The National Film Award for Best Bengali Feature Film is one of the National Film Awards presented annually by the National Film Development Corporation of India. It is one of several awards presented for feature films and awarded with Rajat Kamal (Silver Lotus). Since the 70th National Film Awards, the name has been changed to "Best Bengali Feature Film".
The National Film Awards, established in 1954, are the most prominent film awards in India that merit the best of the Indian cinema. The ceremony also presents awards for films in various regional languages.
Awards for films in seven regional language (Bengali, Hindi, Kannada, Malayalam, Marathi, Tamil and Telugu) started from 2nd National Film Awards which were presented on 21 December 1955. Three awards of "President's Silver Medal for Best Feature Film", "Certificate of Merit for the Second Best Feature Film" and "Certificate of Merit for the Third Best Feature Film" were instituted. The later two certificate awards were discontinued from 15th National Film Awards (1967).
Directed by Rupak Adhikary the 1954 film Chheley Kaar was honoured with the first president's silver medal for Best Feature Film in Bengali. Certificate of Merit for Second and Third Best Feature Films in Bengali were received by Jadubhatta and Annapurnar Mandir, respectively. Following is the list of Rajat Kamal recipient films produced in Bengali language.__TOC__ Winners
Award includes 'Rajat Kamal' (Silver Lotus Award) and cash prize. Following are the award winners over the years:
Awards legends
List of award films, showing the year (award ceremony), producer(s) and director(s) Year Film(s) Producer(s) Director(s) 1954 Chheley Kaar Charan Chitra Chitta Bose Jadu Bhatta Sunrise Film Distributors Niren LahiriAnnapurnar Mandir Chitra Mandir Naresh Mitra 1955 Pather Panchali Government of West Bengal Satyajit Ray Rani Rashmoni Chalachitra Pratishthan Kali Prasad Ghosh Rai Kamal Aurora Film Corporation Subodh Mitra 1956 Kabuliwala Charuchitra Tapan Sinha Mahakavi Girishchandra Emkeji Productions Madhu Bose Ek Din Ratre R. K. Films Sombhu Mitra and Amit Maitra 1957 Andhare Alo Sreemati Pictures Haridas Bhattacharya Louha-Kapat L. B. Films International Tapan Sinha Harano Sur Alochaya Productions Ajoy Kar 1958 Sagar Sangamey De Luxe Film Distributors Ltd. Debaki Bose Jalsaghar Aurora Film Corporation Satyajit Ray Daak Harkara Agragami Productions Agragami 1959 Bicharak Arundhati Mukherjee Prabhat Mukherjee 1960 Devi Satyajit Ray Satyajit Ray Ganga Cine Art Production Pvt Ltd. Rajen Tarafdar 1961 Samapti Satyajit Ray Satyajit Ray Saptapadi Uttam Kumar Ajoy Kar Punascha Mrinal Sen Mrinal Sen 1962 Kancher Swarga Prokash Chandra Nan Yatrik Nishithe Agragami Productions Agragami 1963 Uttar Falguni Uttam Kumar Asit Sen Saat Paake Bandha R. D. Bansal Ajoy Kar Jatu Griha Uttam Kumar Tapan Sinha 1964 Aarohi Asim Pal Tapan Sinha Anustup Chhanda B. K. Productions Pijush Bose 1965 Akash Kusum Ranjit Basu Mrinal Sen Subarnarekha Radheshyam Ritwik Ghatak Raja Rammohun Aurora Film Corporation Bijoy Basu 1966 Nayak R. D. Banshal and Sharankumari Bansal Satyajit Ray 1967 Arogya Niketan Aurora Film Corporation Bijoy Bose 1968 Apanjan R. N. Malhotra, R. K. Kapur and T. M. Shah