National Film Award for Best Film on Other Social Issues

National Film Award for Best Film on Other Social Issues
National Film Award for Best Film on Other Social Issues
National award for contributions to Indian Cinema
Awarded for	Best feature film on Social Issues such as Prohibition, Women and Child Welfare, Anti-dowry, Drug Abuse, Welfare of the Handicapped etc. for a year
Sponsored by	Directorate of Film Festivals
Reward(s)	Rajat Kamal (Silver Lotus); ₹150,000 (US$1,800);
First awarded	1984
Last awarded	2019
Most recent Winner	Anandi Gopal
Highlights
Total awarded	42
First winner	Accident

The National Film Award for Best Film on Other Social Issues is one of the category 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 is one of several awards presented for feature films and is awarded with Rajat Kamal (Silver Lotus).

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.^[1]^[2] In 1984, at the 32nd National Film Awards various new categories were instituted for Swarna Kamal and Rajat Kamal. Categories like the Best Supporting Actor, Best Supporting Actress, Best Costume Design along with the Best Film on Other Social Issues were introduced for the Rajat Kamal. This category was introduced to be awarded annually for films produced in the year across the country, in all Indian languages. As of 2016^[update] since its inception, the award has been present thirty-three times to thirty-six films. It has been presented for films in seven languages with the highest being twelve in Hindi, followed by ten in Malayalam, five in Tamil, four in Marathi, three in Bengali, two in Kannada and one in Telugu. It was not presented on two occasion in 1985 (33rd ceremony) and 2011 (59th ceremony).^[3]^[4]

The inaugural award was conferred upon production banner Sanket (Rajat Kamal and ₹ 30,000) and director Shankar Nag (Rajat Kamal and ₹ 15,000) for their Kannada film Accident for dealing with the bold topic of whistleblowing against political corruption and dealing with bad effects of alcoholism.^[5] On five occasion the award was shared by two films: in 1987 by Tamil films Ore Oru Gramathiley and Vedham Pudhithu, in 1993 by Janani (Bengali) and Naaraayam (Malayalam), in 1994 by Wheelchair (Bengali) and Parinayam (Malayalam), in 2000 by Munnudi (Kannada) and Vetri Kodi Kattu (Tamil), and in 2003 by Hindi films Koi... Mil Gaya and Gangaajal.^[6]

^ "1st National Film Awards". International Film Festival of India. Archived from the original on 2017-05-17. Retrieved 10 May 2017.
^ "1st National Film Awards (PDF)" (PDF). Directorate of Film Festivals. Retrieved 10 May 2017.
^ Cite error: The named reference 33rdawardPDF was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
^ Cite error: The named reference 59thaward was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
^ Cite error: The named reference 32ndawardPDF was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
^ Cite error: The named reference 65thaward was invoked but never defined (see the help page).

[1staward-1] "1st National Film Awards". International Film Festival of India. Archived from the original on 2017-05-17. Retrieved 10 May 2017.

[1stawardPDF-2] "1st National Film Awards (PDF)" (PDF). Directorate of Film Festivals. Retrieved 10 May 2017.

[33rdawardPDF-3] Cite error: The named reference 33rdawardPDF was invoked but never defined (see the help page).

[59thaward-4] Cite error: The named reference 59thaward was invoked but never defined (see the help page).

[32ndawardPDF-5] Cite error: The named reference 32ndawardPDF was invoked but never defined (see the help page).

[65thaward-6] Cite error: The named reference 65thaward was invoked but never defined (see the help page).

[1]

[2]

[3]

[4]

[5]

[6]