Dhaka: Jayasurya has been selected as the Best Actor in the Asian Competition at the Dhaka International Film Festival. Jayasurya won the award for her performance in Ranjith Shankar’s Sunny. Jayasuriya and Ranjith Shankar could not attend the function.
About 220 films from 70 countries were selected for the festival in various categories. ‘Sunny’ is Jayasurya’s 100th film. He is the only character in the film who tells the story in the background. The jury judged that Jayasurya played a very challenging role beautifully.
Apart from Sunny, Dr. Biju’s’ The Portraits’, Sharif’s’ Andal ‘, Martin Prakat’s’ Nayat’ and Siddharth Siva’s’ Ennivar ‘were selected from the Malayalam category in the fiction category.