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41st National Film Awards

1994 Indian film award

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number	41
award	National Film Awards
caption	41st National Film Awards
awarded_for	Best of Indian cinema in 1993
award_org	Directorate of Film Festivals
presenting_org	Shankar Dayal Sharma
(President of India)
announced_date
presented_date
website	dff.nic.in
lifetime_achievement	Majrooh Sultanpuri
best_feature	Charachar
best_non_feature	Maihar Raag
best_book	Naalo Nenu
best_critic	Pritiman Sarkar
most_wins	Muhafiz
Ponthan Mada (4)
last	40th
next	42nd

(President of India) Ponthan Mada (4)

The 41st National Film Awards, presented by Directorate of Film Festivals, the organisation set up by Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, India to felicitate the best of Indian Cinema released in the year 1993. Ceremony took place in 1994.

With 41st National Film Awards, a new award for Best Non-Feature Film Music Direction was introduced for non-feature films section awarded with Rajat Kamal (Silver Lotus).

Awards

Awards were divided into feature films, non-feature films and books written on Indian cinema.

Lifetime Achievement Award

Name of Award	Image	Awardee(s)	Awarded As	Awards
Dadasaheb Phalke Award	[[File:Majrooh Sultanpuri 2013 stamp of India.jpg	75px]]	url=http://dff.nic.in/PhalkeAward.aspx	title=Dadasaheb Phalke Award Past Recipients	publisher=Directorate of Film Festivals	access-date=3 September 2020	archive-date=18 July 2020	archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200718171203/http://dff.nic.in/PhalkeAward.aspx	url-status=live}}	Lyricist	Swarna Kamal, and a Shawl

Feature films

Feature films were awarded at All India as well as regional level. For 41st National Film Awards, a Bengali film, Charachar won the National Film Award for Best Feature Film whereas an Urdu film, Muhafiz along with a Malayalam film, Ponthan Mada won the maximum number of awards (4). Following were the awards given in each category:

Juries

A committee headed by T. Subbarami Reddy was appointed to evaluate the feature films awards. Following were the jury members:

Jury Members
- T. Subbarami Reddy (Chairperson)Gautam BoraMadhabi MukherjeeSalil ChowdhuryBidhu Bhusan DasHariharanSitakant MisraNachiket PatwardhanJ. L. RalhanB. Narsing RaoR. C. SakthiValampuri SomanathanVijaya

All India Award

Following were the awards given:

Golden Lotus Award

Official Name: Swarna Kamal

All the awardees are awarded with 'Golden Lotus Award (Swarna Kamal)', a certificate and cash prize.

Name of Award	Name of Film	Language	Awardee(s)	Cash prize
Best Feature Film	Charachar	Bengali	Producer: M/s Gope Movies Pvt Ltd.	50,000/-
director: Buddhadeb Dasgupta	25,000/-
Citation: For its poetic and typical representation of the eternal human longing for liberation and man's alienation from Nature.
Best Debut Film of a Director	Sunya Theke Suru	Bengali	Producer: H. Das, Madhumanti Maitra and M. Das
Director: Ashoke Viswanathan	25,000/- Each
Citation: For its creative handling of sensitive subject, exhibiting the socio-political situation of out society, spanning three decades.
Best Popular Film Providing Wholesome Entertainment	Manichitrathazhu	Malayalam	Producer: Appachan	40,000/-
Director: Fazil	20,000/-
Citation: For handling an unusual subject of psychological aberration in a conservative society and the ultimate acceptance of a modern approach.
Darr	Hindi	Producer: Yash Chopra	40,000/-
Director: Yash Chopra	20,000/-
Citation: For its convincing presentation of the theme of love, which has been rendered complex by its relationship with past experiences of fear.
Best Children's Film	Lavanya Preeti	Oriya	Producer: National Center of Films for Children and Young People	30,000/-
Director: A. K. Bir	15,000/-
Citation: For its subtle and delicate exposition of the growing-up process from childhood to adolescence through the use of myths and striking visuals.
Best Direction	Ponthan Mada	Malayalam	T. V. Chandran	50,000/-
Citation: For a masterly rendering of a whole range of human experience into celluloid poetry.

