54th National Film Awards Announced
The 54th National Film Awards for the year 2006 were announced today. The whole awards & entries list is here:
http://pib.nic.in/archieve/others/2008/jun/54th_nfa.pdf.
However, some salient features:
1. At last, Soumitra Chatterjee has won a national award for the best actor – for the Bengali film Podokkhep. In 2001, he had won a special jury award for Goutam Ghose’s Dekha, but he had declined it. That year Anil Kapoor had got the award for Pukar. The best actress award goes to Priyamani for Paruthi Veeran (Tamil).
2. Priyanandan’s Malayalam film Pulijanmam has got the best feature film award.
3. Kabir Khan’s Kabul Express (Hindi) and Madhu Kaithapuram’s Eakantham (Malayalam) share the Indira Gandhi Award for the Best First Film of a Director.
4. Lage Raho Munnabhai has won the Best Popular Film Award, best screenplay (Abhijat Joshi, Raj Kumar Hirani & Vidhu Vinod Chopra), best lyrics (Swanand Kirkire for Bande Mein Tha Dum).
5. Care of Footpath, the Kannada film directed by Kishan SS, the world’s youngest film director (he was just about nine when he made the film), has won the Best Children’s Film award.
6. Madhur Bhandarkar has once again got the best director award, this time for Traffic Signal.
7. Dilip Prabhavalkar gets the best supporting actor award for his Gandhi act in LRM and also for Shevri (Marathi).
8. Konkona Sen Sharma gets the best supporting actress award for Omkara. Vishal Bhardwaj gets special jury award for direction.
9. Goutam Ghose gets best cinematography for Yatra.
The process for 54th National Awards got delayed as the 53rd Awards had got mired twice in court cases, first on the requirement of censorship and then when feature film jury member Shyamali Banerjee Deb challenged some of the awards.
The Bombay High Court in the first case directed that censorship would be a must for all entries – and the immediate victim this time were the film school entries (FTII, SRFTI, and so on), as they were till now exempt from CBFC certification. There was not a single entry from these schools in the non-feature section.
From this time, all the prize monies have been hiked five times, after President Pratibha Patil directed the government to do so during the 53rd National Awards presentation ceremony.
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I dont get this !!! Paruthiveeran(for which the best female award is declared) got released on 22nd Feb 2007 and how is it appearing in 2006 list?????? and so was Eakantham !!!
And when are the results of 2007 going to be announced? in 2009????
cool: Maybe Paruthiverran (and Ekantham) got the censor certificate in 2006 and the producers entered it for compettition in 2006.
yes … paruthiveeran and Ekantham got their sensor cert in 2006 itself …. thats y they are eligible ….!!
hey what about music direction and singers
may be they will announce it next year !!! this is too early for their standards !!!
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Congratulations to all the winners… I hope they were not holding their breaths…
The mainstream media, as usual, have bent over backwards to scream “Lage Raho Munnabhai “sweeps” the National Awards”. It’s true that the film won a few awards, but to say that it “swept” the awards is too far-fetched a comment. And the headline news for most of the national media was that the film won the award for most popular film! It’s a no-brainer that this award will go to a Hindi film – since 1995, except for two times, the award has gone to big-budget Hindi films, and usually to the biggest hit of the respective year.
Films like ‘Pulijanmam’ are outstanding works of creativity, made on shoe-string budgets. Prevailing prejudices in the film industry often deny the filmmakers enough opportunity to showcase such films before the film-going public. The National Film Awards provide the only opportunity when such films come in limelight, but even then, the space that legitimately belongs to them is stolen by big-budget films. The news about the Best Film becomes an afterthought, and the news about the most “popular” film gets all the attention.
To late to be declared.. The award has lost its shine for unnecessary government delays.. as significant as declaring award for 1990 or 1957.
There has been no announcement on the Dadasaheb Phalke Award for outstanding contribution to Indian Cinema. Announcing the winners of the 54th National Film Awards 2006, chairman of the jury for feature films, Budhhadeb Dasgupta told reporters in New Delhi that Lagey Raho Munnabhai won awards for other categories like best lyrics (Swanand Kirkire), best screenplay (Rajkumar Hirani, Vidhu Vinod Chopra and Abhijat Joshi), and best supporting actor (Dilip Prabhavalkar, who portrayed Mahatma Gandhi in the film).
