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61st National Film Awards

Awarded for Best of Indian cinema

in 2013

Awarded by Directorate of Film

Festivals

Presented by Directorate of Film

Festivals

Announced on April 16, 2014

Presented on May 3, 2014

Official website dff.nic.in

(http://dff.nic.in/)

Highlights

Dadasaheb Phalke Award Gulzar

Best Feature Film Ship of Theseus

Best Non-Feature Film Rangbhoomi

Best Book Cinema Ga Cinema

Best Film Critic Alaka Sahani

Most awards Jaatishwar(4)

< 60th National Film Awards

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The 61st National Film Awardsceremony was an event

during which the Directorate of Film Festivals of India

presented its annual National Film Awards to honour thebest films of 2013 in the Indian cinema. The ceremony

was held on May 3, 2014.[1][2]

1 Selection process

2 Dadasaheb Phalke Award

3 Feature Films

3.1 Jury

3.2 All India Awards

3.2.1 Golden Lotus Award

3.2.2 Silver Lotus Award

3.3 Regional Award

4 Non-Feature Films

4.1 Jury4.2 Golden Lotus Award

4.3 Silver Lotus Award

5 Best Writing on Cinema

5.1 Jury

5.2 Golden Lotus Award

6 Awards not presented

7 References

8 External links

The Directorate of Film Festivals invited nominations for the awards on January 24, 2014. The acceptable

last date for entries was until February 14, 2014.[3]Feature and Non-Feature Films certified by Central

Board of Film Certification between January 1, 2013, and December 31, 2013, were eligible for the film

award categories. Books, critical studies, reviews or articles on cinema published in Indian newspapers,

magazines, and journals between January 1, 2013, and December 31, 2013, were eligible for the best writingon cinema section.[4]Entries of dubbed, revised or copied versions of a film or translation, abridgements,

edited or annotated works and reprints were ineligible for the awards.[5]

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Gulzar, Dadasaheb Phalke Awardwinner

For the Feature and Non-Feature Films sections, films in any Indian language, shot on 16 mm, 35 mm, a

wider film gauge or a digital format, and released in cinemas, on video or digital formats for home viewing

were eligible. Films were required to be certified as a feature film, a featurette or a Documentary/Newsreel

/Non-Fiction by the Central Board of Film Certification.[5]

Introduced in 1969, the Dadasaheb Phalke Award is the highest

award given to recognise the contributions of film personalities

towards the development of Indian cinema and for distinguished

contributions to the medium, its growth and promotion.[6][7]A

committee consisting of seven personalities from the Indian film

industry was appointed to evaluate the Dadasaheb Phalke award

nominations for 2013.

For the year 2013, the award was announced on 12 April 2014 to be

presented to Gulzar, a veteran poet, lyric writer and film director. He

has won five National Film Awards, 20 Filmfare Awards, oneAcademy Award, one Grammy Award and is also Padma Bhushan

recipient of 2004.[8]

Name of Award Awardee(s) Awarded As Awards

Dadasaheb Phalke

AwardGulzar

Poet, Lyricist and Film

director

Swarna Kamal, 1 million (US$17,000)

and a Shawl

A Bengali film, Jaatishwar won the maximum number of awards (4) followed by Telugu film Na Bangaaru

Talli, Tamil film Thanga Meenkal and Marathi film Yellow (3 awards each)

Jury

For the Feature Film section, six committees were formed based on the different geographic regions in

India. The two-tier evaluation process included a central committee and five regional committees. The

central committee, headed by Saeed Akhtar Mirza, included the heads of each regional committee and five

other jury members. At regional level, each committee consisted of one chief and four members. The chief

and one non-chief member of each regional committee were selected from outside that geographic region.

The table below names the jury members for the central and regional committees:[9]

Central Jury

Saeed Akhtar Mirza (Chairperson)

M. S. Sathyu Manju Borah

Chitraarth Puran Singh Nirad Mohapatra

Thankar Bachan Arunoday Sharma

Khalid Mohamed Utpalendu Chakrabarty

Pandit Bhajan Sopori C. V. Reddy

Northern Region: (Bhojpuri, Dogri , English, Hindi, Punjabi, Rajasthani, Urdu)


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Manju Borah (Chair)

Virendra Saini G. S. Bhaskar

Bhanu Bharti Sona Jain

Eastern Region: (Assamese, Bengali, Oriya and North-Eastern dialects)

M. S. Sathyu (Chair)

Meena Debbarma Ranjit Das

Srilekha Mukherji Bina Paul

Western Region: (Gujarati, Konkani, Marathi)

Chitraarth Puran Singh (Chair)

