National Film Award 2021: Fans Pay Emotional Tribute After Sushant Singh Rajput's 'Chhichhore' Bags Best Feature Film Award

Late Bollywood actor Sushant Singh Rajput’s film ‘Chhichhore’ bagged the Best Feature Film award in the 67th National Film Awards. Read on.

Chhichhore Bags National Film Awards For Best Feature Film

New Delhi: The National Film Awards is the highest award in the field of Indian cinema. It is presented every year in New Delhi. The 67^th National Film Awards, which was supposed to be announced last year in the month of May, got delayed due to the COVID-19 pandemic.  The winners of the National Film Awards have been announced today (March 22, 2021). Many films and artists from the industry have received this prestigious award.

Late Bollywood actor Sushant Singh Rajput’s film ‘Chhichhore’ bagged the Best Feature Film award in the 67^th National Film Awards. Directed and written by Nitesh Tiwari, this film is a comedy-drama with a strong social message. The plot of the movie not only gives out an important social message against suicides, but it also tells the story of a group of friends in college.

Other than Sushant Singh Rajput, ‘Chhichhore’ also stars Shraddha Kapoor, Varun Sharma, Tahir Raj Bhasin, Naveen Polishetty, Tushar Pandey and Saharsh Kumar Shukla in the lead roles with Shishir Sharma and Mohammad Samad in supporting roles. SSR played the character of the protagonist Aniruddha ‘Anni’ Pathak in this film. ‘Chhichhore’ earned Rs 2.15 billion worldwide.

The lead actor of the film, Sushant Singh Rajput was allegedly found hanging in his apartment on June 14, 2020. The investigation of his death case is ongoing and is currently being probed by 3 Central agencies – CBI, ED and NCB.

As SSR's film bagged the Best Feature Film Award, his fans could not hold back their emotions and they took to their Twitter to pay tribute to the late actor.

Take a look at some of the reactions here:

Sushant's co-star from 'Chhichhore' Tahir Raj Bhasin shared his thoughts on the film winning National Awards. He said, "I feel incredibly grateful to have played the part of Derek and been a part of Chhichhore . It will always be a special film to me . Nitesh Tiwari and Sajid Nadiadwala captained this ship, and it was an ace team to have been on. The film was about never allowing society to decide if you are a winner or a loser but fighting the very notions of these labels and finding your own happiness. I feel so rewarded that we’ve been recognised by country’s highest award for the film . This definitely makes all the work that went into creating it, worth it, and the film even more special to all of us. As we celebrate our big win, today will also be a day of remeberance and gratitude for Sushant without whom this story would never have been told."

Meanwhile, on a related note, Kangana Ranaut has once again bagged the Best Actress award for ‘Manikarnika’ and ‘Panga’ in the 67^th National Film Awards. Manoj Bajpayee and Dhanush won the Best Actor Award.

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