Filmmaker Priyadarshan was a Jury member in the panel of the National Awards which were declared last Friday. Akshay Kumar has bagged the National Award for Best Actor for film Rustom and for his winning, the Jury member Priyadarshan has been slammed.

Everyone has been slamming him to be biased for Akshay Kumar because Akshay has signed him up for his home production films.

The filmmaker clears that, "I am not doing any film with Akshay. The only two films that I am in talks with actors for, are with Abhishek Bachchan for Bachchan Singh which is a pure commercial entertainer written by Rumi Jaffrey and Ajay Devgn for the Hindi remake of Oppam. I don’t know why people feel that I can solely influence a jury of 12 to take such an important call. The jury members are artists from all the country and various regional movies. I am just the Chairperson and it was a unanimous decision to vote for Akshay."

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