New Delhi- Kangana Ranaut won the best actress award for her powerful performance in “Queen” at the 62nd National Film Awards where Bollywood movies “Haider” and “Mary Kom” bagged key honours while Chaitanya Tamhane’s “Court” was named the best feature film.

Ranaut, 28, who celebrated her birthday yesterday, got a belated present by winning her career’s second National award in the movie about a girl who goes on a foreign honeymoon alone after being ditched by her fiance just before marriage. She had won her first National award, as best supporting actress, for “Fashion” in 2010.

The Vikas Bahl-directed coming-of-age film was also named the best Hindi feature film. Vijay was declared the best actor for his poignant portrayal of
a woman trapped in a man’s body in Kannada film “Nanu Avanalla Avalu”
(I am not a he, but she).

“Court”, which focuses on the flaws in the Indian judicial system, has been winning critical acclaim nationally and internationally. The award is expected to give a major boost to the movie ahead of its theatrical release on April 17.

New Delhi: Shahid Kapoor-starrer “Haider”, a Kashmir-set modern adaptation
of Shakespeare’s Hamlet, won five honours. Its helmer Vishal Bhardwaj
was named the best music director but lost out the best director
award to Bengali filmmaker Srijit Mukherji (‘Chotushkone’).

Bhardwaj was also named for best dialogues in the movie while Sukhwinder
Singh clinched the best male playback singer for the song “Bismil”. Its other two wins were in the categories of choreography and costume design.

“Chotushkone”, a film about four directors’ attempt to make four short stories, won two more awards — best cinematography and screenplay
(original). Priyanka Chopra-led biopic “Mary Kom” was named the best popular film providing wholesome entertainment.

Sanchari Vijay was declared the best actor for his poignant portrayal of a woman trapped in a man’s body in Kannada film “Nanu Avanalla Avalu” (I am not a he, but she).

“I am elated. Playing the character of a transgender was very difficult though I had played this character earlier in the tri-lingual film, but that was a very small role,” Vijay said post the announcement.

“Chotushkone”, a film about four directors’ attempt to make four short stories, won two more awards — best cinematography and screenplay (original). Srijit dedicated the win to late Rituparno Ghosh who was supposed to star in it.

“I dedicate this award to Ritu da (Rituparno Ghosh) and to the rest of the team involved in it. Ritu da was a part and parcel of the team which made Chotushkone,” he said.

Priyanka Chopra-led biopic “Mary Kom” was named the best popular film providing wholesome entertainment though Chopra lost the best actress trophy to her “Fashion” co-star Kangana.

“I hate losing. But if I had to take a back seat to anyone this year it would be U #KanganaRanaut! Congratulations! yay Queen!#SmallTownGirls,”
Priyanka tweeted.

While best songs in the music direction category went to Bhardwaj, the background score trophy was won by Gopi Sunder for Malayalam film “Nineteen Eighty Three”.

Best lyrics award went to NA Muthukumar for Tamil film “Saivam” whose singer Uttara Unnikrishanan won the best female playback singer honour for her song ‘Azhagu’.

Tamil actor Bobby Simhaa won the best supporting actor trophy for “Jigarthanda” whose second win was in the best editing category. Best supporting actress went to Haryanavi actress Bajinder Kaur. Indira Gandhi award for best debut film of a director went to Aditya Vikram Sengupta for his Bengali movie “Asha Jaoar Majhe”.

The National Film Awards are likely to be given by President Pranab Mukherjee on May 3 along with the Dada Saheb Phalke award which will go to actor-filmmaker Shashi Kapoor this year, an official said here.