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Aakarsh, not onyl did Kirboni(that's his suggested name for bengali movies) win a NA for annamayya(yeah, the great album with annamayya kritis orchestrated worse than Srikanth Deva did for bharathiyaar songs and the one original song was the GREAT ElE ElE maradala) - he did it against Raja's Malayalam magnum-opus Guru. That was a watershed moment for me w.r.t NAs. That was the moment I realised that the awrds he got for SaagaraSangamam, RudraVeena and SindhuBhairavi were not recognition for him. It just so happened that any semi-decent+ classical related album would be easily pushed through in NA jury. Those 3 awards instantly lost currency with me. There is no external award that has recognised IR truly. Just like MSV. Enna IR got 3 coincidental NAs, which still are not recognition of his genius.