The 72nd Nationwide Movie Awards, which recognised movies licensed by the CBFC between January 1 and December 31, 2024, introduced cheers to the Telugu movie business as they bagged 9 awards.
Director Nag Ashwin’s Kalki 2898 ADwas adjudged the Greatest Well-liked Movie Offering Healthful Leisure. The movie, which narrates a narrative impressed by the Mahabharata in a dystopian science fiction setting, travels between three worlds: Kasi because the final surviving metropolis, Shambala that awaits the start of Kalki, and a futuristic metropolis known as the Complicated. Manufacturing designer Nitin Zihani Choudhary, who designed the three distinct worlds with consideration to element, bagged the award for Greatest Manufacturing Design. The sequel to this movie is below manufacturing, starring Prabhas, Amitabh Bachchan and Kamal Haasan.
Allu Arjun in Pushpa 2: The Rule
Pushpa 2: The Rule, which was the highest-grossing Telugu movie of 2024, received its director, B Sukumar, the Nationwide Award for Greatest Unique Screenplay. A spotlight of this movie was Allu Arjun sporting the androgynous look within the Gangamma Jatara sequence, resonating with the cultural authenticity of the area’s festivities. The movie’s costume designers Deepali Noor and Sheetal Sharma have received the award for Greatest Costume Design.
A scene from Committee Kurrollu
In the meantime, director Venky Atluri bagged the award for Greatest Dialogue Author for his blockbuster movie Fortunate Baskhar, starring Dulquer Salmaan within the title function.
Dulquer Salmaan in Fortunate Baskhar
Director Nanda Kishore Emani’s 35-Chinna Katha Kaadureceived the Nationwide Award for Greatest Youngsters’s Movie. Youngster actor Arundev additionally bagged the award for Greatest Youngster Artist for 35-Chinna Katha Kaadu. He shares the award with Riddhiman Banerjee, Topomoy Deb, Gitashree Chakraborty (for Onko Ki Kothin) and Athish S Shetty (for Mithya).
A nonetheless from 35-Chinna Katha Kaadu
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One in every of 2024’s small surprises got here within the type of debut director Yadhu Vamsi’s Committee Kurrollu, a nostalgic story of friendship that additionally discusses class and caste divisions. Produced by Niharika Konidela, Committee Kurrollu received the Nationwide Award for Greatest Telugu movie. P Ravi Kumar received the award for Greatest Make-Up Artist for a similar movie.
The respective groups of those movies had been fast to take to social media to thank the jury and the viewers for his or her assist.
Printed – July 18, 2026 08:35 pm IST
