Filmfare Awards (South) 2017: Who Won the Top Honours?

This year’s event was cheered for honouring critically acclaimed films rather than commercially successful ones.

The 64th Filmfare Awards South 2017 was held in Hyderabad on Saturday evening, honouring the best talent in the Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam and Kannada film industries. Hosted by Allu Sirish, Ragini Dwivedi and Vijay Devarakonda, this year’s ceremony was cheered for gunning for critically acclaimed films rather than commercially successful ones.

Actors like Rakul Preet Singh, Samyukta Hegde, Nikki Galrani and others performed at the event, while celebs like R Madhavan, Suriya, A R Rahman, Trisha, Nivin Paul and many more stole the limelight.

Check out the top honours:

Malayalam

Best Film: Maheshinte Prathikaaram

Best Director: Dileesh Pothan (Maheshinte Prathikaaram)

Best Actor (Male): Nivin Pauly (Action Hero Biju)

Best Actor (Female): Nayanthara (Puthiya Niyamam)

#Nayanthara with 2016 South Filmfare Best Actress Award 😃👍 #NRD #NaanumRowdyDhaan pic.twitter.com/amyDd1jnjY

— Nayanthara Live (@NayantharaLive) September 28, 2016

Tamil

Best Film: Joker

Best Director: Sudha K Prasad (Irudhi Suttru)

Best Actor (Male): Madhavan (Irudhi Suttru)

Best Actor (Female): Ritika Singh (Irudhi Suttru)

Last night for #JioFilmfareAwards #JioFilmfaresouth2017 💋💅 pic.twitter.com/U6Zf69jujA

— Ritika Singh (@ritika_offl) June 18, 2017

Telugu

Best Film: Pelli Choopulu

Best Director: Vamsi Paidipally (Oopiri)

Best Actor (Male): Junior NTR (Nannaku Prematho)

Best Actor Award Telugu Goes Too #JuniorNTR !!!#JioFilmfareSouth2017 !!! pic.twitter.com/fi3GxBtuoi

— # CineNewsWorld# (@Cinenewsworld) June 17, 2017

Best Actor (Female): Samantha Ruth Prabhu (A Aa)

Kannada

Best Film: Thithi

Best Director: Rishab Shetty (Kirik Party)

Best Actor (Male): Anant Nag (Godhi Banna Sadharana Maikattu)

Best Actor (Female): Shraddha Srinath (U Turn)

A little late in posting this, but yes, with all your support, I won Best Actress (Kannada) for U Turn at the @filmfare South awards. pic.twitter.com/e355AIyFzo

— Shraddha Srinath (@ShraddhaSrinath) June 18, 2017

Lifetime Achievement Award:

Vijaya Nirmala

Congrats #VijayaNirmala garu for Lifetime Achievement Award 😍👏 #JioFilmfareAwards (South) pic.twitter.com/CO5PLgboSh

— #SPYDER 🕸 (@Keshav4005) June 17, 2017

Filmfare Critics Award for Best Actor (Male):

Allu Arjun for Sarrainodu

Thank You #FilmfareSouth2017 for giving me Critics Best Actor . I Dedicate this Award to Late Sri Dasari Narayana Garu. pic.twitter.com/pVJjLJ8IxR

— Allu Arjun (@alluarjun) June 18, 2017

Dulquer Salmaan for Kali & Kammattipadam

Rakshit Shetty for Kirirk Party

Suriya for24

Filmfare Awards : 18 June 2016 & 18 June 2017 with the fav @Suriya_offl sir! pic.twitter.com/6ZuTqMk4NW

— Allu Sirish (@AlluSirish) June 18, 2017

Filmfare Critics Award for Best Actor (Female):

Ritu Varma for Pelli Choopulu

Shruthi Hariharan for Godhi Banna Sadharana Maikattu

Trisha for Kodi