Anubhav Sinha celebrates his actors National Award win in Lucknow

Director Anubhav Sinha, who's shooting his film 'Abhi Toh Party Shuru Hui Hai' in Lucknow these days, was in full celebratory mode all of Friday as two members of his cast -- Divya Dutta and Pankaj Tripathi -- were conferred the National Awards. While Divya has won the award for Best Supporting Actress for 'Iraada', Pankaj has got a Special Mention for his performance in '

Newton

'.

On Friday morning, Sinha, Saurabh Shukla and Pankaj Tripathi were sitting together when Saurabh exclaimed and announced the news of his getting the National Award to Tripathi. "Pankaj was actually thunderstruck and could hardly believe Saurabh. The picture that I have put on Instagram is of ten seconds after Saurabh broke the news to him,” said and excited Sinha, adding, “I count myself incredibly lucky that I could get all these actors on board for my film. Divya and Pankaj are exceptional actors and deserved to win the award much earlier."

Here’s another one... Many Congratulations #LongOverdue #NationalAward @divyadutta25" Posted Sinha of Instagram. Pankaj poses with Vinay Pathak, Divya Dutta, Sinha and Pawan Malhotra in Lucknow

The cast, including Saurabh Shukla, Anubhav Sinha, Pankaj Tripathi and others, started to party in Sinha’s hotel room from early Friday morning, while Richa Chadha took the day off to go sightseeing in Lucknow. She joined the gang later in the evening to continue with the celebrations of Divya and Pankaj's win. Divya will be celebrating with her director and colleagues once she returns to Lucknow on Monday.
— Itishree.Misra@timesgroup.com