The National Film Award for Best Film on Other Social Issues is one of the category in the

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presented annually by the

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, the organization set up by the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting in India. It is one of several awards presented for feature films and is awarded with Rajat Kamal (Silver Lotus). The National Film Awards were established in 1954 to "encourage production of the films of a high aesthetic and technical standard and educational and culture value" and also planned to included awards for regional films. In 1984, at the

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various new categories were instituted for Swarna Kamal and Rajat Kamal. Categories like the Best Supporting Actor, Best Supporting Actress, Best Costume Design along with the Best Film on Other Social Issues were introduced for the Rajat Kamal. This category was introduced to be awarded annually for films produced in the year across the country, in all Indian languages. since its inception, the award has been present thirty-three times to thirty-six films. It has been presented for films in seven languages with the highest being twelve in Hindi, followed by ten in Malayalam, five in Tamil, four in Marathi, three in Bengali, two in Kannada and one in Telugu. It was not presented on two occasion in 1985 (33rd ceremony) and 2011 (59th ceremony). The inaugural award was conferred upon production banner Sanket (Rajat Kamal and 30,000) and director

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(Rajat Kamal and 15,000) for their Kannada film ''

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'' for dealing with the bold topic of whistleblowing against political corruption and dealing with bad effects of alcoholism. On five occasion the award was shared by two films: in 1987 by Tamil films ''

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'' and ''

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'', in 1993 by ''Janani'' (Bengali) and '' Naaraayam'' (Malayalam), in 1994 by ''Wheelchair'' (Bengali) and '' Parinayam'' (Malayalam), in 2000 by ''

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'' (Kannada) and ''

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'' (Tamil), and in 2003 by Hindi films '' Koi... Mil Gaya'' and ''

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''.

Winners

The award includes 'Rajat Kamal' (Silver Lotus) and cash prize to the producers and director each. The first award in 1984 had a monetary association of 30,000 to the producers and 15,000 to the directors. In 1995 at the 43rd award ceremony the Marathi film ''

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'' was honoured and the cash prices were revised to 30,000 each presented to the director duo

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and co-producers

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(NFDC) and

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. The monetary association was again revised to 1,50,000 to both the producers and directors in 2006 at the 54th ceremony where producer Policherla Venkata Subbiah and director Satish Kasetty's Telugu film '' Hope'' was the winner. Following are the award winners over the years:

References

External links

Official Page for Directorate of Film Festivals, India

National Film Awards Archives

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