Actor Achyuth Kumar and actress Shruthi Hariharan has bagged the best actor and actress award for the year 2016, while 'Amaravathi', 'Railway Children' and 'Antharjala' have bagged the first, second and third best film awards.

Apart from this, Tulu film 'Madipu' has been adjudged as best regional film, while 'Kirik Party' has been adjudged as the best entertainment film for the year 2016.

List of other state award winners for 2016 are as follows 

Best First Film: Amaravathi 

Best Second Film: Railway Children

Best Third Film: Antarjala

Best social awareness movie - Modla Seemeyalli

Best Entertainer film - Kirik Parthy

Best Childrens Film: Jir jimbe

Best First time director movie - Rama Ram Re

Best Regional movie - Mudupu (Tulu)

Best Actor:  Achutha Kumar (Amaravati)

Best Actress: Sruthi Hariharan (beautiful Manasugalu)

Best supporting actor: Naveen D Padki (kodla cafe)

Best supporting actress: Akshatha Pandavapura (pallata)

Best Story: Nanditha Yadav (Raju Edeghe Bidda Akshara)

Best screenplay: Aravind Shastri (Kahi )

Best Dialogues: B M Giriraj (Amaravathi)

Best Cameraman: Satya Shekar chandra (Mungaru Male 2)

Best Music Director: M R. Charan Raj (Mummy)

Best Editing: C Ravichandran (Mummy)

Best child actor: Master Manohar K (Railway Children)

Best child actress: Baby Revathi (Beti)

Best Art Director: Shashidhar Adapa (Uppina Kagada)

Best lyrics: Karthik Sagaguru (jir jimbhe)

Best play back singer (Male): Vijay Prakash (Beautiful Manasugalu)

Best Female playback singer (Female): Sangeetha Ravichandranath (Jalsa)

Jury Special award - Chinmaie (Santheyalli Nintha Kabira)

Best Production Manager - KV Manjaiah (Mungaru Male 2)

Kfcc president Sa Ra Govindu's effort has fulfilled. In the 2014-2015 state award function held at GKVK auditorium chief minister of Karnataka Siddaramaiah has announced major facilities to Kannada film industry.

On the stage, Sa Ra Govindu convinced CM to announce subsidy for 125 movies instead of 100 movies which is given at present. And also announced 5 lacs each to recently expired Anil and Uday during Mastigudi shooting tragedy.

In the speech, CM told Anil and Uday were the upcoming artists. Because of the negligence of the Director and stunt director we have lost two artists. Siddaramaiah told this year we have given two years award together. From next year we will ensure award function will be held on Dr Rajkumar Birthday which is on April 24th. 

Veteran actress Harini, director Nagarihall Chandrashekhar and well known music composer Rajan has bagged the top state awards for the year 2015.

Actress Harini who has acted with Dr Rajakumar has been adjudged for the Dr Rajkumar Award, while Nagatihalli Chandrashekhar has been given the Puttanna Kanagal award and music composer Rajan has been selected for the Dr Vishnuvardhan award respectively.

The awards for the year 2015 was announced a couple of months back. However, the top three awards including Dr Rajakumar, Dr Vishnuvardhan and Puttanna Kanagal were not announced as a separate committee was set up to chose the right people for the awards. The committee comprising Veteran director Bhagavan, Hamsalekha and Gangadhar Modaliar has picked the suitable people for these three top awards

There seems to be something wrong with the recent state government award functions! They are often getting postponed for one or the other reasons, which has left many baffled and many even starting to doubt whether the state government is ‘cursed’ when it comes to awards functions.

Recently around two months ago, the popular Kempegowda awards function was postponed twice! The award which is to honour notable contributions of civilians in various fields such as medicine, education, media, sports, theater, film, literature, environment, folklore, music, dance, yogasana, judiciary, journalism, culture, photography, social service, astrology and painting, was initially postponed due to the passing away of DMK supremo Dr. M Karunanidhi.

Later, when the function was again rescheduled to another date, the function was pushed to another date following the demise of former Indian prime minister and BJP leader Sri. Atal Bihari Vajpayee. 

The curse has hit back again when the state government was about to honour the best of technicians and artists in the Kannada film industry for the year 2017. The stage was all set for the State Film Awards-2017, in which several noted film personalities were to be awarded for the best performances including lifetime achievements to veteran actress Julie Lakshmi with Dr. Rajkumar Award while Puttanna Kanagal award for director S. Narayan and Dr. Vishnuvardhan award to be given to G N Lakshmipati.

