Vice-President Hamid Ansari gave away awards at the 59th National Awards for 2011 at Vigyan Bhawan

                                                National awads

                               Vidya Balan accepts the award from Vice President.

                                         Roopa Ganguly with the award

                                           Vidya Balan and Girish Kulkarni

           Sanjay Suri picks up the award for I Am which was judged the best Hindi movie.

                               Is Vidya taking tips on acting from Soumitra Chatterjee?

                             Vidya Balan and Girish Kulkarni greet Soumitra Chatterjee

               An emotional Soumitra Chatterjee said, “I am not really in a frame of mind to say anything ...time and again for the last more than 50 years I have been accepted and loved and made to feel one of their own by my countrymen...They are the reason I have come this far...” he said.

                      Dadasaheb Phalke Award for veteran Bengali actor Soumitra Chatterjee

                        Marathi actor Girish Kulkarni won the Best Actor award for Deool.