Tapan Sinha 1969 Natun Pata Gora Pictures Dinen Gupta 1970 Malyadan Ajoy Kar and Bimal Dey Ajoy Kar 1971 Nimantran Tarun Majumdar 1972 Strir Patra Dhrupadi Purnendu Patri 1973 Ashani Sanket Sarbeni Bhattacharya Satyajit Ray 1974 Sonar Kella Information and Public Relations Department, Government of West Bengal Satyajit Ray 1975 Palanka Filmarts, Calcutta Rajen Tarafdar 1976 Ek Je Chillo Desh Tapan Sinha Encyclopaedia of Modern Journalism and Mass Media By M.H. Syed; Page: 212. 1977 No Award 1978 Dooratwa Buddhadeb Dasgupta Buddhadeb Dasgupta 1979 Ek Din Pratidin Amalendu Chakraborty Mrinal Sen 1980 Hirak Rajar Deshe Information & Cultural Affairs Department and Government of West Bengal Satyajit Ray 1981 Adalat o Ekti Meye Dhiresh Kumar Chakraborty Tapan Sinha 1982 Nagmoti Sibaprasad Sen Gautam Chattopadhyay 1983 Vasundhra Sanjukta Films Sekhar Chatterjee 1984 Ghare Baire NFDC Satyajit Ray 1985 Paroma Nirmal Kumar Guha, Niharendu Guha, Sukhendu Guha, and Sarojendu Guha Aparna Sen 1986 Phera Buddhadeb Dasgupta Buddhadeb Dasgupta 1987 Antarjali Jatra NFDC Gautam Ghose 1988 No Award 1989 Ganashatru NFDC Satyajit Ray 1990 Atmaja Raj Kumar Jain Nabyendu Chatterjee 1991 Antardhan Nabakumar Chandra, Swapan Kumar Mitra and Sucheta Mitra Tapan Sinha 1992 Tahader Katha NFDC Buddhadeb Dasgupta 1993 Antareen NFDC and Doordarshan Mrinal Sen 1994 Amodini NFDC and Doordarshan Chidananda Dasgupta 1995 Yugant NFDC Aparna Sen 1996 Sanghat Pinaki Chaudhuri Pinaki Chaudhuri 1997 Dahan Bijay Agarwal and Kalpana Agarwal Rituparno Ghosh 1998 Asukh D. Ramanaidu Rituparno Ghosh 1999 Paromitar Ek Din Rajesh Agarwal Aparna Sen 2000 Dekha Ramesh Gandhi Gautam Ghose 2001 Hemanter Pakhi NFDC Urmi Chakraborty 2002 Shubho Mahurat Jagannath Productions Rituparno Ghosh 2003 Chokher Bali Shrikant Mohta and Mahendra Soni Rituparno Ghosh 2004 Krantikaal Shampa Bhattacharjee Shekhar Das 2005 Herbert Kajal Bhattacharjee and Abanti Chakraborty Suman Mukhopadhyay 2006 Anuranan Jeet Banerjee, Indrani Mukerjee and Aniruddha Roy Chowdhury Aniruddha Roy Chowdhury Podokkhep Nitesh Sharma Suman Ghosh 2007 Ballygunge Court Ganesh Kumar Bagaria Pinaki Chaudhuri 2008 Shob Charitro Kalponik Reliance Entertainment Rituparno Ghosh 2009 Abohomaan Reliance Entertainment Rituparno Ghosh 2010 Ami Aadu New Theatres Pvt. Ltd Somnath Gupta 2011 Ranjana Ami Ar Ashbona Rana Sarkar Anjan Dutt 2012 Shabdo Brand Value Communications Ltd. Kaushik Ganguly 2013 Bakita Byaktigato Tripod Entertainment Pvt Ltd. Pradipta Bhattacharyya 2014 Nirbashito Kaushik Ganguly Productions Churni Ganguly 2015 Shankhachil Nideas Creations & Productions Goutam Ghose 2016 Bishorjan Opera Kaushik Ganguly 2017 Mayurakshi Firdausul Hasan and Prabal Halder Atanu Ghosh 2018 Ek Je Chhilo Raja Shree Venkatesh Films Srijit Mukherji 2019 Gumnaami Shree Venkatesh Films Srijit Mukherji 2020AvijatrikGMB Films Pvt.LtdSubhrajit Mitra 2021KalkokkhoAurora Film Corporation Sarmistha Maiti and Rajdeep Paul 2022Kaberi AntardhanSurinder FilmsKaushik Ganguly 2023Deep FridgeColors of Dream EntertainmentArjunn Dutta 2024Chaalchitra EkhonAnjan Dutt ProductionAnjan Dutt
References
External links Official Page for Directorate of Film Festivals, India National Film Awards Archives