The National Film Award for Best Music Direction 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 non-feature films and awarded with Rajat Kamal (Silver Lotus).
The award was instituted in 1993, at 41st 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 award recipients, showing the year (award ceremony), film(s) and language(s) Year Recipient(s) Film(s) Language(s) 1993 Rajat Dholakia Sunday Hindi 1994 K. P. Udayabhanu The Myth to the Tree, The Serpent and The Mother Malayalam 1995 Shubha Mudgal Amrit Beeja English and Kannada 1996 No Award 1997 No Award 1998 Biswadeb Dasgupta A Painter of Eloquent Silence: Ganesh Pyne English 1999 No Award 2000 Usha Khanna Ajeeb Ghar Hindi 2001 Bhaskar Chandavarkar Chaitra Marathi 2002 Raja Mitra Kalighat Paintings And Drawings English 2003 Julius Packiam Fiddlers on the Thatch English 2004 Dhwani Ek Sagar Kinaree... A Seaside Story Marathi and English 2005 No Award 2006 Ramakant Gundecha Raga of River Narmada Music Only Umakant Gundecha 2007 Zubeen Garg Echoes of Silence English and Khasi 2008 Vipin Mishra Narmeen Hindi and Punjabi 2009 No Award 2010 No Award 2011 Dhruba Jyoti Phukan Panchakki Hindi 2012 No Award 2013 Anuraag Saikia Yugadrashta Assamese 2014 No Award 2015 Aravind–Shankar A Far Afternoon: A Painted Saga Hindi and English 2016 Tanuj Tiku Leeches 2017 Ramesh Narayanan Shored of Liberty 2018 Kedar Divekar Jyoti 2019 Bishakh Jyoti Kranti Darshi Guruji Ahead of Times Hindi 2020 Vishal Bhardwaj 1232 KMS Hindi 2021 Ishaan Divecha Succulent Hindi, English and Marathi 2022 Vishal Bhardwaj Fursat Hindi 2023 Pranil Desai The First Film Hindi 2024 Shivpal Singh Kang Parat 41°chya Magavar Marathi
References
External links Official Page for Directorate of Film Festivals, India National Film Awards Archives