Actor Dhanush, who has won the Tamil Nadu Government's State Film Award for Best Actor for the year 2018 for his performance in director Vetri Maran's cult classic Vada Chennai, has now penned a note of gratitude in which he has called the award "a true honor".

Taking to his X timeline soon after the Tamil Nadu government announced the State Film Awards for the year 2018, Dhanush wrote, "I sincerely thank the Government of Tamil Nadu for conferring upon me the State Award for Vada Chennai. It is a true honor. My heartfelt congratulations to all the other awardees as well."