"64th National Film Awards 2017: Why Akshay Kumar's win such a prestigious honour."
Another year. Another controversy surrounding the National Film Awards. On Friday, 7 April 2017, was initially announced that Akshay Kumar’s outing as naval officer Rustom Pavri in last year’s Rustom has won the A-lister his first Best Actor mention at the 64th National Film Awards. The actor even took to Twitter to thank the jury for the honour and to dedicate the win to his wife. A few hours later, the 64th National Film Awards 2017 jury head, director Priyadarshan, said, “Akshay has won the Best Actor award for both Airlift and Rustom. For technical reasons, only Rustom is mentioned in the list of awardees. But he has given contrasting and extremely sensitive performances in both Airlift and Rustom, and we thought it was only fair to honour him for both.” Interestingly, Priyadarshan has helmed four Akshay starrers, including Hera Pheri. How does an actor win an award for two performances? And, if the criterion was an actor’s range ov...