National Awards 2006 - Priyamani, the best actress

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Topic started by Sanjeevi on Tue Jun 10 3:18:51 2008. [Full View]

http://thatstamil.oneindia.in/news/2008/06/10/india-priyamani-bags-national-award-best-actress.html

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From: Roshan on Sun Jun 15 2:35:14 2008.

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Vivasaayi wrote:

jaiganes wrote:

Vivasaayi wrote:

when the performances like mahanadhi,guna,anbe sivam,iruvar which definitely deserved national award...dint receive...nobody really realised that they deserved for that year!

how many pages where discussed on those issues...now for priyamani Embarassed

Those time and age, net and the hub were not so popular to discuss them and offcourse I was not there in the hub.

they were just examples!

i mean when a deserved award was rejected we dont argue!

awardu kuduthachu..ini priyamani overa make up a potutu tvla engileesla pEtti kodukuradha nenacha Mad

over make up'oda sErthu avanga outfits'a nenechu pArthA ..

From: MrJudge on Sun Jun 15 2:37:12 2008. [Full View]

Are you guys talking about Simran's performance from yesteryears or some movie in 2006/07?
From: MrJudge on Sun Jun 15 2:39:02 2008. [Full View]

Vivasaayi wrote:

awardu kuduthachu..ini priyamani overa make up a potutu tvla engileesla pEtti kodukuradha nenacha

Yeah, she is one of those dark skinned natural beauties but spoiling it by cosmetics.

From: equanimus on Sun Jun 15 15:47:01 2008.

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>>Digr. (Last from my end.)

Prabhu Ram wrote:

And an unwarranted clarification on the familiarity of nee against neenga here - love the ambiguity of the English 'you'. The pastiche never endeth - it is a quote from the underrated SV Shekar drama: Yaam iruka bayam En.

Indeed, sir, but the pastiche, like you do suggest, runs deeper. Wasn't that originally Janakaraj's catchline in some '80s flick? (In general, what's more wonderful with S. Ve. Shekar's dramas than the overarching pastiche in everyone of them?) And, I hope you'll refrain from giving such unwarranted clarifications unless there's a reference that you think didn't come through well enough.

Prabhu Ram wrote:

equanimus wrote:

For instance, the mUththa marumagaL of Rajkiran. She's so effortlessly real that you are all set to raise your hands to applaud, only to realise that the film channels the very "real-ness" to pass a judgement on her. If you know what I mean.

I didn't get that.

Ah, that was me trying to rush up my thoughts figuratively rather than articulately. I meant to just extend on the point about self-righteousness, so this is going to be utterly redundant. Advanced apologies.
The only manner in which the film portrays some normal (and real) tensions and insecurities of a newlywed bride is by vilifying the new bride. In contrast, the other marumagaL, Cheran's wife, is very demure and has nothing less than profusely sugarcoated words for her in-laws; which seem to be the characteristic qualities of a "good" and "well-behaved" daughter-in-law in the universe of the film. This is not really the central motif of the film, but, the portrayal of many other things in the film were one-dimensional along these same lines.

<<End digr.

From: P_R on Mon Jun 16 3:10:02 2008. [Full View]

equanimus wrote:

Wasn't that originally Janakaraj's catchline in some '80s flick?
Oh ! Didn't know that.

equanimus wrote:

The only manner in which the film portrays some normal (and real) tensions and insecurities of a newlywed bride is by vilifying the new bride.
Hmm.....I think there was space for us to see her PoV too. When she arrests her husband's brushing off of her issues with "naan enna loosA ?", her sorrows are quite visible. And if at all it is possible for us to see things from her PoV - atleast momentarily - it is because she was "real" and not a regular Tamil cinema "adangAppidAri marumagaL".

And the issues chosen to show the rift were just awesome. She crosses swords ably with Rajkiran in the "Kuspu" scene. This is exactly what I meant when I said the character and the performance cannot be separated out too much. The first DIL (think her name was MeenAL) was just perfect. A flat line like"திடீர்னு சமைக்க்ச்சொன்னா எப்பிடி சமைக்கிறது ?....ரெண்டு பேத்துக்குத்தான் சமைச்சிருக்கு" and simple things like refusing to hand the baby to Saranya when in Cheran's flat (her whole demeanour in that visit to the flat) is just great work IMO.

Cheran wrote:

...the portrayal of many other things in the film were one-dimensional along these same lines.
That's Cheran's characters-for-a-purpose school.

From: equanimus on Mon Jun 16 5:24:55 2008.

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Prabhu Ram wrote:

And if at all it is possible for us to see things from her PoV - atleast momentarily - it is because she was "real" and not a regular Tamil cinema "adangAppidAri marumagaL".

