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07 March 2012
  Ministry of Information & Broadcasting  
 
59TH NATIONAL FILM AWARDS FOR THE YEAR 2011 ANNOUNCED
 
  15:18 IST  
 
 

 

The Prestigious 59th National Film Awards were announced in New Delhi in a joint Press Conference addressed by the Chairpersons of the three juries, Ms Rohini Hattangady  for feature films, Shri Ramesh Sharma for non- feature films and Ms. Vijaya Mulay for Best Writing on Cinema  category here today. Earlier, the Jury  Chairpersons submitted their report to Smt. Ambika Soni, Minister for Information & Broadcasting. Speaking on the occasion, the Minister lauded the efforts made by the jury members in selecting the different category of awardees. Such efforts, the Minister said had enabled the awards to achieve new heights in terms of enhanced participation in different categories and the prestige associated with such awards.

 

The top honour in the Feature Film category,  the Best Film  is shared by  films Deool (Marathi)  produced by Abhijeet Gholap & directed by Umesh Vinayak Kulkarni  and Byari ( Byari language) produced  by T.H. Althaf Hussain & directed by Suveeram.  The award carries Swarna  Kamal and cash prize of Rs. 2,50,000/-.  In Non-feature film category  the top honour , Best Film goes to And We Play On (Hindi & English)directed and produced by Pramod Purswane .  The awards carries Swarna Kamal and Cash prize of Rs. 1,50,000/-.  In Best Writing on Cinema category the Swarna Kamal goes to the book titled R.D. Burman – The Man, The Music written by Anirudha Bhattacharjee & Balaji Vittal, published by Harper Collins India. Whereas Manoj Barpujari from Assam has been awarded Best Film Critic.

 

            In Feature Film category, five films have won three awards each. These Films are  The  Dirty Picture (Hindi), Balgandharva (Marathi), Anhe Ghorey Da Daan (Punjabi), Deool (Marathi)  & Ranjana Ami Ar Ashbo Na (Bengali).  Six films have won two awards each.  These are Chillar Party (Hindi),  Azhagarsamiyin Kuthirai (Tamil), Aaranyakandam (Tamil), Phijigee Mani (Manipuri) , Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara (Hindi) & Game (Hindi). 

 

            The  Best Actor award goes to Girish Kulkarni for film Deool (Marathi) and Best Actress to Vidya Balan for the film The Dirty Picture (Hindi). Azhagarsamiyin Kuthirai (Tamil) won the award for Wholesome Entertainment, Chillar Party (Hindi) won Best Children Film, Best Director to  Gurvinder Singh for Punjabi  film Anhe Ghorey Da Daan , Best Singer to Anand Bhate (Male)  for Marathi film Balgandharva and Roopa Ganguly (Female) for the Bengali film Abosheyshey .  Kumararaja Thiagarajan has won the Indira Gandhi Award for Best Debut film of a Director.

 

In the Non-Feature film category, three films have won two awards each.  The Film Tiger Dynasty has won the Best Environmental Film & Best Cinematography awards.  Awards for Best Direction and Best Editing have been taken away by the film There is Something in the Air.  Film Panchakki has been awarded Best Short Fiction and Best Music Direction.

 

The awards in different categories are as under:

 

BEST WRITING ON CINEMA

S. No.

Name of Award

Name of Book

Awardee

Medal

1.

BEST BOOK ON CINEMA 

R.D. Burman The Man, The Music

 

(English)

Publisher :

 Harper Collins India

 

Author:

 Anirudha Bhattacharjee and Balaji Vittal

 

 

Swarna Kamal

 

Rs.  75,000

 

Best Film Critic

1.

BEST FILM CRITIC 

Manoj Barpujari

 

(Assamese and English)

 

 

Swarna Kamal

 

Rs. 75,00

 

 

Non-Feature Films

 

S. NO

Name of Award

Name of FILM

AWARDEE

Medal & Cash Prize

1.

BEST NON FEATURE FILM

And We Play On

 

(Hindi & English)

Producer :

Pramod PuRs.wane

 

Director :

Pramod  PuRs.wane

 

SWARNA KAMAL

 

Rs. 1,50,000/-

EACH

2.

BEST DEBUT FILM OF A DIRECTOR

 

The Silent Poet

 

(Manipuri)

 

Producer :

 Borun Thokchom

 

Director :

Borun Thokchom

 

RAJAT  KAMAL

 

Rs. 75,000/-

EACH

3.

BEST ANTHROPOLOGICAL/ ETHNOGRAPHIC FILM

Bom

 

(Hindi & English)

Producer :

Anirban Datta

 

Director :

Amlan Datta

 

RAJAT  KAMAL

 

Rs. 50,000/-

EACH

4.

