National Film Award for Best Children's Film explained

The National Film Award for Best Children's 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 Golden Lotus (Swarna Kamal).

The award was instituted in 1954, at 1st National Film Awards and awarded annually for children's films produced in the year across the country, in all Indian languages; Hindi (28 Awards), Bengali (7 Awards), Malayalam and Kannada (6 each), English (5 Awards), Marathi (3 Awards), Tamil, Telugu, Odia and Assamese (1 each).

Winners

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

List of award films, showing the year (award ceremony), language(s), producer(s), director(s) and citation
Year	Film(s)	Language(s)	Producer(s)	Director(s)	Citation
1953	Khela Ghar	Bengali	Aurora Films			[1]
1954	No Award					[2]
1955	No Award					[3]
1956	Jaldeep	Bengali	Children's Film Society	Kidar Sharma		[4]
1957	Hum Panchhi Ek Daal Ke	Hindi	AVM Productions	P. L. Santoshi		[5]
	Janmatithi	Bengali	R. B. Films	Dilip Mukherjee
1958	Virsa and the Magic Doll	English	Little Cinema Pvt Ltd.	Santi P. Chowdhury		[6]
1959	Banyan Deer	English	Films Division	Ahmed Lateef Shanti Verma G. G. Saraiya		[7]
1960	Phool Aur Kaliyan	Hindi	Rajkamal Kalamandir	Ram Gabale		[8]
	Idd Mubarak	Hindi	Children's Film Society	Khwaja Ahmad Abbas
	Delhi Ki Kahani	Hindi	Children's Film Society	Rajendra Kumar
1961	Hattogol Vijay	Hindi	Hari S. Dasgupta Productions	Buju Das Gupta Raghunath Goswami		[9]
	Savitri	Hindi	Children's Film Society	Phani Majumdar
	Nanhe Munne Sitare	Hindi	Ajay Kumar Chakravarty	Ajay Kumar Chakravarty
1962	Raju Aur Gangaram	Hindi	Children's Film Society	Ezra Mir		[10]
1963	Panch Puthliyan	Hindi	Children's Film Society	Amit Bose		[11]
1964
1965	The Adventure of A Sugar Doll	English	Children's Film Society	Kantilal Rathod		[12]
	As You Like It	English	Children's Film Society	S. Shankar
1966
1967	No Award					[13]
1968	Heerer Prajapati	Bengali	Children's Film Society	Shanti P. Chowdhury		[14]
1969	No Award					[15]
1970	No Award					[16]
1971	Wings of Fire	English
1972	No Award					[17]
1973	No Award					[18]
1974	No Award					[19]
1975	No Award					[20]
1976
1977	Safed Haathi	Hindi	R. A. Jalan Pratap Agarwal	Tapan Sinha		[21]
1978	Joi Baba Felunath	Bengali	R. D. Bansal	Satyajit Ray		[22]
1979
1980	No Award					[23]
1981	No Award					[24]
1982	No Award					[25]
1983	Bhombal Sardar	Bengali	Government of West Bengal	Nripen Ganguly		[26]
1984	My Dear Kuttichathan	Malayalam	M. C. Punnoose	Jijo Punnoose		[27]
1985	Aazadi Ki Ore	Hindi	Sangeethalaya	P. S. Prakash		[28]
1986	No Award					[29]
1987	Swamy	Hindi	T. S. Narasimhan	Shankar Nag		[30]
