Irrfan Khan has walked away with the National award for best actor as the celebrated sprinter turned bandit in Tigmanshu Dhulia’s much-acclaimed <em>Paan Singh Tomar</em>. <em>Paan Singh Tomar</em> also walked away with the National award for Best Feature Film. However, Usha Jadhav in the Marathi film <em>Dhag</em> won the Best Actress National award over Vidya Balan’s much-touted <em>Kahaani</em>.

The Diwali hit Son Of Sardaar (SOS) is the official remake of Tamil super-director S Rajamouli’s Maryada Ramanna. However the remake has deviated drastically from the original. Says the SOS director Ashwini Dhir, “I’d love Rajamouli to watch our film and tell us what he thinks of the changes that we’ve made in the original. We’ve deviated considerably from Rajamouli’s film. In Maryada Ramanna the lead is played by a famous comic actor of the South (Sunil). When Ajay Devgn took over the role, the comic element had to be seriously modified.”