Aravindan Puraskaram (Aravindan Award) is an award instituted in 1991 in the memory of iconic Malayalam filmmaker G. Aravindan for the best debutant director in Indian languages. The award comprises Rs. 25,000, a memento and a citation. The award is facilitated by Kerala Chalachitra Film Society. The award is presented on March 15 every year on the death anniversary of Aravindan, who is considered one of the pioneers of parallel cinema in Malayalam.
Recipients
+List of award recipientsYearRecipientFilmLanguage1999ShyamaprasadAgnisakshiMalayalam2000Kavitha LankeshDeveeriKannada2001P. SheshadriMunnudiKannada2004Anup KurianManasarovarEnglish2005Alberrt AntoniKanne MadangukaMalayalam2009Atanu GhoshAngshumaner ChhobiBengali2010Nila Madhab PandaI am KalamHindi2012Kamal KMI.D.Hindi2015Bauddhayan MukherjiTeenkahonBengali2016P. S. ManuMundrothuruthMalayalam2017Sagar Chaya VanchariReduMarathi2018Zakariya MohammedSudani from Nigeria Malayalam2019Madhu C. NarayananKumbalangi NightsMalayalam2021Sanu John VargheseAarkkariyamMalayalam2022Brijesh Chandhra Tangi#Viral WorldTelugu
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