Telugu Awards Santosham Awards 2003

The Santosham Film Awards is the most well-known award show of the Telugu film industry. The Santosham Awards presents a set of awards that honor artistic and technical excellence in the Telugu-language film industry of India. The running time of the show is approximately three hours. The award show telecasted on Maa Gold. 

It is a formal-to-semi-formal event during which trophies are given to honor achievements in a particular field. The main attraction of the award show was honoring special guests and actors for their valuable contribution to the Telugu film industry. Actors of every generation attended it to mix and mingle. Famous comedians of the show poke fun at many facets of the working of the Telugu film industry. This brings the vibes of joy and happiness to the programs. Stupendous electrifying performances are given by the actors, which set the stage on fire.

The award show commenced in 2003, by the annual Santosham film magazine. This magazine started in 2002. The awards felicitated all the technicians and actors for their immense contribution to Telugu Cinema. Some popular awards given at the event were the Best Film- Okkadu produced by M. S Raju, Best Director- Sekhar Kammula for Happy Days Happy Days is a Telugu-language show on ETV Telegu >> Read More... . The Best Producer was awarded to Akkineni Nagarjuna Akkineni Nagarjuna is a veteran Indian actor, TV p >> Read More... for Satyam, Best Actor was given to Chiranjeevi for Tagore, Best Villain awarded to Prakash Raj Prakash Raj, born on 26th of March, 1965, as Praka >> Read More... for Okkadu, and the Best Music Director was given to MM Keeravani for the movie Gangotri.

Technical Awards were also distributed at the ceremony. The Best Art Direction was given to Ashok for Okkadu. The Best Cinematographer was given to Chota K Naidu for Tagore and Gangotri. The Best Editing award was given to Gowtam Raju Gautam Raju is also called Bhupati Raju, was born >> Read More... . Best Screenplay was given to G. Neelakanta for the movie, Missama, and the Best Dialogue award was given to Paruchuri Brothers.