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Lagey Raho Munnabhai sweeps National Film Awards 10 Jun 2008, 1649 hrs IST, PTI

NEW DELHI: starrer Lagey Raho Munnabhai which brought to fore '' by invoking the values of Mahatma Gandhi, swept the 54th National Film Awards for 2006, by winning four honours, including for best popular film. ( Watch ) It thus became the first Hindi film sequel to repeat the feat of winning the award as Munnabhai MBBS had bagged similar honour in 2003. Veteran Bengali film won the best actor award for the Bengali film Podokkhep , while Tamil actress Priyamani won the best actress award for the film Paruthi Veeran . Madhur Bhandarkar won the best director award for his film Traffic Signal , while Khosla Ka Ghosla won the award for the best Hindi film. Malayalam film Pulijanmam directed by Priyanandanan, won the honours for the best feature film. Kabul Express directed by shared the honours with Madhu Kaithapuram's Malayalam film Ekantham , for the Indira Gandhi award for the best first film of a director. There has been no announcement on the Award for outstanding contribution to Indian Cinema. Announcing the winners of the 54th National Film Awards 2006, chairman of the jury for feature films, Budhhadeb Dasgupta told reporters here that Lagey Raho Munnabhai won awards for other categories like best lyrics (Swanand Kirkire), best screenplay ( Hirani, and ), and best supporting actor (Dilip Prabhavalkar, who portrayed Mahatma Gandhi in the film). Incidentally it was a double bonanza for Prabhavalkar, who also won the award for best supporting actor award for Marathi film Shevri. He had played a benign middle class clerk in Shevri and the award was given to him for portraying two diverse and equally challenging characters.

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