58th National Award for Salim Kumar !

In a rather surprising and interesting announcements, debutante director Salim Ahmed `sfilm Adamante Makan Abu was named the best feature film at the 58th National Awards announced today, while its lead star Salimkumar bagged the prize for the best player of the year.Madhu Ambat was named the best cinematographer for the crop in `Adaminte Makan abu, while Isaac Thomas Kottukapally bagged the prize for best lyricist for his influence in the same film.

Salim Ahmed, the debutante who has won the best picture award is essentially a scriptwriter for comedy soaps in Television.Based on Mattannur,near Kannur,Salim Ahmed was reasonably sure that if he do something for the big screen, it will be definitely movies with substance and quality.
It was in the sets of `Best Actor` that Salim Ahmed met Salimkumar to convert him of the role. Salimkumar was initially a little reluctant to take the purpose as he very well knew that his films as the only hero may not get much commerical returns. But Salim Ahmed was convinced that it was Salimkumar who could do full justice to the use of an old vendor whois taking pains to somehow perform the holy Hajj with his wife( played by Zarine Wahab in the movie).Salim Ahmed also assured Salimkumar that his film will have top technicians in the battlefield and so he brought in the veteran Madhu Ambatt, to do the filming and Issac Thomas Kottukappy to address the music section. Anyhow, the gamble finally paying off for the debutante director , which has now brought in four big awards to Malayalam.From the sets of `Best Actor` Salimkumar emerged the best worker in the national level while the director ended up with his movie being selected as the better in the National level.
Apart from this movie makers, the other malayalees who went on to win the national acclaim this yearincludes Sukumari, Sabu Cyril and K R Manoj,
TheFeature Films jury of the class was headed by Shri J.P. Dutta, Non-Feature Films jury was headed by Shri A.K. Bir and Best Writing on Cinema jury was headed by Shri Ashok Vajpeyi.