Nargis Dutt Award for Best Feature Film on National Integration

Nargis Dutt Award for Best Feature Film on National Integration
National award for contributions to Indian Cinema
Sponsored by	Directorate of Film Festivals
Formerly called	Best Feature Film on National Unity and Emotional Integration
Reward(s)	Rajat Kamal (Silver Lotus) ₹50,000 (US$600)
First awarded	1965
Last awarded	2021
Most recent winner	The Kashmir Files
Highlights
Total awarded	48
First winner	Shaheed

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. ^{[1] [2]}

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), director(s) and citation
Year	Film(s)	Language(s)	Producer(s)	Director(s)	Citation	Refs.
1965 (13th)	Shaheed	Hindi	Kewal Kashyap	S. Ram Sharma	–	[3]
1966 (14th)	Subhash Chandra	Bengali	A. K. Banerjee	Piyush Bose	–	[4]
1967 (15th)	No Award					[5]
1968 (16th)	Janmabhoomi	Malayalam	Roopa Rekha	John Sankaramangalam	–	[6]
1969 (17th)	Saat Hindustani	Hindi	Khwaja Ahmad Abbas	Khwaja Ahmad Abbas	–	[7]
1970 (18th)	Thurakkatha Vathil	Malayalam	A. Raghunath	P. Bhaskaran	–	[8]
1971 (19th)	Do Boond Pani	Hindi	Khwaja Ahmad Abbas	Khwaja Ahmad Abbas	–
1972 (20th)	Achanum Bappayum	Malayalam	C. C. Baby	K. S. Sethumadhavan	–	[9]
1973 (21st)	Garm Hava [lower-alpha 1]	Hindi	Unit 3 MM	M. S. Sathyu	–	[10]
1974 (22nd)	Parinay [lower-alpha 2]	Hindi	Samantar Chitra	Kantilal Rathod	–	[11]
1975 (23rd)	No Award					[12]
1976 (24th)	No Award					[13]
1977 (25th)	No Award					[13]
1978 (26th)	Grahana	Kannada	Harsha Pictures	T. S. Nagabharana	For an honest and bold depiction of caste conflict in rural India. The film starkly brings out the traditional beliefs which grip the entire rural society including the down-trodden putting an extra chain on the poor in addition to their economic helplessness. Cinematically a very powerful film.	[14]
1979 (27th)	22 June 1897	Marathi	•Nachiket Patwardhan  •Jayoo Patwardhan	•Nachiket Patwardhan  •Jayoo Patwardhan	–
1980 (28th)	Bhavni Bhavai	Gujarati	Sanchar Film Cooperative Society Ltd.	Ketan Mehta	For tracing the history of social evil of untouchability through popular folk drama form, for synthesizing diverse performing arts into socially relevant communication, for depicting the untouchable's fight for their rights.	[15]
1981 (29th)	Saptapadi	Telugu	Bheemavarapu Buchhireddy	K. Viswanath	For focusing on the problems of the society whose orthodoxy inflicts grave injustice on the under-privileged, for the dilemma faced by a Brahmin disciplinarian in confronting his grand-daughter's love for Harijan, for resolving the problem in a rational manner, worthy of the country's best secular traditions.	[16]
1982 (30th)	Aaroodam	Malayalam	Rosamma George	I. V. Sasi	For its compassionate treatment of the plight of the under-privileged.	[17]
1983 (31st)	Sookha	Hindi	M. S. Sathyu	M. S. Sathyu	For its sincerity in the portrayal of basic human values that unify mankind.	[4]
1984 (32nd)	Aadmi Aur Aurat	Hindi	Doordarshan	Tapan Sinha	–	[18]
1985 (33rd)	Sree Narayana Guru	Malayalam	A. Jaffer	P. A. Backer	For preaching, through the life of a great reformer, the universal values of "One Caste, One Religion and One God for Man".	[19]
1986 (34th)	No Award					[20]
1987 (35th)	Tamas	Hindi	Blaze Entertainment	Govind Nihalani	For recreating without compromise the tragic events leading to the communal holocaust at the eve of partition in a Punjab village.	[21]
1988 (36th)	Rudraveena	Telugu	Nagendra Babu	K. Balachander	For presenting vertical as well as horizontal social integration on a musical plane and thus offering a cultural revolution as solution to maladies of the rural population.	[22]
1989 (37th)	Santha Shishunala Sharifa	Kannada	Yajaman Enterprises	T. S. Nagabharana	For its depiction of unity of religions at the popular mystical level illustrated by the life and lyrics of a famous Muslim saint who has a Hindu guru.	[23]
1990 (38th)	No Award					[24]
1991 (39th)	Aadi Mimansa	Oriya	Apurba Kishore Bir	Apurba Kishore Bir	For its strong appeal for integration and upholding of human values brought about through a remarkbly understated treatment of incidents from everyday life.	[25]
1992 (40th)	Roja	Tamil	Kavithalayaa Productions	Mani Ratnam	For presenting a thrilling drama of the abduction of an Indian scientist by a self-proclaimed liberation army which later realises the futility of its anti-social activities.	[26]
1993 (41st)	Sardar	Hindi	Late H. M. Patel	Ketan Mehta	For presenting a panoramic view of India in a period of transition to reveal the goals of nationalism by the integration of a mass disparate materials and shaping them into a coherent saga of Indian nationalism in an epic style.	[27]
1994 (42nd)	Mukta	Marathi	Ashok B. Mhatre	Jabbar Patel	For mapping a sharply defined dramatic style on to a canvas of national caste oppression and for unversalising the alliances of the Indian Dalit people.	[28]
1995 (43rd)	Bombay	Tamil	• Mani Ratnam  •S. Sriram	Mani Ratnam	For its bold and sensitive approach to the problem of communal divide and for bringing out the futility of the carnage in the name of religion.	[29]
