National Film Award for Best Film on Family Welfare

National Film Award for Best Film on Family Welfare
Awarded by Directorate of Film Festivals
Type	National
Category	Indian Cinema
Description
Medal	Rajat Kamal (Silver Lotus)
Statistics
Instituted	1968
First awarded	1968
Last awarded	2008
Total awarded	21
Cash award	₹50,000 (US$740)
First awardee(s)	Anchal Ke Phool
Last awardee(s)	Little Zizou

The National Film Award for Best Film on Family Welfare 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 award was instituted in 1968, at 16th National Film Awards and awarded annually for films produced in the year across the country, in all Indian languages.

Winners

Indicates a joint award for that year

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

List of films, showing the year (award ceremony), language(s), producer(s), director(s) and citation
Year	Film(s)	Language(s)	Producer(s)	Director(s)	Citation	Refs.
1968 (16th)	Anchal Ke Phool	Hindi	M. R. Seth	Karunesh Thakur	–	[1]
1969 (17th)	No Award					[2]
1970 (18th)	No Award					[3]
1971 (19th)
1972 (20th)	No Award					[4]
1973 (21st)	No Award					[5]
1974 (22nd)	No Award					[6]
1975 (23rd)	No Award					[7]
1976 (24th)
1977 (25th)	No Award					[8]
1978 (26th)	No Award					[9]
1979 (27th)
1980 (28th)	No Award					[10]
1981 (29th)	No Award					[11]
1982 (30th)	Spandan	Hindi	• Satyanarayanan Misra  • Abdul Majid  • Durga Nanda	Biplab Roy Chowdhary	For its intense and graphic representation of the twin problem of poverty and over-population, which it tackles on the level of both the family and of society.	[12]
1983 (31st)	No Award					[13]
1984 (32nd)	Mohan Joshi Hazir Ho!	Hindi	Saeed Akhtar Mirza	Saeed Akhtar Mirza	–	[14]
1985 (33rd)	No Award					[15]
1986 (34th)	No Award					[16]
1987 (35th)	No Award					[17]
1988 (36th)	No Award					[18]
1989 (37th)	Sandhya Raagam	Tamil	Balu Mahendra (A Doordarshan production)	Balu Mahendra	For the humanity with which it traces a character coming to terms with the problem of old age through suffering, resolution and understanding.	[19]
1990 (38th)	No Award					[20]
1991 (39th)	Durga	Hindi	NFDC	Basu Chatterjee	For the skilful way in which the message of small family norm is communicated.	[21]
1992 (40th)	Shwet Paatharer Thala	Bengali	Shankar Gope	Prabhat Roy	For its bold depiction of a widow who defies tradition.	[22]
1993 (41st)	Akashadoothu	Malayalam	Anupama Cinema	Siby Malayil	For the urgency of family welfare through human love and compassion.	[23]
1994 (42nd)	Karuththamma	Tamil	Vetrivel Art Creations	P. Bharathiraja	For extending the pressing social issue of female infanticide onto a melodrama spanning the canvas of rural Tamil Nadu, a dimension that is now uniquely Bharathiraja signature.	[24]
1995 (43rd)	Mini	Malayalam	Madhu	P. Chandra Kumar	For the effective handling of the problem of alcoholism through the determined efforts of a young girl to save her father from self destruction.	[25]
1996 (44th)	Latthi	Bengali	Robin Agarwal	Prabhat Roy	For focusing on the plight of the seniors in the society and how a determined group of pensioners transform the power relations in a family, in a wholesome manner.	[26]
1997 (45th)	Samaantharangal	Malayalam	Balachandra Menon	Balachandra Menon	For an original script evolved from personal experience in a film that nartures family and community life. The protagonist makes sacrifices in order to project the emotional and moral needs of his family members and through them projects a larger picture of the National Interests that bind us all.	[27]
1998 (46th)	Atmiyo Swajan	Bengali	Dhatri Films	Raja Sen	For vividly portraying emotional and moral problems faced by an extended family wearing a rich tapestry of relationships, the film brings forth hope for the aged and celebrates life for the young.	[28]
1999 (47th)	Hari-Bhari	Hindi	Government of India	Shyam Benegal	For unfolding several aspects of family life in an Indian Town where awareness of women's health and upbringing of girl-child is enveloped in ignorance and blind belief.	[29]
2000 (48th)	Kal Kaa Aadmi	Hindi	Ministry of Health and Family Welfare	Amol Palekar	For telling the story of Raghunath Karve, who, early in this century, pioneered the debate on sexual and reproductive rights. The film recreates the period in painstaking detail and helps to raise consciousness about issues which are extremely relevant today.	[30]
2001 (49th)	No Award					[31]
2002 (50th)	No Award					[32]
2003 (51st)	Paadam Onnu: Oru Vilapam	Malayalam	Aryadan Shaukat	T. V. Chandran	For raising a voice against early marriage and for its advocacy of women's education in a conservative society.	[33]
2004 (52nd)	Hasina	Kannada	Chiguru Chitra	Girish Kasaravalli	The film deals with a social evil of family planning in a Muslim community. The story of women and her children deserted by a drunkard husband is handled in a unique and subtle way.	[34]
2005 (53rd)	Thavamai Thavamirundhu	Tamil	P A Shanmugam	Cheran	The film explores the father-son relationship, and particularly charts the travails an Indian father goes through in raising his sons. The film is awarded for the evocative portrayal of a family caught in trials and tribulations in a simple narrative style.	[35]
2006 (54th)	Karutha Pakshikal	Malayalam	• Kaladharan K. V.  • Vallabhan K. G.	Kamal	For redefining family values in the slums of a city through the life of a man who irons clothes for a living.	[36]
2006 (54th)	Faltu	Bengali	Arindam Chaudhuri	Anjan Das	For delineating the need for family through the predicament of an illegitimate child.
2007 (55th)	Taare Zameen Par	Hindi	Aamir Khan	Aamir Khan	For realistically depicting the psychological dialectic between an ordinary family driving their children to educational excellence, thereby neglecting their specially gifted child dealing with the problem of dyslexia in isolation.	[37]
2008 (56th)	Little Zizou	• English  • Gujarati	Jigri Dost Productions	Sooni Taraporevala	For its witty and intelligent handling of the conflicts and convictions confronting the Parsi community.	[38]
2009 (57th)	No Award					[39]
2010 (58th)	No Award					[40]
2011 (59th)	No Award					[41]
2012 (60th)	No Award					[42]
2013 (61st)	No Award					[43]
2014 (62nd)	No Award					[44]
2015 (63rd)	No Award					[45]

