Director Priyadarshan wins ‘Best Director’ Award for ‘Kanchivaram’

Department of Information and Publicity and Navadharshan Film Society, Pondicherry usually hosts Film Festival of Indian Panorama. The best films selected by the Directorate of Film Festival, New Delhi will be screened for the occasion. Finally, jurors of board have selected Director Priyadarshan as “Best Director’ for his film “Kanchivaram’. The award named after Sri Sankaradass Swamigal Awards will be handed to Director Priyadarshan with a memento and cash prize of Rs.50,000.

The awards ceremony is slated to be held during second week of September, 2009 with Pondicherry Chief Minister V. Vaithilingam presiding over the occasion.

The film “Kanchivaram’ had earlier won the best appreciation at Toronto International Film Festival. It has Prakash Raj, Shreya Reddy and Shamu donning lead roles and story revolves around the life of a poor silk weaver and his tribulations.