Chennai: Vikatan Cinema awards on its 10th edition this year is set for a big leap by transforming in to a prime event property with an award night that will be witnessing the participation of celebrities from the film industry associated with cultural performances that will be televised for the first time.
While the Vikatan Cinema Awards event will be held on Friday, 13th of January 2017, at the Chennai Trade Centre. The televised content will be aired as two parts on Sun TV around the first week of Feb, 2017.
Ananda Vikatan Magazine’s annual cinema is recognising the talents in the Tamil film industry since 2008. The Award has positioned itself as a platform that respects talent in the field of Cinema, Arts, Sports, Literature and Media with its tagline “Thiramaikku Mariyathai” (‘an ode to talent’).
The Ananda Vikatan Cinema Awards are uniquely chosen by a process in which the editorial team of Ananda Vikatan magazine will be finalizing the winners based on various merit aspects. The event will witness distribution of awards in as many as 40 categories along with the prestigious SS Vasan Lifetime Achievement Award.
Mr. B Srinivasan, Managing Director, Vikatan Group said, “We are proud to present the 10th edition of Ananda Vikatan’s Cinema awards, to be recorded for television broadcast for the very first time, with the who’s who of the Tamil Cinema Industry performing, participating, giving and receiving awards for almost 40 categories for films released in the year 2016”.
He added “Ananda Vikatan’s association with Cinema is almost as old as the magazine itself. Ever since we reviewed the very first Tamil Feature Film ‘Kalidas’, Ananda Vikatan’s cinema reviews have proved timeless. In the ’70’s, we did the unthinkable – quantify quality… for the very first time in the history of Indian cinema, a film was rated on various parameters and marked out of 100”.
“The highest mark to date was The Bharathiraja-Ilayaraja-Kamal-Rajini-Sridevi multibagger ’16 vayathinile’ (‘Age 16’) – it received 62 1/2 / 100” said Srinivasan.
With 13 titles, selling over 1.5 million copies every publishing day, having 2 of the top 3 daily soaps in Tamil for a decade and more, publishing its 1000th book title this year and having over 10 million followers on social media and having 7.5 million uniques come in every month consuming 150 million page views, Ananda Vikatan is rocking as it fast approached its centurion year.
