Award Winning Film into Serious Controversy!

Nathicharami is a national award-winning Kannada film which is directed by Mansore in 2018. It is known that ‘The 66th National Film Awards’ has been held recently where Telugu films won more awards. Apart from this, another important thing has caught the attention of everyone. A Kannada filmmaker, Dayal Padmanabhan challenged the jury’s decision to present five national awards for a Kannada film, Nathicharami which resulted in a major controversy. The Bengaluru City Court has asked the Directorate of Film Festivals for an explanation.

“BS Lingadevaru, who is the jury of the National Film Awards 2018, is directly associated with the feature film as he is the director of the company called AKKA Communication as per the credit is given in the title of the film – Editing Studio – AKKA Communication,” Padmanabhan said. The city court has given an interim injunction order to the National Film Awards authorities to not give the awards to the Kannada film, which won many awards including Best Kannada film, Best Editing, and also a special mention jury award to Sruthi Hariharan, the lead actress of the film.

Naticharami is about a woman whose life is perplexed between her physical desires and emotional beliefs. This M Ramesh production venture was released on December 28, 2018. Sanchari Vijay is the lead actor in the movie.