 leven years in the industry, 36 (South) in its 61st year, it was only Emovies last year alone, and apt that veterans steal the show. 105 song lyrics to his credit in BEST ACTOR Whether it was show-stopper 2013, lyricist Na Muthukumar was W FEMALE | chief guest or actor bound to strike in terms of

Pics: S L Shanth Kumar Nayantara Haasan, Oscar winner AR Rahman or 59-year-old awards this year. First came the ( Rani) Satyaraj — this year it was the turn for seasoned 3 TAMIL National Award in April and now artistes to grab the spotlight. the Filmfare for his song ‘Ananda When the nominees for Best Music Director BEST CINEMATOGRAPHER | BEST DIRECTOR | (Paradesi) Yazhai’ from the movie ‘Thanga (Tamil) were announced, the audience began Padma Shri Award winner and six-time Na- () BEST ACTOR MALE | Adharva Meengal’. “It is one of my favourite screaming and whistling for AR Rahman even tional Award winning singer Chitra won her (Paradesi) songs,” said Muthukumar. BEST DEBUT before the other names were read out, until pre- sixth Filmfare award for Best Playback Singer BEST DEBUT FEMALE | Nazriya After the three-award haul at LIFETIME MALE | senter asked the audience to announce (female) for the Telugu song ‘Seethamma Vak- () the National Awards this year, the the winner. As the auditorium screamed “AR itlo Sirimalle Chettu’, while Yesudas won ACHIEVEMENT Thanga Meengal team was back at Rahman”, he went on stage to pick up his 29th Best Playback Singer (male) for the (posthumous) | (Neram) BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR MALE the 61st Idea Filmfare Awards Filmfare Award. Rahman thanked movie ‘Memories’, his third Filmfare award. Gautham | Satyaraj (Raja Rani) (South) winning another three for a making a beautiful movie (‘Kadal’), ending Among the veterans was a first-timer on stage BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR awards — one for best playback his speech with the words that went viral when who earned a standing ovation — Ahileshwari, (Kadal) FEMALE | Dhanshika (Paradesi) singer (male) and another for best he won the Oscar in 2009. “Ella Pugazhum Balu Mahendra’s wife, who accepted the Lifetime BEST MUSIC DIRECTOR | film apart from Muthukumar’s Iraivanukke (all glory to God),” said Rahman, as Achievement Award on behalf of her late hus- BEST LYRICS | A R Rahman (Kadal) win. “And to think”, says , the audience went ecstatic. band. “All through my husband’s life, I have at- the movie’s director, “after my first Na Muthukumar BEST PLAYBACK SINGER At the ceremony held on Saturday at Jawa- tended award ceremonies, but never have I gone – Ananda movie ‘Kattradhu Thamizh’, peo- harlal Nehru Stadium, the veterans clearly knew on stage. I was nervous today but I was glad that FEMALE | Shakti Sree Gopalan – ple branded me a “weird” director, Yazhai (Thanga Nenjukulle (Kadal) how to get the audience going. “Ennama Kan- it was my husband’s friend who Meengal) who made only dark films. I want- nugala,” said Satyaraj, beginning his speech with presented the award to me. It was comforting,” ed to change my genre,” he added. BEST SINGER his famous movie line. “I won the Filmfare she said. ‘Thanga Meengal’, based on the MALE | Sriram Award 26 years ago for the movie ‘Vedam Pu- For the 61st Idea Filmfare Awards 2013 bond between a father and a Parthasarathy – dhithu’ and this is my second. It takes a lot for a (South), the title sponsor is Idea. Associate spon- daughter, also had the director Anada Yazhai director to make a commercial actor pull off a sors: NAC Jewellers and Reliance Trends; Tele- playing the lead because the pro- (Thanga character role and Atlee Kumar did that in ‘Raja cast partners: Asianet, Vijay TV, Swarna TV, and ducer felt that he understood the Meengal) Rani’. I thank him for this award,” said Satyaraj. Maa TV; Radio partner: ; Beauty movie best. “I wrote the script with In Tamil, ‘Thanga Meengal’ was adjudged partner: Close up; Beverage partner: Signature, my daughter,” says . best film. ‘Paradesi’ won Adharva the award for Packaged Drinking Water; Multiplex partner: BEST FILM | Thanga Meengal J Sathish Kumar, the produc- best actor (male) and Bala best director. Nay- Orienta Cine Advertising; and Trophy partner: er of the movie, said: “We’ve antara netted Best