The 65th National Film Awards were announced this morning and everybody associated with Toilet: Ek Prem Katha is really proud. And especially choreographer, Ganesh Acharya, whose amazing choreography in the song Gori Tu Latth Maar from Akshay Kumar and Bhumi Pednekar-starrer fetched him the Best Choreography award. Producer Prernaa Arora (of KriArj Entertainment) is extremely grateful and thankful to the jury as she says, “This is a very proud moment for all of us. We are extremely grateful and thankful to the jury for recognising the merit in Toilet: Ek Prem Katha’s song, Gori Tu Latth Maar. This was another special collaboration with Akshay Kumar sir and another big moment for us.”
The 10-member jury comprised of filmmaker Shekhar Kapur. Kannada film director P Sheshadri, screenwriter Imtiaz Hussain, actor Gautami Tadimalla, lyricist Mehboob and others. Bhumi too took to Twitter to give a shout out to Ganesh and the entire team of her film for this victory. “Congratulations #GaneshAcharya sir on your win for #GoriTuLathMaar .The choreography was truly beautiful ️ More power to you.What a phenomenal experience.Yay team #toiletekpremkatha @akshaykumar @KuttiKalam @ShreeNSingh @FFW_Official #Proud #NationalFilmAwards (sic),” read her tweet. ALSO READ: Akshay Kumar installs a public toilet at Mumbai’s Juhu beach – view pics
Toilet: Ek Prem Katha was directed by Shree Narayan Singh. It dealt with the problem of sanitation conditions in the rural parts of India, with an emphasis on the eradication of open defecation. The others who were honooured at the 65th National Film Awards were Divya Dutta, Late actress Sridevi (Best Actress for MOM), Late actor Vinod Khanna (Dadasaheb Phalke Award). Rajkummar Rao’s film Netwon won an award for the Best Feature Film in Hindi.