However, the Information Department has called it off the film award function due to the unfortunate bus accident near Pandavapura taluk in Mandya district which has resulted in the death of several innocent school students.With frequent postponement of state awards functions, many feel that the government is facing some kind of a curse, and it is better to seek the intervention of an expert in this matter. While cursed or not cursed, it is certainly not a good development with state functions often getting postponed.

The much delayed Karnataka State awards function for the years 2014 and 2015 is scheduled for November 13th in Bangalore.

The event will be held at the Dr Babu Rajendra Prasad International Hall in GKVK campus in Bangalore. The awards for the year 2014 and 2015 will be given to the awardees on that day. The award function is scheduled at 6 PM on Sunday

Chitraloka.Com Editor and publisher KM Veeresh received the prestigious State award from the Karnataka chief minister Siddaramaiah in the function held this evening at GKVK convention hall.

This is the third time KM Veeresh has entered  the State Award function on the stage. First was for the Co-produced movie Kada Beladingalu movie which go State award and again for the national award for the same movie held at Shimoga.

In the State Award List for the year 2014 journalist Udaya a marakini was announced and columnist Udaya Marakini written Touch screen book and published by Chitraloka was also awarded.

Due to health issues, Udaya Marakini's daughter received the award instead.

The three prestigious state awards in films: Dr Rajkumar Award, Puttanna Kanagal and Dr Vishnuvardhan Award is finalised according to sources. There is no official announcement yet.

The Rajkumar Award for lifetime contribution has gone to veteran actress Advani Lakshmidevi. The award this year had a criteria for actors above 60 years. Others in contention for the award included actor Loknath.

The Puttanna Kanagal Award for directors has been given to veteran director KV Raju.

The Vishnuvardhan award for lifetime contribution goes to Chinnappa. He is a veteran painter and designer for hundreds of Kannada films. The award are likely to be officially announced today. Sources said that these names are final and have been approved at the highest levels.

Senior actress Jayanthi, Journalist Rukkoji, Music director C Manohar, Exhibitor and former KFCC president KV Chandrashekar were the jury members. Award function will be held on April 24th.

The award to KV Raju may become controversial as the director had refused a similar award given by the Karnataka Chalanachitra Academy earlier this year. In a message sent to the KCA and media on February 26 this year, KV Raju had said: 

ಎಸ್ ವಿ ರಾಜೇಂದ್ರ ಸಿಂಗ್ ಬಾಬು

ಅಧ್ಯಕ್ಷರು

ಕನಾ೯ಟಕ ಚಲನಚಿತ್ರ ಅಕಾಡೆಮಿ

Sub.I simply reject to accept proposed br panthalu/life time acheivement award .

ನಮಸ್ತೆ.

ನೀವು ನನಗೆ(-ಶ್ರೀ ಕೆವಿ ರಾಜು,ಚಲನಚಿತ್ರ ಸಾಹಿತಿ)ಅಕಾಡೆಮಿ ವತಿಯಿಂದ ಗೌರವಪೂವ೯ಕವಾಗಿ ನೀಡಬೇಕೆಂದಿರುವ ಜೀವಮಾನ ಪ್ರಶಸ್ತಿ /ಬಿ ಆರ್ ಪಂತಲು ಪ್ರಶಸ್ತಿಯನ್ನು ಸ್ವೀಕರಿಸುವ ಯಾವ ಇಚ್ಛೆಯೂ ನನಗಿಲ್ಲದ್ದರಿಂದ -ತಪ್ಪು ತಿಳುವಳಿಕೆಯಲ್ಲಿರಬಾರದೆಂದು ಈ ಚಿಕ್ಕ ಪತ್ರ !

ನನ್ನಸಿನೆಮಾ ಪ್ರಯಾಣದ ಗುರಿ ಜನಮನರಂಜನೆಯೆ ಹೊರೆತು ಪ್ರಶಸ್ತಿಗಳಲ್ಲ.ಮನರಂಜಿಸಲು ಸಂಬಳ ಪಡೆದಿರುವುದರಿಂದ-ಪ್ರಶಸ್ತಿಗೆ ಅಹ೯ನಲ್ಲ-ಅದು ಗೊತ್ತಿದ್ದೊ ಏನೋ ಇಷ್ಟು ವಷ೯ ನನ್ನ ಯಾವ ಸಿನೆಮಾಕ್ಕೂ ಯಾರೂ ಯಾವ ಪ್ರಶಸ್ತಿಯನ್ನು ಪ್ರಕಟಿಸಲೇ ಇಲ್ಲ-ಬಂದಿದೆ ಎಂದು ಸ್ವತಹ juryಗಳೇ ನೂರಾರು ಫೋನ್ ಮಾಡಿಯೂ ಸಹ ! ನೀವೂ ಸಹ  ಫೋನ್ ಮಾಡಿದ್ದೀರಿ-ಪ್ರಶಸ್ತಿ ನೀಡದಿದ್ದರೆ ಅದೇ ನೀವು ನನಗೆ ನೀಡುವ  ಗೌರವ .ನನ್ನೆಸರ ಅಚ್ಚು ಹಾಕಿಸಿ

ನನಗ್ಯಾವ ಅಹ್ವಾನ ಪ್ರತ್ರಿಕೆಯನ್ನು ಕಳುಹಿಸಬೇಕಾಗಿಲ್ಲ .