Actor (female) for ‘Raja Rani’. The Award Gallery. TELUGU MALAYALAM come up in more categories than we thought. The subject is close BEST FILM | Attarintiki Daredi BEST DIRECTOR | Trivikram FILMFARE AWARDS Srinivas (Attarintiki Daredi) to my heart and so the award is BEST ACTOR MALE | Mahesh more special.” Babu (Seethamma Vakitlo While there were a number of Sirimalle Chettu) big budget films in several catego- BEST ACTOR FEMALE | Nithya ries, some of the big-on-emotion- Menen (Gunde Jaari small- on-budget movies such as Gallanthayyinde) ‘Haridas’ (based on a father-son BEST SUPPORTING BEST FILM | relationship) and ‘Thalai Mu- ACTOR MALE | BEST DIRECTOR | (Artist) raigal’ (based on a grandfather- grandson bond), managed to put (Tadakha) BEST ACTOR MALE | Fahad (North 24 up a fight for the awards. BEST Kadam) In , ‘Mynaa’ was de- SUPPORTING BEST ACTOR FEMALE | Ann Augustin (Artist) clared the best film, while Pawan ACTOR FEMALE | Kumar won Best Director for ‘Lu- Manchu BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR MALE | cia’. “When I was young, I saw (Gundello Godari) Gopi (Left Right Left) many great people holding this BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR FEMALE | Asha BEST MUSIC DIRECTOR | Devi award but today it makes me feel Sharath (Drishyam) Sri Prasad (Attarintiki Daredi) special to be taking home one. Usu- BEST PLAYBACK SINGER MALE BEST MUSIC DIRECTOR | Jayachandran ally directors thank the audience | —Pandagala (Celluloid) for watching their movie but I am Digivachavu (Mirchi) BEST PLAYBACK SINGER MALE | Vijay going to thank my audience for making this movie. ‘Lucia’ is the BEST PLAYBACK SINGER Yesudas—Thirayum theeravum (Memories) first crowd-funded feature film FEMALE | Chitra (Seethamma BEST PLAYBACK SINGER FEMALE | Vaikom and I thank everyone who was a Vaakitlo Sirimalle Chettu) Vijayalakshmi—Ottake Paadunna () part of it,” said Kumar. The evening was livened by KANNADA the hosts Chinmayee and her hus- BEST FILM | Mynaa band Rahul Ravindran. Veteran actor Rekha, who presented the BEST ACTOR MALE | Prem Kumar (Charminar) lifetime achievement award (fe- BEST ACTOR FEMALE | (Shravani Subramanya) male) to Malayalam actor Jayab- BEST DIRECTOR | Pawan Kumar (Lucia) harathi, said, “When I wanted to become an actress, my mother BEST MUSIC DIRECTOR | Arjun Janya (Bhajarangi) asked me to learn a few things BEST SINGER MALE | Poorna Chandra Tejasvi – Thinbedakammi (Lucia) from actress . I BEST SINGER FEMALE | – Karagida Baanalli watched and learned a lot from (Simplag Ond Love Story) her dignity and grace and am very happy to be the one present- BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR MALE | Achyuth Kumar (Lucia) ing her the award for lifetime BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR FEMALE | Kalyani (Jayammana Maga) achievement.” SIDELIGHT SPOTLIGHT I WANTED TO DAD’S THE WAY STYLE HIGH COME HERE The artist dads were out in full force to While it’s usually sarees that are the dress code at PERSONALLY AND support their children. While Kamal the South Filmfare awards, fashion took centrestage Haasan stayed on till the very end to make at the 61st Idea Filmfare Awards (South). While RECEIVE THE sure he did not miss his Haasan dazzled in a ruffled Gaurav Gupta AWARD BECAUSE daughter Shruti’s beige and gold gown, Samantha went with a black performance, actor and white Gauri and Nainika outfit and actor THIS IS SUCH AN Karthik took the front row looked dapper in his Gabbana Life. Chennai HONOUR. NOW I seat to cheer on his son designer Chaitanya Rao seemed to be another Gautham Karthik who favourite with hosts Chinmayee and Rahul Ravindran WILL FOCUS ON bagged the award for as well as Best Supporting Actress (Telugu) Lakshmi GETTING MY VISION best male debut actor in Manchu wearing outfits designed by him. Actor Ajmal BACK AS I AM Tamil. “I’ve been where my son is now and too managed quite a bit of attention in his rather chic I know what it feels like to win a Filmfare black suit with a red shirt. As for the designer, “Um... VISUALLY IMPAIRED Award. That’s why I wanted to make sure I I just picked the design from an English magazine Vaikom Vijayalakshmi | SINGER was here to support my son,” said Karthik. and gave it to my personal designer,” says Ajmal.