New Delhi : 55th National Awards for his sterling performance as a silk weaver in Priyadarshan''s Tamil film Kanchivaram, which has been adjudged as the Best Film of 2007.
“It’s a very human story of pre-partition time about Kanjivaram. The film’s script was written so well that I didn’t require any homework. It is
It is Prakash Raj’s second National award. The previous one was in the Best Supporting Actor category for Mani Ratnam''s Iruvar in 1998 and a special jury award in 2003.

Directed by Priyadarshan, the film depicts the lives and times of silk-weavers of Kancheepuram in pre-Independent India.