1988	Manu Uncle	Malayalam	Joy Thomas	Dennis Joseph		[31]
1989	Ankur Maina Aur Kabootar	Hindi	Children's Film Society	Madan Bawaria		[32]
	Jamboo Savari	Kannada	K. S. L. Swame (Lalitha Ravee)	K. S. L. Swame (Lalitha Ravee)
1990	No Award					[33]
1991	Abhayam	Malayalam	Children's Film Society	Sivan		[34]
1992	Mujhse Dosti Karoge	Hindi	National Center of Films for Children and Young People	Gopi Desai		[35]
1993	Lavanya Preeti	Oriya	National Center of Films for Children and Young People	Apurba Kishore Bir		[36]
1994	Kochaniyan	Malayalam	Bushura Shahudeen	Satheesh Vengannoor		[37]
	Abhay	Hindi	National Center of Films for Children and Young People	Annu Kapoor
1995	Halo	Hindi	National Center of Films for Children and Young People	Santosh Sivan		[38]
1996	Damu	Bengali	Art Films	Raja Sen		[39]
1997	Ramayanam	Telugu	M. S. Reddy	Gunasekhar		[40]
1998	Kabhi Pass Kabhi Fail	Hindi	National Center of Films for Children and Young People	Virendra Saini		[41]
1999	Goal	Hindi	Children's Film Society	Gul Bahar Singh		[42]
2000	Gharaksharangal	Malayalam	Salim Padiyath	Salim Padiyath		[43]
2001	No Award					[44]
2002	Baaja	Hindi	Children's Film Society	Apurba Kishore Bir		[45]
2003	Tora	Assamese	Children's Film Society	Jahnu Barua		[46]
2004	Chutkan Ki Mahabharat	Hindi	Children's Film Society	Sankalp Meshram		[47]
2005	The Blue Umbrella	Hindi	UTV Motion Pictures	Vishal Bhardwaj		[48]
2006	Care of Footpath	Kannada	Shylaja Shrikanth	Kishan Shrikanth		[49]
2007	Photo	Hindi	Children's Film Society	Virendra Saini		[50]
2008	Gubbachigalu	Kannada	Media House Studio	Abhaya Simha		[51]
2009	Putaani Party	Kannada	Children's Film Society	Ramchandra P. N.		[52]
	Keshu	Malayalam	Children's Film Society	Sivan
2010	Hejjegalu	Kannada	Basanta Kumar Patil	P. R. Ramadas Naidu		[53]
2011	Chillar Party	Hindi	UTV Software Communications Salman Khan	Vikas Bahl Nitesh Tiwari		[54]
2012	Dekh Indian Circus	Hindi	Mahaveer Jain	Mangesh Hadawale		[55]
2013	Kaphal	Hindi	Children's Film Society	Batul Mukhtiar		[56]
2014	Kaaka Muttai	Tamil	Grass Root Film Company	M. Manikandan		[57]
	Elizabeth Ekadashi	Marathi	Essel Vision Productions Ltd.	Paresh Mokashi
2015	Budhia Singh – Born to Run	Hindi	Code Red Films	Soumendra Padhi		[58]
2016	Dhanak	Hindi	Drishyam Films	Nagesh Kukunoor		[59]
2017	Mhorkya	Marathi	Kalyan Rajmogli Padal	Amar Bharat Deokar
2018		Kannada	Rishab Shetty Films	Rishab Shetty		[60]
2019	Kastoori	Hindi	Insight Films	Vinod Uttreshwar Kamble		[61]
2020	Sumi	Marathi	Harshall Kamat Entertainment & Golden Mouse Productions	Amol Vasant Gole		[62]
2021	Gandhi & Co.	Gujarati		Manish Saini		[63]
2022	No Award

