BJP Madhavan and ex BJP Gautami winners, Kamal ignored by DMK State awards

In a race to beat the model code of Election Commission, DMK Government has gone and given the Best Actor award for 2015 to R Madhavan, a Sangh Parivar sympathizer and to Gauthami the ex BJP office bearer wo joined AIADMK. R Madhavan the Director of the film Rocketry that showed Congress and UPA in bad light won National awards, was also made President of FTII Society Pune. After the BJP came to power in Centre, this post has been going to those who are pro saffron and had created many controversies. Yet another award winner that will make the Ministers Swaminathan I&B minister along with Health Minister Ma Subramanian and HR &CE Sekar Babu squirm in their seats is that of Actress Gautami who was judged best character actress for her performance in Papanasam, Incidentally Kamal Haasan played her hubby in the film. CM Stalin is not giving away the awards. In all probability Udhaynidhi could be expected. It is no secret that political affliatations count when State Government awards are announced.

The film Irudhi Suttru directed by Sudha Kongara had Madhavan in the lead along with Ritika Singh. All three have won the State Award. Thani Oruvan with Jeyam Ravi in lead has picked up 5 awards including best villain but missed the Best actor award. One reason is that Jeyam Ravi’s mother in law Sujatha is a close pal of Kushboo who loses no opportunity to put the DMK in the docks. Though the DMK could weed out Ravi , it missed Gautami and Maddy. Even taking for granted that State level DMK thinktanks were not familiar with Maddy and his Rocketry brand politics, it is a surprise that Gauthami crept in and to add salt to wound, she joined the AIADMK and is said to be a front runner for a Lok Sabha ticket. On the sidelines, we hear that Kamal will be fielded on a DMK backed ticket. As the press release says that invites have gone out to all Kollywood celebs and so it would include Kamal Haasan too, the function will generate more news outside the venue. With the winners list out on March 3rd, the function is on March 6th at Rajaratinam Kalai Arangam in R A Puram in Chennai. Valluvar Kottam hall is under renovation. A backlog of 2009- 2014 film awards was cleared in one go at a function in 2022. The last few years of the AIADMK Government saw the annual award function kept in limbo. The Kalaimamani Awards was given for 2019-2020 year and this too could now spring up. The list of award winners drawn up by Tamil Nadu Eyal Isai Nataka Manram, had led to a batch of litigations and HC asked the body to fix norms and not decide on caste and religion basis the winners who are supposed to have done yeoman service to field of arts.