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The '''59th National Film Awards''', presented by the [[Directorate of Film Festivals]], honoured the best of [[Cinema of India|Indian cinema]] for 2011 and took place on 3 May 2012 at [[Vigyan Bhavan]], New Delhi. Awards were presented in 38 categories in [[National Film Award for Best Feature Film|the Feature Films section]], 20 categories in [[National Film Award for Best Non-Feature Film|the Non-Feature Films section]] and two categories for the Best Writing on Cinema section; 41 jury members chose the winners from 392 entries. The ceremony was hosted by actors [[Vinay Pathak]] and [[Saumya Tandon]]. Awards were presented by the Vice-President of India, [[Mohammad Hamid Ansari]]. The ceremony was broadcast live on three television channels, eleven [[All India Radio]] stations, and webcast live.
The '''59th National Film Awards''', presented by the [[Directorate of Film Festivals]], honoured the best of [[Cinema of India|Indian cinema]] for 2011 and took place on 3 May 2012 at [[Vigyan Bhavan]], New Delhi. Awards were presented in 38 categories in [[National Film Award for Best Feature Film|the Feature Films section]], 20 categories in [[National Film Award for Best Non-Feature Film|the Non-Feature Films section]] and two categories for the Best Writing on Cinema section; 41 jury members chose the winners from 392 entries. The ceremony was hosted by actors [[Vinay Pathak]] and [[Saumya Tandon]]. Awards were presented by the Vice-President of India, [[Mohammad Hamid Ansari]]. The ceremony was broadcast live on three television channels, eleven [[All India Radio]] stations, and webcast live.


''[[Deool]]'', a [[Marathi cinema|Marathi film]],  and ''[[Byari (film)|Byari]]'', the first and only [[Beary language|Beary]] film, shared the award for the [[National Film Award for Best Feature Film|Best Feature Film]]. The award for the [[National Film Award for Best Non-Feature Film|Best Non-Feature Film]] was given to the [[Hindi language|Hindi]]‐English documentary ''And We Play On''. The book, ''R. D. Burman: The Man, The Music'', co-authored by Anirudha Bhattacharjee and Balaji Vittal, won the [[National Film Award for Best Book on Cinema|Best Book on Cinema]]; [[Assamese people|Assamese]] film critic [[Manoj Barpujari]] was declared the [[National Film Award for Best Film Critic|Best Film Critic]]. [[Gurvinder Singh]] won the [[National Film Award for Best Direction|best feature film direction]] award for his directorial debut, ''[[Anhe Ghore Da Daan]]''. For the film ''Deool'', [[Girish Kulkarni]] won the awards for [[National Film Award for Best Actor|Best Actor]] and [[National Film Award for Best Screenplay|Best Dialogue]]; [[Bollywood]] actress [[Vidya Balan]] won the [[National Film Award for Best Actress|Best Actress]] award for ''[[The Dirty Picture]]''. The [[Dadasaheb Phalke Award]], regarded as the most prestigious recognition in Indian cinema, was given to the veteran Bengali actor [[Soumitra Chatterjee]] for his contribution to [[Cinema of West Bengal|Bengali cinema]].
''[[Deool]]'', a [[Marathi cinema|Marathi film]],  and ''[[Byari (film)|Byari]]'', the first and only [[Beary language|Beary]] film, shared the award for the [[National Film Award for Best Feature Film|Best Feature Film]]. The award for the [[National Film Award for Best Non-Feature Film|Best Non-Feature Film]] was given to the [[Hindi language|Hindi]]-English documentary ''And We Play On''. The book, ''R. D. Burman: The Man, The Music'', co-authored by [[Anirudha Bhattacharjee]] and Balaji Vittal, won the [[National Film Award for Best Book on Cinema|Best Book on Cinema]]; [[Assamese people|Assamese]] film critic [[Manoj Barpujari]] was declared the [[National Film Award for Best Film Critic|Best Film Critic]]. [[Gurvinder Singh (director)|Gurvinder Singh]] won the [[National Film Award for Best Direction|best feature film direction]] award for his directorial debut, ''[[Anhe Ghore Da Daan]]''. For the film ''Deool'', [[Girish Kulkarni]] won the awards for [[National Film Award for Best Actor|Best Actor]] and [[National Film Award for Best Screenplay|Best Dialogue]]; [[Bollywood]] actress [[Vidya Balan]] won the [[National Film Award for Best Actress|Best Actress]] award for ''[[The Dirty Picture]]''. The [[Dadasaheb Phalke Award]], regarded as the most prestigious recognition in Indian cinema, was given to the veteran Bengali actor [[Soumitra Chatterjee]] for his contribution to [[Cinema of West Bengal|Bengali cinema]].


