Tag Archives: Ozhivu Divasathe Kali

The Best of Malayalam Cinema in 2016: A Perspective

2016 has turned out to be a slightly low key year for Malayalam Cinema overall, with strangely a decrease in the output, both in terms of quantity and quality. Talking of the number of releases there has been a sharp decline in terms of both straight as well as dubbed releases. From 153 releases overall last year (140 straight and 13 dubbed), 2016 saw the release count drop to 122 overall (118 straight releases and 4 dubbed films). And sadly the culmination of the year has ended on a really sad note for the industry, a pity considering the kind of promising films which were lined up for release in the Christmas-New Year festive season.  What started off as a tussle between the producers and distributors/exhibitors over revenue sharing and was expected to get resolved well before the Christmas weekend has extended into a huge deadlock of sorts. As a result all the major festival releases continue to wait for a release and will now in all certainty turn out to be the first few releases of 2017.Continue reading “The Best of Malayalam Cinema in 2016: A Perspective”

The Kerala State Film Awards 2016: Complete List of Winners

Unlike last year when there was a lot of drama over the Kerala State Film Awards, this time around the awards have been announced well on time. Earlier today in Thiruvananthapuram the awards were announced by the minister for cinema Thiruvanchoor Radhakrishnan. Martin Prakatt’s Charlie turned out to be the major  winner at the Kerala State Film Awards bestowed by the Kerala State Chalachitra Academy.

The jury for the awards this time was headed by veteran filmmaker Mohan and the rest of the jury members included George Kithu, AL Vijay, Sulakshana, Sharath, B R Prasad, Venugopal, Premchand, Dr Soman, and CR Rajmohan.

Here’s the list of award winners:

Charlie Poster 3Best Film: Ozhivu Divasathe Kali  (Sanalkumar Sashidharan)

Best Second Story: Ameoba

Best Director: Martin Prakkat (Charlie)

Best Actor: Dulquer Salmaan (Charlie)

Best Actress: Parvathy (Ennu Ninte Moideen)

Best Character Actor: Prem Prakash (Nirnayakam)

Best Character Actress: Anjali PV  (Ben)

Best Child Artiste (male): Gaurav G Menon (Ben)

Best Child Artiste (female): Janaki Menon (Malgudi Days)

Best Cinematogrpaher: Jomon T John (Charlie, Ennu Ninte Moideen, Nee-Na)

Best Scriptwriter: Unni R , Martin Prakkat (Charlie)

Best Script Adaptation: Velutha Rathrikal

Collage-Kerala State Film Award Winners 2016Best Lyrics – Rafeeq Ahamed (Ennu Ninte Moideen)

Best Music Director: Ramesh Narayanan (Edavapathy, Ennu Ninte Moideen)

Best Background Score: BijiBal (Pathemari , Nee-Na)

Best Singer (Male): Jayachandran (Jilebi, Ennum Epozum, Ennu Ninte Moideen)

Best Singer (female): Madhusri Narayanan (Edavapathy)

Best Editor: Manoj (Ivide)

Ennu Ninte Moideen Poster 5Best Art Director: Jayashree (Charlie)

Best Live Sound: Sundeep, Jijimon (Ozhivu Divasathe Kali)

Best Makeup Man: Rajesh Nermara (Nirnayakam)

Best Dubbing Artiste: Sarath (Edavapathy)

Best Dubbing Artiste (female): Angel Shijoy (Haram)

Best Debut Director: Sreebala K Menon (Love 24×7)

Best Chldren’s Movie: Malayattom  (Homas Devasia)

Special Jury Award: Jayasurya, (Lukka Chuppi, Su Su Sudhi Vathmeekam)