Karnataka State Film Award for Special Film of Social Concern

Karnataka State Film Award for Best Social Film
State award for contributions to Kannada cinema
Awarded for	Best Film about Social Concern
Sponsored by	Government of Karnataka
Rewards	Silver Medal ₹75,000
First award	1993-94
Final award	2020
Most recent winner	Giliyu Panjaradollilla Ee Mannu
Highlights
Total awarded	55
First winner	Karimaleya Kaggatthalu

Winners

The following is the list of Award winning films for the Karnataka State Best Social film award.

Year	Film	Producer	Director	Refs.
2020	•Giliyu Panjaradollill  •Ee Mannu	• Eshwaridas Shetty  • Rajeshwari Rai	• Ramadas Naidu  • Shivadwaj Shetty	[1]
2019	Kanneri	•Hebbar  •Madhavi Hebbar  •Chandrashekar	Manjunath S	[2]
2018	Santakavi Kanakadasara Ramadhanya	Sreelakshmi Narasimha Movies	T.N. Nagesh	[3] [4]
2017	Hebbet Ramakka	S. A. Puttaraju	N. R. Nanjunde Gowda	[5]
2016	Mudla Seemeyalli		K. Shivarudraiah	[6]
2015	Shivayogi Sri Puttayyajja	Shyam Mukund Navale	Hamsa Vijeth	[7]
2014	Brahmashri Narayana Guru Swamy ( Tulu Film )		Shekhar Kotiyan	[8]
2013	Ingale Marga	Ghanshyam Bhandge	Vishal Raj	[9]
2012	Karanika Shishu		C. Lakshman	[10]
2011	Sarasammana Samaadhi	Basant Kumar Patil	K. N. T. Sastry	[11]
2010-11	Byari	T. K. Altaf Hussain	Suveeran	[12]
2009-10	Shabari	Ramesh Yadav	Baraguru Ramachandrappa
2008-09	Mukhaputa	•Narayana Hosmane  •Subraya Hosmane  • Roopa Iyer	Roopa Iyer
2007-08	Banada Neralu	V. Chandrakanth	Umashankar Swamy	[13]
2006-07	Kaada Beladingalu	• K. M. Veeresh  • K. N. Siddalingayya  • B. S. Lingadevaru	B. S. Lingadevaru	[14]
2005-06	Thaayi	Prameela Joshai	Baraguru Ramachandrappa	[15]
2004-05	Haseena	Chiguru Chitra	Girish Kasaravalli	[16]
2003-04	Pravaaha	• Beerappa  • P. R. Ramadas Naidu	P. R. Ramadas Naidu	[17]
2002-03	Sainika	Rajayogi Films	Mahesh Sukhadhare	[18]
2001-02	Gandhada Gombe	• B. Shankar  • M. D. Hasham	B. Srinivas
2000-01	Munnudi	Navyachithra	P. Sheshadri
1999-2000	Shabdavedhi	Parvathamma Rajkumar	S. Narayan
1998-99	Bhoomi Thayiya Chochchala Maga	• Jai Jagadish  • R. Dushyant Singh  • Vijayalakshmi Singh	S. V. Rajendra Singh Babu
1997-98	Bhoomi Geetha	R. Mahadeva Gowda	Kesari Haravu
1997-98	Maaribale ( Tulu Film )		Krishnappa Uppoor
1996-97	Karadipura	Rajalakshmi Ramachandrappa	Baraguru Ramachandrappa
1995-96	Urvashi	Lalithamma Lingannaiah	Amaradeva
1994-95	Kotreshi Kanasu	G. Nandakumar	Nagathihalli Chandrashekar
1993-94	Karimaleya Kaggatthalu	Ganapathi Prabhu	E. Chennagangappa

See also

• Karnataka State Film Awards

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