Arjun Das wins Best Actor Award for Rasavathi at New Jersey Indian and International Film Festival

Actor Arjun Das, who is currently basking in fame for his performance in Ajith Kumar-Adhik Ravichandran's film Good Bad Ugly’, has won the award for Best Actor for the 2024 romantic crime drama Rasavathi at the New Jersey Indian and International Film Festival.

Santhakumar, the director of Rasavathi –The Alchemist, shared the news on his X handle and wrote, “Arjun Das won the “Best Actor award” for the movie Rasavathi from New Jersey Indian and International Film Festival - 2024 Congratulations GBU Villain Arjun Das." This is not the first award that the film has won. Earlier this year, the film, featuring actors Arjun Das and Tanya Ravichandran in the lead, won the award for Best Sound Design at the London International Film Festival 2025.

Sound engineer Tapas Nayak’s work in Rasavathi won the Award defeating nine other films from around the globe. Apart from the category of Best Sound Design, Rasavathi –The Alchemist had also gained nominations in five other categories. They were Best Director of a Foreign Language Film, Best Foreign Language Film, Best Editing of a Foreign Language Film, Outstanding Actor in a Foreign Language Film and Outstanding Actress in a Foreign Language Film.

Apart from Arjun Das and Tanya Ravichandran, the film also featured a host of actors including Sujith Shankar, Ramya Subramanian, GM Sundar, Reshma Venkatesh, Sujatha and Rishikanth. The film had music by SS Thaman.

Interestingly, Rasavathi was the third film for which Santhakumar had joined hands with Thaman. The film had two cinematographers in Saravanan Elavarasu and Sivakumar. VJ Sabu Joseph handled the film’s editing work. Sathish Krishnan was the dance choreographer for the film, which had art direction by Sivaraj and sound effects by Sethu. Tapas Nayak was in charge for sound mixing.