7th Vijay Awards

7th Vijay Awards
7th Vijay Awards
Sponsored by	Gionee India
Date	11 May 2013
Location	Chennai, Tamil Nadu
Country	India
Presented by	Close-Up; STAR Vijay
Hosted by	R. Madhavan; Gobinath
Reward(s)	Statuette
First awarded	2006
Website	www.vijayawards.in
Television/radio coverage
Network	STAR Vijay
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The 7th Vijay Awards ceremony honoring the best of the Tamil film industry in 2012 was held on 11 May 2013 at the Jawaharlal Nehru Indoor Stadium in Chennai.^[1] It was hosted by Gopinath and R. Madhavan.^[2]

Jury[edit]

The jury members were directors Vetrimaran, Venkat Prabhu and Cheran, comedian Yugi Sethu, and cinematographer R. Rathnavelu.^[3]

Award winners and nominees[edit]

Source:^[4]^[5]

Best Film	Best Director
Vazhakku Enn 18/9	Balaji Sakthivel - Vazhakku Enn 18/9 AR Murugadoss - Thuppakki Magizh Thirumeni - Thadaiyara Thaakka Prabhu Solomon - Kumki S. S. Rajamouli - Naan Ee
Best Actor	Best Actress
Dhanush - 3 Suriya - Maattraan Vijay - Thuppakki Vijay Sethupathi - Naduvula Konjam Pakkatha Kaanom Vikram - Thaandavam	Samantha - Neethaane En Ponvasantham Kajal Aggarwal - Thuppakki Shruti Haasan - 3 Sunaina - Neerparavai Viji Chandrasekhar - Aarohanam
Best Supporting Actor	Best Supporting Actress
Sathyaraj - Nanban Maarimuthu - Aarohanam Naren - Sundarapandian Pasupathi - Aravaan Samudrakani - Saattai	Anupama Kumar - Muppozhudhum Un Karpanaigal Nandita Das - Neerparavai Radhika Apte - Dhoni Saranya Ponvannan - Oru Kal Oru Kannadi Vidyullekha Raman - Neethane En Ponvasantham
Best Comedian	Best Villain
Santhanam - Oru Kal Oru Kannadi Karunas - Kazhugu Sathyan - Nanban Soori - Sundarapandian VTV Ganesh - Podaa Podi	Sudeep - Naan E Muthuraman - Vazhakku Enn 18/9 Narain - Mugamoodi Thambi Ramiah - Saattai Vidyut Jamwal - Thuppakki
Best Debut Actor^[4]	Best Debut Actress^[4]
Vikram Prabhu - Kumki Sivakarthikeyan - Marina Dinesh - Attakathi Udhayanidhi Stalin - Oru Kal Oru Kannadi Sri - Vazhakku Enn 18/9	Varalaxmi Sarathkumar - Podaa Podi Lakshmi Menon - Sundarapandian Manisha Yadav - Vazhakku Enn 18/9 Nandita Swetha - Attakathi Urmila Mahanta - Vazhakku Enn 18/9
Best Music Director	Best Cinematographer
D. Imman - Kumki Anirudh Ravichander - 3 Harris Jayaraj - Nanban Ilaiyaraaja - Neethane En Ponvasantham Yuvan Shankar Raja - Kazhugu	Gopi Amarnath - Pizza Prem - Naduvula Konjam Pakkatha Kaanom Vijay Milton - Vazhakku Enn 18/9 Siddharth - Aravaan Sukumar - Thadaiyara Thaakka
Best Editor	Best Art Director
Kotagiri Venkateswara Rao - Naan Ee A. Sreekar Prasad - Thuppakki Gopi Krishna - Vazhakku Enn 18/9 Leo John Paul - Pizza Praveen K. L.-N. B. Srikanth - Thadaiyara Thaakka	R. K. Vijay Murugan - Aravaan Muthuraj - Nanban Rajeevan - Maattraan Sunil Babu - Thuppakki Vairabalan - Kumki
Best Male Playback Singer	Best Female Playback Singer
Mohit Chauhan - "Po Nee Po" (3) Dhanush - "Why This Kolaveri Di" (3) Gaana Bala - "Nadukadalula" (Attakathi) Haricharan - "Ayyayyo" (Kumki) Vijay Prakash - "Asku Laska" (Nanban)	Ramya NSK - "Satru Munbu" (Neethaane En Ponvasantham) Shruti Haasan - "Kannazhaga" (3) Shweta Pandit - "Idhayam" (Billa II) Sithara - "Kangal Neeye" (Muppozhudhum Un Karpanaigal) Sunidhi Chauhan - "Mudhal Murai" (Neethaane En Ponvasantham)
Best Lyricist	Best Story, Screenplay Writer
Thamarai - "Kangal Neeye" (Muppozhudhum Un Karpanaigal) Dhanush - "Po Nee Po" (3) Gaana Bala - "Nadukadalula" (Attakathi) Na. Muthukumar - "Oru Paadhi" (Thaandavam) Yugabharathi - "Sollitalae" (Kumki)	Karthik Subbaraj - Pizza Balaji Sakthivel - Vazhakku Enn 18/9 Balaji Tharaneetharan - Naduvula Konjam Pakkatha Kaanom Rajesh - Oru Kal Oru Kannadi S. S. Rajamouli - Naan Ee
Best Background Score	Best Dialogue
Yuvan Shankar Raja	Rajesh - Oru Kal Oru Kannadi Anbazhagan - Saattai Gautham Menon - Neethane En Ponvasantham Iyappan - Madhubaanakadai Prabhu Solomon - Kumki
Best Choreographer	Best Stunt Director
Robert - "Love Panlama Venama" (Podaa Podi) Dinesh - "Venaam Machan" (Oru Kal Oru Kannadi) Farah Khan - "Irukkana" (Nanban) Shobi - "Antarctica" (Thuppakki) Sridhar - "Alaikka Laikka" (Thuppakki)	Anal Arasu - Thadaiyara Thaakka Kecha - Thuppakki Peter Hein - Maattrraan Rajasekhar- Muppozhudhum Un Karpanaigal Silva - 3
Best Make Up	Best Costume Designer
Sarath Kumar - Aravaan	S. Rajendran - Aravaan Gabreilla Wilkins - Mugamoodi Ganesh - Kumki Kunal Rawal, Deepali Noor, Sai - Nanban Vinesh Arora, Sarin - Podaa Podi
Best Find of the Year	Best Crew
Anirudh Ravichander - 3	Pizza
Best Debut Director	Face of the Year
Balaji Tharaneetharan - Naduvula Konjam Pakkatha Kaanom Anbazhagan - Saattai Karthik Subbaraj - Pizza Lakshmi Ramakrishnan - Aarohanam Prabhakaran - Sundarapandian	Udhayanidhi Stalin - Oru Kal Oru Kannadi Dinesh - Attakathi Lakshmi Menon - Sundarapandian Sivakarthikeyan - Marina Varalaxmi Sarathkumar - Podaa Podi Vikram Prabhu - Kumki
Contribution to Tamil Cinema	Chevalier Sivaji Ganesan Award for Excellence in Indian Cinema
Bharathiraja	Shahrukh Khan
Entertainer of the Year^[4]	Special Jury Awards
Vijay - Nanban / Thuppakki	Vijay Sethupathi (Actor) Trisha (Actress) Aarohanam (Film)

