National Film Award for Best Film on Family Welfare explained

National Film Award for Best Film on Family Welfare
Subheader:	National award for contributions to Indian Cinema
Sponsor:	Directorate of Film Festivals
Firstawarded:	1968
Lastawarded:	2008
Holder Label:	Most recent winner
Award1 Type:	Total awarded
Award1 Winner:	21
Award2 Type:	First winner
Award2 Winner:	Anchal Ke Phool
Award3 Type:	Last winner
Award3 Winner:	Little Zizou

The National Film Award for Best Film on Family Welfare was 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 was one of several awards presented for feature films and awarded with Rajat Kamal (Silver Lotus). At the 70th National Film Awards, the category was discontinued and combined with Best Film on Environment Conservation/Preservation, Best Film on National Integration and Best Film on Other Social Issues. The new award is named as Best Feature Film Promoting National, Social and Environmental Values.^{[1] [2]}

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 Hindi (7 Awards), Bengali (4 Awards), Malayalam (5 awards), Tamil (3 awards), Kannada, English and Gujrati (1 each).

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
1968	Anchal Ke Phool	Hindi	M. R. Seth	Karunesh Thakur		^[3]
1969	No Award					^[4]
1970	No Award					^[5]
1971
1972	No Award					^[6]
1973	No Award					^[7]
1974	No Award					^[8]
1975	No Award					^[9]
1976
1977	No Award					^[10]
1978	No Award					^[11]
1979
1980	No Award					^[12]
1981	No Award					^[13]
1982	Spandan	Hindi	Satyanarayanan Misra Abdul Majid Durga Nanda	Biplab Roy Chowdhary		^[14]
1983	No Award					^[15]
1984	Mohan Joshi Hazir Ho!	Hindi	Saeed Akhtar Mirza	Saeed Akhtar Mirza		^[16]
1985	No Award					^[17]
1986	No Award					^[18]
1987	No Award					^[19]
1988	No Award					^[20]
1989	Sandhya Raagam	Tamil	Balu Mahendra (A Doordarshan production)	Balu Mahendra		^[21]
1990	No Award					^[22]
1991	Durga	Hindi	NFDC	Basu Chatterjee		^[23]
1992	Shwet Paatharer Thala	Bengali	Shankar Gope	Prabhat Roy		^[24]
1993	Akashadoothu	Malayalam	Anupama Cinema	Siby Malayil		^[25]
1994	Karuththamma	Tamil	Vetrivel Art Creations	Bharathiraja		^[26]
1995	Mini	Malayalam	Madhu	P. Chandrakumar		^[27]
1996	Lathi	Bengali	Robin Agarwal	Prabhat Roy		^[28]
1997	Samaantharangal	Malayalam	Balachandra Menon	Balachandra Menon		^[29]
1998	Atmiyo Swajan	Bengali	Dhatri Films	Raja Sen		^[30]
1999	Hari-Bhari	Hindi	Government of India	Shyam Benegal		^[31]
2000	Kal Kaa Aadmi	Hindi	Ministry of Health and Family Welfare	Amol Palekar		^[32]
2001	No Award					^[33]
2002	No Award					^[34]
2003		Malayalam	Aryadan Shaukat	T. V. Chandran		^[35]
2004	Hasina	Kannada	Chiguru Chitra	Girish Kasaravalli		^[36]
	Thavamai Thavamirundhu	Tamil	P. Shanmugam	Cheran		^[37]
2006	Karutha Pakshikal	Malayalam	Kaladharan K. V. Vallabhan K. G.	Kamal		^[38]
	Faltu	Bengali	Arindam Chaudhuri	Anjan Das
2007	Taare Zameen Par	Hindi	Aamir Khan	Aamir Khan		^[39]
2008	Little Zizou	English Gujarati	Jigri Dost Productions	Sooni Taraporevala		^[40]
2009	No Award					^[41]
2010	No Award					^[42]
2011	No Award					^[43]
2012	No Award					^[44]
2013	No Award					^[45]
2014	No Award					^[46]
2015	No Award					^[47]
2016	No Award					^[48]
2017	No Award