Rajat Dholakia Meenakshi Shedde

Rajen Borah Tejaswini Pandit

Southern Region I: (Malayalam, Tamil)

Nirad Mohapatra (Chair)

Unni Vijayan Kesari Harvoo

Priya Krishnaswamy Arun Bose

Southern Region II: (Kannada, Telugu)

Thankar Bachan (Chair)

M. Manu Chakravarthy B. S. lingadevaru Joseph Pulinthanath Chandra Siddhartha

All India Awards

Golden Lotus Award

All the winners are awarded with a Swarna Kamal(Golden Lotus Award), a certificate and a cash prize.[5]


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Suraj Venjaramoodu and

Rajkummar Rao, Best Actor

winners

Name of Award Name of Film(s) Language Awardee(s) Cash Prize

Best Feature Film Ship of TheseusEnglish,

Hindi

Producer: Recyclewala Films Pvt

Ltd

Director: Anand Gandhi

2.50 lakh

(US$4,300)

Best Debut Film of A

DirectorFandry Marathi

Producer: Navalkha Arts and Holy

Basil Combine

Director: Nagraj Manjule

1.25 lakh

(US$2,100)

Best Popular Film

Providing Wholesome

Entertainment

Bhaag Milkha

BhaagHindi

Producer: Viacom 18 Motion

Pictures and ROMP Pictures

Director: Rakeysh Omprakash

Mehra

2.00 lakh

(US$3,400)

Best Children's Film Kaphal Hindi

Producer: Children's Film Society

of India

Director: Batul Mukhtiar

1.50 lakh

(US$2,600)

Best Direction Shahid Hindi Hansal Mehta

2.50 lakh

(US$4,300)

Silver Lotus Award

All the winners were awarded with aRajat Kamal(Silver Lotus Award), a certificate and a cash prize.[5]


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Name of Award Name of Film(s) Language(s) Awardee(s) Cash Prize

Best Feature Film on

National IntegrationThalaimuraigal Tamil

Producer: Company

Productions

Director:Balu Mahendra

150000

(US$2,600)

Best Film on Other Social

Issues

Tuhya Dharma

KonchaMarathi

Producer: Indian Magic

Eye Motion Pictures Pvt

Ltd.Director : Satish Manwar

150000

(US$2,600)

Best Film on Environment

Conservation/PreservationPerariyathavar Malayalam

Producer: Ambalakkara

Global Films

Director: Dr. Biju

150000

(US$2,600)

Best Actor Shahid

Perariyathavar

Hindi

Malayalam

Rajkumar Rao

Suraj Venjaramoodu

50,000

(US$850)

Best Actress Liar's Dice Hindi Geetanjali Thapa 50,000

(US$850)

Best Supporting Actor Jolly LLB Hindi Saurabh Shukla 50,000

(US$850)

Best Supporting ActressAstu

Ship of Theseus

Marathi

English-Hindi

Amruta Subhash

Aida El-Kashef

50,000

(US$850)

Best Child Artist Fandry

Thanga Meenkal

Marathi

Tamil

Somnath Avghade

Baby Sadhana

50,000

(US$850)

Best Male Playback Singer

Jaatishwar

("E Tumi KemonTumi")

Bengali Rupankar Bagchi

50,000

(US$850)

Best Female Playback

Singer

Tuhya Dharma

Koncha

("Khurkhura")

Marathi Bela Shende 50,000

(US$850)

Best Cinematography Liar's Dice Hindi Rajeev Ravi 50,000

(US$850)

Best Screenplay

Screenplay Writer (Original)December-1 Kannada P. Sheshadri

50,000

(US$850)

Best Screenplay

Screenplay Writer (Adapted)Prakruti Kannada Panchakshari

50,000

(US$850)

Best Screenplay

DialoguesAstu Marathi Sumitra Bhave

50,000

(US$850)

Best Audiography

Location Sound RecordistMadras Cafe Hindi Nihar Ranjan Samal

50,000

(US$850)

Best Audiography

Sound DesignerMadras Cafe Hindi Bishwadeep Chatterjee

50,000

(US$850)

Best Audiography Re-recordist of the Final

Mixed Track

Swapaanam Malayalam D. Yuvaraj 50,000

(US$850)


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Best Editing Vallinam Tamil Sabu Joseph VJ 50,000

(US$850)

Best Art Direction Miss Lovely Hindi

Ashim Ahluwalia

Tabasheer Zutshi

Parichit Paralkar

50,000

(US$850)

Best Costume Design Jaatishwar Bengali Sabarni Das 50,000

(US$850)

Best Make-up Artist

Jaatishwar

("for the make-up of the

actor Prosenjit.")

