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52nd National Film Awards presented

     New Delhi: President APJ Abdul Kalam on Friday gave away the 52nd National Film Awards at a glittering ceremony at in the capital. Saif Ali Khan won the Best Actor award for 'Hum Tum' while Kannada actress Thaara was judged Best Actress for her performance in the movie "Haseena," directed by four-time National Award winner Girish Kasaravalli. "Haseena" also bagged the Best Film on Family Welfare award. While the award in the category of best film was given to Madhur Bhandarkar's critically acclaimed film "Page 3". Buddhadeb Dasgupta won the Best Director award for his Bengali film "Swapner Din", starring Prasenjit Chatterjee and Rimii Sen. Yash Chopra's "Veer-Zaara" shared the Most Popular Film award with Cheran's Tamil film "Autograph". Rituparno Ghosh's Raincoat won the Best Feature Film in Hindi award, while and Shonali Bose's Amu won the Best Feature Film in English award. The Nargis Dutt Award for National Integration went to Shyam Benegal's "Bose: The Forgotten Hero". The Supporting Actor award was given to 92-year-old Haradhan Banerjee for the Bengali film, "Krantikar". The Supporting Actress award went to Sheela for the Malayalam film "Akale. Akale" which also won the Best Feature Film in Malayalam award. The Best Male Playback singer award went to Udit Narayan for his song "Yeh tara" in Swades, while the Best Female Playback award went to Chitra for Autograph. Ashutosh Gowariker's Swades also won Mahesh Aney the Best Cinematographer's award.