References

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2. "17th National Film Awards" (PDF). Directorate of Film Festivals. Retrieved 26 September 2011.
3. "18th National Film Awards" (PDF). Directorate of Film Festivals. Retrieved 26 September 2011.
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6. "22nd National Film Awards" (PDF). Directorate of Film Festivals. Retrieved 1 October 2011.
7. "23rd National Film Awards" (PDF). Directorate of Film Festivals. Retrieved 4 October 2011.
8. "25th National Film Awards" (PDF). Directorate of Film Festivals. Retrieved 4 October 2011.
9. "26th National Film Awards" (PDF). Directorate of Film Festivals. Retrieved 4 October 2011.
10. "28th National Film Awards" (PDF). Directorate of Film Festivals. Retrieved 4 October 2011.
11. "29th National Film Awards" (PDF). Directorate of Film Festivals. Retrieved 4 October 2011.
12. "30th National Film Awards" (PDF). Directorate of Film Festivals. Retrieved 4 October 2011.
13. "31st National Film Awards" (PDF). Directorate of Film Festivals. Retrieved 9 December 2011.
14. "32nd National Film Awards" (PDF). Directorate of Film Festivals. Retrieved 6 January 2012.
15. "33rd National Film Awards" (PDF). Directorate of Film Festivals. Retrieved 7 January 2012.
16. "34th National Film Awards" (PDF). Directorate of Film Festivals. Retrieved 7 January 2012.
17. "35th National Film Awards" (PDF). Directorate of Film Festivals. Retrieved 9 January 2012.
18. "36th National Film Awards" (PDF). Directorate of Film Festivals. Retrieved 9 January 2012.
19. "37th National Film Awards" (PDF). Directorate of Film Festivals. Retrieved 29 January 2012.
20. "38th National Film Awards" (PDF). Directorate of Film Festivals. Retrieved 9 January 2012.
21. "39th National Film Awards" (PDF). Directorate of Film Festivals. Retrieved 27 February 2012.
22. "40th National Film Awards" (PDF). Directorate of Film Festivals. Retrieved 2 March 2012.
23. "41st National Film Awards" (PDF). Directorate of Film Festivals. Retrieved 3 March 2012.
24. "42nd National Film Awards" (PDF). Directorate of Film Festivals. Retrieved 5 March 2012.
25. "43rd National Film Awards" (PDF). Directorate of Film Festivals. Retrieved 6 March 2012.
26. "44th National Film Awards" (PDF). Directorate of Film Festivals. Retrieved 9 January 2012.
27. "45th National Film Awards" (PDF). Directorate of Film Festivals. Retrieved 11 March 2012.
28. "46th National Film Awards" (PDF). Directorate of Film Festivals. Retrieved 12 March 2012.
29. "47th National Film Awards" (PDF). Directorate of Film Festivals. Retrieved 13 March 2012.
30. "48th National Film Awards" (PDF). Directorate of Film Festivals. Retrieved 13 March 2012.
31. "49th National Film Awards" (PDF). Directorate of Film Festivals. Retrieved 14 March 2012.
32. "50th National Film Awards" (PDF). Directorate of Film Festivals. Retrieved 14 March 2012.
33. "51st National Film Awards" (PDF). Directorate of Film Festivals. Retrieved 15 March 2012.
34. "52nd National Film Awards" (PDF). Directorate of Film Festivals. Retrieved 28 January 2012.
35. "53rd National Film Awards" (PDF). Directorate of Film Festivals. Retrieved 19 March 2012.
36. "54th National Film Awards" (PDF). Directorate of Film Festivals. Retrieved 24 March 2012.
37. "55th National Film Awards" (PDF). Directorate of Film Festivals. Retrieved 26 March 2012.
38. "56th National Film Awards" (PDF). Directorate of Film Festivals. Retrieved 27 March 2012.
39. "57th National Film Awards" (PDF). Directorate of Film Festivals. Retrieved 28 March 2012.
40. "58th National Film Awards" (PDF). Directorate of Film Festivals. Retrieved 29 March 2012.
41. "59th National Film Awards for the Year 2011 Announced". Press Information Bureau (PIB), India. Retrieved 7 March 2012.
42. "60th National Film Awards Announced" (PDF) (Press release). Press Information Bureau (PIB), India. Retrieved 18 March 2013.
43. "61st National Film Awards" (PDF). Directorate of Film Festivals. 16 April 2014. Retrieved 16 April 2014.
44. "62nd National Film Awards" (PDF) (Press release). Directorate of Film Festivals. 24 March 2015. Retrieved 24 March 2015.
45. "63rd National Film Awards" (PDF). Directorate of Film Festivals. Retrieved 28 March 2016.

External links

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