National Film Award for Best Narration / Voice Over explained

National Film Award for Best Narration / Voice Over
Subheader:	National award for contributions to non-feature film
Sponsor:	National Film Development Corporation of India
Firstawarded:	2003
Lastawarded:	2022
Holder Label:	Most recent winner
Holder:	Sumant Shinde
Award1 Type:	Total awarded
Award1 Winner:	17
Award2 Type:	First winner
Award2 Winner:	Balachandran Chullikkadu

The National Film Award for Narration / Voice Over is one of the National Film Awards given by the National Film Development Corporation of India for the non-feature films. It is instituted in 2003 and awarded at 51st National Film Awards.^[1]

Films made in any Indian language shot on 16 mm, 35 mm or in a wider gauge or digital format and released on either film format or video/digital but certified by the Central Board of Film Certification as a documentary/newsreel/fiction are eligible for non-feature film section.

Awards

All the awardees are awarded with 'Silver Lotus Award (Rajat Kamal)' and cash prize of .

Following are the 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
2003	Balachandran Chullikkadu	The 18 Elephants – 3 Monologues	Malayalam
2004	Yang Yen Thaw	The Legend of Fat Mama	English		^[2]
2005	Ajay Raina	Wapsi	English Hindi Urdu Punjabi Kashmiri		^[3]
2006	Nedumudi Venu	Minukku	Malayalam		^[4]
2007	Vani Subramanian	Ayodhya Gatha	English Hindi		^[5]
2008	Elangbam Natasha	Sana Keithel	English		^[6]
2009	Ranjan Palit	In Camera	English		^[7]
2010	Nilanjan Bhattacharya	Johar : Welcome to Our World	Hindi English		^[8]
2011	Ann Abraham	Just that Sort of a Day	English		^[9]
2012	Moni Bordoloi	Suranjana Deepali	Assamese		^[10]
2013	Lipika Singh Darai	Kankee O Saapo	Oriya		^[11]
2014	Ambooty (Anil Kumar)	Nitya Kalyani – Oru Mohiniyattam Patham	Malayalam		^[12]
	Devi S.
2015	Harish Bhimani	Mala Laj Watat Nahai	Marathi Hindi English		^[13]
	Aliyaar	Arangile Nithya Vismayam Guru Chemancherry Kunhiraman Nair	Malayalam
2016	Setsu Makino Togawa	Makino An Indian Haiku			^[14]
2017	Francois Castellino	The Lion of Laddak
2018	Deepak Agnihotri	Madhubani – The Station of Colours
	Urvija Upadhayay

External links

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

Notes and References

1. Web site: 51st National Film Awards. Directorate of Film Festivals. 15 March 2012. 130.
2. Web site: 52nd National Film Awards. Directorate of Film Festivals. 30 March 2022.
3. Web site: 53rd National Film Awards. Directorate of Film Festivals. 30 March 2022.
4. Web site: 54th National Film Awards. Directorate of Film Festivals. 30 March 2022.
5. Web site: 55th National Film Awards. Directorate of Film Festivals. 30 March 2022.
6. Web site: 56th National Film Awards. Directorate of Film Festivals. 30 March 2022.
7. Web site: 57th National Film Awards. Directorate of Film Festivals. 30 March 2022.
8. Web site: 58th National Film Awards. Directorate of Film Festivals. 30 March 2022.
9. Web site: 59th National Film Awards for 2011 – Non-Feature Films. Directorate of Film Festivals. 2 April 2012. 4.
10. 60th National Film Awards Announced. Press Information Bureau (PIB), India. 18 March 2013.
11. 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.
12. 62nd National Film Awards. Directorate of Film Festivals. 24 March 2015. 24 March 2015.
13. 63rd National Film Awards. Directorate of Film Festivals. 28 March 2016. 28 March 2016.
14. 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.