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59th National Film Awards for the Year 2011 Announced

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 byAbhijeet Gholap & directed by Umesh Vinayak Kulkarni  and Byari ( Byari language) produced  by T.H. AlthafHussain & 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 PramodPurswane .  The awards carries Swarna Kamal and Cash prize of Rs. 1,50,000/-.  In Best Writing on Cinema category theSwarna 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 Balanfor 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 DaDaan , 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 CollinsIndia Author:  AnirudhaBhattacharjee andBalaji Vittal SwarnaKamal Rs. 75,000 Best Film Critic 1. BEST FILM CRITIC  Manoj Barpujari (Assamese and English) SwarnaKamal 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 : PramodPuRs.wane Director : Pramod PuRs.wane SWARNA KAMAL Rs.1,50,000/- EACH 2. BEST DEBUT FILM OF A DIRECTOR The Silent Poet (Manipuri) Producer :  BorunThokchom 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 VishnupantDamle: BolpatanchaMook 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 ofAlarmel Valli (English)  Producer :Madhusree Dutta Director : Mamta Murthy Producer : SankalpMeshram  Director : SankalpMeshram 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 BhimComrade (Marathi) AnandPatwardhan RAJAT KAMAL Rs. 1,00,000/- 13. BEST SHORT FICTION Panchakki (Hindi) Producer:  SanjeevRattan Director: SanjeevRattan RAJAT KAMAL Rs. 50,000/- EACH 14. BEST FILM ON FAMILY VALUES Red Buildingwhere 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 : SpandanBanerjee 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 VinayakKulkarni b) Producer: T.H. AlthafHussain Director :Suveeran SwarnaKamal Rs.2,50,000/- 2 INDIRA GANDHI AWARD FOR BEST DEBUT FILM OF A DIRECTOR  Aaranyakandam (Tamil) Producer:S.P.Charan Director :Kumararaja Thiagarajan SwarnaKamal Rs.1,25,000/- 3 AWARD FOR BEST POPULAR FILM PROVIDING WHOLESOME ENTERTAINMENT AzhagarsamiyinKuthirai (Tamil) Producer: P. Madan Director :Suseentharan SwarnaKamal Rs.2,00,000/- 4 BEST CHILDREN’S FILM Chillar Party(Hindi) Producer: UTV Software Communications Ltd Director : VikasBahl & Nitesh Tiwari  SwarnaKamal Rs.1,50,000/- 5 BEST DIRECTION Anhe Ghorey Da Daan (Punjabi) GurvinderSingh SwarnaKamal 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 AzhagarsamiyinKuthirai (Tamil) Appu Kutty Rajat Kamal Rs. 50,000/- 9 BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS Phijigee Mani(Manipuri) Leishangthem TonthoingambiDevi Rajat Kamal Rs.50,000/- 10 BEST CHILD ARTIST (Shared) a)    Stanley kaDabba (Hindi) b)    Chillar Party(Hindi) Partho Gupte Irrfan Khan Sanath Menon Rohan Grover Naman Jain Aarav Khanna Vishesh Tiwari ChinmaiChandranshuh 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) RoopaGanguly Rajat Kamal Rs. 50,000/- 13 BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY Anhe Ghorey DaDaan (Punjabi) Cameraman :Satya RaiNagpaul 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 AvinashDeshpandeNigdi GirishKulkarni Rajat Kamal Rs.50,000/- Rajat Kamal Rs.50,000/- Rajat Kamal Rs.50,000/- 15 BEST AUDIOGRAPHY Location SoundRecordist Sound Designer : Re-recordist of the final mixed track  Zindagi NaMilegi Dobara(Hindi) Game (Hindi) Game (Hindi) BaylonFonseca BaylonFonseca HitendraGhosh 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) IndraneelGhosh 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) VikramGayakwad Rajat Kamal Rs. 50,000/- 20 BEST  MUSIC DIRECTION Songs Background Score Ranjana Ami Ar Ashbo Na (Bengali) Laptop (Bengali) Neel Dutt MayookhBhaumik Rajat Kamal Rs. 50,000/- Rajat Kamal Rs. 50,000/- 21 BEST LYRICS I Am (Hindi) Agar Zindagi………. AmitabhBhattacharya 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: RanaSarkar Director : AnjanDutt Rajat Kamal Rs.1,00,000/- b) BEST DOGRI FILM Dille Ch VasyaKoi 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 CinemaIndia Pvt. Ltd. Director :RanjithBalakrishnan Rajat Kamal Rs. 1,00,000/- f) BEST MANIPURI FILM Phijigee Mani Producer:TakhelchangbamOngbi and MedhaSharmi Director :Oinam GautamSingh Rajat Kamal Rs. 1,00,000/- g) BEST MARATHI FILM Shala Producer: Vivek D. Wagh & NileshNavalkha Director : Sujay SunilDahake Rajat Kamal Rs.1,00,000/- h) BEST PUNJABI FILM Anhe GhoreyDa 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