== Selection process ==
== Selection process ==
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== Feature Films ==
== Feature films ==
Feature films were awarded at national and regional levels. A [[Marathi cinema|Marathi film]], ''[[Deool]]'' and a [[Beary language|Beary]] film, ''[[Byari (film)|Byari]]'', shared the [[National Film Award for Best Feature Film]]. ''Deool'' became the third Marathi film to win the honour after ''[[Shyamchi Aai (film)|Shyamchi Aai]]'' (1953) and ''[[Shwaas]]'' (2003).<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.thehindu.com/arts/cinema/article2981181.ece|title=Success of 'Deool' buoys spirit of Marathi cinema|author=Press Trust of India|author-link=Press Trust of India|date=10 March 2012|agency=The Hindu|access-date=25 June 2012|archive-date=19 July 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120719035903/http://www.thehindu.com/arts/cinema/article2981181.ece|url-status=live}}</ref> The film's author and lead actor, [[Girish Kulkarni]], won the awards for Best Actor and [[National Film Award for Best Screenplay|Best Dialogues]]. ''Byari'' is the first feature film ever made in the Beary language.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2012-03-07/news-interviews/31131845_1_marathi-film-umesh-kulkarni-national-award|title='Byari' a study on the ethnic community: K P Suveeran|author=Press Trust of India|author-link=Press Trust of India|date=7 March 2012|work=[[The Times of India]]|access-date=25 June 2012|archive-date=20 July 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130720045111/http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2012-03-07/news-interviews/31131845_1_marathi-film-umesh-kulkarni-national-award|url-status=dead}}</ref> In this section, 24 films won awards, and six films, including ''Deool'', the [[Cinema of Punjab|Punjabi film]] ''[[Anhe Ghore Da Daan]]'', another Marathi film ''[[Balgandharva (film)|Balgandharva]]'', a Bengali film ''[[Ranjana Ami Ar Ashbona]]'' and two [[Bollywood|Hindi films]] ''[[Chillar Party]]'' and ''[[The Dirty Picture]]'', won three awards each.<ref name="59thnfadff">{{cite web|title=59th National Film Awards 2011|url=http://dff.nic.in/59thNFA2011.htm|publisher=Directorate of Film Festivals|access-date=1 April 2012|archive-date=11 April 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120411151723/http://dff.nic.in/59thNFA2011.htm|url-status=live}}</ref>
Feature films were awarded at national and regional levels. A [[Marathi cinema|Marathi film]], ''[[Deool]]'' and a [[Beary language|Beary]] film, ''[[Byari (film)|Byari]]'', shared the [[National Film Award for Best Feature Film]]. ''Deool'' became the third Marathi film to win the honour after ''[[Shyamchi Aai (film)|Shyamchi Aai]]'' (1953) and ''[[Shwaas]]'' (2003).<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.thehindu.com/arts/cinema/article2981181.ece|title=Success of 'Deool' buoys spirit of Marathi cinema|author=Press Trust of India|author-link=Press Trust of India|date=10 March 2012|agency=The Hindu|access-date=25 June 2012|archive-date=19 July 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120719035903/http://www.thehindu.com/arts/cinema/article2981181.ece|url-status=live}}</ref> The film's author and lead actor, [[Girish Kulkarni]], won the awards for Best Actor and [[National Film Award for Best Screenplay|Best Dialogues]]. ''Byari'' is the first feature film ever made in the Beary language.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/others/news-interviews/Byari-a-study-on-the-ethnic-community-K-P-Suveeran/articleshow/12175005.cms|title='Byari' a study on the ethnic community: K P Suveeran|author=Press Trust of India|author-link=Press Trust of India|date=7 March 2012|work=[[The Times of India]]|access-date=25 June 2012|archive-date=20 July 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130720045111/http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2012-03-07/news-interviews/31131845_1_marathi-film-umesh-kulkarni-national-award|url-status=live}}</ref> In this section, 24 films won awards, and six films, including ''Deool'', the [[Cinema of Punjab|Punjabi film]] ''[[Anhe Ghore Da Daan]]'', another Marathi film ''[[Balgandharva (film)|Balgandharva]]'', a Bengali film ''[[Ranjana Ami Ar Ashbona]]'' and two [[Bollywood|Hindi films]] ''[[Chillar Party]]'' and ''[[The Dirty Picture]]'', won three awards each.<ref name="59thnfadff">{{cite web|title=59th National Film Awards 2011|url=http://dff.nic.in/59thNFA2011.htm|publisher=Directorate of Film Festivals|access-date=1 April 2012|archive-date=11 April 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120411151723/http://dff.nic.in/59thNFA2011.htm|url-status=live}}</ref>


