Vikatan Awards 2019: Dhanush Wins Best Actor, Trisha Krishnan Wins Best Actress

While 2.0 won the Best Popular Film Award, Merku Thodarchi Malai won the Best Film Award. It also won the Best Debut Director Award for Lenin Barathi.

While the West was busy with Golden Globe Awards 2019, the Tamil film industry celebrated Vikatan Awards 2019. The prestigious film awards happened last night in Chennai and winning big at the event were Kaala, Vada Chennai and 96. The awards were given for various categories like Best Film, Best Actor (Male and Female), Best Comedy Actor (Male and Female), Best Screenplay Writer, Best Dialogue Writer, Best Popular Film, Best Supporting Actor (Male and Female) among others.

While 2.0 won the Best Popular Film Award, Merku Thodarchi Malai won the Best Film Award. It also won the Best Debut Director Award for Lenin Barathi. Mari Selvaraj, on the other hand, was awarded Best Director for Pariyerum Perumal. The film also won the Best Story Award.

Thank you for this honour 🙏🙏🙏 #vikatanawards https://t.co/HdiRlDtcHi

— Dhanush (@dhanushkraja) January 3, 2019

Vada Chennai, which was also liked by the audience widely, received two awards – Best Screenplay and Best Art Direction for art director Jackie. The Vetrimaaran directorial also bagged Best Actor Award for Dhanush and Best Supporting Actor Award for Ameer. Trisha Krishnan received the Best Actress Award for her performance in 96. Here’s the complete list of winners at Vikatan Awards 2019:

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Best Singer (Male) – Anthony Daasan for Sodakkufrom Thaanaa Serndha Koottam

Best Singer (Female) – Chinmayi for Kaathalae from 96

Best Debut Actor (Male) – Adithya Bhaskar for 96

Best Debut Actor (Female) – Raiza Wilson for Pyaar Prema Kaadhal

Best Lyricist – Karthik Netha for 96

Best Child Artiste – Ditya Bhande for Lakshmi

Best Makeup Artist – Banu AR, Abdul Razzaq, LECACY FX

Thank you @vikatan @vikatanawards #VikatanAwards for the #bestvilli…. couldn't have done this without @ARMurugadoss sir and @dirlingusamy sir.. this one is for u both..love u bothhhh…And mainly thank you to my amazing fans for ur love and support..without you I'm nothing.. pic.twitter.com/MkYjgPJp1w

— varu sarathkumar (@varusarath) January 5, 2019

Best Costume Designer – Eka Lakhani

Best Choreographer – Jani Master for Gulaebaghavali

Best Stunt Choreographer – Dhilip Subbarayan for Vada Chennai, Kaala

Best Animation Visual Effects – Shankar, V Srinivas Mohan for 2.0

Best Production – Vijay Sethupathi Productions for Merku Thodarchi Malai

Best Film crew – 96

Best Entertaining Film – Kadai Kutty Singam

Most Popular Film – 2.0