Gyan Correa, the debutant director of Gujarati movie 'The Good Road', has been selected for the Gollapudi Srinivas National Award 2013.
The film was selected from 20 nominations across many languages including Hindi, Malayalam, Marathi, Tamil, Bengali, Telugu and Kannada, a press release from the Gollapudi Srinivas Memorial Foundation said here today.
The award has been instituted in memory of late Gollapudi Srinivasa, who died while directing his first film Prema Pustakam (Book of Love) in 1992.
'The Good Road' is the first ever Gujarati film selected to represent India at the Oscars. Besides, it has bagged the Best Gujarati film award at the 60th National Film Award.
The selection jury consisted of noted film director S M Vasanth, National award winning film editor A Sreekar Prasad and Tamil film actress Kushboo, it said.
The award would be presented to the winners on August 12, the day on which Srinivas passed away.
