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Shah Rukh Khan and Vikrant Massey shared best actor honors at India’s 71st national film awards, while Rani Mukerji was named best actress and “12th Fail” took home the top prize for best feature film.

The awards, presented by India’s Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, honored films certified in the calendar year 2023.

Actor-producer Vidhu Vinod Chopra’s “12th Fail” — a Hindi-language biographical drama based on the life of civil servant Manoj Kumar Sharma — emerged as the major winner, earning the prestigious Swarna Kamal (Golden Lotus) for best feature film, as well as a best actor award for Massey.

Shah Rukh Khan received his first-ever national award for his performance in the box office juggernaut “Jawan” (Hindi), directed by Atlee. Rani Mukerji was honored for her lead role in “Mrs Chatterjee vs Norway” (Hindi), in which she plays a mother fighting a custody battle with a foreign government.

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Stuart Gatt’s “Catching Dust,” which premiered at Tribeca earlier this year, will open the 54th International Film Festival of India (Iffi), Goa.

Robert Kolodny’s “The Featherweight,” which bowed at Venice, will close the festival. Nuri Bilge Ceylan’s “About Dry Grasses,” for which Merve Dizdar won best actress at Cannes, will be the mid-festival gala.

The fiction feature strand of the Indian panorama showcase will open with Anand Ekarshi’s “Aattam” and the documentary strand with Longjam Meena’s “Andro Dream.” The panorama will screen 25 fiction features, including five mainstream films, plus 20 documentaries.

Michael Douglas will deliver the key festival masterclass. The international competition jury will be led by eminent filmmaker Shekhar Kapur (“Elizabeth”) and also includes producers Catherine Dussart (“Silence in the Dust”) and Helen Leake (“Carnifex”), former Cannes market chief Jerome Paillard and Pedro Almodovar’s long-standing cinematographer José Luis Alcaine, P.K. Atre’s “Shyamchi Aai...