Melbourne: Tamil famous actor Suriya won the best performance male award for the film “Soorarai Pottru” and also the film has won the best film award at the Indian Film Festival of Melbourne.

The movie is based on the biography of Captain Gopinath, founder of Air Deccan. Indian Film Festival of Melbourne in a twitter officially said best performance male (feature) congratulations to Suriya Sivakumar for Soorarai Pottru and Congratulations to Soorarai Pottru for best film.

The film is produced by Suriya’s home banner 2D Entertainment and directed by Sudha Kongara. It was recently announced that the film will be remade in Hindi with Sudha once again taking up the director’s role. Australian minister Danny Pearson congratulated Suriya for the win, to which Suriya replied “Truly an honour Sir”.