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Chennai: Malayalam superstar Mammootty, who won the Kerala State Award for Best Actor for his fine performance in director Rahul Sadasivan's critically acclaimed horror thriller 'Bramayugam', has now humbly dedicated the award to audiences, who, he says, embraced Kodumon Potti (his character in the film) with so much love, IANS reported.
Taking to his X timeline a day after the awards were announced, Mammootty congratulated all the winners of the 55th Kerala State Film Awards.
The Malayalam superstar wrote, "Heartfelt congrats to Shamla Hamza, Asif, Tovino, Soubin, Sidharth, Jyothirmayi, Lijo Mol, Darshana, Chidambaram, and the entire teams of 'Manjummel Boys', 'Bougainvillea', 'Premalu' and all other winners of the Kerala State Awards."
The actor then went on to thank his team of Bramayugam and the audience. He wrote, A big thanks to the entire team of #Bramayugam for gifting me such a memorable outing. Humbly dedicating this accolade to the audience who embraced Kodumon Potti with so much love."
It may be recalled that the winners of the 55th Kerala State Film Awards were announced at a press conference by Minister of Cultural Affairs Saji Cherian on Tuesday at Thrissur.
The jury panel, which picked the winners, was headed by well-known actor Prakash Raj. The panel comprised eminent professionals such as film director Ranjan Pramod, filmmaker Jibu Jacob, screenwriter Santhosh Echikkanam, playback singer Gayathri Ashokan, Sound designer and director Nithin Lukose, and actor, writer and dubbing artiste Baghyalakshmi.
The panel scrutinised 128 films that participated in the competition to choose 38 films for the final round, out of which the winners were picked.
Notable among the winners who were announced on Monday was actress Shamla Hamza, who won the award for Best Actress for her performance in director Fasil Muhammed's film 'Feminichi Fathima'. The film, which was also chosen as the Second Best Film after 'Manjummel Boys', fetched its director, Fasil Muhammed, the Best Debutant Director award.