Sanjay Dutt starrer 'Lagey Raho Munnabhai' which brought to fore 'Gandhigiri' by invoking the values of Mahatma Gandhi, swept the 54th National Film Awards for 2006, by winning four honours, including for best popular film.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 actor Soumitra Chatterjee 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 Kabir Khan 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 Dadasaheb Phalke 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 (Rajkumar Hirani, Vidhu Vinod Chopra and Abhijat Joshi), 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.
Source - Press Trust of India
June 11, 2008
"Lagey raho Munnabhai" sweeps 54th National Film Awards
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Hearty congratulations to Lage Raho Munnabhai team for bagging four honours and the best popular film Award. The 54th National Film Awards saw the first Hindi sequel film to repeat the feat of winning National Awards. While LRM was a movie with wholesome entertainment, it was also filled with great Gandhi values. The movie has rekindled the Gandhian thoughts and helped in rediscovering the Gandhi within the common man. The philosophy of non-violence was embedded with a motive of reinventing compassion and brotherhood.
Dilip Phrabhavalkar who portrayed Mahatma Gandhi in Lage Raho deserves kudos for injecting gandhigiri values. Sanjay Dutt, Arshad Warsi and Vidya Balan needs to be congratulated for creating `chemical locha' in the movie.
Can these laurels help Munnabhai to withstand the litmus-test in his political career ? Tension nahi leneka, Bapu hai na !
Dr. Narayan Iyer
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