Pathemari won national award after got rejected in state film awards !

Pathemari, the Salim Ahammad directorial film released in 2015 October was one of the best film released last year in Mollywood and it had won both critical appreciation and decent box office success. Everybody expected that the film would get some honors at the state film awards of Kerala. The awards announced last month and surprisingly, the film does not get any major awards.

Even Mammootty got nothing for his superb performance as Pallickal Narayanan in the film. The state award jury rejected the film badly. But now the film had selected as the best Malayalam film of 2015 by the national award jury and it’s like a sweet revenge from Pathemari team.

The national awards has been announced yesterday and Malayalam cinema only got very few honors this time. The major ones are for M Jayachandran who won the best music director award for Ennu Ninte Moideen, Best actor special jury award for Jayasurya and Best child artist award for Gaurav Menon etc.

Pathemari got the award for best film that came from Kerala to contest in the awards. The film which told the story of non- resident Indians who migrated to gulf and the later generation of theirs is considered as one of the best films in Mammootty’s career also.