National Film Award for Best Film on Social Issues

National Film Award for Best Film on Social Issues
National award for contributions to non-feature films
Sponsored by	Directorate of Film Festivals
Formerly called	Best Film on Social Documentation (1967–1985)
Reward(s)	Rajat Kamal (Silver Lotus) ₹50,000 (US$580)
First award	1967
Final award	2021
Most recent winner	•Mithu Di Three Two One  •Three Two One
Highlights
Total awarded	45
First winner	I am 20

The National Film Award for Best Film on Social Issues was 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 was one of several awards presented for non-feature films and awarded with Rajat Kamal (Silver Lotus).

The award was instituted in 1967, at 15th National Film Awards and awarded annually for the short films produced in the year across the country, in all Indian languages. At the 70th National Film Awards, the award is discontinued and clubbed with National Film Award for Best Promotional Film, National Film Award for Best Scientific Film, National Film Award for Best Educational/Motivational/Instructional Film, National Film Award for Best Exploration/Adventure Film, National Film Award for Best Anthropological/Ethnographic Film, National Film Award for Best Agriculture Film, National Film Award for Best Investigative Film and National Film Award for Best Non-Feature Environment/Conservation/Preservation Film, and two new categories were created; Best Documentary and Best Non Feature Film Promoting Social and Environmental Values. ^[1]

