Here's why 'Dangal' and 'Aligarh' didn't win at the National Awards according to Priyadarshan

The commencement and the conclusion of the 64th National Awards 2017 was quite a dramatic affair. The nation was quite surprised when Akshay Kumar received the National Award for ' Rustom', as it honestly wasn't the best of the lot. Even Akshay Kumar was shocked to have been honoured with a National Award and thought that it was a late April Fool's joke. Anyway, it was no joke and director-jury Priyadarshan's pick was questioned by many in the industry.

It was confusing for everyone to understand why Aamir Khan didn't bag the title for 'Best Actor' for his biggest hit till now ' Dangal'?

During an interview with Mumbai Mirror, Priyadarshan revealed, "Aamir recently said that he wouldn't personally accept the award if he is given one. If I remember, Aamir didn't attend the ceremony when he won the award for 'Taare Zameen Par' (The film bagged the National Film Award for Best Film on Family Welfare in 2008). So, why spoil it for some other actor who stood as good a chance of winning the award."

We didn't understand Priyadarshan's statement for awarding Akshay Kumar and just negating Aamir Khan's work. Did you?

"Akshay Kumar deserved the award and so we gave it to him. There were a total of 38 jury members with me on this. How can you question the decision of so many people?

Ramesh Sippy headed the jury last year. When he gave Best Actor to Amitabh Bachchan for 'Piku' why didn't anyone question him? ," he added further.

When Mumbai Mirror questioned Priyadarshan on film actor Manoj Bajpayee's film ' Aligarh' not winning any awards and the hugely successful 'Dangal' just bagging one National Award for 'Best Supporting Actress', he said, " This year regional films, the Marathi, Bengali and Malayalam films in particular, were far better than the ones made in Bollywood. Most of them were not just entertaining potboilers but touched on significant social issues too ".

Well, as much as we truly appreciated the fact that regional cinema also garnered the much-deserved popularity on a National platform, it is still hard to believe that some amazing Bollywood movies didn't get appreciated.