Bengali Vikram Gaikwad 50,000

(US$850)

Best Music Direction

SongsJaatishwar Bengali Kabir Suman

50,000

(US$850)

Best Music Direction

Background ScoreNa Bangaaru Talli Telugu Shantanu Moitra

50,000

(US$850)

Best LyricsThanga Meenkal

("Ananda Yaazhai") Tamil Na. Muthukumar 50,000

(US$850)

Best Special Effects Jal HindiIntermezzo Studio Alien

Sense Films Pvt Ltd

50,000

(US$850)

Best Choreography

Bhaag Milkha

Bhaag

("Masto Ka Jhoond")

Hindi Ganesh Acharya 50,000

(US$850)

Special Jury Award

Yellow MarathiProducer: Viva In En

Director: Mahesh Limaye

200000(US$3,400)

Miss Lovely Hindi

Producer: Future EastFilm Pvt Ltd

Director : Ashim

Ahluwalia

Special Mention

Yellow Marathi Gauri Gadgil (Child actor)Certificate

onlyYellow Marathi Sanjana Rai (Child actor)

Na Bangaaru Talli Telugu Anjali Patil (Actress)

Regional Award

National Film Awards are also given to the best films in the regional languages of India. Awards for the

regional languages are categorised as per their mention in the Eighth schedule of the Constitution of India.

Awardees included producers and directors of the film. No films in languages other than those specified in

the Schedule VIII of the Constitution were eligible.[5]


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Name of Award Name of FilmAwardee(s)

Cash PrizeProducer(s) Director

Best Feature Film in

AssameseAjeyo Shiven Arts Jahnu Barua

100000

(US$1,700) each


Bengali

Bakita

Byaktigato

Tripod Entertainment Pvt

Ltd

Pradipta

Bhattacharyya

100000

(US$1,700) each


HindiJolly LLB Fox Star Studios Subhash Kapoor

100000

(US$1,700) each


KannadaDecember-1 Basant Productions P. Sheshadri

100000

(US$1,700) each


KonkaniBaga Beach Sharvani Productions

Laxmikant

Shetgaonkar

100000

(US$1,700) each


Malayalam

North 24

KaathamSurya Cine Arts

Anil

Radhakrishnan

Menon

100000

(US$1,700) each


Marathi

Aajcha Divas

MajhaWhite Swan Productions

Chandrakant

Kulkarni

100000

(US$1,700) each


Tamil

Thanga

MeenkalJSK Film Corporation Ram

100000

(US$1,700) each


Telugu

Na Bangaaru

TalliSun Touch Productions Rajesh Touchriver

100000

(US$1,700) each

Best Feature Film in Each of the Language Other Than Those Specified In the Schedule VIII of the

Constitution

Name of Award Name of FilmAwardee(s)

Cash PrizeProducer Director


EnglishThe Coffin Maker

Shree Narayan

StudioVeena Bakshi

100000

(US$1,700) each


KhasiRi Kurbah Films Pradip Kurbah

100000

(US$1,700) each

Best Feature Film inSherdukpen The CrossingBridges TNT FilmsProduction Sange DorjeeThongdok

100000(US$1,700) each

Jury

A committee of seven, headed by chair, Ashoke Viswanathan was appointed to evaluate the Non-Feature

Films entries. The jury members were:

Ashoke Viswanathan (Chairperson)

Bishnu Dev Halder S. Manjunathan

Umesh Aggarwal Reena Mohan


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Sandeep Marwah Ramesh Asher

Golden Lotus Award

All the winners were awarded with Swarna Kamal(Golden Lotus Award), a certificate and cash prize.[5]


Best Non-Feature Film Rangbhoomi Hindi

Producer: Films

Division

Director: Kamal

Swaroop

150000

(US$2,600)

Best Non-Feature Film

DirectionChidiya Udh Pranjal Dua

150000

(US$2,600)

Silver Lotus Award

All the winners were awarded withRajat Kamal(Silver Lotus Award) and cash prize.[5]


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Best First Non-Feature

FilmKanyaka Malayalam

Producer: Satyajit Ray Film

and Television Institute

Director: Christo Tomy

75,000

(US$1,300)

each

Best Biographical Film

/ Best Historical

Reconstruction Film

The Last Adieu EnglishProducer: Films Division

Director: Shabnam Sukhdev

50,000

(US$850)

each

Best Educational FilmThe Quantum

IndiansEnglish

Producer: Public Service

Broadcasting Trust

Director: Raja Choudhury

50,000

(US$850)

each

Best Environment Film

Including Agriculture''Foresting Life''

Hindi-

Assamese

Producer: A Media For Social

Impact

Director: Aarti Shrivastava

50,000

(US$850)

each

Best Arts / Cultural

Film

The Lost Behrupiya Hindi

Producer: Holybull

Entertainment LLP

Director: Sriram Dalton 50,000(US$850)

eachO Friend, This

Waiting !

