National Film Award for Best Non-Feature Film Audiography

National Film Award for Best Non-Feature Film Audiography
Awarded by Directorate of Film Festivals
Type	National
Category	Short films
Statistics
Instituted	1990
First awarded	1990
Last awarded	2015
Total awarded	26
Cash award	₹50,000 (US$740)
First awardee(s)	Sujit Sarkar
Recent awardee(s)	Moumita Roy

The National Film Award for Best Non-Feature Film Audiography 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 non-feature films and awarded with Rajat Kamal (Silver Lotus).

The award was instituted in 1990, at 38th National Film Awards and awarded annually for the short films produced in the year across the country, in all Indian languages.

Winners

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

List of award recipients, showing the year (award ceremony), film(s), language(s) and citation
Year	Recipient(s)	Film(s)	Language(s)	Citation	Refs.
1990 (38th)	Sujit Sarkar	Mohor	Bengali	For preserving the aura of Gurudev's presence by transporting the audience through the years in the flowering of Rabindra Sangeet, embellishing the performance of the great singer Kanika Bandopadhyay.	[1]
1991 (39th)	• Anil Tendulkar  • Gautam Bora	Sons of Abotani: The Misings	Mishing	For the selective and imaginative use of commentary and dialogues and the sculpted sound which enriches the film.	[2]
1992 (40th)	Sanjoy Chatterjee	Wangala: A Garo Festival	English	For a sustained standard of sound recording on difficult locations which enriches the quality of the film.	[3]
1993 (41st)	Indrajit Neogi	Maihar Raag	Bengali	For extremely imaginative and conceptual use of location sounds to depict the crumbling heritage of the Maihar orchestra.	[4]
1994 (42nd)	• Indrajit Neogi  • A. M. Padmanabhan	Another Way of Learning	English	For together bringing about a quality of sound, which so enhances the acoustic, that the viewer becomes a participant.	[5]
1995 (43rd)	Shyam Sunder	Tatva	Hindi	For the creative use of sound to interpret the theme of the film.	[6]
1996 (44th)	Nihar R. Samal	Tat Tvam Asi	• Hindi  • English	For his restrained, balanced and multi-layered soundtrack.	[7]
1997 (45th)	Pankaj Shil	Matir Bhanr	Bengali	For its strong sound structure which is woven and enmeshed into the fabric of the film.	[8]
1998 (46th)	Satheesh P. M.	Kumar Talkies	Hindi	For a sound design which evokes a vision of an era fading away.	[9]
1999 (47th)	Chinmoy Nath	The Vehicle with a Soul of a Man	–	For imaginatively capturing the hard labour and tediousness of the Pitthu through the sound design achieved through an appropriate synthesis of sound and silence.	[10]
2000 (48th)	Hari Kumar	A Memory of the Sea	English	For designing sound that imaginatively and creatively enhances the mood and narration of the film.	[11]
2001 (49th)	Anup Mukherjee	Enough of Silence	English	For adding a new dimension to the film through innovative sound track.	[12]
2002 (50th)	No Award				[13]
2003 (51st)	Ramesh Birajdar	Bhaba Paagla	Bengali	For sound design which evokes a vision of a world far, far away from the madding crowd, which oscillates between the silences and nature's pristine sounds.	[14]
2004 (52nd)	Vivek	Kshy Tra Ghya	Hindi	For evolving an experimental form of narration within a story form, with excellent sound design.	[15]
2005 (53rd)	Anmol Bhave	Closer	–	For its outstandingly imaginative use of sound design complementing an equally breath-taking visual wizardry. Closer leaves its audience with a sense of beauty and awe.	[16]
2006 (54th)	Partha Barman	Bishar Blues	Bengali	For creating a sound track by combining location sound, ambience sound and music that enhance the "meaning" of the film.	[17]
2007 (55th)	Ajit Singh Rathore	Kramasha	Hindi	For the innovative sound design enhances the mood of the film and draws one into the magical ambience replete with fairy tales.	[18]
2008 (56th)	Mateen Ahmad	Children of the Pyre	Hindi	With multiple layers of sound, and the incessant crackle of funeral pyres that cease to sleep, the film grips its audience with a sense of entrapment around the life of children working inside a cremation ground. It is a telling example of digetic sound design keeping its truth to the reality of the location.	[19]
2009 (57th)	Lipika Singh Darai	Gaarud	• Hindi  • Marathi	For imaginative use of ambient sounds in effectively creating diverse soundscapes.	[20]
2010 (58th)	Harikumar Madhavan Nair	A Pestering Journey	• Malayalam  • Punjabi  • Hindi  • English  • Tulu	Does one hear the cry of the pest? In between the sound of the real and evoking music, the ensuing silence tells us the stories beyond.	[21]
2011 (59th)	Gautam Nair	1, 2	Hindi	For creating an aural world that enhances the layered narrative structure of the film.	[22]
2012 (60th)	Harikumar M.	Do Din Ka Mela	Kutchi	For patiently and passionately capturing the world of sounds that beautifully create the rustic flavour that is so critical to this film.	[23]
2013 (61st)	Gautam Nair	Chidiya Udh	–	For a layered and resonant sound track with elements of ambiguity and discord contributing to an overwhelming sense of urban disconnect.	[24]
2014 (62nd)	• Anindit Roy  • Ateesh Chattopadhyay  • Ayan Bhattacharya	Tender is the Sight	–	The film travels through the imaginary line of manifest and unmanifest worlds of visual and sound that balance effortlessly, imprinting the audience with a haunting aural experience.	[25]
2015 (63rd)	Moumita Roy	Edpa Kana	Kurukh	Soulful sound amidst silence – differences made audible.	[26]

References

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

External links

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