The 69th National Film Awards was announced on Thursday during a press conference by the Jury at the National Media Center New Delhi. The Jury members for National Film Awards handed over the list of awardees for feature, non-feature and best script category to Union I&B Minister Anurag Thakur. South Indian movie star Allu Arjun bagged the National Award for Pushpa 2. Soon after Allu was announced as the winner of the Best Actor Award, a video of him celebrating the moment with team Pushpa surfaced online.
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00:00 Jai Bandhu! Jai Bandhu!
00:07 The 69th National Film Awards were announced on Thursday during a press conference by the jury at the National Media Centre, New Delhi.
00:19 The jury members for National Film Awards handed over the list of awardees for Feature, Non-Feature and Best Script category to Union INB Minister Anurag Thakur.
00:29 South Indian movie star Alu Arjun backed the National Award for Pushpa 2.
00:33 The rest of the film team was seen cheering and celebrating for the actor.
00:37 Media and photographers were also called as the film team watched the announcement together.
00:42 This year, there was a direct and major face-off between Visional Cinema and Bollywood.
00:58 Soon after, Alu Arjun was announced as the winner of the Best Actor award.
01:02 A video of him celebrating the moment with team Pushpa surfaced online.
01:06 Junior NTR tweeted for Alu Arjun,
01:21 "Congratulations Alu Arjun Bawa. You deserve all the success and awards you get for Pushpa."
01:26 Replying to him, the actor commented, "Thank you so much for your genuine wishes. Touched. Humbled."
01:31 Meanwhile, Alia Bhatt and Kriti Sanon have backed the Best Actress trophy at the 69th National Film Awards.
01:38 Alia Bhatt nabbed it for her role in Sanjay Leela Bhansali's Gangubai Kathiawadi
01:42 and Kriti Sanon was awarded for her performance in director Laxman Uthekar's Mimi.
01:47 Alia Bhatt could not contain her excitement and expressed gratitude for the big win.
01:51 She took to Instagram and wrote,
01:53 "Thank you sir, to the entire crew, to my family, to my team and last but most definitely not the least to my audience.
01:59 This national award is yours. Because without you all none of this would be possible.
02:03 Seriously, I am so grateful. I do not take moments like these lightly.
02:07 I hope to continue to entertain for as long as I can. Love and Light. Gangu also known as Alia."
02:13 She also expressed her happiness on Kriti's win and congratulated her as well.
02:17 "P.S. Kriti, I remember messaging you the day I saw Mimi.
02:21 It was such an honest and powerful performance. I cried and cried. So so well deserved.
02:26 Shine on you star. The world is your oyster."
02:29 Rocketry, The Nambi Effect, the biographical drama written, produced and directed by R. Madhavan
02:35 in his directorial debut won the Best Feature Film award.
02:38 The National Film Award for Best Director went to Nikhil Mahajan for Marathi film Godavari.
02:43 Pankaj Tripathi, who starred alongside Kriti Sanon in Mimi, won the Best Supporting Actor award
02:48 while the Best Supporting Actress award went to Pallavi Joshi for The Kashmir Files.
02:52 A total of 280 films from 28 languages were submitted for the awards in 2021,
02:58 31 categories in feature film, 24 in non-feature and 3 in script writing on cinema.
03:03 The jury members announced the winners list at an event held by the Government of India's
03:07 Directorate of Film Festivals, which comes under the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting.
03:11 The award ceremony date will be announced soon.
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