The 20th Filmfare Awards South ceremony honoring the winners of the best of South Indian cinema in 1972 was held on April 21, 1973 at Shanmukhananda Hall in Bombay along with Hindi Awards.https://archive.org/details/20th-filmfare-best-actor-award-winnershttps://archive.org/details/20th-filmfare-best-director-actress-winnershttps://archive.org/details/20th-filmfare-best-film-winners
From this year, the awards were regularly presented to four main categories – Best Film, Best Director, Best Actor and Best Actress – in all four South Indian film industries. The president of this year's function was the defence minister Jagjivan Ram. The chief guest of the evening was veteran actor Ashok Kumar.
Jury Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam & KannadaJustice T. Ramaprasada Rao - (Chairman) M. R. Menon D. Ramanujam S. Rangaswami P. Ramakrishna Rao R. S. Cunniah C. G. Rangabhashyam Mrs. Rohini Krishna Chandra S. V. Venugopalan - (Ex Officio)
Awards
Kannada cinema Best FilmBest DirectorVamsha Vriksha - G. V. IyerB. V. Karanth, Girish Karnad - Vamsha VrikshaBest ActorBest ActressVenkat Rao Talegiri - Vamsha VrikshaKalpana - Yaava Janmada Maitri
Malayalam cinema Best FilmBest DirectorChembarathi - S. K. NairK. S. Sethumadhavan - PunarjanmamBest ActorBest ActressMadhu - SwayamvaramRoja Ramani - Chembarathi
Tamil cinema Best FilmBest DirectorPattikada Pattanama - P. MadhavanP. Madhavan - Gnana OliBest ActorBest ActressSivaji Ganesan - Gnana OliJayalalithaa - Pattikada Pattanama
Telugu cinema Best FilmBest DirectorPandanti Kapuram - G. Hanumantha RaoK. V. Reddy - Sri Krishna SatyaBest ActorBest ActressN. T. Rama Rao - Badi PanthuluJayalalithaa - Sri Krishna Satya
Special awards Special Commendation Award for PerformanceJamuna - Pandanti Kapuram
Awards presentation
G. V. Iyer (Best Film Kannada) Received Award from Devendra Goel S. K. Nair (Best Film Malayalam) Received Award from Sujit Kumar G. Hanumantha Rao (Best Film Telugu) Received Award from Deven Varma P. Madhavan (Best Film Tamil) Received Award from Rakesh Roshan N. T. Rama Rao Receives K. V. Reddy's Award (Best Director Telugu) from G. P. Sippy P. Madhavan (Best Director Tamil) Received Award from Farida Jalal Kalpana (Best Actress Kannada) Received Award from Jeetendra Roja Ramani (Best Actress Malayalam) Received Award from Ajit Wadekar Jayalalithaa (Best Actress Telugu) Received Award from Ashok Kumar Jayalalithaa (Best Actress Tamil) Received Award from Jairaj Venkat Rao Talegiri (Best Actor Kannada) Received Award from Rekha Madhu (Best Actor Malayalam) Received Award from Sanjay N. T. Rama Rao (Best Actor Telugu) Received Award from Yogeeta Bali Sivaji Ganesan (Best Actor Tamil) Received Award from Ashok Kumar
References
Filmfare Magazine April 6, 1973. Filmfare Magazine May 18, 1973.
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