# Congress leader Siddaramaiah appreciated Dollu, the national award winning film

Announcements · Published 2022-08-25 12:08:26

> Television actors Karthik Mahesh and Nidhi Hegde play the lead roles along with Babu Hiraniah, Chandra Mayur, Sharan Suresh

Dollu, a film that has been winning many hearts everyday, was appreciated by Congress leader Siddaramaiah after he watched it at the Orion Mall. "The film is a beautiful depiction of the Folklore Dollu, Pavan Wadeyar and Sagar Puranik have put in a great effort to make sure the art form stays to grow," said Siddaramaiah. 

"Art has no boundaries, especially no boundaries of religion, caste, sex and creed. The film has turned out really well and I appreciate the same," he added. 

Zaheer  was also present during the screening of Dollu. 

Pavan Wadeyar's first production with Apeksha Purohit's Wadeyar Movies, Dollu, just bagged two awards at the 68th National Awards. 

Best Kannada Film and Best Music Direction awards are the two new feathers on Dollu's cap. 

The award saw 400 feature films from 30 different languages. 

Recent recognition of the film was the Dadasabheb Phalke 2021 award, given for the best Kannada film, in conjunction with the Innovative International Film Festival.

The film won the Special Jury Award, Best Regional Feature film, Best Deebutant Director of regional feature film at the International Film festival held in Rajasthan 

It won the best Indian film at the Kaliedoscope International film festival held in Boston, America. Dollu was amongst the nine Indian films that were selected for the international film festival held in Chennai. 

Dollu is the debut film of the National Award winner Sagar Puranik. Television actors Karthik Mahesh and Nidhi Hegde play the lead roles along with Babu Hiraniah, Chandra Mayur, Sharan Suresh. Ananth Kamath has scored music for the film and camera work is done by Abhilash Kalathi.

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