The Nargis Dutt Award for Best Feature Film on National Integration was one of the National Film Awards presented annually by the Directorate of Film Festivals, the organization set up by Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, India. It is one of several awards presented for feature films and awarded with Rajat Kamal (Silver Lotus). At the 70th National Film Awards, the category was discontinued and combined with Best Film on Environment Conservation/Preservation, Best Film on Family Welfare and Best Film on Other Social Issues. The new award is named as Best Feature Film Promoting National, Social and Environmental Values.
The award was instituted in 1965, at 13th National Film Awards and awarded annually for films produced in the year across the country, in all Indian languages.
Winners
Award includes 'Rajat Kamal' (Silver Lotus) and cash prize. Following are the award winners over the years:
List of films, showing the year (award ceremony), language(s), producer(s) and director(s) Year Film(s) Language(s) Producer(s) Director(s) 1965 Shaheed Hindi Kewal Kashyap S. Ram Sharma 1966 Subhas Chandra Bengali A. K. Banerjee Piyush Bose 1967 No Award 1968 Janmabhoomi Malayalam Roopa Rekha John Sankaramangalam 1969 Saat Hindustani Hindi Khwaja Ahmad Abbas Khwaja Ahmad Abbas 1970 Thurakkatha Vathil Malayalam A. Raghunath P. Bhaskaran 1971 Do Boond Pani Hindi Khwaja Ahmad Abbas Khwaja Ahmad Abbas 1972 Achanum Bappayum Malayalam C. C. Baby K. S. Sethumadhavan 1973 Garm Hava Hindi Unit 3 MM M. S. Sathyu 1974 Parinay Hindi Samantar Chitra Kantilal Rathod 1975 No Award 1976 No Award 1977 No Award 1978 Grahana Kannada Harsha Pictures T. S. Nagabharana 1979 22 June 1897Marathi Nachiket PatwardhanJayoo Patwardhan Nachiket PatwardhanJayoo Patwardhan 1980 Bhavni Bhavai Gujarati Sanchar Film Cooperative Society Ltd. Ketan Mehta 1981 Saptapadi Telugu Bheemavarapu Buchhireddy K. Viswanath 1982 Aaroodam Malayalam Rosamma George I. V. Sasi 1983 Sookha Hindi M. S. Sathyu M. S. Sathyu 1984 Aadmi Aur Aurat Hindi Doordarshan Tapan Sinha 1985 Sree Narayana Guru Malayalam A. Jaffer P. A. Backer 1986 No Award 1987 Tamas Hindi Blaze Entertainment Govind Nihalani 1988 Rudraveena Telugu Nagendra Babu K. Balachander 1989 Santha Shishunala Sharifa Kannada Yajaman Enterprises T. S. Nagabharana 1990 No Award 1991 Aadi Mimansa Oriya Apurba Kishore Bir Apurba Kishore Bir 1992 Roja Tamil Kavithalayaa Productions Mani Ratnam 1993 Sardar Hindi Late H. M. Patel Ketan Mehta 1994 Mukta Marathi Ashok B. Mhatre Jabbar Patel 1995 Bombay Tamil Mani RatnamS. Sriram Mani Ratnam 1996 Kaanaakkinaavu Malayalam P. V. Gangadharan Sibi Malayil 1997 Border Hindi J. P. Dutta J. P. Dutta 1998 Zakhm Hindi Pooja Bhatt Mahesh Bhatt 1999 Shaheed Udham Singh Punjabi Iqbal Dhillon Chitraarth 2000 Pukar Hindi Surinder Kapoor Rajkumar Santoshi 2001 Bub Kashmiri NFDC Jyoti Sarup 2002 Mr. and Mrs. Iyer English N. Venkatesan Aparna Sen 2003 Pinjar Hindi Lucky Star Entertainment Ltd Chandraprakash Dwivedi 2004 Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose: The Forgotten Hero Hindi Sahara India Media Communication Ltd. Shyam Benegal 2005 Daivanamathil Malayalam Aryadan Shaukath Jayaraj 2006 Kallarali Hoovagi Kannada S. Madhu Bangarappa T. S. Nagabharana 2007 Dharm Hindi Sheetal V. Talwar Bhavna Talwar 2008 Aai Kot Nai Assamese Rajen Bora Manju Borah 2009 Delhi-6 Hindi Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra 2010 Moner Manush Bengali Gautam Kundu Gautam Ghose 2011 No Award 2012 Thanichalla Njan Malayalam Cherian Philippose Babu Thiruvalla 2013 Thalaimuraigal Tamil Company Productions Balu Mahendra 2014 No Award 2015 Nanak Shah Fakir Punjabi Sartaj Singh Pannu 2016 Dikchow Banat Palaax Assamese Canvascope Sanjib Sabha Pandit 2017 Dhappa Marathi Sumatilal Popatlal Shah Nipun Dharmadhikari 2018 Ondalla Eradalla Kannada DN Cinemas D. Satya Prakash 2019 Taj Mahal Marathi Tuline Studios Pvt. Ltd. Niyaz Mujawar 2020 No Award 2021 The Kashmir Files Hindi Abhishek Agarwal Arts Vivek Agnihotri
Explanatory notes
References
External links Official Page for Directorate of Film Festivals, India National Film Awards Archives National Film Awards at IMDb http://www.gomolo.com/9/national-film-awards-1979