Bahubali' got Best Feature Film National Award | SS Rajamouli, Prabhas, Rana, team flooded with wishes

'Bahubali' bags Best Feature Film National Award: SS Rajamouli, Prabhas, Rana, team flooded with wishes

"Bahubali: The Beginning" has already won several awards at the South Filmfare Awards

63rd National Awards: 'Baahubali' bags Best Film, Amitabh Bachchan Best Actor

Amitabh Bachchan has won this year's national award for best actor for Piku, while Kangana Ranaut is best actress for 'Tanu Weds Manu Returns.'

A formal announcement of the 63rd National Film Awards is expected at 11.30 am today.

S S Rajamouli's 'Baahubali' is this year's Best Film, while Sanjay Leela Bhansali has won Best Director for 'Bajirao Mastani'.

SS Rajamouli’s fantasy epic Baahubali bagged the top honour at the 63rd National Film Baahubali — which features Prabhas, Rana Daggubati and some of the best VFX seen in the Indian film industry so far — had become one of the biggest blockbusters of 2016, earning over Rs 600 crore at Piku and Bajrangi Bhaijaan. In addition to Best Feature Film, it won the "Best Special Effects" honour as well.

the worldwide box office. It became the third highest Indian grosser of all time, coming up behind

Baahubali producer Shobu Yarlagadda said it was a huge achievement, as this is the first Telugu film to bag the Best Feature Film nod at the National Awards.

"Winning the 63rd National Award for Best Film is a huge achievement. Being the first Telugu film to do so makes it all the more special (sic)," Yarlagadda tweeted.

The list of winners below:

Best Film: Baahubali – The Beginning

Best Special Effects: Baahubali – The Beginning

Best Director: Sanjay Leela Bhansali for "Bajirao Mastani"

Best Actress: Kangana Ranaut "Tanu Weds Manu Returns"

Best Actor: Amitabh Bachchan for "Piku"

Best Supporting Actress: Tanvi Azmi for Bajirao Mastani

Best Supporting Actor: Samuthirakani for Visaranai

Best Child Artist: Gaurav Menon from the film "Ben"

Best Children's Film: Duronto

Best Popular Film providing wholesome entertainment: Bajrangi Bhaijaan

Best Film on Social Issues - Nirnnayakam

Best Film on Environment Conservation/Preservation: Valiya Chirakulla Pakshikal

Best Editing Award: Lt. TE Kishore for Visaranai

Indira Gandhi Award for Best Debut Film Of A Director: Neeraj Ghaywan for Masaan

Nargis Dutt Award for Best Feature Film On National Integration - Nanak Shah Fakir

Best Music Direction: M Jayachandran for Song Kaathirunnu Kaathirunnu for the film "Ennu Ninte Moideen"

Best Music Direction: Background Score Ilaiyaraaja For The Film Thaarai Thappattai

Best Female Playback Singer: Monali Thakur for Moh Moh Ke Dhaage from "Dum Laga Ke Haisha"

Best Male Singer: Mahesh Kale for the film "Katyar Kaljat Ghusili"

Best Makeup: Nanak Shah Fakir team 

Best Jury Award: Kalki Koechlin for "Margarita, with a Straw"

Best Lyricists: Varun Grover for Moh Moh Ke Dhaage from "Dum Laga Ke Haisha"

Best Choreography: Remo D'Souza for Deewani Mastani song from "Bajirao Mastani"

Best Cinematography -Sudeep Chaterjee for "Bajirao Mastani"

Best Screenplay Writer (Original): Juhi Chaturvedi for "Piku" and Himanshu Sharm for "Tanu Weds Manu Returns"

Best Screenplay Dialogues: Juhi Chaturvedi for "Piku" and Himanshu Sharma for "Tanu Weds Manu Returns"

Special Mention - Ritika Singh for "Irudhi Suttru" (Saala Khadoos)

Special Mention - Jayasurya for Su Su Sudhi Vathmeekam & Lukka Chuppi

Special Mention - Rinku Rajguru for the film "Sairat"

Best Film Friendly State Award: Gujarat

Best Film Friendly State Award: Special mention to Uttar Pradesh and Kerala

Best Assamese Film - Kothanodi

Best Bengali Film - Shankhachil

Best Hindi Film: Dum Laga Ke Haisha

Best Kannada Film - Thithi

Best Konkani Film: Enemy

Best Malayalam Film - Pathemari

Best Marathi Film - Ringan

Best Odiya Film: Pahada Ra Luha

Best Tamil Film: Visaaranai

Best Mizo Film - Kima's Lode Beyond The Class

Best Sanskrit Film –Priyamanasam

Best Maithili Film -Mithila Makhaan

Best Telugu Film -Kanche

Best Manipuri Film -Eibusu Yaohanbiyu

Best Wancho Film: The Head Hunter

Best Bodo Film: Dau Huduni Methai

Best Haryanvi Film: Satrangi

Best Khasi Film: Onaatah

Best Non Feature Film: Gujarati film "Amdavad Ma Famous"

Best Art Cultural Film: A Far Afternoon - A Painted Saga

Best Biographical: Life in a Metaphor

Best Short Fiction Film: Marathi film "Aushad"

Best Animation Award: 'Fisherwoman and Tuktuk'

Best Social Film Award: Autodriver

 National Film Awards 2016

Baahubali: The Beginning is a 2015 Indian epic historical fiction film directed by S. S. Rajamouli. Produced by Shobu Yarlagadda and Prasad Devineni, it is the first of two cinematic parts. The film was simultaneously made in Telugu and Tamil and dubbed into Hindi, Malayalam and French. The film stars Prabhas, Rana Daggubati, Tamannaah and Anushka Shetty in lead roles. Sathyaraj, Ramya Krishnan, Nassar, Adivi Sesh, Tanikella Bharani and Sudeep appear in supporting roles. The soundtrack and background score were composed by M. M. Keeravani while the cinematography, editing, art direction and visual effects supervision were done by K. K. Senthil Kumar, Kotagiri Venkateswara Rao, Sabu Cyril and V. Srinivas Mohan respectively.

The film, which was made on a budget of ₹120 crore (US$18 million), released worldwide on 10 July 2015 to positive reviews from critics, became the highest grossing Indian film within India, and became the third highest grossing Indian film globally. It became the first South Indian film to gross over ₹600 crore (US$89 million) worldwide and the first non-Hindi film to gross over ₹100 crore (US$15 million) in the dubbed Hindi version. It is also the highest grossing Telugu film of all time.


An international version of the film edited by Vincent Tabaillon was screened at the Open Cinema Strand of Busan International Film Festival, Indian Film Festival The Hague, Sitges Film Festival in Spain, Utopiales Film Festival in France, Golden Horse Film Festival in Taipei, Taiwan, Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival in Estonia, L'Etrange International Film Festival in Paris, Five Flavours Film Festival in Poland and Hawaii International Film Festival in Honolulu. The international version of the film is scheduled to be released in China, Japan, Korea, Taiwan, Indonesia, Thailand, Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, Myanmar, Timor-Leste along with some European and Latin American countries. The film has garnered the Best Feature Film, and the Best Special Effects at the 63rd National Film Awards.