Silver Lotus Award

Official Name: Rajat Kamal

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

Name of Award	Name of Film	Language	Awardee(s)	Cash prize
Best Feature Film on National Integration	Sardar	Hindi	Producer: Haribhai M. Patel	30,000/-
Director: Ketan Mehta	15,000/-
Citation: For presenting a panoramic view of India in a period of transition to reveal the goals of nationalism by the integration of a mass disparate materials and shaping them into a coherent saga of Indian nationalism in an epic style.
Best Film on Family Welfare	Akashadoothu	Malayalam	Producer: Anupama Cinema	30,000/-
Director: Siby Malayil	15,000/-
Citation: For the urgency of family welfare through human love and compassion.
Best Film on Other Social Issues	Janani	Bengali	Producer: Sanat Dasgupta	30,000/-
Director: Sanat Dasgupta	15,000/-
Citation: For its delicate portrayal of an obscurantist practice like witchcraft, prevalent in certain parts of the country.
Naaraayam	Malayalam	Producer: Raju Pilakat	30,000/-
Director: Sasi Shanker	15,000/-
Citation: For its subdued depiction of the possibilities of realising communal harmony.
Best Film on Environment / Conservation / Preservation	Devara Kadu	Kannada	Producer: Pattabhirami Reddy Productions	30,000/-
Director: Pattabhirami Reddy Tikkavarapu	15,000/-
Citation: For presenting the two themes of "Back to Village" and "Preservation of Nature" by an imaginative use of myths and legends.
Best Actor	Ponthan Mada
Vidheyan	Malayalam	Mammootty	10,000/-
Citation: For his sensitive portrayal in the film Ponthan Mada of the role of an outsider and in Vidheyan for the depiction of the relationship of power and terror at an existential level.
Best Actress	Manichithrathazhu	Malayalam	Shobana	10,000/-
Citation: For her unusual capacity to reveal complex nuances of a variety of human emotions.
Best Supporting Actor	Woh Chokri
Sir	Hindi	Paresh Rawal	10,000/-
Citation: For his performances in the films to reveal contradictory human emotions at the outer and inner levels.
Best Supporting Actress	Woh Chokri	Hindi	Neena Gupta	10,000/-
Citation: For a realistic portrayal of a loving mother and a betrayed wife, revealing shades of love, hate and anxiety.
Best Child Artist	Lavanya Preeti	Oriya	Tarasankar Misra	5,000/-
Citation: For depicting successfully the process of growing up from childhood to adolescence and the first awareness of sexuality.
Best Male Playback Singer	Sopanam	Malayalam	K. J. Yesudas	10,000/-
Citation: For his superb capacity to render a variety of moods by means of a rich and melodious voice, which is capable of delineating both the range and depth of human emotions.
Best Female Playback Singer	Hum Hain Rahi Pyar Ke	Hindi	Alka Yagnik	10,000/-
Citation: For her ability to identify herself with the characters and render the delicate nuances of human feelings in complex situations.
Best Cinematography	Ponthan Mada	Malayalam	Cameraman: Venu
Laboratory Processing: Prasad Film Laboratories	10,000/- Each
Citation: For the masterly use of the camera, in order to capture the feel of the background, setting, atmosphere of the subject and making use of striking visuals to communicate the theme.
Best Screenplay	Uttoran	Bengali	Satyajit Ray (Posthumously)	10,000/-
Citation: For designing and structuring a screenplay from an imaginative and aesthetic angle, with a superb control over the unity of impressions.
Best Audiography	Mahanadhi	Tamil	H. Sridhar
K. M. Surya Narayan
(M/s Media Artiste Pvt. Ltd)	10,000/-
Citation: For their capacity to the use of technique to contribute to the total effect of the film as an audio-visual gestalt.
Best Editing	Sardar	Hindi	Renu Saluja	10,000/-
Citation: For combining expertise with artistry in a diverse and disparate series of sequences into a memorable experience of epic cinema.
Best Art Direction	Muhafiz	Urdu	Suresh Sawant	10,000/-
Citation: For recreating architecture, landscape and interiors of exceptional beauty and cinematic integrity, synchronised to perfection with the thematic content of the protagonist's search for the poetry of an ailing maestro.
Best Costume Design	Muhafiz	Urdu	Loveleen Bains	10,000/-
Citation: For recreating an entire spectrum of costumes, representing not only the protagonist, the ageing litterateur and his closeted world, but the entire milieu of the city and the small town.
Best Music Direction	Ponthan Mada	Malayalam	Johnson	10,000/-
Citation: For his music, which exhibits imagination, competence and presentation of the changing contours of music from traditional to modern styles.
Best Lyrics	Mathru Devo Bhava
("Raalipoye Puvva")	Telugu	Veturi	10,000/-
Citation: For his lyric "Raalipoye Puvva", which demonstrates his poetic imagination, enriched by his deep experience of life and a consequential competence in using language with felicity.
Best Special Effects	Thiruda Thiruda	Tamil	Sethu	10,000/-
Citation: For professional and apt handling of spectacular scenes on a large scale, contributing significantly to the overall impact of the film.
Best Choreography	Thiruda Thiruda	Tamil	Sundaram	10,000/-
Citation: For the orchestration of scores of dancers in unison, with massive sets, stunning light effects and foot thumping music.
Special Jury Award	Muhafiz	Urdu	Shashi Kapoor	25,000/- Each
Citation: For a sensitive portrayal of the feeling of the poet, who is a representative of a dying humanistic culture, in course of which the life of imagination is undermined by the pressure of materialistic values.
Woh Chokri	Hindi	Pallavi Joshi
Citation: For enacting competently and realistically, a whole gamut of experiences and emotions, embracing a women's life from childhood to adulthood.
Special Mention	Hum Hain Rahi Pyar Ke	Hindi	Tahir Hussain (Producer)
Mahesh Bhatt (Director)	Certificate Only
Citation: For an enjoyable and wholesome entertainment at the level of innocent comedy.
Indradhanura Chhai	Oriya	Jugal Debata (Producer)
Susant Mishra (Director)
Citation: For their film, a sensitive exploration of a woman's experience of loneliness in the context of the inexorable passage of time, culminating on a positive note of redemption through symbolic images.

