Baahubali, Ennu Ninte Moideen win laurels at IIFA Utsavam

Filmmaker SS Rajamouli's magnum opus, ‘Baahubali’ and Malayalam romantic drama, ‘Ennu Ninte Moideen’ bagged the Best film awards at the first edition of IIFA Utsavam.

The first day of the two-day event honoured the Best talent across Tamil and Malayalam film industries late on Sunday.

Of the 12 award categories, ‘Baahubali’, a Tamil-Telugu bilingual, bagged six awards, including the Best Direction and Best Picture.

Other awards the film pocketed include Best Supporting Role; Male for Sathyaraj and Female for Ramya Krishnan.

‘Baahubali’ also won awards for Best Playback Singer Male and Female for Haricharan Seshadri and Geetha Madhuri, respectively.

Actor Jayam Ravi was awarded the Best Leading Role Male for his performance in last year's critically and commercially-acclaimed, ‘Thani Oruvan’.

The Best Leading Role Female award was won by Nayanthara for her performance in horror-thriller, ‘Maya’.

For her impressive work in eliciting humour in horror-comedy ‘Kanchana 2’, actress Kovai Sarla won the Best actor in a Comic Role award. ‘Roja’ fame Arvind Swamy bagged the Best actor in a Negative Role for ‘Thani Oruvan’.

Young sensational composer, Anirudh Ravichander won the award for Best Music Direction for last year's blockbuster ‘Kaththi’.

Actor Dhanush was awarded the Best lyricist for his work in ‘Maari’. In the Malayalam film awards category, Prithiviraj-starrer romantic drama ‘Nenu Ente Moideen’ bagged a total of five awards, including Best Picture.

Actor Prithiviraj Sukumaran and Paravthi won the Best Leading Role Male and Female awards for the same film.

Lena Kumar, who played Prithiviraj's mother in the film, pocketed the Best Supporting Role Female award, while Shreya Ghosal won the Best Playback Singer Female award.

Filmmaker Lal Jose won the award for Best Direction for the film ‘Neena’. Aju Varghese won the award for Best Supporting Role Male for his work in highly-successful film, ‘Oru Vadakkan Selfie’.

Last year's widely popular blockbuster ‘Premam’, a coming of age tale, bagged five awards, including Best Music Direction for Rajesh Murugesan.

Other awards for the film include Best Playback Singer Male for Vijay Yesudas and Lyrics for Shabareesh Verma.

Vinay Forrt won the Best actor in a Comic Role award for ‘Premam’, while Jayasuriya bagged the Best actor in a Negative Role for his work in ‘Iyobinte Pusthakam’.

At the award ceremony, special tributes were paid to late filmmaker K Balachander, music composer MS Vishwanathan and producer TE Vasudevan.

TAMIL WINNERS

Category	Entry	Film
Best Picture	Arka Media Works (P) Ltd	Baahubali-The Beginning
Direction	S.S Rajamouli	Baahubali-The Beginning
Leading Role Male	Jayam Ravi	Thani Oruvan
Leading Role Female	Nayanthara	Maya
Supporting Role Male	Sathyaraj	Baahubali-The Beginning
Supporting Role Female	Ramya Krishnan	Baahubali-The Beginning
Comic Role	Kovai Sarala	Kanchana 2
Negative Role	Arvind Swamy	Thani Oruvan
Music Direction	Anirudh Ravichander	Kaththi
Lyrics	Dhanush	Maari
Playback Singer Male	Haricharan	Baahubali-The Beginning
Playback Singer Female	Geetha Madhuri	Baahubali-The Beginning

MALYALAM WINNERS

Category	Entry	Film
Best Picture	Suresh Raj, Binoy Shankarath and Ragy Thomas	Ennu Ninte Moideen
Direction	Lal Jose	Neena
Leading Role Male	Prithviraj Sukumaran	Ennu Ninte Moideen
Leading Role Female	Parvathi Menon	Ennu Ninte Moideen
Supporting Role Male	Aju Varghese	Oru Vadakan Selfie
Supporting Role Female	Lena Kumar	Ennu Ninte Moideen
Comic Role	Vinay Forrt	Premam
Negative Role	Jayasurya	Iyobinte Pusthakam
Music Direction	Rajesh Murugesan	Premam
Lyrics	Shabareesh Varma	Premam
Playback Singer Male	Vijay Yesudas	Premam
Playback Singer Female	Shreya Ghoshal	Ennu Ninte Moideen