Prag Cine Awards North-East 2016 Explained
| Prag Cine Awards North-East 2016 |
| Award: | Prag Cine Awards |
| Date: | –
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| Site: | Church field, Tezpur, India |
| Organizer: | Prag AM Television Pvt. Ltd. |
| Best Film: | Antareen |
| Best Direction: | Reema Borah |
| Best Direction Film: | Bokul |
| Best Actor: | Pranjal Saikia |
| Best Actor Film: | Lokabandhoo |
| Best Actress: | Urmila Mahanta |
| Best Actress Film: | Antareen |
| Most Nominations: | Antareeen (10)
Kothanodi (10) |
| Channel: | Prag News |
| Last: | 2015 |
| Next: | 2017 |
The Prag Cine Awards North-East 2016 ceremony, presented by the Prag Network, honoured the actors, technical achievements, and films censored in 2015 from Assam and rest of Northeast India, took place on 14–15 May 2016 at the Church field in Tezpur, Assam.[1] Film fraternities from Northeast as well as Bollywood personalities such as Suniel Shetty, Meiyang Chang were present in this event.[2]
Actress Bidya Rao was honored with the lifetime Achievement Award for her contribution towards the Assamese film Industry, while model and actress Dipannita Sharma and sound engineer Amrit Pritam Dutta were presented with "Golden Icon" award.[2] Pranjal Saikia received best actor award for Lokabandhoo and the best actress award has gone to Urmila Mahanta for Antareen. Manjul Baruah directed Antareen won the best film award, while Onaatah, Khasi language film from Meghalaya, won the best film north-east award.[3]
Winners and nominees
In this edition of Prag Cine Awards, awards were given in 19 different categories to the Assamese films produced from Assam which were censored in the year of 2015. Kothanodi and Antareen topped the nomination list with ten nominations each.
Awards for films from Assam
Winners are listed first and highlighted in boldface.
| Best Film | Best Popular Film |
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| Best Film other than Assamese |
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| Best Director | Best Debut Director |
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- Reema Borah – Bokul
- Bhaskar Hazarika – Kothanodi
- Ratan Sil Sarma – Marksheet
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| Best Actor Male | Best Actor Female |
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- Pranjal Saikia – Lokabandhoo
- Ashok Singh – Cactus
- Boloram Das – Antareen
- Lakhi Borthakur – Jajabor
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| Best Supporting Actor Male | Best Supporting Actor Female |
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- Kulada Kumar Bhattacharya – Cactus
| - Kasvi Sarma – Kothanodi
- Aparna Dutta Choudhury – Antareen
- Simi Ryan – Cactus
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| Best Music Direction | Best Lyrics |
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| - Tarali Sarma – Antareen
- Ibson Lal Baruah – Marksheet - Pagol Uxaah
- Keshaba Nanda Goswami – Nodi Mathu Boi
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| Best Playback Singer Male | Best Playback Singer Female |
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- Mrinal Baishnab – Marksheet - Loralir Dhemali
| - Madhusmita Borthakur – Khel - The Game
- Geeta Shree – Sat Nomboror Xondhanot
- Tarali Sarma – Antareen
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| Best Cinematography | Best Film Editing |
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- Suman Dowerah – Antareen
- Arup Manna – Cactus
- Suraj Kumar Duwara – Mriganabhi
| - Rantu Chetia and Jasir Imtiaz – Bokul
- Hiranya Kalita – Cactus
- Ratan Sil Sarma – Marksheet
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| Best Screenplay | Best Choreography |
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- Bhaskar Hazarika – Kothanodi
- Arup Manna – Cactus
- Himjyoti Talukdar – Marksheet
| - Uday Shankar – Khel - The Game
- Pankaj Ingti – Saat Nomboror Sandhanat
- Upashana Mahanta – Nodi Mathu Boi
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| Best Sound Recordist | Best Art Direction |
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- Bibek Basumatary – Bokul
- Jatin Sharma – Kothanodi
- Jatin Sharma and Diganta Bordoloi – '
| - Gulok Saha – Kothanodi
- Rama Ray and Anup Hazarika – Antareen
- Sandeep Patil and Reema Bora – Bokul
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| Best Makeup | Best Costume |
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- Sanku Baruah and Bishwajit Das – Lokabandhoo
- Akash Gogoi and Subhash Shrestha – Khel - The Game
- Babul Das and Bishwajit Kalita – Mriganabhi
| - Rani Dutta Baruah – Kothanodi
- Prashanta Ghose and Adityam – Khel - The Game
- Sehnaz Sultan – Saat Nomboror Sandhanat
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Awards for films from rest of northeast India
Winners are listed first and highlighted in boldface.
| Best Film North-East | Best Director North-East |
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| Best Actor North-East Male | Best Actor North-East Female |
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Honorary awards
- Lifetime Achievement AwardVeteran actress Bidya Rao will be honoured with the lifetime Achievement Award for her contribution towards the Assamese film Industry.[1]
Golden Icon Awards:Model and actress Dipannita Sharma, and sound engineer Amrit Pritam Dutta were honoured with Golden Icon Awards.
Other awards
- Jury's Special Mention: Aditya Malla Buzarbaruah and Abhijit Chowdhury – Marksheet
- Jury's Special Mention: Nilanjan Datta – The Head Hunter
- Best Critic (Writing on Cinema): Manoj Barpujari
See also
Notes and References
- News: Prag Cine Awards to be conferred at Tezpur . . 30 April 2016 . 6 May 2016 . Tezpur.
- News: Cine awards kick off in culture hub Tezpur . https://web.archive.org/web/20160515111139/http://www.telegraphindia.com/1160515/jsp/northeast/story_85729.jsp#.V1ucZdl97Dc . dead . 15 May 2016 . TheTelegraph . 15 May 2016 . 11 June 2016 . Das, pranab Kumar . Tezpur.
- News: Onaatah bags three awards at Prag Cine Awards . The Shillong Times . 17 May 2016 . 11 June 2016 . Shillong.
