Film awards: move to invite superstar flayed

Thiruvananthapuram | Thursday | 19th July, 2018

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more-inFilmmaker Bijukumar Damodaran, a member of the jury which chose the winners of the State Film Awards this year, has come out against the plans to invite a superstar as the chief guest for the film awards presentation function to be held in the capital next month. It seems the Culture Minister is living in another world, unaware of the recent happenings in Malayalam cinema,” he said. Mr.Bijukumar said that the chief guests at a State film award presentation function are the winners themselves and the Chief Minister who presents the award. “The government is making fun of the award winners by having as a chief guest someone who has got nothing to do with the awards this year. The rape accused actor was reinstated into Association of Malayalam Movie Artistes soon after this superstar took over as president..