Priyadarshan on Akshay winning National Film Award

Akshay Kumar walked away with the Best Actor accolade for his role in ‘Rustom’ at the National Film Awards announced yesterday. However, there has been somewhat of a mixed response to him winning and Priyadarshan, who is on the judging panel, couldn’t understand why.

Talking to PTI, the filmmaker said, “I have heard of all that and I will answer it in a simple way. When Ramesh Sippy was jury head, Amitabh Bachchan won. When Prakash Jha was head of jury, Ajay Devgn won. So none questioned at that time. So why all these questions are cropping up today.”

He added that Kumar’s performances for both ‘Rustom’ and ‘Airlift’ were considered by the jury during the selection process but they could choose only one and ‘Rustom’ was given the recognition.

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