Incidentally it was a double bonanza for Prabhavalkar, who also won the award for best supporting actor award for Marathi film Shevri. He had played a benign middle class clerk in Shevri and the award was given to him for portraying two diverse and equally challenging characters.
Vishal Bharadwaj directed Omkara received the Special Jury award for being an outstanding film that synergises an international treatment with an earthy rooted sensibility.
Omkara also brought the best supporting honour for Konkona Sen Sharma. It won the best audiography award for K J Singh and Subhash Sahoo.
Punjabi film Waris Shah-Ishq Da Waris, an evocative portrayal of the rich, musical, Sufi tradition, won four national awards for the best film in Punjabi, best art direction (Rashid Rangrez), best costume designer (Manjit Mann) and best male playback singer for Gurdas Mann.
The young director of the film Manoj Punj incidentally had died soon after the film’s release in late 2006. The best female playback singer award went to noted vocalist Aarti Anklekar Tikekar for Konkani film Antarnad, which also won the best music direction award for Ashok Patki, as also the best feature film in Konkani.
The film also brought Divya Chahadkar, the best child artist award for portraying a talented child overshadowed by a celebrity mother.
English film Quest, which boldly addresses issues of sexuality got the award for the best film in the language. The film has been directed by noted film maker Amol Palekar. Famous film director Goutam Ghose won the award for best cinematography for Hindi film Yatra.
Nargis Dutt award for best feature film on national integration was won by Kannada film Kallarli Huvagi.
It seems the link to the whole awards list has been missed by some of the readers – it is right below the ad on the left panel.
One particular thing I would like to bring to the notice of all: this time the number of entries in the non-feature section was abysmally low if one compares to previous years. It was due to a Bombay High Court order (on a petition filed by several documentary filmmakers who lost the case) that has made it mandatory that all entries would have to have a CBFC certification so that all of them are on “equitable ground”.
The documentary filmmakers had demanded in their petition that there should not be any censor certificate requirement for entries into the non-feature film section in national awards. But the court order has made it even more restrictive.
Because of the rule, film school entries (FTII, SRFTI, etc.), which were never required to have a CBFC clearance, are now required to have it. Obviously, no student film had got the certification done as their makers did not know that this would be the rule. So, for the 2006 awards, there was no entry from the film schools, which usually win most of the bigger awards in the non-feature section these days.
Since the 2006 awards have happened in 2008, and the 2007 awards process is also expected to start in another 2-3 months, I doubt if those films will be able to enter for the 2007 awards as the rule came to light only this year and no student film made during 2007 might have got the CBFC certification.
I am sure all these films will have their CBFC certification done this year, so that they will be eligible to enter for the 2008 awards next year. If that happens, I shudder to think the number of films the jury will have to watch!
But all said and done, why should non-feature films be required to have censor board clearance?
@utpal..other than buddhadeb dasgupta n rahul dholakia who all were in jury this time ? some choices r really weird!! traffic signal…really ?? i think i saw some other film then.
Others in the jury were national award winning directors : Sharada Ramanathan(Tamil Nadu), Shekhar Das(Bengal), Sheshadri(Karnataka), Bidyut (Assam), Himanshu(Orrisa), Hari Kumar(Kerela); Producer Unny Krishna (Kerela), Story writer (Shiv Shankri- Tamil Nadu); Journalists- Rotnotama Sengupta (Bengal) and Meenakshi Shedde (Delhi), Sharad Dutta (Delhi) and Critic Ashok Rane (Maha). All the above have won at least one national award, besides myself ofcourse.
I must admit that the overall crop was really substandard and we had to see all 105 films. Taffic was selected by a majority . They really liked the film and so it won.
Yes I am disappointed with media talikng only about bollywood- there are 41 awards and Hindi Cinema has got only 25%.. People need to know who won the rest .. I am glad Utpal has put the list up.
Phoenixnu: Rahul has already given the jury list, you can see the whole list of juries (feature, non-feature, writing) in the awards list itself, the link to which is just below the ad panel above (http://pib.nic…..). You can also see the list of all the entries there, which will probably explain the point Rahul has made about the crop being “substandard”.
BTW, can anyone recall any significant films that were not entered in the 54th National Awards? In recent memory, I remember Tigmanshu Dhulia’s “Haasil” not entered, and I am sure if it had been, it would have won more than one award, including for Irrfan.
Can somebody tell me how many categories of national film awards are there? And where do I get the year-wise details?
Jayaraman