1996 (44th)	Kaanaakkinaavu	Malayalam	P. V. Gangadharan	Sibi Malayil	For its brilliant and bold approach to National Integration and the futility of division in the name of religion.	[30]
1997 (45th)	Border	Hindi	J. P. Dutta	J. P. Dutta	For making an honest statement on patriotism, portraying the gallantry and sacrifies of the Armed forces, thereby instilling a sense of National pride.	[31]
1998 (46th)	Zakhm	Hindi	Pooja Bhatt	Mahesh Bhatt	For boldly dealing with social and religious strife, communal tensions, violence and disharmony in contemporary times. The film has a message of love and peace that is conveyed in a sensitive way.	[32]
1999 (47th)	Shaheed Udham Singh	Punjabi	Iqbal Dhillon	Chitraarth	For opening a new window to the Jallianwala Bagh episode, which had jolted the conscience of the Indian people.	[33]
2000 (48th)	Pukar	Hindi	Surinder Kapoor	Rajkumar Santoshi	For tackling the problem of terrorist infiltrations and the army's counter attacks. And situations where armed and civilian forces unite against the common external enemy.	[34]
2001 (49th)	Bub	Kashmiri	NFDC	Jyoti Sarup	For exploring the problems of a minority in the face of terrorist activities of forces across the border. Against this macro scenario, the film weaves together more intimate micro stories particularly of the bonding between a sensitive bureaucrat and an orphaned boy.	[35]
2002 (50th)	Mr. and Mrs. Iyer	English	N. Venkatesan	Aparna Sen	For its humane depiction of the bonding between two individuals of different religious backgrounds in the midst of communal tension.	[36]
2003 (51st)	Pinjar	Hindi	Lucky Star Entertainment Ltd	Chandraprakash Dwivedi	For exploring the power of human relationships in overcoming social and religious schisms.	[37]
2004 (52nd)	Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose: The Forgotten Hero	Hindi	Sahara India Media Communication Ltd.	Shyam Benegal	Netaji is one of the most controversial and colourful figures of modern Indian history. His struggle to fight the Britishers and bring the Indians together to do this. The idealistic dreamer turns into a revolutionary to achieve his goal. The film effectively brings alive the era.	[38]
2005 (53rd)	Daivanamathil	Malayalam	Aryadan Shaukath	Jayaraj	For the powerful representation of a burning communal issue highlighting the plight of women in the times of religious intolerence.	[39]
2006 (54th)	Kallarali Hoovagi	Kannada	S. Madhu Bangarappa	T. S. Nagabharana	For depicting the sanctity of loyalty to one's land and amity through a love story set in the times of Hyder Ali.	[40]
2007 (55th)	Dharm	Hindi	Sheetal V. Talwar	Bhavna Talwar	For powerfully bringing forth the message that humanity is of much greater value than religion. The transformation of an orthodox and superstitious priest is very beautifully depicted.	[41]
2008 (56th)	Aai Kot Nai	Assamese	Rajen Bora	Manju Borah	For its honest look at a burning problem in Northeast India, its attempt to break down artificial boundaries and giving it a human and aesthetic appeal.	[42]
2009 (57th)	Delhi-6	Hindi	Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra	Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra	For its uncompromising stance towards communal divide and offering a humanistic solution of taking individual responsibility.	[43]
2010 (58th)	Moner Manush	Bengali	Gautam Kundu	Gautam Ghose	For celebrating the union of the human spirit through the life and song of Sufi poets in the Baul tradition.	[44]
2011 (59th)	No Award					[45]
2012 (60th)	Thanichalla Njan	Malayalam	Cherian Philippose	Babu Thiruvalla	A tale of communal harmony narrated through an in-house milieu. The bonding between a Hindu and a Muslim lady in a reciprocally accommodating relationship forms the crux of the film.	[46]
2013 (61st)	Thalaimuraigal	Tamil	Company Productions	Balu Mahendra	A sensitive tale about the breaking of walls of orthodoxy and religious and linguistic bias in a small village in Tamil Nadu. Love and compassion of a small boy and his mother wins over not only their own blood but the whole rural community.	[47]
2014 (62nd)	No Award					[48]
2015 (63rd)	Nanak Shah Fakir	Punjabi	Sartaj Singh Pannu	–	The saga on the life of the great spiritual master advocating the values of peace and harmony.	[49]
2016 (64th)	Dikchow Banat Palaax	Assamese	Canvascope	Sanjib Sabha Pandit	The film brings out oneness of our feelings amidst differences.	[50]
2017 (65th)	Dhappa	Marathi	Sumatilal Popatlal Shah	Nipun Dharmadhikari		[51]
2018 (66th)	Ondalla Eradalla	Kannada	DN Cinemas	D. Satya Prakash	The film tries to break political and religious divide through the eye of a child.	[52]
2019 (67th)	Taj Mahal	Marathi	Tuline Studios Pvt. Ltd.	Niyaz Mujawar	The film stresses on the concept of love, symbolised by the Taj Mahal, taking over violence in whatever form it appears.
2020 (68th)	No Award					[53]
2021 (69th)	The Kashmir Files	Hindi	Vivek Agnihotri	Abhishek Agarwal Arts

Explanatory notes

1. Gita Siddharth (Leading Actress) was awarded with Medallion.
2. Romesh Sharma (Leading Actor) and Shabana Azmi (Leading Actress) were awarded with Medallion.

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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