BEST BIOGRAPHICAL/ HISTORICAL RECONSTRUCTION

 

Vishnupant Damle:

Bolpatancha Mook Nayak

 

(Marathi)

Producer :

 Anil Anant Damle

 

Director : VirendraValsangkar

 

RAJAT  KAMAL

 

Rs. 50,000/-

EACH

 

5.

BEST ARTS /CULTURAL FILM

 

(Jointly Being given to two Films)

 

 Fried Fish, Chicken Soup and a Premiere Show

 

(Manipuri & English)

 

&

 

 

 Lasya Kavvya – the World of Alarmel Valli

 

(English)

 

 Producer : Madhusree Dutta

 

Director :

Mamta Murthy

 

 

 

 

Producer :

Sankalp Meshram

 

 Director :

Sankalp Meshram

 

RAJAT  KAMAL

 

Rs. 25,000/-

EACH

6.

BEST PROMOTIONAL FILM

 

The Dream Fulfilled - Memories of the Engineering Challenges

 

(English)

Producer :

Delhi Metro Rail Corporation

 

Director :

Satish Pande

 

RAJAT  KAMAL

 

Rs. 50,000/-

EACH

7.

BEST ENVIRONMENT FILM

 

Tiger Dynasty

 

(English)

 

Producer:

 S. Nallamuthu

 

Director :

S. Nallamuthu

RAJAT  KAMAL

 

Rs. 50,000/-

EACH

8.

BEST FILM ON SOCIAL ISSUES

 

 

(Jointly Being given to two Films)

 

Mindscapes… of Love and Longing

 

(Hindi & English)

 

 

 

 

 Inshallah, Football

 

(Kashmiri, Urdu & English)

 

Producer :

Public Service Broadcasting Trust

 

Director: ArunChadha

 

 

Producer :

Ashvin Kumar

 

Director:

Ashvin Kumar

RAJAT  KAMAL

 

Rs. 25,000/-

EACH

9.

BEST EDUCATIONAL FILM

 

A Drop of Sunshine

 

(English)

Producer :

Public Service Broadcasting Trust

 

Director :

Aparna Sanyal

RAJAT  KAMAL

 

Rs. 50,000/-

EACH

10.

BEST EXPLORATION/ ADVENTURE FILM

 

(Including sports)

 

The Finish Line

 

(English)

Producer :

 Syed Sultan Ahmed  &  Tabassum Modi

 

Director :

Akshay Roy

 

RAJAT  KAMAL

 

Rs. 50,000/-

EACH

11.

BEST INVESTIGATIVE FILM

 

Cotton for My Shroud

 

(English)

Producer:

Kavita Bahl

 

Director :

Nandan Saxena

 

and

 

Kavita Bahl

RAJAT  KAMAL

 

Rs. 50,000/-

EACH

12.

SPECIAL JURY AWARD

 

 

Jai Bhim Comrade

 

(Marathi)

Anand Patwardhan

RAJAT  KAMAL

 

Rs. 1,00,000/-

 

13.

BEST SHORT FICTION

Panchakki

 

(Hindi)

Producer: 

Sanjeev Rattan

 

Director:

Sanjeev Rattan

RAJAT  KAMAL

 

Rs. 50,000/- EACH

 

14.

BEST FILM ON FAMILY VALUES

Red Building where the Sun Sets

 

(English)

Producer :

Syed Sultan Ahmed   &  Tabassum Modi

 

Director :

Revathy

RAJAT  KAMAL

 

Rs. 50,000/-

EACH

15.

BEST DIRECTION

 

There is Something in the Air

 

(Hindi, Urdu & English)

Iram Ghufran

 

SWARNA KAMAL

 

Rs. 1,50,000/-

16.

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY

Tiger Dynasty

 

(English)

 

S. Nallamuthu

RAJAT  KAMAL

 

Rs. 50,000/-

 

17.

BEST AUDIOGRAPHY

 

1, 2

 

(Hindi)

Gautam Nair

RAJAT  KAMAL

 

Rs. 50,000/-

18.

BEST EDITING

 

There is Something in the Air

 

(Hindi, Urdu & English)

Iram Ghufran

 

RAJAT  KAMAL

 

Rs. 50,000/-

 

19.

BEST MUSIC DIRECTION

 

Panchakki

 

(Hindi)

 

DhrubaJyoti  Phukan

RAJAT  KAMAL

 

Rs. 50,000/-

 

20.

