It was an impressive debut for the Byari feature film industry with its initial product, simply titled Byari, sharing the top prize at the National Film Awards 2011.
The film, made in the dialect of the Byari Muslims of Dakshina Kannada and Udupi districts, shared the Best Film Award with Marathi film Deool, which also snagged the Best Actor Award for its male lead Girish Kulkarni.
In the midst of a sweep for regional films, the only major prize won by a mainstream Bollywood movie went to actor Vidya Balan, who took the Best Actress Award, and even that was for her portrayal of a south Indian film siren in the biopic The Dirty Picture.
Regional wave
Surfing the crest of this regional wave is Byari, which explores the distress of a woman trapped within the rigidity of her community's religious and cultural traditions.
The Byari language, which linguistic experts describe as Malayalam idioms with Tulu phonology and grammar, heavily spiced with an Arabic influence, is usually written using Kannada letters as it does not have a written script of its own.
Well researched
This is the first ever feature film made in the language. Director K.P. Suveeran said he researched the society and its beliefs before making the limited-budget film, while most of the actors in the film are Malayalam or Tamil speakers.
Deool too explores the impact of religion — in this case, the issue of commercialisation of faith in a rural setting — as well as the impact of globalisation on village youth. When a local politician builds a huge temple instead of a hospital in his village, it brings prosperity, but at a cost.
The best popular film award went to Tamil film Azhagarsamiyin Kuthirai, while Gurvinder Singh won the best director award for Punjabi film Anhe Ghorey Da Daan.
Keywords: National Awards, Vidya Balan, Girish Kulkarni
Comments:
Kudos...You deserve it...A charming, smiling, respectful face, ideal woman representing a blend of modern / traditional values.
Not a surprise that is it. But it was well deserved, I would say. People should not forget that the
movie was highlighting the unimaginable hypocrisy there is towards sex in our society. The
attitude towards women needs to change, we should reinvent ourselves drawing inspiration
from our pre-colonisation kingdoms (Pre - British/Mughal). Learn from them on how to love and
respect women, bring openness in our thoughts and give them the space they so very much
need and deserve.
you made us proud,Vidya!
From Parineeta to Dirty picture, yours was a slow and steady growth. You defied critics and the conservatives, alike. Bold and
outright in your approach, casual and simple, you have proved yourself as a dignified actress, as the likes of Nargis, Nutan, Waheeda Rehman, Sharmila Tagore, Smitha patil in Hindi film world to Sarada, Saroja Devi, Sheela down south.
Wishing you well to scale new heights. Palakkad can boast of yet another Star.
The headline for this article includes "Vidya Best Actress". The article mentions that she won the best actress award, but absolutely nothing more. It is reading like reading tabloids. The headline grabs your attention. You go into the article and there is nothing related to the headline. This is not the "Hindu" standard. I am very disappointed.
It's a national shame to give a national award for such an actress of an obscene film! By this, censor board showed how pathetically it degenerated from artistic and moral values. As the name denotes, in the 'dirty picture', she depicts herself so 'dirtily', and the film itself portrays the life of an actress who committed suicide! Such 'honouring attempts' by national authorities on unadviables, will give wrong message to our youths!
National awards should be given to such films which promote and strengthen good values among the society, not to 'cabaret dancers'!
I was shocked after reading it.... It's dialogues are so dirty (as rightly
suggested by the name of the movie ) that even a young boy will try to
avoid after hearing it.... You can't watch it with your family.. for the
portrayal of such an obscene character, she got the best actress
award... what message will it give to the youth???...confused I am.....
There is no competition to Vidya today in the Bollywood as every other actor opts for glamour roles only to remain in the mainstream and to amass wealth.There is no serious actor except Vidya and so the choice is no choice. She did well in the film;but does it worth National Award?
The only difference between other actress and vidya is, others can do either glamorous roles or performance roles. but in "Dirty picture" she has shown a glamorous performance which really deserves this.
Vidya has a Greek Look; she looks as some of the character from the Renaissance Period. It's amazing; and she should do more courageous role and with high potential characters. Good Wishes for Her.
It is good to see a talented actress get the National Award for Best Actress. Does the film deserve an award, in the first place? No harm intended for Vidya as an actress but giving an award for such a disgusting film having a hideous title was really uncalled for and shocking to the core! Vidya had done better films in the past where she deserved the same award but definitely not this film which should not have been nominated at all. What was the basis of that film passing Censor Certification first and now, getting the National Award? To end this, there are similar and even worse films in the regional languages like Tamil and Telugu that corrupt the minds of young people and children. The less said about the TV commercials, which are absolute rubbish, the better! Only GOD can save us from these irresponsible and not-having-social-responsibility filmmakers and advertisers.
This award is just ridiculous! Not because of the film she acted in or the character she portrayed. Because, she did not imbibe the mannerisms or the style or way of speech or even the skin tone of the character she played.
The story line of the movie Byari has been lifted straight from Mrs.
Sarah Aboobackers novel "Chandragiri Teeradalli". Unfortunate that the
awards committee has honoured it with an national award without
ascertaining the fact that the whole story has been plagiarised. The
statement of the director that a study has been made about the Byari
community in Mangalore and this story pertains to their way of life is
rubbish. The story applies to the whole of Muslim community.
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