The Rajasthan Film Festival Award ceremony (also known as the RFF Awards) is a set of awards presented annually to honour both artistic and technical excellence of artistes in Rajasthani cinema as well as in other Regional Cinema of India. 12th Edition of Rajasthan film festival award ceremony was held on 28th September, 2024 at Deep Smriti Auditorium, Jaipur. Arbaaz Khan and Smita Bansal hosted the award ceremony. The theme for the festival was Unity in diversity and 24 awards were awarded in 2 broad categories: for films produced in Rajasthan and for films produced in other regions of India (except Rajasthan). In order to honour people who have been dedicated to the industry, a Lifetime Achievement Award is also presented at the ceremony.
History The 12th edition of the regional award ceremony took place on September 28, 2024, at the Deep Smriti Auditorium in Jaipur. The event was hosted by Arbaaz Khan and Smita Bansal. Notably, the Lifetime Achievement Award was presented to Ahmed and Mohammed Hussain. Director and actor Puneet Issar also graced the ceremony with his presence.
The awards were instituted in 2013. The 11th award ceremony was held on 30 September 2023 at Deep Smriti Auditorium. Aftab Shivdasani and Neha Dhupia did the hosting at the award night and Lifetime Achievement Award was given to Gulshan Grover. Govinda attended the festival as the chief guest.
The 10th edition of the RFF award ceremony was held from 22 September 2022 to 24 September 2022 at Maan Place, Jaipur. Tusshar Kapoor and Mahima Chaudhry were the hosts of the evening with Film Critic Komal Nahta and lifetime Achievement Award was given to Sanjay Mishra.
The 9th and 8th edition of Rajasthan Film Festival was not held due to global pandemic of COVID 19.
The 7th edition of the award ceremony was organized for 3 Days (26 September to 28 September 2019) at Maan Palace, in Jaipur. Shreyas Talpade was the host of the award night. Other prominent celebrities at the ceremony included Shakti Kapoor, Satish Kaushik, Rajesh Puri, Komal Nahta, Aniruddh Dave, Neha Shree, Aniruddh Singh among others. The eighth and ninth edition of the award ceremony were cancelled due to government-imposed covid restrictions.
The 2018 event was organized for 5 Days (25 to 29 September 2018) at Maan Palace, in Jaipur. Vatsal Seth was the host of the award night and the celebrities Jeetendra Kapoor, Mithoon Sharma, Neelu Vaghela, Gajendra Chauhan, Anirudh Dave and Sara Khan made their presence. In 2017, the ceremony was held at Deep Smriti Auditorium, on 14 to 16 September 2017.
The first awards were presented in 2013 at Rajasthan, India. From then onwards, the awards are held at various locations of Jaipur.
Sanjana Sharma is the founder of Rajasthan Film Festival. In its 6th edition (2018), the RRF has organized this event for 5 days. The event was started with theater competition held on 25–27 September. On 28 September, inter college dance competition was organize where several people from Rajasthani Film Industry shared their thoughts about Rajasthan cinema and on the last day of event (29 September), awards were given to the various categories by RFF.
Award ceremonies The following is a listing of all Rajasthan Film Festival Awards ceremonies since 2013 YearDateBest FilmHostVenueCityLifetime Achievement AwardChief Guest 201328 September 2013Bhobhar (Rajasthani)Us Disha Mai (Hindi)RJ MoniyaAnchor KabeerAnchor MannDeep Smriti Auditorium JaipurJaipurMohanSingh RathoreKshitiz KumarRamesh TiwariNeelu VaghelaGulabo Sapera O.P. VyasVeena CassettesModern CassettesDr.Mahesh Joshi 201420 September 2014Kahani Ek Devi KiAshok Banthia
Anchor KabeerDeep Smriti Auditorium JaipurJaipurKomal Nahta
( Nahta Family )
Shyam Sunder JalaniT. P. Aggarwal 201526 September 2015Raju Rathod Anup Soni
Arun Bakshi
Meena Nahta
RJ Mohit
Ravinder UpadhyayJaipur BaghJaipurMohan KatariaSubhash Ghai Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore 201624 September 2016Hivade Me Fute LaaduAman Verma RJ MohitMaan PalaceJaipurIkram RajasthaniJaved Akhtar201716 September 2017Nani Bai Ro MayroAman Verma Mahendra Gaur
Anirudh Dave
Rohit Purohit
Himanshu Soni
RJ MohitDeep Smriti Auditorium JaipurJaipurPandit Vishwa Mohan BhattJaiprakash Chouksey201825 to 29 September 2018Birani SardarVatsal SethMaan Palace JaipurBharat NahtaJeetendra Kapoor
Mithun Sharma
Neelu Vaghela201928 September 2019Veerangana (In Rajasthani Cinema)
Qismat (In Other Regional Cinema)Shreyas TalpadeMaan PalaceJaipurShakti KapoorKomal Nahta Satish Kaushik
Rajesh Puri
Aniruddh Dave2020Not held The Ceremonies Cancelled due to COVID-19 pandemic. 2021202224 September 2022Shankhnaad (In Rajasthani Films) Hellaro (In Other Regional Films)Tusshar Kapoor Komal Nahta
Mahima ChaudhryMaan Palace Jaipur Sanjay Mishra (actor)202330 September 2023 Subhagi (In Rajasthani Films) Ayothi (In Other Regional Films)Aftab Shivdasani & Neha DhupiaDeep Smriti Auditorium JaipurJaipurGulshan GroverGovinda 202428 September 2024Bhawani (In Rajasthani Films) Aattam (In Other Regional Films)Arbaaz Khan, Smita Bansal & Mahendra Gaur Deep Smriti Auditorium JaipurJaipur Ahmed and Mohammed Hussain202520 September 2025Hukum (In Rajasthani Films) Saala (film) (In Other Regional Films)Chunky Panday, Pooja Hegde, Sumit VyasDeep Smriti Auditorium JaipurJaipurRaza Murad and Dilip Sen
Awards
Rajasthani Film ( Category-A)
Best Director Best Writer Best Cinematographer Best Actor in Leading Role Best Actress in Leading Role Best Negative Performance Best Supporting Performance Best Music Director Best lyrics Writer Best Singer (Male) Best Singer (Female) Best Movie
Other Regional Film ( Category-B)
Best Director Best Writer Best Cinematographer Best Actor in Leading Role Best Actress in Leading Role Best Negative Performance Best Supporting Performance Best Music Director Best lyrics Writer Best Singer (Male) Best Singer (Female) Best Movie
Special Award Life Time Achievement
Jury Members S. No. Name of JuryIndustry1 Naresh Malhotra Film Director 2Indrajit BansalDOP3Pt. Vishwa Mohan BhattMusic 4Deepak TijoriActor & Director5Sanjay Puran Singh Director
See also 1st Award Show (Rajasthan Film Festival)
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