Regional Awards

The award is given to best film in the regional languages in India.

Name of Award	Name of Film	Awardee(s)	Cash prize
Best Feature Film in Assamese	Abartan	Producer: Bhabendra Nath Saikia	20,000/-
Director: Bhabendra Nath Saikia	10,000/-
Citation: For a successful experiment in the dramatic technique of a play-within-a-play to reveal the relationship of appearances to reality.
Best Feature Film in Bengali	Antareen	Producer: NFDC and Doordarshan	20,000/-
Director: Mrinal Sen	10,000/-
Citation: For a sensitive exploration of modern man's loneliness and the failure of human communication in a dehumanised civilization.
Best Feature Film in Gujarati	Manvini Bhavai	Producer: Aashish Trivedi and Upendra Trivedi	20,000/-
Director: Upendra Trivedi	10,000/-
Citation: For depicting the drought-torn lives of villagers through the eyes of the protagonist.
Best Feature Film in Hindi	Patang	Producer: Sanjay Sahay and Durba Sahay	20,000/-
Director: Gautam Ghose	10,000/-
Citation: For a restrained and symbolic portrayal of love and betrayal and of the various layers of moral corruption, which overpower the lives of innocents.
Best Feature Film in Kannada	Chinnari Mutha	Producer: Nagini Nagabharana, Saroja and Nandakumar	20,000/-
Director: T. S. Nagabharana	10,000/-
Citation: For an imaginative rendering of a child's growing-up process, in terms of the widening ambiance of human life.
Best Feature Film in Malayalam	Vidheyan	Producer: K. Ravindran Nair	20,000/-
Director: Adoor Gopalakrishnan	10,000/-
Citation: For its in-depth handling and complex delineation of the psychological evolution of two characters, representative of the transformation of terror into power and its hold over the life of the existentialist outsider.
Best Feature Film in Manipuri	Sambal Wangma	Producer: Sobita Devi	20,000/-
Director: K. Ibohal	10,000/-
Citation: For correlating the integration of Man with Nature for the development of the human personality.
Best Feature Film in Marathi	Lapandav	Producer: Sachin Parekar and Sanjay Parekar	20,000/-
Director: Shraboni Deodhar	10,000/-
Citation: For its clever portrayal of comedy of errors, cutting across the generation gap and for its charming depiction of puppy-love, extending from the campus to the homes of today's youth, in a refreshing directorial debut.
Best Feature Film in Oriya	Aranya Rodan	Producer: Prasan Prusti	20,000/-
Director: Biplab Ray Chaudhuri	10,000/-
Citation: For its very sensitive and cinematic handling of an urban journalist's quest to understand the complexities of tribal life, seen through the eyes of an orphaned boy.
Best Feature Film in Punjabi	Kachehri	Producer: Vijay Tandon	20,000/-
Director: Ravindra Peepat	10,000/-
Citation: For highlighting the vulnerability of the judicial system, in which sometimes justification prevails over justice.
Best Feature Film in Tamil	Mahanadhi	Producer: S. A. Rajkannu	20,000/-
Director: Santhana Bharathi	10,000/-
Citation: For depicting the aspiration and frustrations of the protagonist, his separation from reunion with his children, spanning a vast canvas of various cinema skills put together into an epic saga of a struggle against justice.
Best Feature Film in Telugu	Mister Pellam	Producer: Gavara Partha Sarathi	20,000/-
Director: Bapu	10,000/-
Citation: For its satirical exploration of the myth of the male ego, being superior to that of female.
Best Feature Film in Urdu	Muhafiz	Producer: Wahid Chowhan	20,000/-
Director: Ismail Merchant	10,000/-
Citation: A breath-taking film, uniting the various film arts, crafts and technical skills into an integrated experience, with lasting images of a dying culture, in which a humanistic vision of life is being undermined by encroachment from acquisitive commercialism.

