‘Dangal’ and ‘Tumhari Sulu’ win big at Screen Awards 2017

And lo and behold! One of the biggest award shows of the season was held, Screen Awards, and two worthy movies emerged winner; ‘Tumhari Sulu’ and ‘Dangal’. While former came just in the nick of time to sweep the laurels, latter was last year’s last release which went for nominations this year. And boy, it did win big. Following the same were ‘Bareilly Ki Barfi!’, ‘Hindi Medium’ and ‘Newton’.

Let’s just say, that the list of award winners this time gives us hope that just and true performances will not go unnoticed. (Also Read: Fashion WONDERS and BLUNDERS from Star Screen Awards 2017!)

‘Dangal’ was the star of the evening as the Aamir Khan production went on to win major music and technical awards, and on mainstream front, it won the debut awards as well, as per the director’s tweet, who too was ecstatic with the Best Director win.

Happy to share the details of Dangal's wins last night 🙂
Best Action, Best Editing, Best BGM, Best Lyrics, Best Music, Best Writing, Best Newcomer Male &Female, Best Child Artist, Star Plus Nayi Soch, Best Director, Best Film.
#StarScreenAwards

— Nitesh Tiwari (@niteshtiwari22) December 4, 2017

While Vidya Balan went on to win the award for the best actress for ‘Tumhari Sulu’, Irrfan Khan was the best actor for ‘Hindi Medium’. The critics award for the best actor was bestowed on Rajkummar Rao for ‘Newton’. Neha Dhupia sweeped the trophy for Best Supporting Actress. Rajkummar Rao was the star with his hands full as apart from Best Actor (Critics), he also bagged the award for the Best Supporting Actor for ‘Bareilly Ki Barfi!’

Here are some of the tweets of the winners, spreading the cheer and joy.

From the silver screen to Star Screen, #TumhariSulu is spreading its magic all over! #StarScreenAwards2017 pic.twitter.com/BB8AG3vRX4

— ELLIPSIS ENT (@EllipsisEntt) December 4, 2017

Well, this was truly a night to remember, and we hope to see the telecast on television soon. For now, here’s the list of all the winners under respective categories.

Best Lyricist: Amitabh Bhattacharya for ‘Dangal’

Best Dialogue: Ashwiny Iyer Tiwari, Nitesh Tiwari for ‘Bareilly Ki Barfi’

Best Background Music: Pritam Chakraborty for ‘Dangal’

Best Editing: Ballu Saluja for ‘Dangal’

Best Choreographer: Shiamak Davar for ‘Ullu Ka Pattha’ (Jagga Jasoos)

Best Debut Director: Suresh Triveni for ‘Tumhari Sulu’

Best Playback Singer (Male): Arijit Singh for Raees and ‘Jagga Jasoos’

Best Playback Singer (Female): Shashaa Tirupati for ‘Shubh Mangal Saavdhan’

Best Music: Pritam Chakraborty for ‘Dangal’

Best Supporting Actress: Neha Dhupia for ‘Tumhari Sulu’

Best Director: Nitesh Tiwari for ‘Dangal’

Best Actor (Popular Choice): Irrfan Khan for ‘Hindi Medium’

Best Supporting Actor: Rajkummar Rao for ‘Bareilly Ki Barfi’

Best Actor (Critic): Rajkummar Rao for ‘Newton’

Best Actress (Critics): Vidya Balan for ‘Tumhari Sulu’

Best Film (Critic): ‘Newton’

Best Actress: Konkona Sen Sharma (Lipstick Under My Burkha)

Best Supporting Actor Female: Neha Dhupia (Tumhari Sulu)

Though some of the winners names are not out on the net for now, we await the same. Anyway, a hearty congratulations to the winners.

Kadambari Srivastava

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