The national best child actor of Gaanayogi Panchakshara Gavai` Vijaya Raghavendra gets the Karnataka State award for his role of successor of Gavai` – Shivayogi Sri Puttayajja Kannada film is a great coincidence. The Karnataka state awards for 2015 was declared on Tuesday evening at Vartha Bhavan in Bengaluru by Karnataka information minister Roshai Baig in the presence of state award committee head famous director Naganna.

Senior actress Malashri in the industry for more than 27 years gets the best actress award for her dual shade role in Ganga`. For child actor turned heroine in Kannada from Nanjundi Kalyana` in 1989, this state award for Malashri is first time in her career of 27 years as heroine and 10 years as child actor doing 36 films.

Vijaya Raghavendra blind Gavai role had in fact beaten his younger brother Srimurali role in Rathavara` that was in the contest. Vijaya Raghavendra lived the role exactly and there was not much discussion to announce his name. All super star films were in the fray is another interesting part.