Renowned director Shaji N Karun's 'Kutty Shrank' bagged the award for the best film in the National Awards announced today.

The movie bagged another four major awards including Best Cinematography for Anjali Shukla, Best Screenplay for P F Mathews and Harikrishna and Best Costumes for Jayakumar.

Mammootty's magnum opus 'Pazhassi Raja' was named the best Malayalam film. The movie also won awards for Best Sound Recording, Best Background Scoring and Best Editing for Rasool Pookkutty, Illayaraja and Sreekar Prasad respectively.

Malayalam movie shone in the awards fetching 11 major awards in various sections. The other awards for Mollywood includes the one for Keshu (best Children's film), Hasna (special award for best child artist) and C S Venkateshwaran (Best writing on cinema).