National Film Award for Best Bengali Feature Film explained

The National Film Award for Best Bengali Feature Film is one of the National Film Awards presented annually by the National Film Development Corporation of India. It is one of several awards presented for feature films and awarded with Rajat Kamal (Silver Lotus). Since the 70th National Film Awards, the name was changed to "Best Bengali Feature Film".^[1]

The National Film Awards, established in 1954, are the most prominent film awards in India that merit the best of the Indian cinema. The ceremony also presents awards for films in various regional languages.

Awards for films in seven regional language (Bengali, Hindi, Kannada, Malayalam, Marathi, Tamil and Telugu) started from 2nd National Film Awards which were presented on 21 December 1955. Three awards of "President's Silver Medal for Best Feature Film", "Certificate of Merit for the Second Best Feature Film" and "Certificate of Merit for the Third Best Feature Film" were instituted. The later two certificate awards were discontinued from 15th National Film Awards (1967).

Directed by Chitta Bose, the 1954 film Chheley Kaar was honoured with the first president's silver medal for Best Feature Film in Bengali. Certificate of Merit for Second and Third Best Feature Films in Bengali were received by Jadubhatta and Annapurnar Mandir respectively. Following is the list of Silver Lotus Award (Rajat Kamal) recipient films produced in Bengali language.

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Winners

Award includes 'Rajat Kamal' (Silver Lotus Award) and cash prize. Following are the award winners over the years:

