Vicky Kaushal, Paresh Rawal and Mohit Raina's Uri: The Surgical Strike has been super successful commercially and now, it also clinched some honorary accolades. The film marked Aditya Dhar's directorial debut and it has so far bagged four National Film Awards in total. Vicky Kaushal who plays army officer Major Vihan in the lead won the Best Actor award. Considering the gripping screenplay and enticing narrative of this revenge war-drama, Aditya Dhar, the man in the director's seat has been honoured with the 'Best Direction' honour – two big National Film Awards in the pocket. National Film Awards 2019: Ayushmann Khurrana, Vicky Kaushal and Keerthy Suresh Win Best Actor Award!
The rest of the two awards have been conferred for technical categories. Uri: The Surgical Strike has bagged two awards in Best Sound Design and Best Background Score. Four big honours and a lot to cheers went to Aditya Dhar and team. The film is based on true events when the Indian army special forces carried out a secret operation to avenge the killing of fellow army men at Uri base by a terrorist group. The Vicky Kaushal and Mohit Raina film was recently re-released in Maharashtra on the occasion of Kargil Vijay Diwas on July 26. National Film Awards 2019: Ayushmann Khurrana and Tabu’s AndhaDhun Wins Best Film in Hindi Language, Best Actor, Adapted Screenplay
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66th National film Awards 2018: Award for best actor goes to
Ayushmann Khurrana for Badhaai Ho and Vicky Kaushal for Uri (File pics) pic.twitter.com/B4m2yLG2kb
— ANI (@ANI) August 9, 2019
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Uri: The Surgical Strike was theatrically released on January 11, 2019. The film was produced by Ronnie Screwvala under his banner RSVP Movies. The Vicky Kaushal film was a blockbuster and did a lifetime business of Rs 244 crores. Apart from Vicky Kaushal and Mohit Raila, the military drama also stars Paresh Rawal, Yami Gautam and Kirti Kulhari in major roles.
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