Favorite Awards[edit]

Favorite Hero^[4]	Favorite Heroine^[4]
Vijay - Thuppakki Ajith Kumar - Billa 2 Dhanush - 3 M. Sasikumar - Sundarapandian Surya - Maattrraan	Kajal Agarwal - Thuppakki Hansika Motwani - Oru Kal Oru Kannadi Ileana D'Cruz - Nanban Samantha Ruth Prabhu - Neethaane En Ponvasantham Shruti Haasan - 3
Favorite Film^[4]	Favorite Director^[4]
Thuppakki Naan E Nanban Oru Kal Oru Kannadi Sundarapandian	AR Murugadoss - Thuppakki N. Lingusamy - Vettai Rajesh - Oru Kal Oru Kannadi S. S. Rajamouli- Naan E Shankar - Nanban
Favourite Song^[4]
"Google Google" - Thuppakki "Sollitaaley" - Kumki "Vayamoodi Summa" - Mugamoodi "Venaam Machan" - Oru Kal Oru Kannadi "Why This Kolaveri Di" - 3

Multiple nominations[edit]

The following eighteen films received four nominations or more:

Nominations	Film
15	Thuppakki
11	Oru Kal Oru Kannadi
10	Nanban
10	Kumki
9	Vazhakku Enn 18/9
8	3
7	Sundarapandian
6	Naan Ee
6	Neethaane En Ponvasantham
5	Pizza
	Podaa Podi
	Attakathi
4	Muppozhudhum Un Karpanaigal
	Naduvula Konjam Pakkatha Kaanom
	Thadaiyara Thaakka
	Aarohanam
	Maattraan
	Saattai

The following thirteen films received multiple awards:

Awards	Film
6	Thuppakki
3	Pizza
	Aravaan
	3
	Oru Kal Oru Kannadi
2	Vazhakku Enn 18/9
	Neethaane En Ponvasantham
	Nanban
	Muppozhudhum Un Karpanaigal
	Naan E
	Podaa Podi
	Kumki
	Naduvula Konjam Pakkatha Kaanom

References[edit]

↑ "'Viswaroopam' excerpts & first look on Vijay Awards!". IndiaGlitz. 5 June 2012. Retrieved 5 June 2012.
↑ Naig, Udhav (14 May 2013). "Stars, big and small". The Hindu. Retrieved 25 August 2020.
↑ http://chennaionline.com/movies/cine-buzz/20132913032943/7th-Annual-Vijay-Awards---Grand-Success.col
↑ ^4.0 ^4.1 ^4.2 ^4.3 ^4.4 ^4.5 ^4.6 ^4.7 ^4.8 "Winners". Vijay Awards. 9 June 2012. Archived from the original on 19 April 2013. Retrieved 10 June 2012.
↑ "Dhanush, Samantha win top honours at Vijay Awards". The New Indian Express. Retrieved 18 May 2013.

External links[edit]

7th Vijay Awards (2013) at IMDb
Vijay Awards at IMDb

[1] "'Viswaroopam' excerpts & first look on Vijay Awards!". IndiaGlitz. 5 June 2012. Retrieved 5 June 2012.

[2] Naig, Udhav (14 May 2013). "Stars, big and small". The Hindu. Retrieved 25 August 2020.

[3] ttp://chennaionline.com/movies/cine-buzz/20132913032943/7th-Annual-Vijay-Awards---Grand-Success.col

[Winners-4] 4.0 ^4.1 ^4.2 ^4.3 ^4.4 ^4.5 ^4.6 ^4.7 ^4.8 "Winners". Vijay Awards. 9 June 2012. Archived from the original on 19 April 2013. Retrieved 10 June 2012.

[5] "Dhanush, Samantha win top honours at Vijay Awards". The New Indian Express. Retrieved 18 May 2013.

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