Directed by Raghu KM, ‘Doddahatti Boregowda’ won the Best Film award at the Karnataka State Film Awards 2021. Announced on Friday to honour the finest in Kannada cinema, the awards also recognised ‘777 Charlie’ as Second Best Film and ‘Bisilu Kudure’ as Third Best Film.
In the performance categories, Rakshit Shetty won Best Actor for ‘777 Charlie’, while ‘KHGF’ fame Archana Jois was named Best Actress for ‘Mute’. The Best Supporting Actor awards went to Pramod (Ratnan Prapancha) and Umashree (Ratnan Prapancha) for the male and female categories, respectively.
In the writing categories, Manjunath Muniyappa won Best Story for ‘9 Sullu Kathegalu’, Raghu KM took Best Screenplay for ‘Doddahatti Boregowda’, and Baraguru Ramachandrappa received Best Dialogues for ‘Thaayi Kasthur Gandhi’.
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