BEST NARRATION/ VOICE OVER

 

Just that Sort of a Day

 

(English)

Ann Abraham

RAJAT  KAMAL

 

Rs. 50,000/-

 

21.

SPECIAL MENTION

 

(Two Films)

 

a. You Don’t Belong

 

(Bengali & English)

 

 

b.  Airawat

 

(Marathi & Hindi)

a.    Director  :

Spandan Banerjee

 

 

 

b. Director:

 Renu Savant

 

 

CERTIFICATE

 

 

 

 

CERTIFICATE

 

FEATURE FILMS

S. No.

Name of Award

Name of Film

Awardee

Medal

& Cash Prize

1

BEST FEATURE FILM 

 

(shared)

a) Deool  (Marathi)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

b) Byari (Byari)

a) Producer:

 

Abhijeet Gholap

 

Director :  Umesh Vinayak Kulkarni

 

b) Producer:

T.H. Althaf Hussain

 

Director : Suveeran

Swarna Kamal

 

Rs. 2,50,000/-

 

2

INDIRA GANDHI AWARD FOR BEST DEBUT FILM OF A DIRECTOR 

Aaranyakandam

(Tamil)

Producer: S.P.Charan

Director : Kumararaja Thiagarajan

Swarna Kamal

 

Rs. 1,25,000/-

 

3

AWARD FOR BEST POPULAR FILM PROVIDING WHOLESOME ENTERTAINMENT

Azhagarsamiyin Kuthirai (Tamil)

Producer:

P. Madan

 

Director : Suseentharan

Swarna Kamal

 

Rs. 2,00,000/-

 

4

BEST CHILDREN’S FILM

Chillar Party (Hindi)

Producer: UTV Software

Communications Ltd

Director : Vikas Bahl & Nitesh Tiwari

 Swarna Kamal

 

Rs. 1,50,000/-

5

BEST DIRECTION

Anhe Ghorey Da Daan (Punjabi)

Gurvinder Singh

Swarna Kamal

Rs. 2,50,000/-

6

BEST ACTOR

Deool (Marathi)

Girish Kulkarni

Rajat  Kamal

Rs. 50,000/-

7

BEST ACTRESS

The Dirty Picture (Hindi)

Vidya Balan

Rajat  Kamal

 

Rs.  50,000/-

8

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR

Azhagarsamiyin Kuthirai (Tamil)

Appu Kutty

Rajat  Kamal

 

Rs.  50,000/-

9

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS

Phijigee Mani (Manipuri)

Leishangthem

Tonthoingambi Devi

Rajat  Kamal

Rs. 50,000/-

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

10

BEST CHILD ARTIST

(Shared)

a)    Stanley ka Dabba (Hindi)

 

 

 

 

 

b)    Chillar Party (Hindi)

Partho Gupte

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Irrfan Khan

Sanath Menon

Rohan Grover

Naman Jain

Aarav Khanna

Vishesh Tiwari

Chinmai Chandranshuh

Vedant Desai

Divij Handa

Shriya Sharma

 

Rajat  Kamal

 

Rs. 50,000/-

 

11

BEST MALE PLAYBACK SINGER

Balgandharva (Marathi)

Anand Bhate

Rajat  Kamal

 

Rs. 50,000/-

12

BEST FEMALE PLAYBACK SINGER

Abosheyshey (Bengali)

Roopa Ganguly

Rajat  Kamal

Rs.  50,000/-

13

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY

Anhe Ghorey Da Daan (Punjabi)

Cameraman : Satya Rai Nagpaul

Laboratory :

Reliance Media Works

Rajat  Kamal

Rs. 50,000/-

 

 

14

BEST SCREENPLAY

 

Screenplay Writer (Original) :

 

Screenplay Writer (Adapted) :

 

 

Dialogues :

 

 

Chillar Party (Hindi)

 

 

 

Shala (Marathi)

 

 

 

Deool (Marathi)

 

 

Vikas Behl & Manish Tiwari

 

 

Avinash Deshpande Nigdi

 

Girish Kulkarni

 

Rajat  Kamal

Rs. 50,000/-

 

 

 

Rajat  Kamal

Rs. 50,000/-

 

 

Rajat  Kamal

Rs. 50,000/-

 

15

BEST AUDIOGRAPHY

 

Location Sound Recordist

 

 

Sound Designer :

 

 

Re-recordist of the final mixed track 

 

 

 

 

Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara (Hindi)

 

 

Game (Hindi)

 

 

Game (Hindi)

 

 

 

Baylon Fonseca

 

 

 

Baylon Fonseca

 

 

Hitendra Ghosh

 

 

 

Rajat  Kamal

Rs. 50,000/-

 

Rajat  Kamal

Rs. 50,000/-

 

Rajat  Kamal

Rs. 50,000/-

16

BEST EDITING 

Aaranyakandam (Tamil)

Pravin K. L.

