Mathrubhumi
Daily
and
Amrita
TV,
two
major
players
in
the
print
and
electronic
media
in
Kerala,
team
up
to
present
the
Idea-Mathrubhumi-Amrita
Film
Awards
2009
to
be
held
on
February
21
at
the
Chandrasekharan
Nair
Stadium,
Thiruvananthapuram.
Nominations
have
already
been
made
from
the
61
films
produced
in
2008.
Amrita
TV,
one
of
the
leading
Malayalam
TV
channels
and
the
only
satellite
channel
in
India
to
have
earned
29
State
Awards
for
excellence
in
TV,
said
that
a
four-hour
star-studded
entertainment
programme
with
performances
by
artistes
and
troupes
from
Bollywood,
Kollywood
and
Mollywood
will
be
organized
as
part
of
the
awards
night.
Over
30,000
people
are
expected
to
attend
the
show.
The
awards
are
decided
by
public
voting,
jury
opinion
and
nominations.
Some
of
the
key
award
categories
in
AFA
2009
are:
best
film,
direction,
acting
(male/
female),
script,
music,
lyrics,
song
(male/
female),
cinematography,
editing,
costume,
art
and
make-up.
Besides
these
conventional
categories,
Amrita
TV
has
also
included
some
innovative
categories
that
will
be
announced
by
the
jury.
The
previous
winners
of
the
2008
awards
include
Mammootty
(actor),
Meera
Jasmine
(actress),
Arabikkatha
(film),
Shyamaprasad
(director),
Ouseppachan
(music
director)
and
Sreenivasan
(screenplay).