The Rajasthan Film Festival Award ceremony (also known as the RFF Awards) is a set of awards presented annually to honour both artistic and technical excellence of artistes in Rajasthani cinema as well as in other Regional Cinema of

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and lifetime Achievement Award was given to Actor Sanjay Mishra. The 9th and 8th edition of Rajasthan Film Festival was not held due to global pandemic of COVID 19. The 7th edition of the award ceremony was organized for 3 Days (26 September to 28 September, 2019) at Maan Palace, in

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. Shreyas Talpade was the host of the award night. Other prominent celebrities at the ceremony included Shakti Kapoor, Satish Kaushik, Rajesh Puri, Komal Nahta, Aniruddh Dave, Neha Shree, Aniruddh Singh among others. The eighth and ninth edition of the award ceremony were cancelled due to government-imposed covid restrictions. The 2018 event was organized for 5 Days (25 to 29 September 2018) at Maan Palace, in

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and Sara Khan made their presence. In 2017, the ceremony was held at Deep Smriti Auditorium, on 14 to 16 September 2017.

History

The first awards were presented in 2013 at Rajasthan, India. From then onwards, the awards are held at various locations of Jaipur. Sanjana Sharma is the founder of Rajasthan Film Festival. In its 6th edition (2018), the RRF has organized this event for 5 days. The event was started with theater competition held on 25–27 September. On 28 September, inter college dance competition was organize where several people from Rajasthani Film Industry shared their thoughts about Rajasthan cinema and on the last day of event (29 September), awards were given to the various categories by RFF.

Award ceremonies

The following is a listing of all Rajasthan Film Festival Awards ceremonies since 2013

Awards

Rajasthani Film ( Category-A)

* Best Director * Best Writer * Best Cinematographer * Best Actor in Leading Role * Best Actress in Leading Role * Best Negative Performance * Best Supporting Performance * Best Music Director * Best lyrics Writer * Best Singer (Male) * Best Singer (Female) * Best Movie

Other Regional Film ( Category-B)

Special Award

*Life Time Achievement

Jury Members

References

{{Reflist 2013 establishments in Rajasthan Film festivals in India Rajasthani culture Recurring events established in 2013 Festivals in Rajasthan