National Film Award for Best Investigative Film explained

National Film Award for Best Investigative Film
Subheader:	award for contributions to short film
Sponsor:	Directorate of Film Festivals
Firstawarded:	1990
Lastawarded:	2017
Holder Label:	Most recent winner
Holder:	1984, When the Sun Didn't Rise
Award1 Type:	Total awarded
Award1 Winner:	25
Award2 Type:	First winner
Award2 Winner:	Una Mitran Di Yaad Pyaari (In Memory of Friends)

The National Film Award for Best Investigative Film 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 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 short films produced in the year across the country, in all Indian languages. At the 70th National Film Awards, the award is discontinued and clubbed with National Film Award for Best Promotional Film, National Film Award for Best Scientific Film, National Film Award for Best Educational/Motivational/Instructional Film, National Film Award for Best Exploration/Adventure Film, National Film Award for Best Anthropological/Ethnographic Film, National Film Award for Best Agriculture Film and National Film Award for Best Film on Social Issues, and two new categories were created; Best Documentary and Best Non Feature Film Promoting Social and Environmental Values.^[1]

Winners

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

List of films, showing the year, language(s), producer(s), director(s) and citation
Year	Film(s)	Language(s)	Producer(s)	Director(s)	Citation
1990	Una Mitran Di Yaad Pyaari (In Memory of Friends)	English Hindi Punjabi	Anand Patwardhan	Anand Patwardhan		^[2]
1991	Bhagirathi Ki Pukaar	Hindi	Anwar Jamal	Anwar Jamal		^[3]
1992	Ram ke Naam	Hindi	Anand Patwardhan	Anand Patwardhan		^[4]
1993	Benefit For Whom at Whose Cost?	English	Dinesh Lakhanpal	Dinesh Lakhanpal		^[5]
1994	Father, Son and Holy War (Part I – Trial by Fire, Part II – Hero Pharmacy)	Hindi English	Anand Patwardhan	Anand Patwardhan		^[6]
1995	Limit to Freedom	English	Deepak Roy	Deepak Roy		^[7]
1996	N. M. No. 309 Bhiwandi Tragedy	English	Yash Chowdhary	V. Packiri Swamy		^[8]
1997	Thirst	Hindi	Y. N. Engineer for Films Division	Swadesh Pathak for Films Division		^[9]
1998	Saga of Darkness	Bengali	Creative Image	Gautam Sen		^[10]
1999	No Award					^[11]
2000	Wearing the face	English	Bankim for Films Division	Joshy Joseph for Films Division		^[12]
2001	Kalahandi	Oriya English	Soudamini Mishra	Gautam Ghose		^[13]
2002	No Award					^[14]
2003	A Silent Killer	English	Dhananjoy Mondal	Dhananjoy Mondal		^[15]
2004	Harvest of Hunger	English Oriya	Action Aid India	Rupashree Nanda		^[16]
2005	The Whistle Blowers	English	Rajiv Mehrotra	Umesh Aggarwal		^[17]
2006	Mere Desh Ki Dharti	Hindi	Rajiv Mehrotra	Sumit Khanna		^[18]
2007	The Journalist and a Jihadi	English	Romesh Sharma	Romesh Sharma Ahmad Jamal		^[19]
2008	Distant Rumblings	English	Ms. Rongsenkala	Bani Prakash Das		^[20]
2009	No Award					^[21]
2010	A Pestering Journey	Malayalam Punjabi Hindi English Tulu	Ranjini Krishnan	K. R. Manoj		^[22]
2011	Cotton for My Shroud	English	Kavita Bahl	Nandan Saxena Kavita Bahl		^[23]
2012	Inshallah, Kashmir	English	Ashvin Kumar	Ashvin Kumar		^[24]
2013	Katiyabaaz	Hindi Urdu English	Globalistan Films Pvt. Ltd.	Deepti Kakkar Fahad Mustafa		^[25]
2014	Phum Shang		Films Division	Haobam Paban Kumar		^[26]
2015	Tezpur 1962	English	Films Division	Samujjal Kashyap		^[27]
2016	Placebo	English	Archana Fadke	Abhay Kumar		^[28]
2017	1984, When the Sun Didn't Rise		Teenaa Kaur Pasricha	Teenaa Kaur Pasricha
2018	Amoli		Culture Machine Media Pvt. Ltd.	Jasmine Kaur Roy Avinash Roy
2020	The Saviour Brig. Pritam Singh	Punjabi	Akaal Productions	Paramjeet Singh Kattu Karanvir Singh Sibla		^[29]

External links

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

Notes and References

1. Web site: Under Secretary to the Government of India . 14 December 2023 . Report on Rationalization of Awards Conferred by the Ministry of Information & Broadcasting Ministry of Information and Broadcasting Government of India . 25 August 2024 . Ministry of Information and Broadcasting.
2. Web site: 38th National Film Awards. Directorate of Film Festivals. 29 March 2022.
3. Web site: 39th National Film Awards. Directorate of Film Festivals. 29 March 2022.
4. Web site: 40th National Film Awards. Directorate of Film Festivals. 29 March 2022.
5. Web site: 41st National Film Awards. Directorate of Film Festivals. 29 March 2022.
6. Web site: 42nd National Film Awards. Directorate of Film Festivals. 29 March 2022.
7. Web site: 43rd National Film Awards. Directorate of Film Festivals. 29 March 2022.
8. Web site: 44th National Film Awards. Directorate of Film Festivals. 29 March 2022.
9. Web site: 45th National Film Awards. Directorate of Film Festivals. 29 March 2022.
10. Web site: 46th National Film Awards. Directorate of Film Festivals. 29 March 2022.
11. Web site: 47th National Film Awards. Directorate of Film Festivals. 29 March 2022.
12. Web site: 48th National Film Awards. Directorate of Film Festivals. 29 March 2022.
13. Web site: 49th National Film Awards. Directorate of Film Festivals. 29 March 2022.
14. Web site: 50th National Film Awards. Directorate of Film Festivals. 29 March 2022.
15. Web site: 51st National Film Awards. Directorate of Film Festivals. 29 March 2022.
16. Web site: 52nd National Film Awards. Directorate of Film Festivals. 29 March 2022.
17. Web site: 53rd National Film Awards. Directorate of Film Festivals. 29 March 2022.
18. Web site: 54th National Film Awards. Directorate of Film Festivals. 29 March 2022.
19. Web site: 55th National Film Awards. Directorate of Film Festivals. 29 March 2022.
20. Web site: 56th National Film Awards. Directorate of Film Festivals. 29 March 2022.
21. Web site: 57th National Film Awards. Directorate of Film Festivals. 29 March 2022.
22. Web site: 58th National Film Awards. Directorate of Film Festivals. 29 March 2022.
23. Web site: 59th National Film Awards for the Year 2011 Announced. Press Information Bureau (PIB), India. 7 March 2012.
24. 60th National Film Awards Announced. Press Information Bureau (PIB), India. 17 April 2014.
25. 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.
26. 62nd National Film Awards. Directorate of Film Festivals. 24 March 2015. 24 March 2015.
27. 63rd National Film Awards. Directorate of Film Festivals. 28 March 2016. 28 March 2016.
28. 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.
29. News: 2022-09-30 . 68th National Awards 2020: ‘The Saviour: Brig. Pritam Singh’ gets the title of the Best Investigative Film in the category of non-feature films . 2024-09-14 . The Times of India . 0971-8257.