List of award films, showing the year (award ceremony), producer(s), director(s) and citation
Year	Film(s)	Producer(s)	Director(s)	Citation
1954	Chheley Kaar	Charan Chitra	Chitta Bose		[2]
	Jadu Bhatta	Sunrise Film Distributors	Niren Lahiri
	Annapurnar Mandir	Chitra Mandir	Naresh Mitra
1955	Pather Panchali	Government of West Bengal	Satyajit Ray		[3]
	Rani Rashmoni	Chalachitra Pratishthan	Kali Prasad Ghosh
	Rai Kamal	Aurora Film Corporation	Subodh Mitra
1956	Kabuliwala	Charuchitra	Tapan Sinha		[4]
	Mahakavi Girishchandra	Emkeji Productions	Madhu Bose
	Ek Din Ratre	R. K. Films	Sombhu Mitra Amit Maitra
1957	Andhare Alo	Sreemati Pictures	Haridas Bhattacharya		[5]
	Louha-Kapat	L. B. Films International	Tapan Sinha
	Harano Sur	Alochaya Productions	Ajoy Kar
1958	Sagar Sangamey	De Luxe Film Distributors Ltd.	Debaki Bose		[6]
	Jalsaghar	Aurora Film Corporation	Satyajit Ray
	Daak Harkara	Agragami Productions	Agragami
1959	Bicharak	Arundhati Mukherjee	Prabhat Mukherjee		[7]
1960	Devi	Satyajit Ray	Satyajit Ray		[8]
	Ganga	Cine Art Production Pvt Ltd.	Rajen Tarafdar
1961	Samapti	Satyajit Ray	Satyajit Ray		[9]
	Saptapadi	Uttam Kumar	Ajoy Kar
	Punascha	Mrinal Sen	Mrinal Sen
1962	Kancher Swarga	Prokash Chandra Nan	Yatrik		[10]
	Nishithe	Agragami Productions	Agragami
1963	Uttar Falguni	Uttam Kumar	Asit Sen		[11]
	Saat Paake Bandha	R. D. Bansal	Ajoy Kar
	Jatu Griha	Uttam Kumar	Tapan Sinha
1964	Aarohi	Asim Pal	Tapan Sinha		[12]
	Anustup Chhanda	B. K. Productions	Pijush Bose
1965	Akash Kusum	Ranjit Basu	Mrinal Sen		[13]
	Subarnarekha	Radheshyam	Ritwik Ghatak
	Raja Rammohun	Aurora Film Corporation	Bijoy Basu
1966	Nayak	R. D. Banshal Sharankumari Bansal	Satyajit Ray
1967	Arogya Niketan	Aurora Film Corporation	Bijoy Bose		[14]
1968	Apanjan	R. N. Malhotra R. K. Kapur T. M. Shah	Tapan Sinha		[15]
1969	Natun Pata	M/s Gora Pictures	Dinen Gupta		[16]
1970	Malyadan	Ajoy Kar Bimal Dey	Ajoy Kar		[17]
1971	Nimantran		Tarun Majumdar
1972	Strir Patra	Dhrupadi	Purnendu Patri		[18]
1973	Ashani Sanket	Sarbeni Bhattacharya	Satyajit Ray		[19]
1974	Sonar Kella	Information and Public Relations Department, Government of West Bengal	Satyajit Ray		[20]
1975	Palanka	M/s. Filmarts, Calcutta	Rajen Tarafdar		[21]
1976	Ek Je Chillo Desh				[22] [23]
1977	No Award				[24]
1978	Dooratwa	Buddhadeb Dasgupta	Buddhadeb Dasgupta		[25]
1979	Ek Din Pratidin	Amalendu Chakraborty	Mrinal Sen		[26] [27]
1980	Hirak Rajar Deshe	Information & Cultural Affairs Department Government of West Bengal	Satyajit Ray		[28]
1981	Adalat o Ekti Meye	Dhiresh Kumar Chakraborty	Tapan Sinha		[29]
1982	Nagmoti	Sibaprasad Sen	Gautam Chattopadhyay		[30]
1983	Vasundhra	Sanjukta Films	Sekhar Chatterjee		[31]
1984	Ghare Baire	NFDC	Satyajit Ray		[32]
1985	Paroma	Nirmal Kumar Guha Niharendu Guha Sukhendu Guha Sarojendu Guha	Aparna Sen		[33]
1986	Phera	Buddhadeb Dasgupta	Buddhadeb Dasgupta		[34]
1987	Antarjali Jatra	NFDC	Gautam Ghose		[35]
1988	No Award				[36]
1989	Ganashatru	NFDC	Satyajit Ray		[37]
1990	Atmaja	Raj Kumar Jain	Nabyendu Chatterjee		[38]
1991	Antardhan	Nabakumar Chandra Swapan Kumar Mitra Sucheta Mitra	Tapan Sinha		[39]
1992	Tahader Katha	NFDC	Buddhadeb Dasgupta		[40]
1993	Antareen	NFDC Doordarshan	Mrinal Sen		[41]
1994	Amodini	NFDC Doordarshan	Chidananda Dasgupta		[42]
1995	Yugant	NFDC	Aparna Sen		[43]
1996	Sanghat	Pinaki Chaudhuri	Pinaki Chaudhuri		[44]
1997	Dahan	Bijay Agarwal Kalpana Agarwal	Rituparno Ghosh		[45]
1998	Asukh	D. Ramanaidu	Rituparno Ghosh		[46]
1999	Paromitar Ek Din	Rajesh Agarwal	Aparna Sen		[47]
2000	Dekha	Ramesh Gandhi	Gautam Ghose		[48]
2001	Hemanter Pakhi	NFDC	Urmi Chakraborty		[49]
2002	Shubho Mahurat	Jagannath Productions	Rituparno Ghosh		[50]
2003	Chokher Bali	Shrikant Mohta Mahendra Soni	Rituparno Ghosh		[51]
2004	Krantikaal	Shampa Bhattacharjee	Shekhar Das		[52]
2005	Herbert	Kajal Bhattacharjee Abanti Chakraborty	Suman Mukhopadhyay		[53]
2006	Anuranan	Jeet Banerjee Indrani Mukerjee Aniruddha Roy Chowdhury	Aniruddha Roy Chowdhury		[54]
	Podokkhep	Nitesh Sharma	Suman Ghosh
2007	Ballygunge Court	Ganesh Kumar Bagaria	Pinaki Chaudhuri		[55]
2008	Shob Charitro Kalponik	Reliance Entertainment	Rituparno Ghosh		[56]
2009	Abohomaan	Reliance Entertainment	Rituparno Ghosh		[57]
2010	Ami Aadu	New Theatres Pvt. Ltd	Somnath Gupta		[58]
2011	Ranjana Ami Ar Ashbona	Rana Sarkar	Anjan Dutt		[59]
2012	Shabdo	Brand Value Communications Ltd.	Kaushik Ganguly		[60]
2013	Bakita Byaktigato	Tripod Entertainment Pvt Ltd.	Pradipta Bhattacharyya		[61]
2014	Nirbashito	Kaushik Ganguly Productions	Churni Ganguly		[62]
2015	Shankhachil	Nideas Creations & Productions	Goutam Ghose		[63]
2016	Bishorjan	M/s Opera	Kaushik Ganguly		[64]
2017	Mayurakshi	Firdausul Hasan Prabal Halder	Atanu Ghosh
2018	Ek Je Chhilo Raja	Shree Venkatesh Films	Srijit Mukherji		[65] [66]
2019	Gumnaami	Shree Venkatesh Films	Srijit Mukherji		[67]
2020	Avijatrik	GMB Films Pvt.Ltd	Subhrajit Mitra		[68]
2021	Kalkokkho	Aurora Film Corporation	Sarmistha MaitiRajdeep Paul		[69]
2022	Kaberi Antardhan	Surinder Films	Kaushik Ganguly		[70]

External links

• Official Page for Directorate of Film Festivals, India
• National Film Awards Archives

Notes and References

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