Rajat  Kamal

 

Rs.  50,000/-

17

BEST PRODUCTION DESIGN

Naukadubi (Bengali)

Indraneel Ghosh

Rajat  Kamal

 

Rs. 50,000/-

 

 

18

BEST COSTUME DESIGNER

(Shared)

a) Balgandharva

(Marathi)

 

 

b)The Dirty Picture (Hindi)

a)Neeta Lulla

 

 

 

b) Niharika Khan

Rajat  Kamal

 

Rs. 50,000/-

19

BEST MAKE-UP ARTIST

Balgandharva

(Marathi)

 

&

The Dirty Picture

(Hindi)

Vikram Gayakwad

Rajat  Kamal

Rs. 50,000/-

20

BEST  MUSIC DIRECTION

 

 

Songs

 

 

 

 

 

Background Score

 

 

 

 

Ranjana Ami Ar Ashbo Na (Bengali)

 

 

 

Laptop (Bengali)

 

 

 

 

Neel Dutt

 

 

 

 

 

Mayookh Bhaumik

 

 

 

 

Rajat  Kamal

 

Rs. 50,000/-

 

 

Rajat  Kamal

 

Rs. 50,000/-

21

BEST LYRICS

I Am (Hindi)

 

Agar Zindagi ……….

Amitabh Bhattacharya

 

Rajat  Kamal

 

Rs. 50,000/-

22

SPECIAL JURY AWARD

Ranjana Ami Ar Ashbo Na (Bengali)

 

Anjan Dutt

 

Rajat  Kamal

 

Rs. 2,00,000/-

23

BEST SPECIAL EFFECTS

Ra. One (Hindi)

Harry Hingorani

 

and

 

Keitan Yadav

Rajat  Kamal

 

Rs.  50,000/-

24

BEST CHOREOGRAPHY

Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara (Hindi)

(Senorita)

Bosco Caeser

 

Rajat  Kamal

Rs.  50,000/-

25

BEST FEATURE FILM IN EACH OF THE LANGUAGE SPECIFIED IN THE SCHEDULE VIII OF THE CONSTITUTION

 

 

 

a)

 BEST BENGALI FILM

Ranjana Ami Ar Ashbo Na

Producer: Rana Sarkar

 

Director : Anjan Dutt

 

Rajat  Kamal

 

Rs. 1,00,000/-

 

 

b)

BEST DOGRI FILM

Dille Ch Vasya Koi

Producer: Sanjeev Rattan

 

Director : Sanjeev Rattan

 

Rajat  Kamal

 

Rs. 1,00,000/-

 

 

c)

BEST HINDI FILM

I Am

Producer: Anirban Dhar (Onir) &

Sanjay Suri

 

Director : Onir

 

Rajat  Kamal

 

Rs.  1,00,000/-

 

d)

BEST KANNADA

Kurmavatara

Producer:

Basant Kumar Patil

 

Director :

Girish Kasaravalli

 

 

Rajat  Kamal

 

Rs. 1,00,000/-

 

 

e)

BEST MALAYALAM FILM

Indian Rupee

Producer: August Cinema India Pvt. Ltd.

 

Director : Ranjith Balakrishnan

 

Rajat  Kamal

 

Rs.  1,00,000/-

 

f)

BEST MANIPURI FILM

Phijigee Mani

Producer: Takhelchangbam Ongbi

and Medha Sharmi

 

Director : Oinam Gautam Singh

 

Rajat  Kamal

 

Rs.  1,00,000/-

 

g)

BEST MARATHI FILM

Shala

Producer:

Vivek D. Wagh

& Nilesh Navalkha

 

Director :

Sujay Sunil Dahake

Rajat  Kamal

 

Rs. 1,00,000/-

 

h)

BEST PUNJABI FILM

Anhe Ghorey Da Daan

Producer:

National Film Development Corporation

 

Director :

Gurvinder Singh

Rajat  Kamal

Rs. 1,00,000/-

 

i)

BEST TAMIL FILM 

Vaagai Sooda Va

Producer:

S. Muruganandham

 

Director :

A.  Sargunam

Rajat  Kamal

 

Rs. 1,00,000/-

 

26) a)

SPECIAL MENTION

Byari (Byari)

Mallika

 

Certificate only

 

 

 

b)

SPECIAL MENTION

Adimadhyantham (Malayalam)

Director : Sherry

 

 

 

Certificate only

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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