The State Film Award 2014 has created chaos all around before and after the official announcement of the awards. The social medias are full of questions relating to the jury’s decision, where why they were not seeing the talented performances with much calibre were not at all credited. Many of the them buzzed about their disagreement to this years awards for not selecting the powerful roles that has been well handled by actors like Mammootty and Jayasurya These issues in the social medias has provoked them to prove their stands on this years awards with detailed reasons and explanations.
The awards goes like this. Beginning with the Best Actor Award won by Nivin Pauly and Sudev Nair , was because of his versatility and effortless representation of characters without any trace of mistake found for Nivin and Sudev, for performing his character with the wave of expressions in every nook and corner of the movie, which was enlightening. Coming to the Best Actress Award for Nazriya Nazim which was on the basis of her transforming into the energetic performance and the exhausted face of her character into the silver screen with soul beauty, which was effortless.
Next is the Best Director Award won by Sanalkumar Sasidharan for Oraalppokkam which reflected the different soulful life with the bodily true life journey which enclosed the spiritual bond in it. And moving to the next award which is the Best Film won by Ottal directed by Jayaraj for focussing on making the best out of the negative side with truth flowing about the scenic subject.
Special Jury mention for producing Dr. George Mathew for Apothecary and AUPS Chembrassery for ‘La Sa Gu’ for making movies with social relevance in the society, Apothecary which was about the business that happens in the health field where the illegal collection of economy which was a strong blow and La Sa Gu which showcased the balancing of children’s mind knowing them, with the unity and support for the film given by AUPS Chembrassery’s teachers and management.
The award for the Best Original Screenplay was selected as Anjali Menon’s Bangalore Days which revolves around three walks of life and then combined to focus as one on the whole.The Special Jury Award was received by Prathap Pothen for his performance in the movie ‘Once upon a time there was a kallan’ for making the character look so perfect through his versatile and accuracy in acting.
The other award which were announced at the Kerala State Film Awards 2014 were, the Best Cinematographer Award was received by Amal Neerad for the film Iyobinte Pusthakam,The Best Adapted Screenplay Award was given to Ranjith for Njan. Siddharth Siva was accredited with the Best Story Award for Ain and the Best Background score Award was won by Bijipal. For the Best Character Role in Male and Female Awards were given to Anoop Menon for 1983, Vikramadithyan and Sethulakshmi for How Old Are You respectively.
The other main awards are Second Best Film for Padma Kumar’s My Life Partner , Best Editor Lijo Paul for Ohm Shanthi Oshaana, Best child Actor and Actress were Adwaith from Ankuram and Ann Fathima from Randu Penkuttikal. Best Music Director Award was accredited with Ramesh Narayan for the film White Boys (Song : Aadityakiranangal), Best Lyricist OS Unnikrishnan for the song Ithrapakalinodu from ‘La Sa Gu’, the Best Playback Singer Male and Female were KJ Yesudas for the song Aaditya kiranangal from ‘White Boys’ ,which also won the award for best music director for the same song and Shreya Ghoshal for the song Vijanathayil from the movie ‘How Old Are You’.
The Best Debutant Director of 2014 was selected as Abrid Shine for this movie ‘1983’. The Special Jury Award for the Best Popular Film and Aesthetic value was won by ‘Ohm Shanthi Oshaana’.The other Special Jury Mentions were for Indrans performance in the movie ‘Apothecary’, Singer MG Swarasagar for ‘Manalchithrangal’,Yakzan Gary Pereira and Neha S Nair for Music Direction in the movie ‘Iyobinte Pusthakam’ along with Prathap Pothen and AUPS Chembrassery.’Ankuram’ was selected as the Best Children’s Film directed by T Deepesh.
The categories which won the technical and other awards are follows :
Best Costume Designer: Sameera Saneesh (various films)
Best Sound Designer: Thapasnayak (Iyobinte Pusthakam)
Best Processing Lab/Colourist: Ranganathan (Iyobinte Pusthakam)
Best Art Director: Indulal Kaveedu (Njan Ninnodu Koodeyundu)
Best Dubbing Artist∙(Male): Harishanth (White Boys)
Best Dubbing Artist (Female): Vimmy Mariam George (Munnariyippu)
Best Live Sound: Sandeep Kurissery, Jijimon Joseph Oralpokkam
Best Makeup Artist: Manoj Angamali (Iyobinte Pusthakam)
Best Sound Mixing: Harikumar (various films)
So these are the awards that were announced this year for 2014 as a recognition to their hardwork and dedication. All that fuzz which happened about this years awards was may be because of the Best Actress Award won by Nazriya Nazim, which was unexpected resulting in controversies. Otherwise, the awards may have been ‘peaceful’ like the other awards.
