Amrita Film Awards 2012 Announced: ''Salt N'Pepper'' and ''Chappa Kurisu'' Bag Best Film Award; Mohan Lal and Jayaprada win Best Actor Awards; Lifetime Achievement for P.Jayachandran; Awards for ONV,Prabhu Deva, Dileep, Prithviraj, Jayaram, Kavya, Thilakan, Karthik, Renjith
The trendsetting films that created a new wave in Malayalam filmdom in 2011 have swept the Amrita Film Awards 2012. These films include ''Traffic'', ''Salt N'Pepper'' ,''Chappa Kurisu'' and ''Beautiful''.
Mohan Lal and Jayaprada win the Best Actor Award (Male and Female) for ''Pranayam'', while ONV Kurup gets the Best Lyricist Award for the same film. The Best Director Award is bagged by Renjith for ''Indian Rupee'' .
''Salt N'Pepper'' and ''Chappa Kurisu'' share the honours for the Best Film Award.
The Amrita Film Awards 2012 will be presented on Saturday May 5, 2012 at Chandrasekharan Nair Stadium,Trivandrum in a glittering entertaining ceremony .
The highlight of the Amrita Film Awards is the bestowing of Lifetime Achievement Award on veteran playback maestro, P.Jayachandran . Other veterans who are being honoured with Most Versatile Actor in Character Roles are Thilakan for ''Indian Rupee'' and Sarada for ''Nayika''. Noted choreographer,director,actor, Prabhu Deva receives the award for Versatile Personality(Tamil).
Dileep gets the Popular Actor Award (Male) and Kavya Madhavan receives the award in Female category. Prithiviraj bags the Yuva Keerthi Puraskara Award .
In the music category, many names vie with each other --Karthik receives the Versatile Singer Award ; Unni Menon gets the Best Singer Award(Male) for ''Beautiful'' and Manjari gets the Award for the Best Singer(Female) for ''Urumi''; with Biji Bal scoring the Best Music Director Award for ''Salt N'Pepper'' .
The honours for Best Supporting Actor are shared by Biju Menon and Manoj K.Jayan for ''Seniors'' while the female category award is taken by Lena for ''Traffic''. The Family Hero of the Year Award goes to Jayaram. The film ''Beautiful'' brings to Jayasurya the Entertainer of the Year Award. Vijayaraghavan wins the Best Villian Award for ''Venisile Vyapari''
A new category called Innovative Producer of the Year goes to ''Urumi'' Producers team led by Santhosh Sivan. Likewise, the New Face of the Year Award goes to Unni Mukundan (Male) and Karthika(Female). The Best Youthful Pair Award is bagged by Mythili and Asif Ali for ''Salt N'Pepper'', and the Best On-screen Pair Award by Shwetha Menon and Lal for ''Salt N'Pepper'' . Master Sidharth will receive the Award for Best Child Artiste in ''Orma Mathram''
The star-studded Nite will also honour excellence in various technical categories: ''Salt N'Pepper'' fetches awards for Aashiq Abu, Sadanandan Rangorath& Debobroto Mandal ; ''Chappa Kurisu'' wins awards for Sameer Tahir, Listin Stephen, Joemon John ; ''Traffic'' bestows awards for Rajesh Pillai, Sanjay&Bobby ; and ''Beautiful'' gets awards for Anoop Menon, Mahesh Narayanan and V.K.Prakash
A distinguished galaxy of eminent persons along with an audience of nearly 25,000 is expected to witness the Amrita Film Awards on 5th evening at Trivandrum .Entry is through Passes.
SPECIAL AWARD WINNERS
Asha Bhosle Winner of "Amrita Award for Outstanding Contribution in Music & Culture"
Milkha Singh Winner of "Amrita Award for Outstanding Contribution in Athletics"
Vidya Balan Winner of "Amrita Award for Outstanding Contribution in Performing Arts"
Amrita TV, launched in 2005, as a 24-hour Malayalam, general entertainment & news satellite channel with a global footprint, has
been honoured with 56 State Awards for Excellence in Television - the only channel in India to be bestowed with such a recognition.
