Kanjeevaram Film at National Awards

Kanjeevaram Film at National Awards, Filmmaker Priyadarshan’s offbeat Tamil film ‘Kanjeevaram‘ has scored big at the 55th National Film Awards 2007, winning best feature film and best actor for Prakash Raj, while renowned Malayalam director Adoor Gopalakrishnan has been adjudged best director for ‘Naalu Pennungal’, it was announced here Monday.
Set in the backdrop of Kanjeevaram’s handloom silk industry from the 1920s to 1948, ‘Kanjeevaram’ is the story of a non-political weaver who leans towards communism and soon becomes a revolutionary leader and an advocate of the ideology, only to find himself caught between personal needs and his pursuit of social equality.