National Film Award for Best Feature Film in Odia

National Film Award for Best Feature Film in Odia
National award for contributions to Indian Cinema
Awarded for	Best Odia Feature Film(s) of the year
Sponsored by	Directorate of Film Festivals
Formerly called	President's Silver Medal for Best Feature Film in Odia (1960–1968)
Reward(s)	Rajat Kamal (Silver Lotus) ₹100,000 (US$1,300)
First awarded	1960
Last awarded	2019
Most recent winner	Sala Budhar Badla & Kalera Atita
Highlights
Total awarded	38
First winner	Sri Lokanath

The National Film Award for Best Feature Film in Odia 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 feature films and awarded with Rajat Kamal (Silver Lotus).

The National Film Awards, established in 1954, are the most prominent film awards in India that merit the best of the Indian cinema. The ceremony also presents awards for films in various regional languages.

Awards for films in seven regional language (Bengali, Hindi, Kannada, Malayalam, Marathi, Tamil and Telugu) started from 2nd National Film Awards which were presented in 1955. Three awards of "President's Silver Medal for Best Feature Film", "Certificate of Merit for the Second Best Feature Film" and "Certificate of Merit for the Third Best Feature Film" were instituted. The later two certificate awards were discontinued from 15th National Film Awards (1967).

The films made in Odia language were not considered until the 8th National Film Awards ceremony held in March 1961. ^[1] The 1960 Prafulla Kumar Sengupta directorial film Sri Lokenath received the first president's silver medal for Best Feature Film in Odia.

Winners

Award includes 'Rajat Kamal' (Silver Lotus Award) and cash prize. Following are the award winners over the years:

Awards legends
*	President's Silver Medal for Best Feature Film
*	Certificate of Merit for the Second Best Feature Film
*	Certificate of Merit for the Third Best Feature Film
*	Certificate of Merit for the Best Feature Film

