20th Filmfare Awards South explained

Number:	20
Award:	Filmfare Awards South
Award Link:	Filmfare Awards South
Date:	April 21, 1973
Site:	Bombay
Last:	19th
Next:	21st

The 20th Filmfare Awards South Ceremony honoring the winners of the best of South Indian cinema in 1972 was an event held on April 21, 1973 at Shanmukhananda hall in Bombay along with Hindi Awards.

From this year, the awards were regularly presented to four main categories such as Best Film, Best Director, Best Actor and Best Actress in all the four South Indian industries. The president of this year's function was the defence minister Jagjivan Ram. The chief guest of the evening was veteran Ashok Kumar.

Jury

! style="background:#eedd82; text-align:center; width:50%;"	Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam & Kannada
Justice 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

! style="background:#eedd82; text-align:center; width:50%;"	Best Film	! style="background:#eedd82; text-align:center; width:50%;"	Best Director
Vamsha Vriksha - G. V. Iyer	B. V. Karanth, Girish Karnad - Vamsha Vriksha
! style="background:#eedd82; text-align:center; width:50%;"	Best Actor	! style="background:#eedd82; text-align:center; width:50%;"	Best Actress
Venkat Rao Talegiri - Vamsha Vriksha	Kalpana - Yaava Janmada Maitri

Malayalam cinema

! style="background:#eedd82; text-align:center; width:50%;"	Best Film	! style="background:#eedd82; text-align:center; width:50%;"	Best Director
Chembarathi - S. K. Nair	K. S. Sethumadhavan - Punarjanmam
! style="background:#eedd82; text-align:center; width:50%;"	Best Actor	! style="background:#eedd82; text-align:center; width:50%;"	Best Actress
Madhu - Swayamvaram	Roja Ramani - Chembarathi

Tamil cinema

! style="background:#eedd82; text-align:center; width:50%;"	Best Film	! style="background:#eedd82; text-align:center; width:50%;"	Best Director
Pattikada Pattanama - P. Madhavan	P. Madhavan - Gnana Oli
! style="background:#eedd82; text-align:center; width:50%;"	Best Actor	! style="background:#eedd82; text-align:center; width:50%;"	Best Actress
Sivaji Ganesan - Gnana Oli	Jayalalithaa - Pattikada Pattanama

Telugu cinema

! style="background:#eedd82; text-align:center; width:50%;"	Best Film	! style="background:#eedd82; text-align:center; width:50%;"	Best Director
Pandanti Kapuram - G. Hanumantha Rao	K. V. Reddy - Sri Krishna Satya
! style="background:#eedd82; text-align:center; width:50%;"	Best Actor	! style="background:#eedd82; text-align:center; width:50%;"	Best Actress
N. T. Rama Rao - Badi Panthulu	Jayalalithaa - Sri Krishna Satya

Special Awards

! style="background:#eedd82; text-align:center; width:50%;"	Special Commendation Award for Performance
Jamuna - Pandanti Kapuram^[1]

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.

General

Notes and References

1. Book: The Times of India Directory and Year Book Including Who's who. 1973.