English-

Telugu

Producer: Justin McCarthy

Director: Sandhya Kumar and

Justin McCarthy

Best Promotional Film

Chasing The

RainbowEnglish

Producer: Edumedia India

Director: Charu Shree Roy50,000

(US$850)

eachKush Hindi

Producer: Red Carpet Moving

Pictures Pvt. Ltd.

Director: Shubhashish

Bhutiani

Best Science and

Technology FilmThe Pad Piper English

Producer: Akanksha Sood

Singh

Director: Akanksha Sood

Singh

50,000

(US$850)

Best Film on Social

IssuesGulabi Gang

Hindi-

Bundelkhandi

Producer: Raintree Films,

Piraya Film As and Final Cut

for Real Aps

Director: Nishtha Jain

50,000

(US$850)

each

Best Investigative Film KatiyabaazHindi-

Urdu-English

Producer: Globalistan Films

Pvt. Ltd.

Director: Deepti Kakkar and

Fahad Mustafa

50,000

(US$850)

each

Best Short Fiction FilmMandrake !

Mandrake !Hindi

Producer: FTII

Director: Ruchir Arun

50,000

(US$850)

each

Best Film on Family

WelfareHeyro Party Bengali

Producer: Baishakhi Banerjee

and Deepak Gawade

Director: Deepak Gawade

50,000

(US$850)

each

Best CinematographyMandrake !

Mandrake !Hindi

Cameraman: Kavin Jagtiani

Lab: Reliance MediaWorks

50,000

(US$850)


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Best Audiography Chidiya Udh Gautam Nair 50,000

(US$850)

Best Editing Gulabi GangHindi-

BundelkhandiArjun Gourisaria

50,000

(US$850)

Best Music Direction Yugadrashta Assamese Anurag Saikia 50,000

(US$850)

Best Narration / Voice

OverKankee O Saapo Oriya Lipika Singh Darai

50,000

(US$850)

Special Jury Award

Ananthamurthy

Not A

Biography...But A

Hypothesis

English Girish Kasaravalli (Director)100000

(US$1,700)

Tamaash KashmiriSatyanshu Singh and

Devanshu Singh (Director)

Special Mention

Accsex English-Hindi Shweta Ghosh (Director)

Certificate

only

Candles In The WindPunjabi-Hindi

(Director)

Kavita Bahl and Nandan

Saxena

Dharmam TamilMadonne M. Ashwin

(Director)

At the Cross Roads :

Nondon Bagchi Life

and Living

English-

Bengali

Rajdeep Paul and Sarmistha

Maiti (Director)

Jury

A committee of three, headed by Sharad Dutt was appointed to evaluate the nominations for the best writing

on Indian cinema. The jury members were as follows:

Sharad Dutt (Chairperson)

Ganesh Anantharamna Balaji Vittal

The Best Writing on Cinema awards are intended to encourage the study and appreciation of cinema as an

art form and the dissemination of information and critical appreciation of the medium through books,

articles, reviews etc.

Golden Lotus Award

All the winners were awarded with Swarna Kamal(Golden Lotus Award), cash prize and a certificate.[5]

Name of Award Name of Book Language Author(s) Publisher(s) Cash Prize

Best Book onCinema

Cinema Ga Cinema Telugu Nandagopal Praga India,Hyderabad

75,000(US$1,300)


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Feature films

Best Animated Film

Best Film on Family Welfare

Best Feature Film in Oriya

Non-feature films

Best Animation Film

Best Anthropological / Ethnographic Film

Best Exploration / Adventure Film (Including sports)

Name of Award Language(s) Awardee Cash Prize

Best Film Critic English Alaka Sahani 75,000 (US$1,300)

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year-soni/4460/). New Delhi:Business Standard. Retrieved May 3, 2012.

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Delhi: Directorate of Film Festivals. Retrieved March 15, 2014.

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Film Festivals. Retrieved March 15, 2014.

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Directorate of Film

Festivals, India

(http://dff.nic.in)

National Film Awards Archives (http://dff.nic.in/NFA_archive.asp)

61st National Film Awards: Regulations for submission

(http://www.dff.nic.in

/61st_NATIONAL_FILM_AWARDS_2013_1_regulations_updated.pdf)

Other resources

Ministry of Information & Broadcasting (Press release) (http://pib.nic.in/newsite

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