Best Feature Film in Each of the Language Other Than Those Specified in the Schedule VIII of the Constitution

Name of Award	Name of Film	Awardee(s)	Cash prize
Best Feature Film in Kodava	Mandhara Phu	Producer: B. N. Ravishankar	20,000/-
Director: S. R. Rajan	10,000/-
Citation: For depicting how unusual parental love affects children's life adversely too.
Best Feature Film in Tulu	Bangara Patler	Producer: Richard Castellano	20,000/-
Director: Richard Castellano	10,000/-
Citation: For depicting how money-power can take away everything from a simple and innocent community of villagers, using muscle power and political force.

Non-Feature Films

Short Films made in any Indian language and certified by the Central Board of Film Certification as a documentary/newsreel/fiction are eligible for non-feature film section.

Juries

A committee headed by Bikram Singh was appointed to evaluate the non-feature films awards. Following were the jury members:

Jury Members
- Bikram Singh (Chairperson)GulzarParesh MehtaK. R. MohananTanusree Shankar

Golden Lotus Award

Official Name: Swarna Kamal

All the awardees are awarded with 'Golden Lotus Award (Swarna Kamal)', a certificate and cash prize.

Name of Award	Name of Film	Language	Awardee(s)
Best Non-Feature Film	Maihar Raag	Bengali	Producer: Sunil Shanbag
Director: Arun Bhattacharjee	15,000/- Each
Citation: For presenting a candid and spontaneous portrayal of the decay of our heritage, as it is being engulfed by clouds of heartless commercialism.