List of award films, showing the year (award ceremony), producer(s), director(s) and citation
Year	Film(s)	Producer(s)	Director(s)	Citation	Refs.
1960 (8th)	Sri Lokanath	Rupa Raga Pvt Ltd.	Prafulla Kumar Sengupta	–	[1]
1961 (9th)	Nua Bou	Ram Krishna Tripathy	Prabhat Mukherjee	–	[2]
1962 (10th)	Suryamukhi	Soumendra Misra	P. K. Sengupta	–	[3]
	Lakshmi	• Parvati Ghose  •G. P. Ghose	Sarda Naik	–
1963 (11th)	Jeevan Sathi	Srinibash Paikaroy	Prabhat Mukherjee	–	[4]
	Nari	Narendra Kumar Mitra	Trilochana  •Narendra Kumar Mitra  •Amalendu Bagehi  •Kavichandra Kalicharan Patnaik)	–
1964 (12th)	Sadhana	Diamond Valley Production	Prabhat Mukherjee	–	[5]
	Naba Janma	Pancha Sakha Pictures	Sachin Mukherji	–
1965 (13th)	No Award				[6]
1966 (14th)	Kaa	Parbati Ghose	Sidhartha	–	[7]
1967 (15th)	Arundhati	Dhiren Patnaik	Prafulla Sengupta	–	[8]
1968 (16th)	Stree	Parbati Ghose	Sidhartha	–	[9]
1969 (17th)	No Award				[10]
1970 (18th)	No Award				[11]
1971 (19th)
1972 (20th)	No Award				[12]
1973 (21st)	No Award				[13]
1974 (22nd)	No Award				[14]
1975 (23rd)	No Award				[15]
1976 (24th)	Shesha Shrabana	Nagen Roy	Prashant Nanda
1977 (25th)	Chilika Teerey	Shyamghan Rai Chaudhari	Biplab Rai Chaudhari	For showing how, brutally oppressed by vested socio-economical interests, but now inspired by a new sense of freedom the fisher folk of Chilka lake cast off the shackles of the past and achieve their liberation for presenting with understanding and compassion the conflict between individual needs and the welfare of the community, for portraying with vigor and intensity the role of Chilka lake as a mother of the people, sharing with them their joys and sorrows.	[16]
1978 (26th)	No Award				[17]
1979 (27th)
1980 (28th)	No Award				[18]
1981 (29th)	Seeta Raati	Balram Misra	Manmohan Mahapatra	For a commendable work on the theme of a woman who faces life courageously despite the orthodox forces aligned against her.	[19]
1982 (30th)	No Award				[20]
1983 (31st)	Neeraba Jhada	Manmohan Mahapatra	Manmohan Mahapatra	For sensitive narration of the looming tragedy of an uprooted rural community.	[21]
1984 (32nd)	Klanta Aparahna	Dynamic Studio	Manmohan Mahapatra	–	[22]
1985 (33rd)	Hakim Babu	Amiya Ranjan Patnaik	Pranab Das	For a film which makes a powerful comment on the bureaucratic system which renders even an idealistic officer helpless and unable to realise his own objectives.	[23]
1986 (34th)	Majhi Pahacha	Dipti Mohanty	Manmohan Mahapatra	For a faithful portrayal of a range of individuals in today's urban milieu.	[24]
1987 (35th)	Nishidhdha Swapna	Manmohan Mahapatra	Manmohan Mahapatra	For its uncompromising technique in objectively observing in life of a family in an Odia village defining the attitudes, motivations, hopes and disillusionment of each one in the context of social change of which they are all a part.	[25]
1988 (36th)	Kichi Smruti Kichi Anubhuti	K. Jagadeswari	Manmohan Mahapatra	For the cinematic depiction of the past, present and future of the psyche of a representative village.	[26]
1989 (37th)	Andha Diganta	Vox Visuals Pvt. Ltd.	Manmohan Mahapatra	For its unemotional description of the increasing misery of a peasant who discovers his inadequacy in fighting his economic servitude and his own bourgeois attitude towards his wife's past.	[27]
1990 (38th)	No Award				[28]
1991 (39th)	Tara	Bijaya Jena	Bijaya Jena	Marked by its sincerity in truthfully portraying woman's search for her identity in a male dominated society.	[29]
1992 (40th)	Vinya Samaya	Shankar Gope	Manmohan Mahapatra	For its competent treatment of the corruption of modern youth in search of illusive wealth.	[30]
1993 (41st)	Aranya Rodana	Prasan Prusti	Biplab Ray Chaudhuri	For its very sensitive and cinematic handling of an urban journalist's quest to understand the complexities of tribal life, seen through the eyes of an orphaned boy.	[31]
1994 (42nd)	No Award				[32]
1995 (43rd)	Moksha	•Jayadev Mallick  •Pramoda Kumar Nayak	•Gouri Shankar Das  •Malaya Kumar Roy	For depicting the life of two people in a rural set up who suffer an entire life of loneliness and unfulfilment, because of the rigid traditional values of society.	[33]
1996 (44th)	Shunya Swaroopa	Alaya Kumar Mohanty	Himanshu Sekhar Khatua	For a beautifully photographed film depicting the conflicts of a layman floundering in the world of sanyasias.	[34]
1997 (45th)	Shesha Drushti	NFDC	Apurba Kishore Bir	For the film's exploration of a suffering mother who undergoes the trauma created by her own sons and rediscovers her creative talent and rehabilitates herself.	[35]
1998 (46th)	Nandan	N'CYP	Apurba Kishore Bir	For its simple story and realistic milieu. Nandan portrays the aspiration of a poor child and the constraints of his parents in fulfilling them. The triumph of family values and love over material gloss has universal appeal.	[36]
1999 (47th)	Biswaprakash	NFDC	Susant Misra	For depicting the story of a young man in search of his identify and direction in life. The beautifully photo-graphed film depicts the lack of opportunities in a small town.	[37]
2000 (48th)	No Award				[38]
2001 (49th)	Magunira Shagada	NFDC	Prafulla Mohanty	For showing the agony of a man trapped within tradition and unable to accept the changes that impact life around him.	[39]
2002 (50th)	No Award				[40]
2003 (51st)	Aw Aaakare Aa	Subash Das	Subash Das	For a passionate call for reforms in the present education system.	[41]
2004 (52nd)	No Award				[42]
2005 (53rd)	Kathantara	Iti Samanta	Himanshu Khatua	For seeking to re-establish Indian family values in the modern day situation.	[43]
2006 (54th)	Puja Pain Phulatie	Padmini Puty	Gadadhar Puty	For an emotional portrayal of the bonding and generosity of children.	[44]
2007 (55th)	No Award				[45]
2008 (56th)	No Award				[46]
2009 (57th)	No Award				[47]
2010 (58th)	No Award				[48]
2011 (59th)	No Award				[49]
2012 (60th)	No Award				[50]
2013 (61st)	No Award				[51]
2014 (62nd)	Aadim Vichar	Mohapatra Movie Magic Pvt. Ltd.	Sabyasachi Mohapatra	For its vibrant portrayal of a tribal community whose enabling humanism shows a way out of pettiness and prejudice.	[52]
2015 (63rd)	Pahada Ra Luha	Mohapatra Movie Magic Pvt. Ltd.	Sabyasachi Mohapatra	For showcasing chronicles 25 years of the life of innocent tribal of Odisha, in the backdrop of the massive political transformations and Maoist insurgency.	[53]
2016 (64th)	No Award				[54]
2017 (65th)	Hello Arsi	Ajaya Routray	Sambit Mohanty	–	[55]
2018 (66th)	No Award
2019 (67th)	Saala Budhar Badla	New Generation Films	Sabyasachi Mohapatra	Entertaining and musical tale of sweet revenge of the two warring tribal villages.	[56]
	Kalira Atita	Eleenora Images Pvt Ltd.	Nila Madhab Panda	Realistically shot touching tale of a schizophrenic poor man fighting with his past tragedies.
2020 (68th)	No Award
2021 (69th)	Pratikshya	Anupam Patnaik	Anupam Patnaik	"A story about dreams, desperation, and aspirations. Like every unemployed graduate, Sanjay is adamant about finding a government job. Bipin, his father tries hard to convince Sanjay to do any job as his retirement is at bay."	[57]

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External links

• Official Page for Directorate of Film Festivals, India
• National Film Awards Archives