The National Film Award for Best Book on Cinema is one of the National Film Awards presented annually by the Directorate of Film Festivals, the organisation set up by Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, India. It is one of several awards presented for Best Writing on Indian Cinema and awarded with Swarna Kamal (Golden Lotus).
The award was instituted in 1981, at 29th National Film Awards and awarded annually for books written in the year across the country, in all Indian languages.
Winners
Award includes 'Swarna Kamal' (Golden Lotus) and cash prize. Following are the award winners over the years:
Awards legends
List of books, showing the year (award ceremony), language(s), author(s) and publisher(s) Year Book(s) Language(s) Author(s) Publisher(s) 1981 Thamizh Cinemavin Kathai Tamil Aranthai Narayanan 1982 Chalachitra Sameeksha Malayalam Vijayakrishnan 1983 Cinemayude Lokam Malayalam Adoor Gopalakrishnan 1984 Chalachitrer Abirbhab Bengali Jagannath Chathopadhyay 1985 Guru Dutt: Teen Anki Shokantika Marathi Arun Khopkar 1986 Rabindranath O Chalachithra Bengali Arun Kumar Roy 1987 Kazhchayude Asanthi(Torments of Seeing) Malayalam V. Rajakrishnan 1988 The Moving Image English Kishore Vallicha Orient Longman 1989 Shataranj Ke Khiladi Hindi Surendranath Tiwari Madhya Pradesh Film Development Corporation 1989 Cinema, Kannakkum Kavithayum Malayalam Sreekumaran Thampi Sahithya Pravarthaka 1990 Hindi Cinema Ka Itihaas Hindi Manmohan Chadhha Sachin Prakashan 1991 Athmanindayude Pookal(Flowers of Self-Condemnation) Malayalam Aravindan Vallachira V. R. Pushpakaran 1992 Awara English Gayatri Chatterjee Wiley Eastern Ltd 1993 Naalo Nenu Telugu Bhanumathi Ramakrishna K. N. T. Sastry 1994 Abhinayam Anubhavam Malayalam Bharath Gopi P. Bhuvanesan 1995 Marathi Cinema: In Retrospect English Sanjit Narwekar Govind Swarup 1996 The Eye of the Serpent English S. Theodore Baskaran East West Books Pvt. Ltd. 1997 Cinemachi Goshta Marathi Anil Jhankar Rajhans Prakashan Hindi Cinema Aur Delhi Hindi Savita Bhakhri and Adithya Aswathi Praveen Prakashan 1998 Cinemaee Bhasha Aur Hindi Samvadon Ka Vishleshan Hindi Kishore Vaswani Hindi Book Centre 1999 Malayala Cinemayum Sahithyavum Malayalam Madhu Eravankara D. C. Books Marathi Chitrapat Sangeetachi Vatchal Marathi Aruna Anant Damle Anil Damle 2000 Sholay: The Making of a Classic English Anupama Chopra Penguin Books 2001 Asoumiya Chalachitrar Chaa-Pohar Assamese Apurba Sarma Jnan Pujari Moulik Marathi Chitrageete Marathi Gangadhar Mahambare Rajiv D. Barve 2002 Paroma and other Outsiders: The Cinema of Aparna Sen English Shoma Chatterjee Parumita Publications Ritu Aaye Ritu Jaaye Hindi Sarat Dutt Saaransh Publications 2003 Filmi Jagat Mein Ardhashakti Ka Romanch Hindi Bharatiya Jnanpith Ramakrishna 2004 Stardust: Vignettes from the Fringes of Film Industry English Roopa Swaminathan Penguin Books 2005 Kundan Hindi Saransh Prakashan Sharad Dutt 2006 Helen: The Life and Times of an H-Bomb English Jerry Pinto Penguin Books 2007 From Raj to Swaraj: The Non-fiction Film in India English B. D. Garga Penguin Books 2008 Bollywood Melodies English Ganesh Anantharaman Penguin Books 2009 Cinemaa Yaana Kannada K. Puttaswamy Hasiru Prakashana 2010 From Rajahs and Yogis to Gandhi and Beyond: Images of India in International Films of the Twentieth Century English Vijaya Mulay Seagull Books 2011 R. D. Burman: The Man The Music English Anirudha Bhattacharjee and Balaji Vittal HarperCollins India 2012 Silent Cinema in India - A Pictorial Journey English B. D. Garga HarperCollins India 2013 Cinema Ga Cinema Telugu Nandagopal Praga India 2014 Silent Cinema (1895–1930) English and Telugu Pasupuleti Purnachandra Rao Emesco Books 2015 Dr. Rajkumar Samagra Charitre Kannada Doddahullur Rukkoji Preethi Prakashana 2016 Lata : Sur Gatha Hindi Yatindra Mishra Vani Prakashan 2017 Matmagi Manipur: The first Manipuri Feature Film Manipuri Bobby Wahengbam Angomningthou Preservation and Documentation 2018 Mouna Prathanapole Malayalam S. Jayachandran Nair Kerala State Chalachitra Academy 2019 A Gandhian Affair: India's Curious Portrayal of Love in Cinema English Sanjay Suri HarperCollins India 2020 The Longest Kiss: The Life and Times of Devika Rani English Kishwar Desai Westland Publications 2021 Music by Laxmikant Pyarelal: The Incredibly Melodious Journey English Rajiv Vijayakar Rupa Publications 2022 Kishore Kumar: The Ultimate Biography English Anirudha Bhattacharjee and Parthiv Dhar HarperCollins India 2023 No Award
References
External links Official Page for Directorate of Film Festivals, India National Film Awards Archives