Don't gt me wrong, this is the 1st time iam hearing of jury members were headed by assamese filmmaker. Although, i am a tamilian and i only know all south indian films and hindi films. Not even heard of assamese films often.
I have heard of assamese films, rarely like sinhalese cinema(sri lanka), but not often as bengali cinema or south indian cinema as is often heard in india other than bollywood.
So the winners were really unexpected. Since ore kadal ws more sucess than paradesi, hope tht mammootty will win best actor award. I also expectd paradesi to win best film, but the film that won was a suprise.
I also liked tht nallu pennugal won awards, but dissapointed tht geetu mohandas did not win for nallu penugal or for thakarachenda possibly for best actress. But meera deserved it more than geetu mohandas though.
RE:Jury members!!
by bala sreenivasan on Apr 10, 2008 04:39 PM Permalink
Assam ,as a state, may be small, but they makemeaningful movies like Keralites. The Assamese industry has some rare and remarkable talents
RE:Jury members!!
by Dawson on Apr 11, 2008 03:35 AM Permalink
Well, kerala state awards have only these kind of juries and evrytime its new, so these awards ar not biased. Evn the judging of the movies in international film festival of kerala is also good, they bring filmmakers from south america, middle east etc.. They shud keep on doing tht since filmmakers from arnd the country ar exposed to malayalam cinema and also kerala can get a view of filmmakers arnd the country and their works.
But ther ar few popular awards i.e asianet, mathrabhoomi(for tamil and malayalam films), amrita t.v etc.. the audiences also pick good choices for the winners, but not as good as the jury picks.