I see what you mean, but I thought there isn't much in the film to evoke the audience's empathy for her character, squarely staying on the other side. Hence my remark. The depiction of the character and her conflicts with her ever-so-freakishly-nice in-laws are very real, and the film only manages to moralise about how it's all about loving your parents (and thus your in-laws).

Prabhu Ram wrote:

And the issues chosen to show the rift were just awesome. She crosses swords ably with Rajkiran in the "Kuspu" scene. This is exactly what I meant when I said the character and the performance cannot be separated out too much. The first DIL (think her name was MeenAL) was just perfect. A flat line like"திடீர்னு சமைக்க்ச்சொன்னா எப்பிடி சமைக்கிறது ?....ரெண்டு பேத்துக்குத்தான் சமைச்சிருக்கு" and simple things like refusing to hand the baby to Saranya when in Cheran's flat (her whole demeanour in that visit to the flat) is just great work IMO.

Yes, I completely agree with you in that the issues chosen to show the rift were pretty good; like I already mentioned, taken straight out of real life. I thought she was especially superb in that scene when she visits Cheran's new flat. I remember mentioning it in my write-up on the film too, back then. Anyway, I haven't revisited the film since.

From: P_R on Mon Jun 16 5:59:52 2008. [Full View]

Largely true that the film is positioned against her and stays on the "other side" but IMO there was some space provided

equanimus wrote:

with her ever-so-freakishly-nice in-laws
In the Kuspu episode Rajkiran speaks dismissively to her. When she retorts Saranya pounces one her quite threateningly. This happens again when the conflict comes into the open. Similarly in the scene where she is shown to "shirk" kitchen duties there is some space to see why she would be upset.

Overall, I agree that the scales were loaded against here...just not completely. Cheran's best film yet.

From: equanimus on Mon Jun 16 6:56:10 2008.

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Prabhu Ram wrote:

In the Kuspu episode Rajkiran speaks dismissively to her. When she retorts Saranya pounces one her quite threateningly. This happens again when the conflict comes into the open. Similarly in the scene where she is shown to "shirk" kitchen duties there is some space to see why she would be upset.

Yes, surely, I do remember Saranya's tiffs with her, only to be cooled off by Rajkiran in those occassions. I was referring to the overall presence of an extremely benign patriarch in the family. (On a related note, let's not forget that the name the lady comes up with for her kid in the film is itself clearly designed to elicit ridicule from the audience, thus making the other side seem all the more fair and reasonable; says a lot about where the film stands with regard to her, IMO.)

Prabhu Ram wrote:

Overall, I agree that the scales were loaded against here...just not completely. Cheran's best film yet.

Hmmm, I understand. Probably, I need to revisit this film.

From: Murali Srinivas on Thu Jun 19 14:11:52 2008. [Full View]

Was going through all the posts in this thread all these days without being judgemental. Read a article in a Malayalam magazine today about the awards and my mind immediately jumped to this thread. The article while expressing its happiness about Malayalam cinema winning 9 awards in total (6 in feature fulms section and 3 in non feature category) also points out to certain "not happy" things that took place in the selection process.

It talks about the discussions that took place for deciding on the Best actor award. Buddhadas Gupta, the Bengali film director who was the Jury chairman of the award committie, it seems was more than favourably inclined towards Soumitra Chatterjee and went out of the way to award him the best actor for 2006.

There was a Malayalam movie called "Karuthha Pakshigal" directed by Kamal. The main protagonist in the movie is a Tamil and it dealt with a life of a mobile iron man. Kerala has a lot of such mobile iron men and almost all of them are from Tamilnadu. Here the man, a widower has three children with one among them being a blind girl. The story deals with the trails and turbulations he undergoes to restore the eyesight of his daughter.

Mammootty had given out a spelendid performance. This film had been selected as the best social/family welfare movie. At the same time the jury chairman had refused to consider Mammootty for the award. During the discussions he had told it seems that he (Mammootty) had already won three National awards and so let us not take him into account, the jury chairman had argued. He had cited the age of Soumitra Chaterjee and had told it seems that he may (S.Chatterjee) not act hereafter. Thilakan (for the film Ekantham) was there in contention till the final round it seems but the jury chairman's words strongly carried the day for S.chatterjee, the article points out. Since the jury could not put aside Thilakan's performance, he having been denied twice the same (the second time his Perunthachhan was pipped at the post by Big B of Agnipath in 1990 but it was clear that political pressure had played its part then), he was given the special jury award, the article points out. If the no of times won or the age is going to be the deciding factor for deciding the best then God save the award, it concludes.

The fact that both the affected persons are from Kerala must have played a part in the magazine coming out with such an article cannot be ruled out. But the fact is, every year the Malayalam media religiously reports about the inside happenings during award selections.

Bottomline is you need more than artistic capability to win an award at the national level. No wonder NT never got one.

Regards
From: ajithfederer on Thu Jun 19 14:30:44 2008. [Full View]

Whatever it is congrats to priyamani for a National award

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