External links

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

Notes and References

1. Web site: 1st National Film Awards. Directorate of Film Festivals. 27 March 2022.
2. Web site: 2nd National Film Awards. Directorate of Film Festivals. 27 March 2022.
3. Web site: 3rd National Film Awards. Directorate of Film Festivals. 27 March 2022.
4. Web site: 4th National Film Awards. Directorate of Film Festivals. 27 March 2022.
5. Web site: 5th National Film Awards. Directorate of Film Festivals. 27 March 2022.
6. Web site: 6th National Film Awards. International Film Festival of India. 27 March 2022.
7. Web site: 7th National Film Awards. Directorate of Film Festivals. 27 March 2022.
8. Web site: 8th National Film Awards. International Film Festival of India. 7 September 2011. https://web.archive.org/web/20161123052231/http://iffi.nic.in/Dff2011/Frm8thNFAAward.aspx. 23 November 2016. dead.
9. Web site: 9th National Film Awards. International Film Festival of India. 8 September 2011. https://web.archive.org/web/20161202115652/http://iffi.nic.in/Dff2011/Frm9thNFAAward.aspx. 2 December 2016. dead.
10. Web site: 10th National Film Awards. International Film Festival of India. 9 September 2011. https://web.archive.org/web/20150929062243/http://iffi.nic.in/Dff2011/Frm10thNFAAward.aspx. 29 September 2015. dead.
11. Web site: 11th National Film Awards. International Film Festival of India. 13 September 2011. https://archive.today/20170502124428/http://iffi.nic.in/Dff2011/Frm11thNFAAward.aspx. 2 May 2017. dead.
12. Web site: 13th National Film Awards. Directorate of Film Festivals. 27 March 2022.
13. Web site: 15th National Film Awards. Directorate of Film Festivals. 27 March 2022.
14. Web site: 16th National Film Awards. Directorate of Film Festivals. 27 March 2022. 2.
15. Web site: 17th National Film Awards. Directorate of Film Festivals. 27 March 2022.
16. Web site: 18th National Film Awards. Directorate of Film Festivals. 27 March 2022.
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18. Web site: 21st National Film Awards. Directorate of Film Festivals. 27 March 2022.
19. Web site: 22nd National Film Awards. Directorate of Film Festivals. 27 March 2022.
20. Web site: 23rd National Film Awards. Directorate of Film Festivals. 27 March 2022.
21. Web site: 25th National Film Awards. Directorate of Film Festivals. 27 March 2022.
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36. Web site: 41st National Film Awards. Directorate of Film Festivals. 27 March 2022.
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39. Web site: 44th National Film Awards. Directorate of Film Festivals. 27 March 2022.
40. Web site: 45th National Film Awards. Directorate of Film Festivals. 27 March 2022.
41. Web site: 46th National Film Awards. Directorate of Film Festivals. 27 March 2022.
42. Web site: 47th National Film Awards. Directorate of Film Festivals. 27 March 2022.
43. Web site: 48th National Film Awards. Directorate of Film Festivals. 27 March 2022.
44. Web site: 49th National Film Awards. Directorate of Film Festivals. 27 March 2022.
45. Web site: 50th National Film Awards. Directorate of Film Festivals. 27 March 2022.
46. Web site: 51st National Film Awards. Directorate of Film Festivals. 27 March 2022.
47. Web site: 52nd National Film Awards. Directorate of Film Festivals. 27 March 2022.
48. Web site: 53rd National Film Awards. Directorate of Film Festivals. 27 March 2022.
49. Web site: 54th National Film Awards. Directorate of Film Festivals. 27 March 2022.
50. Web site: 55th National Film Awards. Directorate of Film Festivals. 27 March 2022.
51. Web site: 56th National Film Awards. Directorate of Film Festivals. 27 March 2022.
52. Web site: 57th National Film Awards. Directorate of Film Festivals. 27 March 2022.
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55. 60th National Film Awards Announced. Press Information Bureau (PIB), India. 18 March 2013.
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57. 62nd National Film Awards. Directorate of Film Festivals. 24 March 2015. 24 March 2015.
58. 63rd National Film Awards. Directorate of Film Festivals. 28 March 2016. 28 March 2016.
59. 64th National Film Awards. Directorate of Film Festivals. 7 April 2017. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20170606051143/http://dff.nic.in/writereaddata/NFA64PressNote2016.pdf. 6 June 2017.
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61. 67th National Film Awards. Directorate of Film Festivals. 30 May 2021.
62. News: 2022-07-22 . 68th National Film Awards Soorarai Pottru wins Best Film award . en-IN . The Hindu . 2022-07-23 . 0971-751X.
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