Article 370 wins top honour; Mammootty bags best male actor award for fourth time
72nd National Film Awards recognise Article 370, Bramayugam, Amaran and Swatantrya Veer Savarkar across major categories
- The 72nd National Film Awards recognised films and artists across feature, acting, directing and music categories.
- The film Article 370 won the best feature film award and Yami Gautam won the best female actor award for the same film.
- Mammootty won the best male actor award for Bramayugam and shared the honour with Kartik Aaryan for Chandu Champion.
- Rajkumar Periasamy won best director and G.V. Prakash Kumar won the music director award for Amaran.
The 72nd National Film Awards recognised several films and artists from Indian cinema. The most visible honours went to Article 370, Bramayugam, Chandu Champion, Amaran and Swatantrya Veer Savarkar, making the awards relevant for GS1 culture revision.
What happened
Article 370 was named the best feature film of 2024. Yami Gautam won the best female actor award for the same film.
UPSC may use the 72nd National Film Awards to test knowledge of major Indian film awards, the categories they recognise, and recent winners. The topic is more useful for GS1 culture revision than for deep mains analysis because it is largely an awards list, but it still helps candidates track contemporary Indian cinema and state recognition of films.
