National Film Award for Best Feature Film in Odia explained

National Film Award for Best Feature Film in Odia
Subheader:	National award for contributions to Indian Cinema
Awarded For:	Best Odia Feature Film(s) of the year
Sponsor:	Directorate of Film Festivals
Firstawarded:	1960
Lastawarded:	2022
Former Name:	President's Silver Medal for Best Feature Film in Odia (1960–1968)
Holder Label:	Most recent winner
Holder:	Daman
Award1 Type:	Total awarded
Award1 Winner:	40
Award2 Type:	First winner
Award2 Winner:	Sri Lokanath

The National Film Award for Best Feature Film in Odia 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 in 1955. 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).

The films made in Odia language were not considered until the 8th National Film Awards ceremony held in March 1961.^[1] The 1960 Prafulla Kumar Sengupta directorial film Sri Lokenath received the first president's silver medal for Best Feature Film in Odia.

Winners

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

List of award films, showing the year (award ceremony), producer(s), director(s) and citation
Year	Film(s)	Producer(s)	Director(s)	Citation
1960	Sri Lokanath	Rupa Raga Pvt Ltd.	Prafulla Kumar Sengupta
1961	Nua Bou	Ram Krishna Tripathy	Prabhat Mukherjee		^[2]
1962	Suryamukhi	Soumendra Misra	P. K. Sengupta		^[3]
	Lakshmi	Parvati Ghose G. P. Ghose	Sarda Naik
1963	Jeevan Sathi	Srinibash Paikaroy	Prabhat Mukherjee		^[4]
	Nari	Narendra Kumar Mitra	Trilochana Narendra Kumar Mitra Amalendu Bagehi Kavichandra Kalicharan Patnaik)
1964	Sadhana	Diamond Valley Production	Prabhat Mukherjee		^[5]
	Naba Janma	Pancha Sakha Pictures	Sachin Mukherji
1965	No Award				^[6]
1966	Kaa	Parbati Ghose	Sidhartha		^[7]
1967	Arundhati	Dhiren Patnaik	Prafulla Sengupta		^[8]
1968	Stree	Parbati Ghose	Sidhartha		^[9]
1969	No Award				^[10]
1970	No Award				^[11]
1971
1972	No Award				^[12]
1973	No Award				^[13]
1974	No Award				^[14]
1975	No Award				^[15]
1976	Shesha Shrabana	Nagen Roy	Prashant Nanda
1977	Chilika Teerey	Shyamghan Rai Chaudhari	Biplab Rai Chaudhari		^[16]
1978	No Award				^[17]
1979
1980	No Award				^[18]
1981	Seeta Raati	Balram Misra	Manmohan Mahapatra		^[19]
1982	No Award				^[20]
1983	Neeraba Jhada	Manmohan Mahapatra	Manmohan Mahapatra		^[21]
1984	Klanta Aparahna	Dynamic Studio	Manmohan Mahapatra		^[22]
1985	Hakim Babu	Amiya Ranjan Patnaik	Pranab Das		^[23]
1986	Majhi Pahacha	Dipti Mohanty	Manmohan Mahapatra		^[24]
1987	Nishidhdha Swapna	Manmohan Mahapatra	Manmohan Mahapatra		^[25]
1988	Kichi Smruti Kichi Anubhuti	K. Jagadeswari	Manmohan Mahapatra		^[26]
1989	Andha Diganta	Vox Visuals Pvt. Ltd.	Manmohan Mahapatra		^[27]
1990	No Award				^[28]
1991	Tara	Bijaya Jena	Bijaya Jena		^[29]
1992	Vinya Samaya	Shankar Gope	Manmohan Mahapatra		^[30]
1993	Aranya Rodana	Prasan Prusti	Biplab Ray Chaudhuri		^[31]
1994	No Award				^[32]
1995	Moksha	Jayadev Mallick Pramoda Kumar Nayak	Gouri Shankar Das Malaya Kumar Roy		^[33]
1996	Shunya Swaroopa	Alaya Kumar Mohanty	Himanshu Sekhar Khatua		^[34]
1997	Shesha Drushti	NFDC	Apurba Kishore Bir		^[35]
1998	Nandan	N'CYP	Apurba Kishore Bir		^[36]
1999	Biswaprakash	NFDC	Susant Misra		^[37]
2000	No Award				^[38]
2001	Magunira Shagada	NFDC	Prafulla Mohanty		^[39]
2002	No Award				^[40]
2003	Aw Aaakare Aa	Subash Das	Subash Das		^[41]
2004	No Award				^[42]
2005	Kathantara	Iti Samanta	Himanshu Khatua		^[43]
2006	Puja Pain Phulatie	Padmini Puty	Gadadhar Puty		^[44]
2007	No Award				^[45]
2008	No Award				^[46]
2009	No Award				^[47]
2010	No Award				^[48]
2011	No Award				^[49]
2012	No Award				^[50]
2013	No Award				^[51]
2014	Aadim Vichar	Mohapatra Movie Magic Pvt. Ltd.	Sabyasachi Mohapatra		^[52]
2015	Pahada Ra Luha	Mohapatra Movie Magic Pvt. Ltd.	Sabyasachi Mohapatra		^[53]
2016	No Award				^[54]
2017	Hello Arsi	Ajaya Routray	Sambit Mohanty		^[55]
2018	No Award
2019	Saala Budhar Badla	New Generation Films	Sabyasachi Mohapatra		^[56]
	Kalira Atita	Eleenora Images Pvt Ltd.	Nila Madhab Panda
2020	No Award
2021	Pratikshya	Anupam Patnaik	Anupam Patnaik		^[57]
2022	Daman	JP Motion Pictures Mentis Films	Vishal Mourya Debi Prasad Lenka		^[58]

