54th National Film Awards
Finally President Pratibha Patil gave away the 54th National Film Awards for the year 2006 after a long delay owing to a legal issues involving allegations of partiality in the awards. The Supreme Court later resolved the matter in favour of the government.
As far as Bollywood was concerned, Sanjay Dutt got the Best Popular Award for Lage Raho Munnabhai. Kabir Khan director of Kabul Express jointly shared Indira Gandhi Award for the best first film of a director with Madhu Kaithapuram’s Eakantham.
The best direction award was received by Madhur Bhandarkar for the film Traffic Signal and declared he would donate Rs. 2,50,000 to the families of three farmers from Vidharbha who committed suicide in the face of financial hardship.
Lifetime Achievement Awards were given to Dilip Kumar, noted southern film star of yesteryear Saroja Devi and playback singer Lata Mangeshkar.
Konkona Sen Sharma won the best supporting actress award for her role in Omkara.
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