President Pratibha Patil presented three awards to the Tamil film Pasanga at the 57th National Film Awards-2009 ceremony at the Vigyan Bhavan in New Delhi on Friday.The award for the best child artist went to D S Kishore and Sreeraam, the two protagonists in the film directed by Pandiraj. The Rajat Kamal for the best Tamil movie too was won by Pasanga, which was produced by Sasikumar.
The award for the best music direction (songs) was presented to Amit Trivedi for the Hindi film Dev D and for the best background score (a new category) to maestro Ilayaraja for Pazhassi Raja.
