National Award for Prakash Raj: Versatile actor Prakash Raj produced movie gets National Award - 'Puttakkana Highway' a Kannada movie. This is a fabulous achievement by this skilled artiste and this once again shows that he's also a great producer.  Another highlight is that Prakash Raj gets the award on the same stage where his mentor and guru K Bala Chander received Dada Saheb Phalke Award. Puttakkana Highway is directed by B Suresh and produced by Prakash Raj himself also co-starring Shruti. Once again Prakash Raj shows that he's not just only a versatile actor but also an efficient producer

Praskash Raj earlier won the National Film Award for Best Actor in 2009 for his role in Kanchivaram, a Tamil film directed by Priyadarshan and won the National Film Award for Best Supporting Actor in 1998 for the Mani Ratnam film Iruvar. He also received the National award for Special Jury Award for all language films and also for Anthapuram (Telugu). TeluguOne.com congratulates Prakash Raj on this wonderful achievement

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