External links

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

Notes and References

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2. Web site: 9th National Film Awards. International Film Festival of India. 8 September 2011. https://web.archive.org/web/20161202115652/http://iffi.nic.in/Dff2011/Frm9thNFAAward.aspx. 2 December 2016. dead.
3. Web site: 10th National Film Awards. International Film Festival of India. 9 September 2011. https://web.archive.org/web/20150929062243/http://iffi.nic.in/Dff2011/Frm10thNFAAward.aspx. 29 September 2015. dead.
4. Web site: 11th National Film Awards. International Film Festival of India. 13 September 2011. https://archive.today/20170502124428/http://iffi.nic.in/Dff2011/Frm11thNFAAward.aspx. 2 May 2017. dead.
5. Web site: 12th National Film Awards. International Film Festival of India. 14 September 2011. https://web.archive.org/web/20120225220334/http://iffi.nic.in/Dff2011/Frm12thNFAAward.aspx. 25 February 2012. dead.
6. Web site: 13th National Film Awards. Directorate of Film Festivals. 15 September 2011.
7. Book: Cultural Forum, Volume 12 (p-99). the University of California, 1969.
8. Web site: 15th National Film Awards. Directorate of Film Festivals. 21 September 2011.
9. Web site: 16th National Film Awards. Directorate of Film Festivals. 22 September 2011.
10. Web site: 17th National Film Awards. Directorate of Film Festivals. 26 September 2011.
11. Web site: 18th National Film Awards. Directorate of Film Festivals. 26 September 2011.
12. Web site: 20th National Film Awards. International Film Festival of India. 26 September 2011. https://web.archive.org/web/20131105220349/http://iffi.nic.in/Dff2011/Frm20thNFAAward.aspx. 5 November 2013. dead.
13. Web site: 21st National Film Awards. Directorate of Film Festivals. 29 September 2011.
14. Web site: 22nd National Film Awards. Directorate of Film Festivals. 1 October 2011.
15. Web site: 23rd National Film Awards. Directorate of Film Festivals. 4 October 2011.
16. Web site: 25th National Film Awards. Directorate of Film Festivals. 4 October 2011.
17. Web site: 26th National Film Awards. Directorate of Film Festivals. 4 October 2011.
18. Web site: 28th National Film Awards. Directorate of Film Festivals. 4 October 2011.
19. Web site: 29th National Film Awards. Directorate of Film Festivals. 4 October 2011.
20. Web site: 30th National Film Awards. Directorate of Film Festivals. 4 October 2011.
21. Web site: 31st National Film Awards. Directorate of Film Festivals. 9 December 2011.
22. Web site: 32nd National Film Awards. Directorate of Film Festivals. 6 January 2012.
23. Web site: 33rd National Film Awards. Directorate of Film Festivals. 7 January 2012.
24. Web site: 34th National Film Awards. Directorate of Film Festivals. 7 January 2012.
25. Web site: 35th National Film Awards. Directorate of Film Festivals. 9 January 2012.
26. Web site: 36th National Film Awards. Directorate of Film Festivals. 9 January 2012.
27. Web site: 37th National Film Awards. Directorate of Film Festivals. 29 January 2012.
