National Film Award for Best Feature Film in Hindi

National Film Award for Best Feature Film in Hindi
Awarded by Directorate of Film Festivals
Type	National
Category	Indian Cinema
Description
Description	Best Hindi Feature Film(s) of the year
Medal	Rajat Kamal (Silver Lotus)
Statistics
Instituted	1954
First awarded	1954
Last awarded	2015
Total awarded	80
Cash award	₹100,000 (US$1,500)
Previous name(s)	President's Silver Medal for Best Feature Film in Hindi (1954–68)
First awardee(s)	Mirza Ghalib
Recent awardee(s)	Dum Laga Ke Haisha

The National Film Award for Best Feature Film in Hindi is 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 is one of several awards presented for feature films and awarded with Rajat Kamal (Silver Lotus).

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.^[1] 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 Sohrab Modi, the 1954 film Mirza Ghalib was honoured with the first president's Silver Medal for Best Feature Film in Hindi. The most recent recipient is the 2015 comedy-drama Dum Laga Ke Haisha.

Winners

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

Awards legends
*	President's Silver Medal for Best Feature Film
*	Certificate of Merit for the Second Best Feature Film
*	Certificate of Merit for the Third Best Feature Film
*	Certificate of Merit for the Best Feature Film
*	Indicates a joint award for that year