Silver Lotus Award

Official Name: Rajat Kamal

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

Name of Award	Name of Film	Language	Awardee(s)	Cash prize
Best First Non-Feature Film	Bazar Sitaram	Hindi	Producer: Neena Gupta for Films Division
Director: Neena Gupta	10,000/- Each
Citation: For presenting a delicate and sensitive portrayal of the culture, traditions and milieu of Old Delhi as a personalised experience.
Best Anthropological / Ethnographic Film	Ladakh – Life Along the Indus	English	Producer: Bappa Ray
Director: Bappa Ray	10,000/- Each
Citation: For a visually enchanting depiction of the life patterns of the people living along the River Indus in Ladakh, with rich details emerging from their environment.
Best Biographical Film	Colors of Absence	English	Producer: Shanta Gokhale and Arun Khopkar
Director: Arun khopkar	10,000/- Each
Citation: For a beautifully crafted and successful presentation of the biography of the painter, Jehangir Sabavala, through his work. The sound design of the film has also been meticulously conceived.
Best Arts / Cultural Film	Anukampan	Hindi	Producer: Balaka Ghosh
Director: Balaka Ghosh	10,000/- Each
Citation: For focussing attention on a unique intermingling of classical and folk dance traditions which is in danger of extinction through an appealing film form.
Best Environment / Conservation / Preservation Film	Orchids of Manipur	Meitei	Producer: Tomchou Singh
Director: Aribam Syam Sharma	10,000/- Each
Citation: For a colourful and extremely aesthetic presentation of the exalting abundance of the wild orchids of Manipur.
Best Promotional Film	Timeless India	English	Producer: Zafar Hai
Director: Zafar Hai	10,000/- Each
Citation: For taking the viewer through a visually beautiful experience of the landmass called India, in all its varied colours and variety.
Best Agricultural Film	Building From Below	English	Producer: N. G. Hegde
Director: Vishram Revankar	10,000/- Each
Citation: For demonstrating the prime importance of human development along with basic agricultural development activities.
Best Film on Social Issues	The Women Betrayed	English	Producer: Sehjo Singh and Anwar Jamal
Director: Sehjo Singh	10,000/- Each
Citation: For the critical presentation of the phenomenon of witches and witch-hunting, provoked by forces within and outside, which is symbolic of the exploitation of a tribal community.
Best Educational / Motivational / Instructional Film	AIDS	Malayalam	Producer: Nooranad Ramachandran, Ganesh Babu and Ochira Sathar
Director: Nooranad Ramachandran	10,000/- Each
Citation: For presenting information on this disease in a simple, straightforward and direct manner.
Best Exploration / Adventure Film	The Splendour of Garhwal and Roopkund	English	Producer: The Garhwal Mandal Vikas Nigam
Director: Victor Banerjee	10,000/- Each
Citation: For an imaginatively told and poetically picturised exploration of Garhwal and Roopkund.
Best Investigative Film	Benefit For Whom at Whose Cost?	English	Producer: Dinesh Lakhanpal
Director: Dinesh Lakhanpal	10,000/- Each
Citation: For a well researched and detailed investigation of the fears and tribulations of the people living under the looming shadow of a long-delayed multipurpose hydel project.
Best Animation Film	Chetak	Hindi	Producer: National Center of Films for Children and Young People
Director: V. G. Samant
Animator: V. G. Samant	10,000/- Each
Citation: For bringing alive the legendary horse in a most charming manner.
Best Short Fiction Film	Sunday	Hindi	Producer: National Center of Films for Children and Young People
Director: Pankaj Advani	10,000/- Each
Citation: For taking a total holiday from logic and inhibitions and creating a most entertaining and humorous fantasy which, with all its improbabilities, will succeed in casting a spell on its audiences.
Best Film on Family Welfare	Taveez	Hindi	Producer: Rajeev Mohan for Films Division
Director: Purushottam Berde for Films Division	10,000/- Each
Citation: For promoting the small family norm in a direct and effective manner.
Best Cinematography	Moksha	Bengali	Cameraman: Piyush Shah	10,000/-
Citation: For documenting a tragic reality with all its moods and emotions.
Best Audiography	Maihar Raag	Bengali	Indrajit Neogi	10,000/-
Citation: For extremely imaginative and conceptual use of location sounds to depict the crumbling heritage of the Maihar orchestra.
Best Editing	Colors of Absence	English	Rajesh Parmar	10,000/-
Citation: For smooth, precise and excellently edited work, which gives the film its unique rhythm, in keeping with its form and content.
Best Music Direction	Sunday	Hindi	Rajat Dholakia	10,000/-
Citation: For contributing significantly to the mood of fantasy which pervades the film through refreshing music, with innovative use of the human voice.
Special Jury Award	Tragedy of an Indian Farmer	English	Murali Nair (Director)	10,000/-
Citation: For transcreating a well-known and touching Malayalam poem into a celluloid poem, with great sensitivity and economy.
Death of a Prodigal Son	Hindi, English	Mahesh Thottathil (Director)
Citation: For an interesting exploration of the stream-of-consciousness of a dying man in a restrained and stylised student film.

Best Writing on Cinema

The awards aim at encouraging study and appreciation of cinema as an art form and dissemination of information and critical appreciation of this art-form through publication of books, articles, reviews etc.

Juries

A committee headed by Khalid Mohamed was appointed to evaluate the writing on Indian cinema. Following were the jury members:

Jury Members
- Khalid Mohamed (Chairperson)Udaya Tara NayarUma Vasudev

Golden Lotus Award

Official Name: Swarna Kamal

All the awardees are awarded with 'Golden Lotus Award (Swarna Kamal)' and cash prize.

Name of Award	Name of Book	Language	Awardee(s)	Cash prize
Best Book on Cinema	Naalo Nenu	Telugu	Author: Bhanumathi Ramakrishna
Publisher: K. N. T. Sastry	15,000/- Each
Citation: Her riveting autobiography provides an insight into the working of the Telugu film industry, while tracing her fascinating life and career, written with candour and in an immensely fluent style, the book undergoes the independent spirit of a woman in an excessively male dominated system of the show business. The lively and self-analytical work is a rare phenomenon in a field, where artistes seem to be unnecessarily hesitant to author their life stories
Best Film Critic		Bengali	Pritiman Sarkar	15,000/-
Citation: His articles are fine example of serious film criticism. Scholarly and sensitive to minute details of films, he has distilled years of his experience as a film society enthusiast into his writing. The jury was impressed by his insights and his love for cinema as an art form

Awards not given

Following were the awards not given as no film was found to be suitable for the award:

Best Non-Feature Film Direction
Best Scientific Film
Best Historical Reconstruction / Compilation Film

References

"41st National Film Awards". Directorate of Film Festivals.
"Dadasaheb Phalke Award Past Recipients". Directorate of Film Festivals.
(25 May 2005). "Majrooh Sultanpuri passed away". BBC News.

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