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The National Film Award began in 1954. Since then, this ceremony has been held at Vigyan Bhawan in New Delhi every year.

Today, the National Film Award Ceremony will be held at Vigyan Bhawan in Delhi. The Ministry of Broadcasting announced the names of the National Award winners on 1 August. At 4 pm today, President Draupadi Murmu will honor the winners. These awards are being given on the basis of films released in the year 2023.

This year South Superstar Mohanlal will be awarded the Dadasaheb Phalke Award, the most important Dadasaheb Phalke Award in the film world. This year, the Best Direction Award to The Kerala Story has also raised controversy. At the same time, Malayali actress Urvashi, who won the Best Supporting Actress Award, has raised questions about the award to Rani Mukherjee and Shah Rukh.

Read before the National Film Award Ceremony, the list of National Award winners, controversy over the winners, the interesting facts related to the award and everything related to its history, which is necessary to know-

Kerala government objections to the award to The Kerala Story

The film The Kerala Story has received the National Award for Best Direction. After the announcement, Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan objected to this and said that the award to the film is to promote a special political ideology, which is an insult to our state. Vijayan says that this film spreads hatred in society by showing false story.

Leader V.D. Satishan also said that the propaganda to spread hatred through the award is being promoted. State Minister Saji Cherian, K.N. Balgopal, V. Sivonakutty and P.A. Mohammad Riyaz also opposed the award to the film.

The National Awards jury member Praveen Nair also made it clear in an interview to Onmanorama that he had opposed the award to give the film The Kerala Story as a propaganda film, but the rest of the jury passed it.

The Kerala Story released on 5 May 2023 is directed by Sudipto Sen.

Why is there a dispute over The Kerala Story?

The trailer of the film claimed that 32,000 women in Kerala adopted Islam and joined ISIS. After the dispute, the makers reduced the number 3 instead of 32 thousand. The film shows how girls are converted by love jihad.

Calling it a propaganda film, the Kerala government strongly opposed it and said that the image of the state is being tarnished by this. There was a demand for a ban on film release in Kerala, after which the makers had to change many shown facts and give disclaimer. The film was also banned in West Bengal. However, the filmmakers challenged it in the Supreme Court and released with the film change.

Malayali actress objected to Rani Mukherjee’s victory

Rani Mukherjee has received the first National Award for her career for Mrs. Chatterjee Verses Norway. While Malayali actress Urvashi has received the Best Supporting Actress Award for the film Oluzhku.

Actress Urvashi expressed displeasure over this after the winners were announced on 1 August. He said in an interview to Asia Net that she should have received the Best Actress Award instead of Rani.

The actress also said that Vijay Raghavan, who won the supporting actor award, should have received the Best Actor Award in place of Shah Rukh. The actress questioned the decision of the jury and said, on which parameters she was awarded. Urvashi said that these awards lack transparency.

History of National Film Award-

• The National Award began in 1954.
• Initially its main objective was to encourage Indian cinema and recognize the best films of different languages ​​at the national level.
• At that time it “State Award for Films “(State Awards for Films) Used to be said.
• The first award was given by the then President Dr. Rajendra Prasad.
• The first award was just 3 categories in the ceremony, with the award of Best Feature Film, Shyamchi I, Best Documentary Award was awarded to Mahatma Gandhi and Best Children’s Award to Jagriti.
• Over time, categories were added for films in different languages ​​across the country.
• Changing his name in 1968 “National Film Awards” Was done.

Read these interesting facts and controversies related to the National Award-

• About 60 out of 140 award winners boycotted the ceremony at the 65th National Award. Actually, according to the rules of the National Award, the President of the country has been honoring all the winners. However, before the 65th ceremony, the winners were told that the then President Ramnath Kovind would give the award to just 11 winners and then the then Information and Broadcasting Minister Smriti Irani Award. Knowing this, the winners, considering it as an insult, refused to attend the ceremony.
• In 1970, no film was found eligible in the Best Non feature film category, due to which no film received an award in this category.
• The 54th National Awards were not awarded the award in 5 categories. The jury believed that she did not get suitable films for 5 categories.
• By the year 2000, Masala films were not given the National Awards, which is why no award was given to Amitabh Bachchan’s blockbuster film Zanjeer.
• For the year 2004, Saif Ali Khan received the National Award for Best Actor for the film Hum Tum. While Shah Rukh Khan’s film Swadesh was released the same year. In such a situation, many people had questioned the award. In an award ceremony, Shah Rukh himself had said that he should have received the National Award for Swadesh in place of Saif.
• Shabana Azmi is the highest number of National Awards of 5 Best Actress. He has received this award for film Earth, Kandahar, Paar, Godamdar and Fire.
• Amitabh Bachchan, Kamal Haasan has 4-4 Best Actor Awards.
• AR Rahman has the highest 7 National Awards for 6 Best Music Directions and one sound direction.

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