Last year, when the State Awards were announced, many cried out it as weird. But now, the jury headed by Jahnu Barua, decided to keep the entire proceedings predictable with not many surprises.

While majority of the movies that were in the competition fetched something in one section or other, the little loses were inflicted upon Adoor' s 'Naalu Pennungal'  getting no distinctions in any major sections.

But the real surprise is the best film ‘Adayalangal’, directed by MG Sasi emerged as the best film. It also fetched him the best director award and the best cinematography award for M J Radhakrishnan.

The awards in the acting section, all went in the predictable lines with Mohanlal bagging the best for his performance in ‘Paradesy’, while Meera Jasmine added one more to her collections with the sensitive performance in 'Ore Kadal'. Lakshmy Gopalaswamy was names the second best actress for her performance in 'Thaniye' while veteran actor Bharath Murali was named the second best actor for ‘Pranayakalam’ and ‘Vinodhayathra’. Jagathy was one again bestowed a special award for his great presentations in ‘Arabikatha’, ‘Veeralipattu’ and ‘Paradesy’. T G Ravi was also got a special mention.

The award in technical section were shared between the best in the section that includes Vinod  Sukumaran for best editing of 'Ore Kadal', M J Radhakrishnan for best cinematography in ‘Adayalangal', Pattanam Rasheed for best makeup in 'Paradesi'. Brinda emerged best choreographer for ‘Vinodhayathra’ while S B Satheesh was named the best costumer for ‘Naalu Pennungal’. The awards for best art direction also went to Rajasekharan for 'Naalu Pennungal'.

In the music section ‘Nivedhyan’ fetched the major three including Best music director award for M Jayachandran and the best playback singers for Shwetha and Vijay Yesudas for the song 'Kolakuzhal vili ketto' which was the biggest super hit song  of 2007. While Ouseppachan was named best background scorer for ‘Ore Kadal’, ‘Rafiq Ahamed’ got the award for best lyricist for the song "Etho vidhooramam' from ‘Pranayakaalam’. One of the surprising award decisions of the year was the best screen play award that was bestowed to Sathyan Anthikkad for his work in 'Vinodhayathra'.

All together this year's awards  is sure to evoke very little questions for its integrity in decisions, as almost  all named  is sure to have taken strains to achieve their feats that shows itself on screen.

Hats off to the committee, and congratulations to the well deserving winners.