National Film Award for Best Film on Environment Conservation/Preservation

National Film Award for Best Film on Environment Conservation/Preservation
National award for contributions to Indian Cinema
Awarded forThe best feature film focusing environmental concerns
Sponsored byDirectorate of Film Festivals
Reward(s)
  • Rajat Kamal (Silver Lotus)
  • ₹50,000 (US$600)
First awarded1989
Last awarded2020
Most recent winnerTaledanda
Highlights
Total awarded23
First winnerBonani

The National Film Award for Best Film on Environment Conservation/Preservation was one of the categories in the National Film Awards presented annually by the Directorate of Film Festivals, the organization set up by the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting in India. It was 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 Family Welfare, Best Film on National Integration 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 National Film Awards were established in 1954 to "encourage production of the films of a high aesthetic and technical standard and educational and culture value" and also planned to included awards for regional films.[3][4] In 1989, at the 37th National Film Awards the new category of award for Best Film on Environment Conservation/Preservation was introduced for the Rajat Kamal and awarded annually for films produced in the year across the country, in all Indian languages. As of 2016 since its inception, the award has been present only nineteen times to unique films. It has been presented for films in eight languages with the highest being six in Malayalam and Kannada, two each in Assamese and Odia, and one each in Bodo, Manipuri, Marathi, and Tamil. It was not presented on nine occasion in 1990 (38th ceremony),[5] 1991 (39th ceremony),[6] 1996 (44th ceremony),[7] 2001 (49th ceremony),[8] 2002 (50th ceremony),[9] 2006 (54th ceremony),[10] 2007 (55th ceremony),[11] 2009 (57th ceremony),[12] and 2011 (59th ceremony).[13]

The inaugural award was conferred upon the production house M/s Purbanchal Film Co-operative Society Ltd. (Rajat Kamal and ₹ 30,000) and director Jahnu Barua (Rajat Kamal and ₹ 15,000) for their Assamese film Bonani for the story of a lone forest officer fighting the illegal timber mafia and protecting rights of uneducated tribals.[14] Kannada film director P. Sheshadri received the award in 2005 for his film Thutturi which was produced by Jayamala Ramchandra.[15] He again won the award in 2010 for the film Bettada Jeeva produced by Basanta Kumar Patil.[16] Malayalam film director Dr. Biju went on to receive the award in 2013 for his film Perariyathavar produced by Ambalakkara Global Films and again in 2015 for the film Valiya Chirakulla Pakshikal produced by A. K. Pillai.[17][18] The most recent recipient of the award has been the Malayalam film Aavasavyuham[19] directed by Krishand RK.[20]

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  19. ^ "National Film Awards: Allu Arjun, Alia Bhatt, Kriti Sanon Best Actors; Indrans bags special mention". OnManorama. Retrieved 14 October 2023.
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