Malayalam Cinema win four honors at the National Film Awards; Urvashi and Vijayaraghavan receive the Best Supporting Actor Awards

Malayalam Cinema did not shine at the National Film Awards for the year 2023, which was declared on Friday, but for some worthy winners, the nodes cheered a lot for the industry.

Urvashi won the best actor (woman) for her performance Owljuku And Vijayaraghavan won the award for Best Supporting Actor (Men) PokalamHowever, both of them played a lead role in these films.

OwljukuDirected by Christo Tommy, won the award for the Best Malayalam film. Art director Mohandas Palkoti won the Best Production Design Award for the film 2018In which he rebuilt the flood colliding with Kerala in 2018. Technically solid entertainment of floods in a set on an empty plot raised the film.

Midhun Murali won the award for the best editor for his natural work PukkalaM.

In OwljukuUrvashi played the role of Lilamma, who shares a terrible relationship with her daughter -in -law. The death of her son was destroyed and caught in the midst of revelation of unpleasant truths, the woman excavates deeply in her stores to navigate disturbed water.

Urvashi gave a masterclass of controlled acting, with the use of subtle gestures, unusual depth are added to the scenes. Performance won her Record Setting for the sixth time for the best female actor Kerala State Film Award.

Another veteran artist Vijayarghvan is in the middle of a rewarding period in his long career, with a group of roles that challenged the actor. In PokalamHe plays the role of a 100 -year -old Itotop, who detects an old letter on the day of his granddaughter’s betrayal, a letter that threatens to put a cloud on a happy occasion, which brings to the surface of the family’s burial secrets.

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Vijayaraghavan, along with KPAC Leela, put it in a demonstration to move forward as a couple, who are facing late crisis in their lives. He was able to make the character’s age reliable through minimal painted movements of the body.

In the non-film category, MK Ramdas won a special mention for the documentary Neckle-currencies of a paddy man.