Prag Cine Awards North-East 2015 Explained

Prag Cine Awards North-East 2015
Award:	Prag Cine Awards
Date:	–
Site:	Chowkidingee field, Dibrugarh, India
Host:	Nishita Goswami Nabish Alam
Organizer:	Prag AM Television Pvt. Ltd.
Best Film:	North Bank
Best Direction:	Bani Das
Best Direction Film:	Ahetuk
Best Actor:	Arup Baishya
Best Actor Film:	Othello
Best Actress:	Amrita Gogoi
Best Actress Film:	Ahetuk
Most Wins:	Ahetuk (9)
Most Nominations:	Ahetuk (15)
Channel:	Prag News
Last:	2014
Next:	2016

The Prag Cine Awards North-East 2015 ceremony, presented by the Prag Network, honored the actors, technical achievements, and films censored in 2014 from Assam and rest of Northeast India, and took place on 21–22 March 2015, at the Chowkidingee field in Dibrugarh, Assam.^[1] This was the first time when films produced in other Northeastern states were also honored in this ceremony.^[2] Assamese actress Nishita Goswami and television host Nabish Alam hosted the show. Film fraternities from Northeast as well as Bollywood personalities such as Neha Dhupia, Gulshan Grover, Adil Hussain were present in this event.

Actor Bishnu Kharghoria was honored with the lifetime Achievement Award for his contribution towards the Assamese film Industry. Arup Baishya received best actor award for Othello and the best actress award has gone to Amrita Gogoi for Ahetuk. Manas Saikia directed North Bank won the best film award, while Anmol Chan, Nepali language film from Sikkim, won the best film north-east award.

Winners and nominees

In this edition of Prag Cine Awards, awards were given in 22 categories to the Assamese and non-Assamese films produced from Assam and in another 4 categories to the films produced from rest of northeast India and censored in the year of 2014. Ahetuk topped the nomination list with fifteen nominations, followed by North Bank and Othello with twelve and eleven nominations respectively.

Awards for films from Assam

Winners are listed first and highlighted in boldface.

Best Film	Best Popular Film
North Bank Ahetuk Othello TRP Aru...	Ahetuk Rodor Sithi Suma Poroxote TRP Aru...
Best Director	Best Debut Director
Bani Das – Ahetuk Diganta Majumdar – Borhxaranya Hemanta Das – Othello Manas Saikia – North Bank	Hemanta Kumar Das – Othello Manas Saikia – North Bank Muketag Ali – Aparajita Rakesh Sharma – Anuradha
Best Actor Male	Best Actor Female
Arup Baishya – Othello Jatin Bora – Jilmil Jonak Mridul Baruah – North Bank Tapan Das – Borhxaranya	Amrita Gogoi – Ahetuk Darshana Bora – Xondhikhyon Meghranjani Medhi – Anuradha Pakeeza Begam – North Bank
Best Supporting Actor Male	Best Supporting Actor Female
Arun Nath – Othello Angaraag Mahanta – Rodor Sithi Bidyut Chakravarty – TRP Aru... Debojit Majumdar – Borhxaranya	Mayuri Borkakoti – North Bank Aparna Dutta Choudhury – Khyobh Chandana Sarma – Aarohi Reena Bora – Xondhikhyon
Best Music Direction	Best Lyrics
Poran Borkatoky – Ahetuk Geet Priyam – Anuradha Milton – North Bank Zubeen Garg – Rodor Sithi	Ibson Lal Baruah – Ahetuk – Title Track Diganta Bharati – Rodor Sithi – Protidine Ibson Lal Baruah – Ahetuk – Meghar Jolonga Palash Gogoi – TRP Aru... – Xosha Misha
Best Playback Singer Male	Best Playback Singer Female
Zubeen Garg – Ahetuk – Title Track Angaraag Mahanta – Rodor Sithi – Protidine Rupam Bhuyan – Khyobh Simanta Sekhar – The Face	Pompi Gogoi – Ahetuk – Meghar Jolonga Mahalakshmi Iyer – Grahan Tarali Sarma – Khyobh Zublee Baruah – Boroshi
Best Cinematography	Best Film Editing
Raktim Mondal – TRP Aru... Nahid Ahmed – Ahetuk Nahid Ahmed – Othello Suraj Deka – Anuradha	Amitabh Singha and Dhanjit Das – TRP Aru... Raju Gogoi – Othello Rupam Kalita – North Bank Sanjeeb Borthakur – Ahetuk
Best Screenplay	Best Choreography
Ranjit Sarma – Othello Bani Das – Ahetuk Jiten Sarma – Borhxaranya Manas Saikia and Haren Saikia – North Bank	Pankaj Ingti – Ahetuk Ashim Baishya – Boroshi Mituparna – Grahan Uday Shankar – The Face
Best Sound (Re-recording/Mixing)	Best Art Direction
Amrit Pritam – Rodor Sithi Bijoy and Dipak – TRP Aru... Deepak Dutta – Othello Jatin Sharma – North Bank	Noni Borpujari – Rodor Sithi Gulok Saha – Borhxaranya Haripresanna Saikia – North Bank Manimala Das and Suraj Saikia – TRP Aru...
Best Makeup	Best Costume
Prasanta Bora – Aarohi Babi Chakravarty – Othello Bapan Kalita – Jilmil Jonak Panku Hazarika – Ahetuk	Nandana Baruah – Ahetuk Lukumoni Gogoi – Othello Meenashree Hazarika – Anuradha Palashi Saikia and Nibha Bhuyan Saikia – North Bank

Awards for films from rest of northeast India

Winners are listed first and highlighted in boldface.

Best Film North-East	Best Director North-East
Anmol Chan (Sikkim, Nepali) Be Smeh (Arunachal Pradesh) Nishani	Darji Khand Thanggun – Be Smeh (Arunachal Pradesh)
Best Actor North-East Male	Best Actor North-East Female
Shalom Kabo – Anmol Chan (Sikkim, Nepali)	Sneha Rai – Anmol Chan (Sikkim, Nepali)

Lifetime achievement award

Actor Bishnu Kharghoria was honored with the lifetime Achievement Award for his contribution towards the Assamese film Industry.^[2]

Other awards

• Best Writing on Cinema: Subrat Jyoti Neog
• Jury's Special Mention: Shabnam Borgoyari – Aarohi

See also

• List of Assamese films of the 2010s

Notes and References

1. News: Prag Cine Awards 2015 to be held in Assam . IndianTelevision.com . 24 January 2015 . 28 March 2015 . Sutodia, Sandhya . Kolkata.
2. News: Prag Cine Award on March 21, 22 . . 27 January 2015 . 28 March 2015 . Guwahati.