External links

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

Notes and References

1. Web site: Bharat . E. T. V. . 2024-02-13 . National Film Awards Undergo Changes, Nargis Dutt, Indira Gandhi Categories Renamed . 2024-08-20 . ETV Bharat News . en.
2. Web site: 2024-02-13 . Indira Gandhi, Nargis Dutt's names dropped from National Film Awards categories . 2024-08-20 . India Today . en.
3. Web site: 16th National Film Awards. Directorate of Film Festivals. 22 September 2011.
4. Web site: 17th National Film Awards. Directorate of Film Festivals. 26 September 2011.
5. Web site: 18th National Film Awards. Directorate of Film Festivals. 26 September 2011.
6. 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.
7. Web site: 21st National Film Awards. Directorate of Film Festivals. 29 September 2011.
8. Web site: 22nd National Film Awards. Directorate of Film Festivals. 1 October 2011.
9. Web site: 23rd National Film Awards. Directorate of Film Festivals. 4 October 2011.
10. Web site: 25th National Film Awards. Directorate of Film Festivals. 4 October 2011.
11. Web site: 26th National Film Awards. Directorate of Film Festivals. 4 October 2011.
12. Web site: 28th National Film Awards. Directorate of Film Festivals. 4 October 2011.
13. Web site: 29th National Film Awards. Directorate of Film Festivals. 4 October 2011.
14. Web site: 30th National Film Awards. Directorate of Film Festivals. 4 October 2011.
15. Web site: 31st National Film Awards. Directorate of Film Festivals. 9 December 2011.
16. Web site: 32nd National Film Awards. Directorate of Film Festivals. 6 January 2012.
17. Web site: 33rd National Film Awards. Directorate of Film Festivals. 7 January 2012.
18. Web site: 34th National Film Awards. Directorate of Film Festivals. 7 January 2012.
19. Web site: 35th National Film Awards. Directorate of Film Festivals. 9 January 2012.
20. Web site: 36th National Film Awards. Directorate of Film Festivals. 9 January 2012.
21. Web site: 37th National Film Awards. Directorate of Film Festivals. 29 January 2012.
22. Web site: 38th National Film Awards. Directorate of Film Festivals. 9 January 2012.
23. Web site: 39th National Film Awards. Directorate of Film Festivals. 27 February 2012.
24. Web site: 40th National Film Awards. Directorate of Film Festivals. 2 March 2012.
25. Web site: 41st National Film Awards. Directorate of Film Festivals. 3 March 2012.
26. Web site: 42nd National Film Awards. Directorate of Film Festivals. 5 March 2012.
27. Web site: 43rd National Film Awards. Directorate of Film Festivals. 6 March 2012.
28. Web site: 44th National Film Awards. Directorate of Film Festivals. 9 January 2012.
29. Web site: 45th National Film Awards. Directorate of Film Festivals. 3 September 2020. 23 March 2020. https://web.archive.org/web/20200323163100/http://dff.nic.in/images/Documents/72_45thNfacatalogue.pdf. live.
30. Web site: 46th National Film Awards. Directorate of Film Festivals. 12 March 2012.
31. Web site: 47th National Film Awards. Directorate of Film Festivals. 13 March 2012.
32. Web site: 48th National Film Awards. Directorate of Film Festivals. 13 March 2012.
33. Web site: 49th National Film Awards. Directorate of Film Festivals. 14 March 2012.
34. Web site: 50th National Film Awards. Directorate of Film Festivals. 14 March 2012.
35. Web site: 51st National Film Awards. Directorate of Film Festivals. 15 March 2012.
36. Web site: 52nd National Film Awards. Directorate of Film Festivals. 28 January 2012.
37. Web site: 53rd National Film Awards. Directorate of Film Festivals. 19 March 2012.
38. Web site: 54th National Film Awards. Directorate of Film Festivals. 24 March 2012.
39. Web site: 55th National Film Awards. Directorate of Film Festivals. 26 March 2012.
40. Web site: 56th National Film Awards. Directorate of Film Festivals. 27 March 2012.
41. Web site: 57th National Film Awards. Directorate of Film Festivals. 28 March 2012.
42. Web site: 58th National Film Awards. Directorate of Film Festivals. 29 March 2012.
43. Web site: 59th National Film Awards for the Year 2011 Announced. Press Information Bureau (PIB), India. 7 March 2012.
44. 60th National Film Awards Announced. Press Information Bureau (PIB), India. 18 March 2013.
45. Web site: 61st National Film Awards. Directorate of Film Festivals. 16 April 2014. 16 April 2014. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20140416181218/http://www.dff.nic.in/List%20of%20Awards.pdf. 16 April 2014.
46. 62nd National Film Awards. Directorate of Film Festivals. 24 March 2015. 24 March 2015.
47. Web site: 63rd National Film Awards. Directorate of Film Festivals. 28 March 2016. https://web.archive.org/web/20171215071718/http://dff.nic.in/writereaddata/Winners_of_63rd_NFA_2015.pdf. 15 December 2017. dead.
48. 64th National Film Awards. Directorate of Film Festivals. 7 April 2017. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20170606051143/http://dff.nic.in/writereaddata/NFA64PressNote2016.pdf. 6 June 2017.