President Droupadi Murmu will confer the 70th National Film Awards for the year 2022 in New Delhi tomorrow. On the occasion, legendary Actor Mithun Chakraborty will be honoured with the Dadasaheb Phalke Award, the highest recognition in the field of Cinema. The Best Actor award will be conferred to Rishab Shetty for his stupendous performance in the Kannada film Kantara. The Best Actress award will be received by Nithya Menen for the Tamil film Thiruchitrambalam and Manasi Parekh for the Gujarati film Kutch Express.
The award for Best Book on Cinema will be conferred to Kishore Kumar: The Ultimate Biography authored by Anirudha Bhattacharjee and Parthiv Dhar. The Best Feature Film will be given to the Malayalam film Aattam, while Ayena will be recognized as the Best Non-Feature Film. Sooraj Barjatya will be honoured as the Best Director for his film Uunchai. In the feature film category, Gulmohar will receive the Best Hindi Film award and Haryanvi film Fouja will be given the Best Lyrics award in the non-feature film category.
In the music category, Arijit Singh will be given the Best Male Playback Singer award, and Bombay Jayashri will receive the Best Female Playback Singer award. Other notable films, including Ponniyin Selvan Part I, KGF 2, Brahmastra, Aparajito, Emuthi Puthi, Kaberi Antardhan, Daman, and Baghi Di Dhee will also be recognized for their contributions.
