Yesterday, the winners of 64th National Film Awards was announced and in the category of regional cinema, Marathi film Ventilator bagged three awards- for Best editing, Best Director, and Best sound mixing. 

Rajesh Mapuskar, is the director of film and Priyanka Chopra's production banner Purple Pebble Pictures produced this film. Priyanka on winning for her producing film said, "I just had a déjà vu moment… I was woken up early morning with the amazing news that our film Ventilator had won 3 National Awards. It was pretty much the same way I was informed that I had won my first National Award for Best Actress for Fashion! The emotions are the same... pride, joy, excitement, gratitude and so much more. Congratulations to Rajesh, Rameshwar, and Alok… so well deserved. As producers, this was a difficult film to bring together… with such an amazing ensemble cast of over 116 actors from Marathi cinema and theater backgrounds, tight deadlines and crazy schedules but we made it happen because we truly believed that this story needed to be told." 

The actress also revealed that, "I also wanted to make this film for my father and I know he would have been very proud right now. I am extremely proud of the entire team."

PeeCee praised the work of her team, "We are barely a year and few films old and Ventilator is our first Marathi Film, so these wins are an extremely encouraging sign for us as a team. This is a reiteration that PPP is headed in the right direction in terms of our vision – giving new talent a platform to showcase themselves, good storytelling and expanding the canvas of cinema, including regional." 

Her mother Madhu Chopra said, "I am very happy, it was Rajesh Mapuskar's debut and what work he has done! The subject was simple and Rajesh's way of telling the story was applauded and loved by the critics. Priyanka was jumping with joy, when I told her this big news. She isn't here right now. When she comes to India in end of April, we will celebrate the major win of this film."

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