Winners

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

Indicates a joint award for that year

List of films, showing the year, language(s), producer(s) and director(s)
Year	Film(s)	Language(s)	Producer(s)	Director(s)	Refs.
1967 (15th)	I am 20	English	J. S. Bhownagary and K. L. Khandpur for Films Division	S. N. S. Sastry	[2]
1968 (16th)	Water	English	Fali Billmoria Productions	Fali Billmoria	[3]
1969 (17th)	No Award				[4]
1970 (18th)	Latest	English	Film-O-Pub	Biplab Ray Chaudhari	[5]
1971 (19th)
1972 (20th)	Transcedence	English	Pramod Patil for Films Division	K. Vishwanath for Films Division	[6]
1973 (21st)	Land of Krishna	English	G. L. Bhardwaj	G. L. Bhardwaj	[7]
1974 (22nd)	Behind the Breadline	English	S. Sukhdev	S. Sukhdev	[8]
1975 (23rd)	Baster Rhythm of Progress	English	Chandrashekhar Nair	Chandrashekhar Nair	[9]
1976 (24th)
1977 (25th)	No Award				[10]
1978 (26th)	No Award				[11]
1979 (27th)
1980 (28th)	No Award				[12]
1981 (29th)	No Award				[13]
1982 (30th)	No Award				[14]
1983 (31st)	No Award				[15]
1984 (32nd)	No Award				[16]
1985 (33rd)	No Award				[17]
1986 (34th)	Inner Instincts	English	Ministry of Welfare (India)	P. Vijay Kumar	[18]
1987 (35th)	Sankalp	Hindi	Madhya Pradesh Film Development Corporation Ltd.	Rajendra Janglay	[19]
1988 (36th)	Voices from Baliapal	English	Vector Productions	•Vasudha Joshi  •Ranjan Palit	[20]
1989 (37th)	The Limp in the Niche	English	Girish Karnad	Girish Karnad	[21]
1990 (38th)	Safe Drinking Water for All	English	R. Krishna Mohan for Films Division	Mahesh P. Sinha	[22]
1991 (39th)	Eyes of Stone	•Hindi  • Marwari	Nilita Vachani	Nilita Vachani	[23]
1992 (40th)	Choodiyan	Hindi	Sai Paranjpye for Films Division	Sai Paranjpye	[24]
1993 (41st)	The Women Betrayed	English	•Sehjo Singh  • Anwar Jamal	Sehjo Singh	[25]
1994 (42nd)	Father, Son and Holy War (Part I: Trial by Fire, Part II: Hero Pharmacy)	•Hindi  •English	Anand Patwardhan	Anand Patwardhan	[26]
1995 (43rd)	Memories of Fear	•Hindi  •English	• Flavia Agnes  •Majlis Production	Madhushree Dutta	[27]
1996 (44th)	Silent Screams: A Village Chronicle	English	Jose Sebastián	O. K. Johnny	[28]
1997 (45th)	Matir Bhanr	Bengali	Anjana Ghosh Dastidar	Debananda Sengupta	[29]
1998 (46th)	Malli	Tamil	Film and TV Institute of Tamil Nadu	R. Madhava Krisshnan	[30]
1999 (47th)	Atanka Ka Andhakar (Darkness of Terror)	Hindi	Films Division	Rajiv Kumar	[31]
2000 (48th)	Infiltrators	English	Urmi Chakraborty for Films Division	Urmi Chakraborty for Films Division	[32]
2001 (49th)	A New Paradigm	English	Aruna Raje Patil	Aruna Raje Patil	[33]
2002 (50th)	Avchetan	Hindi	•Prem Matiyani for Films Division  •Ministry of Social Empowerment	Manisha Dwivedi	[34]
2003 (51st)	Way Back Home	Bengali	Rajasri Mukhopadhyay	Supriyo Sen	[35]
2004 (52nd)	Dwijaa	Marathi	Tripurari Sharan for FTII	Pankaj Purandare	[36]
2005 (53rd)	Way To Dusty Death	•Hindi  •English	Rajiv Mehrotra	Sayed Fayaz	[37]
2006 (54th)	Children of Nomads	Hindi	Leoarts Communication	Meenakshi Vinay Rai	[38]
2007 (55th)	Bagher Bacha	Bengali	Satyajit Ray Film and Television Institute	Bishnu Dev Halder	[39]
	Shifting Prophecy	English	Public Service Broadcasting Trust	Merajur Rahman Baruah
2008 (56th)	The Female Nude	Hindi	Public Service Broadcasting Trust	•Hemjyotika  •Devi Prasad Mishra	[40]
	Buru Gaara	Hindi	Public Service Broadcasting Trust	Shriprakash
2009 (57th)	Mr. India	Manipuri	Haobam Paban Kumar	Haobam Paban Kumar	[41]
2010 (58th)	Understanding Trafficking	•Bengali  •Hindi  •English	Cinemawoman	Ananya Chakraborti	[42]
2011 (59th)	Mindscapes... of Love and Longing	•Hindi  •English	Public Service Broadcasting Trust	Arun Chadha	[43]
	Inshallah, Football	• Kashmiri  • Urdu  •English	Javed Jaffrey	Ashvin Kumar
2012 (60th)	Behind The Mist	Malayalam	Babu Kambrath	Babu Kambrath	[44]
2013 (61st)	Gulabi Gang	•Hindi  • Bundelkhandi	Torstein Grude	Nishtha Jain	[45]
2014 (62nd)	Can't Take This Shit Anymore	English	Bhagirathi Films	Vinod Kapri	[46]
	Daughters of Mother India	English	V2 Film & Design	Vibha Bakshi
2015 (63rd)	Auto Driver	Manipuri	•Oinam Doren  •Longjam Meenadevi	Longjam Meenadevi	[47]
2016 (64th)	I am Jeeja	English	Rajiv Mehrotra	Swaty Chakraborty	[48]
	Sanath	Hindi	Priya Arun	Vasanth S. Sai
2017 (65th)	I am Bonnie		Films Division of India	Farha Khatun, Satarupa Santra, Sourabh Kanti Dutta	[49]
	Veil Done		Juhi Bhatt	Rajiv Mehrotra
2018 (66th)	Taala Te Kunjee	Punjabi	Simardeep Singh	Shilpi Gulati	[50]
2019 (67th)	Holy Rights	Urdu	Priyanka Pradeep More	Farha Khatun	[51]
2020 (68th)	Justice Delayed but Delivered	Hindi	Mandeep Chauhan	Kamakhya Narayan Singh	[52]
	Three Sisters	Bengali	Ratnaboli Ray	Putul Rafey Mahmood
2021 (69th)	Mithu DiThree Two One		Asim Kumar Sinha	Asim Kumar Sinha	[53]
	Three Two One		Film and Television Institute of India	Himanshu Prajapati

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External links

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