72nd National Film Awards winners: Indian cinema’s top honours announced

Major honours

• Best Feature Film: Article 370 — Aditya Suhas Jambhale

• Best Debut Film of a Director: Randeep Hooda for Swatantrya Veer Savarkar

• Best Popular Film Providing Wholesome Entertainment: Kalki: 2898 AD — Nag Ashwin

• Best Feature Film Promoting National, Social and Environmental Values: Captain Miller — Dhanush

• Best Children’s Film: Chinna Katha Kaadu

• Best Direction: Rajkumar Periasamy for Amaran

Acting awards

• Best Actor in a Leading Role: Kartik Aaryan for Chandu Champion and Mammootty for Bramayugam

• Best Actress in a Leading Role: Yami Gautam for Article 370

• Best Supporting Actor: Sanjay Mishra for Bhakshak

• Best Supporting Actress: Sachana Namidass for Maharaja and Rapshree Varkady for Mithya

• Best Child Artist: Riddhiman Banerjee, Tapomoy Deb, Gitashree Chakraborty, Arundev Pothula and Athish S Shetty

Music and writing awards

• Best Male Playback Singer: Abhay Jodhpurkar for “Gharat Ganpati” from Navasachi Gauri Mazi

• Best Female Playback Singer: Vaikom Vijayalakshmi for “Angu Vaana Konilu” from ARM

• Best Screenplay (Original): Sukumar for Pushpa: The Rule

• Best Screenplay (Adapted): Yogesh Deshpande for Swargandharva Sudhir Phadke

• Best Screenplay Dialogue: Venky Atluri for Lucky Bhaskhar

• Best Lyrics: Manoj Muntashir for “Jaane Do” from Maidaan

Technical awards

• Best Cinematography: Shehnad Jalal for Bramayugam

• Best Editing: Amaran — R Kalaivannan

• Best Production Designer: Kalki: 2898 AD — Nitin Zihani Choudhary

• Best Costume Designer: Pushpa: The Rule (Part 2) — Deepali Noor and Sheetal Sharma

• Best Make Up Artist: Committee Kurrollu — P Ravi Kumar

• Best Music Director: Article 370 — Shashwat Sachdev

• Best Music Direction: Amaran — GV Prakash Kumar

• Best Choreography: Stree 2 — Vijay Ganguly

• Best Action Direction: Maharaja — Anl Arasu

• Best Sound Design: Bhool Bhulaiyaa 3 — Manas Choudhary

Regional film winners

• Best Assamese Film: Juiphool — Jadumoni Dutta

• Best Bengali Film: Chalchitra Ekhon — Anjan Dutt

• Best Gujarati Film: Maaran — Abhishek Jain

• Best Hindi Film: Srikanth

• Best Kannada Film: Mithya — Sumanth Bhat

• Best Konkani Film: Mog Asum

• Best Malayalam Film: Feminichi Fathima — Fasil Muhammed

• Best Manipuri Film: Sunita — Yumnam Ajit Singh

• Best Marathi Film: Mukkam Post Bombilwadi — Paresh Mokashi

• Best Odia Film: Lahari — Amartya Bhattacharyya

• Best Tamil Film: Raayan — Dhanush

• Best Telugu Film: Committee Kurrollu — Yadhu Vamsee

• Best Garhwali Film: Dholi — Dinesh P Bhonsle

• Best Tulu Film: IMBU — Shivdhwaj Studio

Non-feature film winners

• Best Non-Feature Film promoting Social and Environmental Values: Piplantri: A Tale of Eco Feminism — Suraj Kumar

• Best Animation Film: Touched as Water — Joshy Benedict

• Best Short Film: Hamsafar

• Best Direction: Anand L Rai for Statue of Unity: Ekta Ka Prateek

• Best Cinematography: Life in Loom — Edmond Ranson

• Best Sound Design: Blue — TS Hari Hara Sudhan

• Best Editing: NDA — Manvir Jasrotia

• Best Music Direction: Parat 41°chya Magavar (On the Trail of 41°) — Shivpal Singh Kang

• Best Narrator: Little Planet: A Tale of Frogs — Soundarya Jayachandran

• Best Script: Obur (Clouds) — Faraz Ali

Special mentions

• Captain Miller — Dhanush

• Meiyazhagan

• Chola Dora aur Sui — Jaymin Modi and Lokesh Ghai

• Bhadra-Kali Natakam — Ananda Jyothi