Malayalam actor Mammootty becomes the finalist for 62nd national award. Mammootty is being short listed for his outstanding performance in the movie ‘Munnariyippu ‘directed by noted cinematographer Venu.
Earlier Mammootty bagged the highest award in India thrice for his movies. If Mammootty gets one more national award he will become the only one actor winning this prestigious recognition four times. As of now Amithabh Bachan, Kamal Hasan and Mammootty won this award three times each.
List of Mammootty’s national award winning films.
Year | Movies | Director |
1990 | Mathilukal, Oru Vadakkan Veeragatha | Adoor Gopalakrishnan, Hariharan |
1994 | Pothanmada, Videhayan | T V Chandran , Adoor Goplakrishnan |
1999 | Dr Babasaheb Ambedkar | Jabbar Patel |
‘Munnariyippu’ is one of the finest movies released in recent times in Malayalam cinema. The movie is well crafted with crispy script which beautifully made in a thriller genre. Mammootty excels in his role as C K Raghavan who is spending his term in jail for committing double homicide. We never see Mammootty as a super star as he is living as C K Raghavan through out the movie. His body language, smile and look shows that the actor has crossed limit of acting. Malayalam actress Aparna Gopinath too performed very well in the movie as Anjali Arackal.
Bollywood actor’s Shahid Kappor and Amir Khan also reached in the final rounds for their movies ‘Haider’ and ‘PK’ respectively. These movies too were well received and critically acclaimed. Mammootty will get a tight competition from these talented actors for the national award winner.