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Tabu, Gulzar to get film scribes' award


Kolkata, Nov. 23 (PTI): National award winning film 'Abar Aranye', its Director Gautam Ghosh, and lead star Tabu, would receive the 67th annual awards of the Bengal Film Journalists' Association (BFJA) while Gulzar will be given the 'Satyajit Ray Lifetime Achievement Award' on November 27 here.

The film, a sequel to Satyajit Ray's 1969 venture 'Aranyer Din Ratri' was selected the best film and Ghosh chosen the Best Director for it while Tabu was named the Best Actress in a supporting role for her intense portrayal of Amrita, a terror-stricken victim of 9/11.

Author Sunil Gangopadhyay, and Gautam Ghosh would also be awarded jointly in the best original story category for the film, BFJA Secretary Nirmal Dhar, told a press meet here today.

Gulzar would get the lifetime achievement award with the singing duo of Roop Kumar and Sonali Rathod giving a special performance created exclusively for the evergreen film maker, lyricist and composer.

Rituparno Ghosh's Aishwarya Ray starrer 'Chokher Bali' and Buddhadeb Dasgupta's 'Mando Meyer Upakhyan' have been chosen the second and third best films of the year.

With 'Technology and Science in Cinema' as its central theme this year, the star-studded event would pay tribute to the phenomenal shift in Bollywood and Tollywood towards hi-tech computer animation and software-driven post-production, Dhar said.

Showcasing the theme through water screens and animation, the function would create a dramatised ambiance of a space attack on Tollywood.