ಶಾಲು ಸನ್ಮಾನಗಳು ಅಂದರೆ ಅಲಜಿ೯ ನನಗೆ .

ಅದಕ್ಕಾಗಿ ತಪ್ಪಸ್ಸು ಮಾಡುವವರ ದಂಡೇ ಇದೆ-ಅವರಿಗೆ ನೀಡಿ.

ಮನೋರಂಜನೆಯಲ್ಲಿ ಬೇಸರಕ್ಕೆಆಸ್ಪದವಿಲ್ಲ-delete it. ಹಂಚಬೇಡಿ ,ನುಂಗಿಕೊಳ್ಳಿ.

ನಮಸ್ಕಾರ .

ಇತಿ 

ಜನಮನರಂಜನೆಯ ಜಯ ಜಯಹೊ

ಕೆವಿ ರಾಜು.

26-2-17 ಬೆಂಗಳೂರು.

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The much awaited state film awards for the year 2017 has been announced with ‘Shuddhi’ film directed by Adarsh H Eshwarappa bagging the best film award followed by ‘March 22’ and ‘Paddayi’ as second and third best film respectively.

The best actor has been awarded to Vishruth Nayka for his performance in ‘Manjari’ film and best actress award to Thara Anuradha from the film ‘Hebbat Ramakka’.

Insofar, as popular film award has been bagged by Santhosh Ananddram directorial ‘Raajakumara’ starring Power Star Puneeth Rajkumar. And, the special award over social impact category goes to ‘Hebbat Ramakka’. 

Amongst the other main categories, best children film is 'Yeleyaru Navu Geleyaru’ along with best child artiste to Shlagha Saligrama from the film ‘Kataka’, and best regional film is adjudged to Konkani film ‘Sophia’ directed by Harry Fernandez. 

Whereas popular categories including best music composer is bagged by V Harikrishna and best cinematographer to Santhosh Rai Pataje. The Department of Information and Public Relations has said that a total number of 121 applications were considered before selecting 25 awards among various categories. 

The State awards for 2012 and 2013 were given away by Chief Minister Siddaramaiah and others at Mysore on Saturday evening. While Darshan and Nirmala received the beat actor and actress awards for their performances for the year 2012, Nikhil Manju and Smitha received the awards in the same category for the year 2013. Apart from them Bhaktavatsalam, Rajesh, Srinath, P H Vishwanath, Dattaraj, K V Guptha and others received the awards.

The award function was a well attended with many celebrities, politicians and general public present at the event.

The State film Awards for the years 2012 and 2013 will be given away at a function to be held in Mysuru on February 28. The official communication in this regard will be issued by the government in a couple of days.

Sources said that it was decided to give away awards for both years at the Chief Minister Siddaramaiah's hometown of Mysuru. Since 2012 awards are given on a calendar year basis instead of from April to March. Invitation cards for the event are just being readied now.

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Following the unfortunate road mishap near Pandavapura-Kanaganamaradi village in Mandya, the state has postponed Chief Minister H D Kumaraswamy's engagements for the rest of the day including the State Film Awards function which was scheduled to be held in the evening at Dr. Babu Rajendra Prasad International Conference Hall in GKVK premises.

The function organised by Karnataka Information Department, has said in its statement that the event has been postponed due to the unfortunate mishap and informing that the Chief Minister has already headed to the accident spot to take the stalk of the situation.

Chief minister H D Kumaraswamy was to present the awards to the select winners of the State Film Awards for the year 2017. Several Union Ministers, state government ministers, dignitaries and special guests were invited for the awards function.

Of the many awards, veteran actress Julie Lakshmi was to be honoured with Dr. Rajkumar award, and noted director S. Narayan with Puttanna Kanagal award and G N Lakshmipati was to be awarded with Dr. Vishnuvardhan award.

According to news report, at least 24 passengers are feared dead after a bus plunged into VC canal of the Cauvery river in Kanaganamaradi village of the Pandavapura taluk in Mandya district. It is learnt that most of the deceased are school students.

