National Film Award for Best Historical Reconstruction/Compilation Film explained

The National Film Award for Best Historical Reconstruction/Compilation Film was one of the National Film Awards presented annually by the Directorate of Film Festivals, the organisation set up by Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, India. It was one of several awards presented for non-feature films.

The award was instituted in 1984, at 32nd National Film Awards and awarded annually for non-feature films produced in the year across the country, in all Indian languages.^[1] The award is clubbed with National Film Award for Best Biographical Film, with the new category named as Best Biographical / Historical Reconstruction / Compilation Film.^[2]

Awards

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

List of films, showing the year, language(s), producer(s), director(s) and citation
Year	Film(s)	Language(s)	Producer(s)	Director(s)	Citation
1984	Nehru	English	Yash Chowdhary	Shyam Benegal Yuri Aldokhin
1985	No Award					[3]
1986	We The People of India	English	N. S. Thapa Films Division	Bhanumurthy Alur		[4]
1987	The Story of Delhi	English	Serbjeet International Films Division	Serbjeet Singh		[5]
1988	No Award					[6]
1989	Chhapakhanar Bangla Haraf	Bengali	Shreemati Chatterjee Chandrika Bhattacharjee	Abhijit Chattopadhyay		[7]
	Kathni Karni Eksi (Jamnalal Bajaj)	Hindi	M/s Climb Films	Bhim Sain
1990	No Award					[8]
1991	Anand Bhavan	English	Yash Chaudhary	V. B. Chandra		[9]
1992	No Award					[10]
1993	No Award					[11]
1994	Phalke Children	English	R. Krishna Mohan Y. N. Engineer	Kamal Swaroop		[12]
1995	Bhalji Pendharkar	English	C. S. Nair B. R. Shendge Films Division	P. B. Pendharkar Films Division		[13]
1996	No Award					[14]
1997	Ayyankili: Adhastitharude Vimochakan	Malayalam	P. Sasidharan A. Krishna	R. S. Madhu		[15]
1998	Anna Vaazhigirar	Tamil	Tamil Nadu Films Division	Tamil Nadu Films Division		[16]
1999	No Award					[17]
2000	From the land of Buddhism to the Land of Buddha	English	Kuldip Sinha Films Division	Shalini Shah Films Division		[18]
2001	No Award					[19]
2002	No Award					[20]
2003	Vaidyaratnam P. S. Varrier	English	Kerala State Film Development Corporation	T. Krishnan Unni		[21]
2004	No Award					[22]
2005	Hans Akela: Kumar Gandharva	Hindi	Films Division	Jabbar Patel
2006	No Award					[23]
2007	Antardhwani	Hindi	Films Division	Jabbar Patel		[24]
2008	The Assassination of Rajiv Gandhi: A Reconstruction	English	Films Division	R. Krishna Mohan		[25]
2009	Pancham Unmixed	Bengali Hindi English	Brahmanand S. Siingh	Brahmanand S. Siingh		[26]
2010	No Award					[27]
2011	Vishnupant Damle: Bolpatancha Mook Nayak	Marathi	Anil Anant Damle	Virendra Valsangkar		[28]
2012	Celluloid Man	English Hindi Kannada Bengali	Shivendra Singh Dungarpur	Shivendra Singh Dungarpur		[29]
2013	The Last Adieu	English	Films Division	Shabnam Sukhdev		[30]
2014	Amar Katha: Story of Binodini	Bengali	Films Division	Tuhinabha Majumder		[31]
2015	Life in Metaphors: A Portrait of Girish Kasaravalli	English Kannada	Reelism Film	O.P. Shrivastava		[32]
2016	Zikr Us Parivaksha: Begum Akhtar	English	Sangeet Natak Akademi	Nirmal Chander		[33]
2017	Naachi se Baanchi		Films Division of India	Biju Toppo
	Sword of Liberty		R. C. Suresh	Shiny Jacob Benjamin
2018	G. D. Naidu: The Edison of India		Films Division	Ranjith Kumar DFTech

External links

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

Notes and References

1. Web site: 32nd National Film Awards. Directorate of Film Festivals. 6 January 2012.
2. Web site: Under Secretary to the Government of India . 14 December 2023 . Report on Rationalization of Awards Conferred by the Ministry of Information & Broadcasting Ministry of Information and Broadcasting Government of India . 25 August 2024 . Ministry of Information and Broadcasting.
3. Web site: 33rd National Film Awards. Directorate of Film Festivals. 29 March 2022.
4. Web site: 34th National Film Awards. Directorate of Film Festivals. 29 March 2022.
5. Web site: 35th National Film Awards. Directorate of Film Festivals. 29 March 2022.
6. Web site: 36th National Film Awards. Directorate of Film Festivals. 29 March 2022.
7. Web site: 37th National Film Awards. Directorate of Film Festivals. 29 March 2022.
8. Web site: 38th National Film Awards. Directorate of Film Festivals. 29 March 2022.
9. Web site: 39th National Film Awards. Directorate of Film Festivals. 29 March 2022.
10. Web site: 40th National Film Awards. Directorate of Film Festivals. 29 March 2022.
11. Web site: 41st National Film Awards. Directorate of Film Festivals. 29 March 2022.
12. Web site: 42nd National Film Awards. Directorate of Film Festivals. 29 March 2022.
13. Web site: 43rd National Film Awards. Directorate of Film Festivals. 29 March 2022.
14. Web site: 44th National Film Awards. Directorate of Film Festivals. 29 March 2022.
15. Web site: 45th National Film Awards. Directorate of Film Festivals. 29 March 2022.
16. Web site: 46th National Film Awards. Directorate of Film Festivals. 29 March 2022.
17. Web site: 47th National Film Awards. Directorate of Film Festivals. 29 March 2022.
18. Web site: 48th National Film Awards. Directorate of Film Festivals. 29 March 2022.
19. Web site: 49th National Film Awards. Directorate of Film Festivals. 29 March 2022.
20. Web site: 50th National Film Awards. Directorate of Film Festivals. 29 March 2022.
21. Web site: 51th National Film Awards. Directorate of Film Festivals. 29 March 2022.
22. Web site: 52nd National Film Awards. Directorate of Film Festivals. 29 March 2022.
23. Web site: 54th National Film Awards. Directorate of Film Festivals. 29 March 2022.
24. Web site: 55th National Film Awards. Directorate of Film Festivals. 29 March 2022.
25. Web site: 56th National Film Awards. Directorate of Film Festivals. 29 March 2022.
26. Web site: 57th National Film Awards. Directorate of Film Festivals. 29 March 2022.
27. Web site: 58th National Film Awards, 2010. Directorate of Film Festivals. 29 March 2022.
28. Web site: 59th National Film Awards for 2011 – Non-Feature Films. Directorate of Film Festivals. 2 April 2012.
29. 60th National Film Awards Announced. Press Information Bureau (PIB), India. 17 April 2014.
30. Web site: 61st National Film Awards. Directorate of Film Festivals. 16 April 2014. 16 April 2014. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20140416181218/http://www.dff.nic.in/List%20of%20Awards.pdf. 16 April 2014.
31. Web site: 62nd National Film Awards. Directorate of Film Festivals. 30 March 2015. 14 May 2015.
32. 63rd National Film Awards. Directorate of Film Festivals. 28 March 2016. 28 March 2016.
33. 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.