Veteran actor Pavan Malhotra recently weighed on the winners of the 72nd National Film Awards. “Kartik Aaryan deserves the National Film Award for Chandu Champion. That boy was brilliant,” Pavan Malhotra pointed out in an interview with ANI. Pavan earned his first National Film Award in 1998 for the Hindi film Fakir and then clinched a National Film Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role for his performance in Fouja (2023). The actor revealed that he was shocked both times he learned he had won a National Film Award.