ಕರ್ನಾಟಕ ರಾಜ್ಯ ಸರ್ಕಾರ ಡಾ.ರಾಜ್‍ಕುಮಾರ್ ಅವರ ಜನ್ಮದಿನದಂದು ರಾಜ್ಯ ಚಲನಚಿತ್ರ ಪ್ರಶಸ್ತಿ ಪ್ರದಾನ ಮಾಡುವುದಾಗಿ ಘೋಷಿಸಿತ್ತು. ಯಾವ್ಯಾವಾಗಲೋ.. ಮನಸ್ಸಿಗೆ ಬಂದಾಗ ಪ್ರಶಸ್ತಿ ಪ್ರದಾನ ಮಾಡುವ ಬದಲು, ಅದಕ್ಕೊಂದು ದಿನ ನಿಗದಿ ಮಾಡಿದ್ದ ಸರ್ಕಾರದ ನಿರ್ಧಾರ ಎಲ್ಲರ ಮೆಚ್ಚುಗೆಗೂ ಪಾತ್ರವಾಗಿತ್ತು. 

ಆದರೆ, ಈ ಬಾರಿ ಪ್ರಶಸ್ತಿ ಪ್ರದಾನ ನಡೆಯುವ ಸಾಧ್ಯತೆ ಕಾಣುತ್ತಿಲ್ಲ. ಏಕೆಂದರೆ, ಈ ಬಾರಿ ಚುನಾವಣೆ ಘೋಷಣೆಯಾಗಿದೆ. ಕರ್ನಾಟಕದಲ್ಲೀಗ ಚುನಾವಣಾ ನೀತಿ ಸಂಹಿತೆ ಜಾರಿಯಲ್ಲಿದೆ. ಹೀಗಾಗಿ ಏಪ್ರಿಲ್ 24ಕ್ಕೆ ರಾಜ್ಯ ಚಲನಚಿತ್ರ ಪ್ರಶಸ್ತಿ ಪ್ರದಾನ ನಡೆಯುವುದು ಅನುಮಾನ.

ಚಲನಚಿತ್ರ ಪ್ರಶಸ್ತಿ ಚುನಾವಣಾ ನೀತಿ ಸಂಹಿತೆ ವ್ಯಾಪ್ತಿಗೆ ಬರುತ್ತಾ..? ಗೊತ್ತಿಲ್ಲ. ಸರ್ಕಾರ ಕೂಡಾ ಈ ಬಗ್ಗೆ ಗಮನ ಹರಿಸುತ್ತಿದೆ. ಸತ್ಸಂಪ್ರದಾಯ ಒಂದೇ ವರ್ಷಕ್ಕೆ ನಿಲ್ಲಬಾರದಲ್ಲವೇ..

ಸಿದ್ದರಾಮಯ್ಯ ಮುಖ್ಯಮಂತ್ರಿಯಾಗಿದ್ದಾಗ, ಡಾ.ರಾಜ್ ಕುಮಾರ್ ಜಯಂತಿ ದಿನವೇ ರಾಜ್ಯ ಚಲನಚಿತ್ರ ಪ್ರಶಸ್ತಿ ಪ್ರದಾನ ಮಾಡೋದಾಗಿ ಘೋಷಿಸಿದ್ದರು. ಅದರಂತೆ, 2016ರಲ್ಲಿ ರಾಜ್ ಹುಟ್ಟುಹಬ್ಬದಂದೇ ಪ್ರಶಸ್ತಿ ಪ್ರದಾನವಾಗಿತ್ತು. ಆದರೆ, 2017ಕ್ಕೆ ಆ ಭಾಗ್ಯ ಇರಲಿಲ್ಲ. ಎಲೆಕ್ಷನ್ ಬಂತು. ನೀತಿ ಸಂಹಿತೆ ಅಡ್ಡಿಯಾಯ್ತು. ಮುಂದಕ್ಕೆ ಹೋಯ್ತು. ಅದೂ ಹೋಗಲಿ ಅಂದರೆ, ಅದಾದ ನಂತರ ನಿಗದಿಯಾದ ಕಾರ್ಯಕ್ರಮಕ್ಕೆ ಮಂಡ್ಯದ ದುರಂತದಿಂದಾಗಿ ಮತ್ತೆ ಮುಂದೂಡಲ್ಪಟ್ಟು, ಇದುವರೆಗೆ ಪ್ರಶಸ್ತಿ ಪ್ರದಾನ ಸಮಾರಂಭವೇ ನಡೆದಿಲ್ಲ. ಈ ಬಾರಿಯೂ ಹಾಗೆಯೇ ಆಗುವ ಎಲ್ಲ ಸಾಧ್ಯತೆಗಳೂ ಇವೆ.

