National Film Awards 2022: Suriya & Aparna Balamurali bag 'Best Actor and Actress' for Soorarai Pottru | PINKVILLA

July 22, 2022 Aakash Ghosh India 0

The results of 68th National Film Awards are out. Suriya, the Tamil superstar won the Best Actor for his blockbuster and much-acclaimed film Soorarai Pottru. Aparna, who played the female lead in the film, also bagged Best Actress at National Awards. Wishes are pouring in for the Soorarai Pottru actors and are also trending on Twitter.

This is the first time Suriya won National Award and fans are overjoyed for the recognition for as the actor truly deserves. Music composer of Soorarai Pottru GV Prakash also won National Award. It is one of the most prestigious honours in the field of cinema, the awards celebrate the best actors, films, and more noteworthy contributions made in the recent past.

Soorarai Pottru has been setting records ever since its release. It got selected as one among ten Indian films to be screened under the Best Foreign Film category at the 78th Golden Globe Awards. Suriya starrer has managed to set a world record by becoming the third highest-rated movie on IMDb. The film also got selected for Oscars 2021 but failed to make it to the final list but still gained a lot of appreciation for taking Indian cinema to the International level.

Soorarai Pottru is a fictionalized account of the life of the retired Army Captain. G. R. Gopinath, who founded the low-cost airline, Air Deccan. Though the film had a direct OTT release, it was a huge success as fans flooded Twitter with positive reviews. It has also been co-produced by Suriya and Guneet Monga.

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Suriya’s Soorarai Pottru is being remade in Hindi and Sudha Kongara, who helmed the original version, will be directing the remake as well. Suriya is producing the Hindi remake under his production house 2D Entertainment. Akshay Kumar is reprising Suriya’s role in the Hindi version.

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