Satyajit Ray Memorial Award 2022
Source: The Sangai Express
Imphal, May 02 2022:
International Federation of Film Critics- India Chapter (FIPRESCI-India) has conferred the Satyajit Ray Memorial Award 2022 to veteran author Professor I Shanmughadas.
It may be noted that Professor I Shanmughadas is the second recipient of the Satyajit Ray Memorial Award.
As per a statement from FIPRESCI, I Shanmughadas is a writer and film critic from Kerala who received the National Film Award for Best Film Critic in 1999 .
He has been a popular voice of the film society movement in Kerala and has been enlightening the rural audiences and common people for decades.
The award will be handed over to him in a program that will be organized physically as soon as possible.
He has also received the Kerala Sahitya Akademi's "Vilasini Puraskaram" for the best literary criticism for his book "Shareeram Nadhi Nakhathram" on The God of Small Things among others.