ಪ್ರಶಸ್ತಿ ಆಯ್ಕೆ ಸಮಿತಿಗೆ ನಿರ್ದೇಶಕಿ ಸುಮನಾ ಕಿತ್ತೂರು ಅವರನ್ನು ಸಮಿತಿ ಸದಸ್ಯರನ್ನಾಗಿ ಆಯ್ಕೆ ಮಾಡಲಾಗಿತ್ತು. ಈಗ ಸುಮನಾ ಕಿತ್ತೂರು ಹಾಗೂ ಇನ್ನೊಬ್ಬ ಸದಸ್ಯ ಯಾಕೂಬ್ ಖಾದರ್ ಗುಲ್ವಾಡಿ ಸಮಿತಿಯಿಂದ ಹೊರಬಂದಿದ್ದಾರೆ. 

ಸುಮನಾ ಕಿತ್ತೂರು, ತಾವು ಸಿನಿಮಾ ಕೆಲಸದಲ್ಲಿ ಬ್ಯುಸಿ ಎನ್ನುತ್ತಿದ್ದರೆ, ಯಾಕೂಬ್ ಸಿನಿಮಾ ನಿರ್ದೇಶನ ಮಾಡ್ತಾರಂತೆ. ಹೀಗಾಗಿ ಸಮಿತಿ, ಸಿನಿಮಾಗಳನ್ನೇ ನೋಡೋಕೆ ಸಾಧ್ಯವಾಗ್ತಿಲ್ಲ. 

ಇಷ್ಟೆಲ್ಲ ಆಗಿ, ಹೊಸ ಸಮಿತಿ ರಚನೆಯಾಗಿ, ಆಯ್ಕೆಯಾಗಿ ಪ್ರಶಸ್ತಿ ಪ್ರದಾನ ನಡೆಯುವ ಹೊತ್ತಿಗೆ ಲೋಕಸಭೆ ಎಲೆಕ್ಷನ್ ಘೋಷಣೆಯಾಗಿರುತ್ತೆ. ಅಲ್ಲಿಗೆ.. ಮತ್ತೆ ನೀತಿ ಸಂಹಿತೆ. ಇದರ ತಾತ್ಪರ್ಯ ಇಷ್ಟೆ, 2018ರ ರಾಜ್ಯ ಚಲನಚಿತ್ರ ಪ್ರಶಸ್ತಿ ಪ್ರದಾನ, ಏಪ್ರಿಲ್ 24ಕ್ಕೆ ನಡೆಯುವುದು ಸಾಧ್ಯವೇ ಇಲ್ಲ.

2017ನೇ ಸಾಲಿನ ರಾಜ್ಯ ಚಲನಚಿತ್ರ ಪ್ರಶಸ್ತಿ ಪ್ರಕಟಗೊಂಡಿದೆ. ಶುದ್ಧಿ ಅತ್ಯುತ್ತಮ ಕನ್ನಡ ಚಿತ್ರವಾಗಿ ಆಯ್ಕೆಯಾಗಿದ್ದರೆ, ಮಾರ್ಚ್ 22 2ನೇ ಅತ್ಯುತ್ತಮ ಚಿತ್ರವಾಗಿದೆ. ಪಡ್ಡಾಯಿ, 3ನೇ ಅತ್ಯುತ್ತಮ ಚಿತ್ರ. ರಾಜಕುಮಾರ ಸಿನಿಮಾ, ಅತ್ಯುತ್ತಮ ಮನರಂಜನಾತ್ಮಕ ಚಿತ್ರವಾಗಿ ಆಯ್ಕೆಯಾಗಿದೆ.

ಹೆಬ್ಬೆಟ್ ರಾಮಕ್ಕ ಚಿತ್ರಕ್ಕೆ ತಾರಾ, ಅತ್ಯುತ್ತಮ ನಟಿ ಪ್ರಶಸ್ತಿ ಪಡೆದರೆ, ವಿಶ್ವತ್ ನಾಯ್ಕ, ಮಂಜರಿ ಚಿತ್ರದ ನಟನೆಗಾಗಿ ಅತ್ಯುತ್ತಮ ನಟರಾಗಿ ಅಯ್ಕೆಯಾಗಿದ್ದಾರೆ. 

ಉಳಿದ ಪ್ರಶಸ್ತಿಗಳ ವಿವರ ಹೀಗಿದೆ.