Kher slams Vishal

Best Actress: Kangana Ranaut, “Queen” (Hindi)

Best Popular Film providing wholesome entertainment: “Mary Kom” (Hindi); Producer: Viacom 18 Motion Pictures; Director: Omung Kumar

Best Film on Environment Conservation/ Preservation: “Ottaal” (Malayalam)

Best Direction: Srijit Mukherji, “Chotushkone” (Bengali)

Best Punjabi Film Punjab: “1984”

Director Vishal Bhardwaj’s dedication of all the National Awards for Haider is ‘fraudish’, feels actor Anupam Kher. Kher, a Kashmiri Pandit himself, took to Twitter to vent his disappointment. In a series of tweets, Kher said that, ‘Vishal Bhardwaj’s dedication of  for National Awards  to Kashmiri Pandits genocide is fraudish when ‘he in fact humiliated us by doing dance of devil at our temple.’

Anupam Kher vocally opposed Haider during it’s release for a politically tilted story-telling of Kashmir issue.

Vishal Bhardwaj’s “Haider” bagged five awards at the 62^nd National Film Awards announced on 24 March