List of award films, showing the year (award ceremony), producer(s), director(s) and citation
Year	Film(s)	Producer(s)	Director(s)	Citation	Refs.
1954 (2nd)	Mirza Ghalib	Minerva Moviestone	Sohrab Modi	–	[1]
1954 (2nd)	Jagriti	Filmistan Ltd.	Satyen Bose	–
1955 (3rd)	Jhanak Jhanak Payal Baaje	Rajkamal Kalamandir	V. Shantaram	–	[2]
1955 (3rd)	Shree 420	R. K. Films	Raj Kapoor	–
1955 (3rd)	Devdas	Bimal Roy Productions	Bimal Roy	–
1956 (4th)	Basant Bahar	Shri Vishwa Bharati Films	R. Chandra	–	[3]
1957 (5th)	Do Aankhen Barah Haath	Rajkamal Kalamandir	V. Shantaram	–	[4]
1957 (5th)	Mother India	Mehboob Productions	Mehboob Khan	–
1957 (5th)	Musafir	Hrishikesh Mukherjee	Hrishikesh Mukherjee	–
1958 (6th)	Madhumati	Bimal Roy	Bimal Roy	–	[5]
1958 (6th)	Lajwanti	Mohan Segal	Narendra Suri	–
1958 (6th)	Karigar	Vasant Joglekar	Vasant Joglekar	–
1959 (7th)	Anari	Lachman B. Lulla	Hrishikesh Mukherjee	–	[6]
1960 (8th)	Mughal-e-Azam	K. Asif	K. Asif	–	[7]
1960 (8th)	Jis Desh Men Ganga Behti Hai	Raj Kapoor	Radhu Karmakar	–
1960 (8th)	Kanoon	B. R. Chopra	B. R. Chopra	–
1961 (9th)	Dharmputra	B. R. Chopra	Yash Chopra	–	[8]
1961 (9th)	Gunga Jumna	Dilip Kumar	Nitin Bose	–
1961 (9th)	Pyaar Ki Pyaas	Anupam Chitra	Mahesh Kaul	–
1962 (10th)	Sahib Bibi Aur Ghulam	Guru Dutt	Abrar Alvi	–	[9]
1963 (11th)	Bandini	Bimal Roy Productions	Bimal Roy	–	[10]
1963 (11th)	Mere Mehboob	Harnam Singh Rawail	Harnam Singh Rawail	–
1963 (11th)	Gumrah	B. R. Films	B. R. Chopra	–
1964 (12th)	Dosti	Tarachand Barjatya	Satyen Bose	–	[11]
1964 (12th)	Yaadein	Sunil Dutt	Sunil Dutt	–
1964 (12th)	Geet Gaya Patharon Ne	V. Shantaram Productions	V. Shantaram	–
1965 (13th)	Shaheed	Kewal Kashyap	S. Ram Sharma	–	[12]
1965 (13th)	Oonche Log	M/S Chitrakala	Phani Majumdar	–
1965 (13th)	Guide	Dev Anand	Vijay Anand	–
1966 (14th)	Anuapama	L. B. Lachman	Hrishikesh Mukherjee	–
1967 (15th)	Hamraaz	B. R. Chopra	B. R. Chopra	–	[13]
1968 (16th)	Aashirwad	• N. C. Sippy  • Hrishikesh Mukherjee	Hrishikesh Mukherjee	–	[14]
1969 (17th)	Satyakam	Sher Jeng Singh Punchee	Hrishikesh Mukherjee	–	[15]
1970 (18th)	Anand	• Hrishikesh Mukherjee  • N.C. Sippy	Hrishikesh Mukherjee	–	[16]
1971 (19th)	Phir Bhi	Shivendra Shah	Shivendra Shah	–	[17]
1972 (20th)	Maya Darpan	Kumar Shahani	Kumar Shahani	–	[18]
1973 (21st)	27 Down	(Late) Awatar Krishna Kaul	(Late) Awatar Krishna Kaul	–	[19]
1974 (22nd)	No Award				[20]
1975 (23rd)	Nishant	• Freni M. Variava  • Mohan J. Bijlani	Shyam Benegal	–	[21]
1976 (24th)	Manthan	Gujarat Co-operative Milk Marketing Federation Ltd.	Shyam Benegal	–
1977 (25th)	Shatranj Ke Khiladi	Suresh Jindal	Satyajit Ray	For the skilful juxtaposing and interweaving of two parallel destinies, the personal and the political; for the setting these against the decadent splendor of the court of Avadh, recreated with a sense of great pictorial beauty and musical charm; for presenting vividly the clash of two cultures, irreconcilable in their distinctive views of the world; for performances of remarkable depth and range, true to the style and flavour of the period.	[22]
1978 (26th)	Kasturi	Bimal Dutt	Bimal Dutt	For a lyrical depiction of the elemental and eternal conflict between science and superstition.	[23]
1978 (26th)	Junoon	Shashi Kapoor	Shyam Benegal	For overall technical virtuousity and successful evocation of a bygone era.
1979 (27th)	Sparsh	Basu Bhattacharya	Sai Paranjpye		[24]
1980 (28th)	Aakrosh	Devi Dutt	Govind Nihalani	For its severe indictment of an establishment and a society that permits injustice, for presenting a bold theme in a cinematic style which makes it both socially and aesthetically significant.	[25]
1981 (29th)	Arohan	Government of West Bengal	Shyam Benegal	For hard-hitting treatment of contemporary reality, especially as it is reflected in the continuing predicament of the West Bengal peasantry.	[26]
1982 (30th)	Katha	Suresh Jindal	Sai Paranjpye	For its social satire of great charm and wit.	[27]
1983 (31st)	Ardh Satya	• Manmohan Shetty  • Pradeep Uppoor	Govind Nihalani	For its powerful exploration of a labyrinthine socio-political situation.	[28]
1984 (32nd)	Paar	Swapan Sarkar	Gautam Ghose	–	[29]
1985 (33rd)	Anantyatra	Nachiket Patwardhan	• Nachiket Patwardhan  • Jayu Patwardhan	For an unusual film blending with fact and fantasy, dealing with the contemporary subject of the frustrations of middle-aged executive, presented with wit and humour.	[30]
1986 (34th)	Mirch Masala	NFDC	Ketan Mehta	For its moving depiction of a rural woman's struggle against oppressive social conditions in the pre-Independence era.	[31]
1987 (35th)	Pestonjee	NFDC	Vijaya Mehta	For creating an exquisite and gentle tale full of irony, stressing the universal need for human companionship, loyalty and acceptance of life.	[32]
1988 (36th)	Salaam Bombay!	• NFDC  • Mirabai Films  • Doordarshan	Mira Nair	For exploring the tragic realities of life for the homeless children and women and those enmashed by drugs.	[33]
1989 (37th)	Salim Langde Pe Mat Ro	NFDC	Saeed Akhtar Mirza	For its novel examination of the nexus between urban lumpen life, crime and religious revivalism.	[34]
1990 (38th)	Drishti	Govind Nihalani	Govind Nihalani	For depicting marital pain very effectively.	[35]
1991 (39th)	Diksha	• NFDC  • Doordarshan	Arun Kaul	For the impressive treatment of a relevant social theme.	[36]
1991 (39th)	Dharavi	• NFDC  • Doordarshan	Sudhir Mishra	For its affirmation of the indefatigable human spirit of survival.
