Vijay Sethupathi has been conferred with the Best Actor Award at the Indo-French International Film Festival for his performance in director Seenu Ramasamy's critically acclaimed Tamil film Maamanithan. The film also won the award for Best Picture.

Maamanithan won the gold in the Best Asian Film category, while Takahiro Kawabe's Love Song at 5 pm won the silver and Mart Bira's Nomadic Doctor took the bronze at the Tokyo Film Awards.

The story of Maamanithan is about a simple man who longs to provide good education to his children by getting them admitted to a private school. To increase his income, he enters into a deal with a real estate developer and in the process gets conned. The problems he faces are what the film is all about.