National Film Award for Best Narration / Voice Over

National Film Award for Best Narration / Voice Over
National award for contributions to non-feature film
Sponsored by	National Film Development Corporation of India
Reward(s)	Rajat Kamal (Silver Lotus) ₹2,00,000
First award	2003
Final award	2022
Most recent winner	Sumant Shinde
Highlights
Total awarded	17
First winner	Balachandran Chullikkadu

The National Film Award for Narration / Voice Over is one of the National Film Awards given by the National Film Development Corporation of India for the non-feature films. It is instituted in 2003 and awarded at 51st National Film Awards. ^[1]

Films made in any Indian language shot on 16 mm, 35 mm or in a wider gauge or digital format and released on either film format or video/digital but certified by the Central Board of Film Certification as a documentary/newsreel/fiction are eligible for non-feature film section.

Awards

All the awardees are awarded with 'Silver Lotus Award (Rajat Kamal)' and cash prize of ₹10,000 (US$120).

Following are the winners over the years:

List of award recipients, showing the year (award ceremony), film(s) and language(s)
Year	Recipient(s)	Film(s)	Language(s)	Refs.
2003 (51st)	Balachandran Chullikkadu	The 18 Elephants – 3 Monologues	Malayalam	[1]
2004 (52nd)	Yang Yen Thaw	The Legend of Fat Mama	English	[2]
2005 (53rd)	Ajay Raina	Wapsi	•English  • Hindi  • Urdu  • Punjabi  • Kashmiri	[3]
2006 (54th)	Nedumudi Venu	Minukku	Malayalam	[4]
2007 (55th)	Vani Subramanian	Ayodhya Gatha	•English  •Hindi	[5]
2008 (56th)	Elangbam Natasha	Sana Keithel	English	[6]
2009 (57th)	Ranjan Palit	In Camera	English	[7]
2010 (58th)	Nilanjan Bhattacharya	Johar : Welcome to Our World	•Hindi  •English	[8]
2011 (59th)	Ann Abraham	Just that Sort of a Day	English	[9]
2012 (60th)	Moni Bordoloi	Suranjana Deepali	Assamese	[10]
2013 (61st)	Lipika Singh Darai	Kankee O Saapo	Oriya	[11]
2014 (62nd)	Ambooty (Anil Kumar)	Nitya Kalyani – Oru Mohiniyattam Patham	Malayalam	[12]
	Devi S.
2015 (63rd)	Harish Bhimani	Mala Laj Watat Nahai	•Marathi  •Hindi  •English	[13]
	Aliyaar	Arangile Nithya Vismayam Guru Chemancherry Kunhiraman Nair	Malayalam
2016 (64th)	Setsu Makino Togawa	Makino An Indian Haiku	English	[14]
2017 (65th)	Francois Castellino	The Lion of Laddak
2018 (66th)	Deepak Agnihotri	Madhubani – The Station of Colours
	Urvija Upadhayay
2019 (67th)	David Attenborough	Wild Karnataka	English	[15]
2020 (68th)	Shobha Tharoor Sreenivasan	Rhapsody of Rains – Monsoons of Kerala	English	[16]
2021 (69th)	Kulada Kumar Bhattacharjee	Hati Bondhu	• English  • Assamese	[17]
2022 (70th)	Sumant Shinde	Murmurs of the Jungle	Marathi	[18]

References

1. "51st National Film Awards" (PDF). Directorate of Film Festivals. p. 130. Retrieved 15 March 2012.
2. "52nd National Film Awards" (PDF). Directorate of Film Festivals. Retrieved 30 March 2022.
3. "53rd National Film Awards" (PDF). Directorate of Film Festivals. Retrieved 30 March 2022.
4. "54th National Film Awards" (PDF). Directorate of Film Festivals. Retrieved 30 March 2022.
5. "55th National Film Awards" (PDF). Directorate of Film Festivals. Retrieved 30 March 2022.
6. "56th National Film Awards" (PDF). Directorate of Film Festivals. Retrieved 30 March 2022.
7. "57th National Film Awards" (PDF). Directorate of Film Festivals. Retrieved 30 March 2022.
8. "58th National Film Awards" (PDF). Directorate of Film Festivals. Retrieved 30 March 2022.
9. "59th National Film Awards for 2011 – Non-Feature Films" (PDF). Directorate of Film Festivals. p. 4. Retrieved 2 April 2012.
10. "60th National Film Awards Announced" (PDF) (Press release). Press Information Bureau (PIB), India. Retrieved 18 March 2013.
11. "61st National Film Awards" (PDF). Directorate of Film Festivals. 16 April 2014. Archived from the original (PDF) on 16 April 2014. Retrieved 16 April 2014.
12. "62nd National Film Awards" (PDF) (Press release). Directorate of Film Festivals. 24 March 2015. Retrieved 24 March 2015.
13. "63rd National Film Awards" (PDF) (Press release). Directorate of Film Festivals. 28 March 2016. Retrieved 28 March 2016.
14. "64th National Film Awards" (PDF) (Press release). Directorate of Film Festivals. Archived from the original (PDF) on 6 June 2017. Retrieved 7 April 2017.
15. "67th National Film Awards announced". Press Information Bureau . 22 March 2021. Retrieved 9 October 2024.
16. "68th National Film Awards announced". Press Information Bureau . 22 July 2022. Retrieved 7 February 2025.
17. "69th National Film Awards for the year 2021 announced". Press Information Bureau . 24 August 2023. Retrieved 9 October 2024.
18. "70th National Film Awards for the year 2022 announced". Press Information Bureau . 16 August 2024. Retrieved 8 October 2024.

External links

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