Around 38 awards were announced today for 55th Natiional Film Awards for the year 2007. There was not a single award for a Telugu Film. Tamil films got the Best Film and Best Actor awards even dominating Bollywood movies. But none of the Telugu films were selected, unfortunately not even in the Regional Best films. There were even Bengali, Marathi films.  

Happy Days,  Mee Sreyobilashi, Amulyam, O Chinnari Korika were nominated for the feature film category but none were selected. When one of the judges was asked the same, she replied that Telugu movies were made with high standards but there is no standard in the content.

Thats a big note our producers and directors have to make. This should be good lesson for Telugu movie makers. Just remaking and copiying from Hollywood movies does not take you anywhere. Something original will always yeild results.2009 has not improved a lot either.