National Film Award for Best Feature Film in Hindi
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The National Film Award for Best Feature Film in Hindi is 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 is one of several awards presented for feature films and awarded with Rajat Kamal (Silver Lotus).
National Film Award for Best Feature Film in Hindi | |
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National award for contributions to Indian Cinema | |
Awarded for | Best Hindi Feature Film(s) of the year |
Sponsored by | Directorate of Film Festivals |
Formerly called | President's Silver Medal for Best Feature Film in Hindi (1954ā68) |
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First awarded | 1954 |
Last awarded | 2020 |
Most recent winner | Sardar Udham |
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Total awarded | 84 |
First winner | Mirza Ghalib |
Website | http://dff.gov.in/ |
The National Film Awards, established in 1954, are the most prominent film awards in India that merit the best of the Indian cinema. The ceremony also presents awards for films in various regional languages.
Awards for films in seven regional language (Bengali, Hindi, Kannada, Malayalam, Marathi, Tamil and Telugu) started from 2nd National Film Awards which were presented on 21 December 1955.[1] Three awards of "President's Silver Medal for Best Feature Film", "Certificate of Merit for the Second Best Feature Film" and "Certificate of Merit for the Third Best Feature Film" were instituted. The later two certificate awards were discontinued from 15th National Film Awards (1967). Shyam Benegal won the award seven times (most by any director) followed by Hrishikesh Mukherjee who won six times.
Directed by Sohrab Modi, the 1954 film Mirza Ghalib was honoured with the first president's silver medal for Best Feature Film in Hindi. The most recent recipient is the 2021 biographical period drama Sardar Udham.