28. Web site: 38th National Film Awards. Directorate of Film Festivals. 9 January 2012.
29. Web site: 39th National Film Awards. Directorate of Film Festivals. 27 February 2012.
30. Web site: 40th National Film Awards. Directorate of Film Festivals. 2 March 2012.
31. Web site: 41st National Film Awards. Directorate of Film Festivals. 3 March 2012.
32. Web site: 42nd National Film Awards. Directorate of Film Festivals. 5 March 2012.
33. Web site: 43rd National Film Awards. Directorate of Film Festivals. 6 March 2012.
34. Web site: 44th National Film Awards. Directorate of Film Festivals. 9 January 2012.
35. Web site: 45th National Film Awards. Directorate of Film Festivals. 11 March 2012.
36. Web site: 46th National Film Awards. Directorate of Film Festivals. 12 March 2012.
37. Web site: 47th National Film Awards. Directorate of Film Festivals. 13 March 2012.
38. Web site: 48th National Film Awards. Directorate of Film Festivals. 13 March 2012.
39. Web site: 49th National Film Awards. Directorate of Film Festivals. 14 March 2012.
40. Web site: 50th National Film Awards. Directorate of Film Festivals. 14 March 2012.
41. Web site: 51st National Film Awards. Directorate of Film Festivals. 15 March 2012.
42. Web site: 52nd National Film Awards. Directorate of Film Festivals. 28 January 2012.
43. Web site: 53rd National Film Awards. Directorate of Film Festivals. 19 March 2012.
44. Web site: 54th National Film Awards. Directorate of Film Festivals. 24 March 2012.
45. Web site: 55th National Film Awards. Directorate of Film Festivals. 26 March 2012.
46. Web site: 56th National Film Awards. Directorate of Film Festivals. 27 March 2012.
47. Web site: 57th National Film Awards. Directorate of Film Festivals. 28 March 2012.
48. Web site: 58th National Film Awards. Directorate of Film Festivals. 29 March 2012.
49. Web site: 59th National Film Awards for the Year 2011 Announced. Press Information Bureau (PIB), India. 7 March 2012.
50. 60th National Film Awards Announced. Press Information Bureau (PIB), India. 18 March 2013.
51. 60th National Film Awards Announced. Press Information Bureau (PIB), India. 16 April 2014.
52. 62nd National Film Awards. Directorate of Film Festivals. 24 March 2015. 24 March 2015.
53. Web site: 2023-08-24 . 69th National Film Awards: Pratikshya adjudged Best Odia feature film Sambad English . 2023-08-24 . en-US.
54. 64th National Film Awards Announced. Directorate of Film Festivals. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20170606051143/http://dff.nic.in/writereaddata/NFA64PressNote2016.pdf. 6 June 2017.
55. Web site: Odia film Hello Arsi wins big at 65th National Film Awards. The Times of India. 2019-03-03.
56. Web site: 67th National Film Awards. 25 May 2022. Directorate of Film Festivals.
57. 63rd National Film Awards. Directorate of Film Festivals. 28 March 2016. 28 March 2016.
58. 70th National Film Awards: Rishab Shetty wins Best Actor for ‘Kantara,’ ‘Aattam’ bags Best Feature Film. The Hindu. 16 August 2024. 21 August 2024.