1992 (40th)	Suraj Ka Satvan Ghoda	NFDC	Shyam Benegal	For its poetically charming enquiry into the nature and meaning of love.	[37]
1993 (41st)	Patang	Sanjay Sahay Durba Sahay	Gautam Ghose	For a restrained and symbolic portrayal of love and betrayal and of the various layers of moral corruption, which overpower the lives of innocents.	[38]
1994 (42nd)	Mammo	• NFDC  • Doordarshan	Shyam Benegal	For a poignant narrative of a family set against the trauma of exiled people in past post partition India.	[39]
1995 (43rd)	Bandit Queen	Sundeep Singh Bedi	Shekhar Kapur	For its stark and frank portrayal of an Indian woman in a caste ridden society.	[40]
1996 (44th)	Gudia	• Amit Khanna  • Mahesh Bhatt	Gautam Ghose	For an unusual exploration into the lives of traditional entertainers and the entwined relationships between the animate and inanimate players that develop into an obsession.	[41]
1997 (45th)	Hazaar Chaurasi Ki Maa	Govind Nihalani	Govind Nihalani	For a moving depiction of the story of a mother who beings to realise her son's values and beliefs only after his tragic death and in the process emerges a stronger being.	[42]
1998 (46th)	Godmother	Gramco Films	Vinay Shukla	The films deals with contemporary power structure and confronts violence, corruption and passions with ease. The music, art direction and the dialogues combine to create a strong ethnic character setting a new trend in popular Indian cinema.	[43]
1999 (47th)	Shool	• Ram Gopal Varma  • Nitin Manmohan	E. Nivas	For unveiling the complete collapse of the socio-political system. A very effective portrayal of the determined fight of a single citizen in the centre of a façade of democracy.	[44]
2000 (48th)	Zubeidaa	Farouq Rattonsey	Shyam Benegal	For the political turmoil has been juxtaposed with the upheavals of the life of a tempestuous Muslim girl who defies all norms to marry a much married maharaja. It is a story of obsessive love in the times of political priorities in post independent India.	[45]
2001 (49th)	Dil Chahta Hai	Ritesh Sidhwani	Farhan Akhtar	For artistically and humorously portraying the growing up years of young persons in modern society.	[46]
2002 (50th)	The Legend of Bhagat Singh	Tips Industries	Rajkumar Santoshi	For its gripping portrayal of the life and times of a legendary martyr.	[47]
2003 (51st)	Raghu Romeo	NFDC	Rajat Kapoor	For a zestful spoof of popular culture where the boundaries of illusion and reality collapse and the common man turns into hero.	[48]
2004 (52nd)	Raincoat	Shree Venkatesh Films	Rituparno Ghosh	For its subtle handling of human relationship in a low-keyed fashion yet mentioning the warmth of a lost love.	[49]
2005 (53rd)	Black	• Anshuman Swami  • Sanjay Leela Bhansali	Sanjay Leela Bhansali	For a stylised and visually vibrant tale of a physically challenged child who learns to live and become an achiever against insurmountable odds.	[50]
2006 (54th)	Khosla Ka Ghosla	Savita Raj Hiremath	Dibakar Banerjee	For an original Portraying the middle class struggle against the real estate mafia.	[51]
2007 (55th)	1971	Sagar Films	Amrit Sagar	A sensitive depiction of the ordeal of Indian prisoners of war trapped between extreme hostility and official apathy in an alien land and showing fortitude in a hopeless situation.	[52]
2008 (56th)	Rock On!!	Excel Entertainment Pvt. Ltd.	Abhishek Kapoor	For an emotional story of musical bonding.	[53]
2009 (57th)	Paa	• Amitabh Bachchan Corporation  • Sunil Manchanda	R. Balki	A heart rendering, yet unsentimental portrayal of a family dealing with a tragedy foretold.	[54]
2010 (58th)	Do Dooni Chaar	Arindam Chaudhuri	Habib Faisal	For an entertaining narrative that brings to the fore the struggle of a school teacher who is torn between maintaining his integrity and the lure of a little more comfort.	[55]
2011 (59th)	I Am	• Onir  • Sanjay Suri	Onir	For the dexterous weaving of four different stories across India which negotiate the complexities of people undergoing the trauma of being dispossessed and thereby disempowered. The director attempts to bridge links between various social issues of those suffering the consequences of political exile; some face humiliation for their sexual preferences while others feel the pain of violation.	[56]
2012 (60th)	Filmistaan	Satellite Picture Pvt. Ltd.	Nitin Kakkar	A gripping tale of a Mumbai film buff who gets unwittingly involved in a cross border misadventure only to realize how divided hearts can be brought together through cinema.	[57]
2013 (61st)	Jolly LLB	Fox Star Studios	Subhash Kapoor	A fast-paced film of an ambitious lawyer wanting to make it big through short-cut method ends up opening a high profile case and what follows is a roller coaster ride of a man, his moralities, ambitions and relationships.	[58]
2014 (62nd)	Queen	Phantom Films Viacom 18 Motion Pictures	Vikas Bahl	For a delightful portrayal of a young girl who emerges from her cocoon of diffidence and middle-class mores to discover the pleasure and fulfillment of a life lived on her own terms.	[59]
2015 (63rd)	Dum Laga Ke Haisha	• Maneesh Sharma  • Yash Raj Films	Sharat Katariya	For a sweet and resonant film set in Haridwar and challenges the middle class prejudices in choosing a bride.	[60]

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External links

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