Puneeth Rajkumar and Sruthi Hariharan Best Actors

Hyderabad: All roads led to the Hyderabad International Convention Centre on Saturday evening as members of all the four South Indian film industries got together to celebrate the best of Kannada, Telugu, Tamil and Malayalam films of 2017 at the 65th Jio  Filmfare Awards (South)-2018.

While ‘Ondu Motteya Kathe’ was the Best Film in Kannada, Puneeth Rajkumar took home his fourth Best Actor in a Leading Role (Male) for ‘Raajakumara’; Sruthi Hariharan won her second Filmfare Award, this time for Best Actor in a Leading Role (Female) for    ‘Beautiful Manasugalu.’

List of those who won big at the Filmfare Awards (South) – 2018

Best Film : Ondu Motteya Kathe

Best Actor in a Leading Role (Female) : Sruthi Hariharan (Beautiful Manasugalu)

Best Actor in a Leading Role (Male) : Puneeth Rajkumar (Raajakumara)

Critics’ Award for Best Actor (Male) : Dhananjaya (Allama)

Critics’ Award for Best Actor (Female) : Shraddha Srinath (Operation Alamelamma)

Best Director : Tharun Sudhir (Chowka)

Best Actor in a Supporting Role (Male) : P. Ravi Shankar (College Kumara)

Best Actor in a Supporting Role (Female) : Bhavani Prakash (Urvi)

Best Playback Singer (Male) : Armaan Malik for Ondu Malebillu… (Chakravarthy)

Best Playback Singer (Female) : Anuradha Bhat for Appa I Love You… (Chowka)

Best Lyrics : Nagendra Prasad for Appa I Love You… (Chowka)

Best Music Director : Bharath BJ (Beautiful Manasugalu)