=== Jury ===
=== Jury ===
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| style="width:50%" |{{•}} [[Vinay Shukla]] {{small|(Filmmaker)}}
| style="width:50%" |{{•}} [[Vinay Shukla]] {{small|(Filmmaker)}}
| style="width:50%" |{{•}} Alaknanda Roy {{small|(Actress)}}
| style="width:50%" |{{•}} [[Aloknanda Roy]] {{small|(Actress)}}
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|- style="vertical-align:top;"
|- style="background-color:#F0EADF;"
|- style="background-color:#F0EADF;"
| style="width:50%" |{{•}} K. Bikram Singh {{small|(Filmmaker)}}
| style="width:50%" |{{•}} [[K. Bikram Singh]] {{small|(Filmmaker)}}
| style="width:50%" |{{•}} Shyamal Karmakar {{small|(Director and editor)}}
| style="width:50%" |{{•}} Shyamal Karmakar {{small|(Director and editor)}}
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|- style="vertical-align:top;"
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| colspan="2" style="background-color:#F5EFD0;" |{{•}} Alaknanda Roy (Head)
| colspan="2" style="background-color:#F5EFD0;" |{{•}} [[Aloknanda Roy]] (Head)
|- style="background-color:#F0EADF;"
|- style="background-color:#F0EADF;"
| style="width:50%" |{{•}} Sashi Paravoor {{small|(Director)}}
| style="width:50%" |{{•}} Sashi Paravoor {{small|(Director)}}
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|- style="background-color:#F0EADF;"
| style="width:50%" |{{•}} [[Satish Kasetty|K. Satyanarayana]] {{small|(Filmmaker)}}
| style="width:50%" |{{•}} [[Satish Kasetty|K. Satyanarayana]] {{small|(Filmmaker)}}
| style="width:50%" |{{•}} Ratnottama Sengupta {{small|(Film critic)}}
| style="width:50%" |{{•}} [[Ratnottama Sengupta]] {{small|(Film critic)}}
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! scope="row" rowspan="2"|[[National Film Award for Best Feature Film|Best Feature Film]]
! scope="row" rowspan="2"|[[National Film Award for Best Feature Film|Best Feature Film]]
| ''[[Deool]]''
| ''[[Deool]]''
| [[Marathi language|Marathi]]
| [[Marathi language|Marathi]]
|Producer: Abhijeet Gholap<br />Director: [[Umesh Vinayak Kulkarni]]
Director: [[Umesh Vinayak Kulkarni]]
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| rowspan="2" |{{INRConvert|250000|nolink=yes}}
|-
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|''[[Anhe Ghore Da Daan]]''
|''[[Anhe Ghore Da Daan]]''
|[[Punjabi language|Punjabi]]
|[[Punjabi language|Punjabi]]
|[[Gurvinder Singh]]
|[[Gurvinder Singh (director)|Gurvinder Singh]]
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! scope="row" |[[National Film Award for Best Actor|Best Actor]]
! scope="row" |[[National Film Award for Best Actor|Best Actor]]
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=== Regional Awards ===
=== Regional Awards ===


National Film Awards are also given to the best films in the regional languages of India. Awards for the regional languages are categorised as per their mention in the [[Languages with official status in India#Eighth Schedule to the Constitution|Eighth schedule]] of the [[Constitution of India]]. Awardees included producers and directors of the film. No films in languages other than those specified in the Schedule VIII of the Constitution were eligible.<ref name="59thaward" /><ref name=59thnfa />
National Film Awards are also given to the best films in the regional languages of India. Awards for the regional languages are categorised as per their mention in the [[Languages with official status in India#Schedule|Eighth schedule]] of the [[Constitution of India]]. Awardees included producers and directors of the film. No films in languages other than those specified in the Schedule VIII of the Constitution were eligible.<ref name="59thaward" /><ref name=59thnfa />


All the winners were awarded with ''Rajat Kamal'' (Silver Lotus Award), a certificate and cash prize.<ref name="59threg" /> Following were the awards given:
All the winners were awarded with ''Rajat Kamal'' (Silver Lotus Award), a certificate and cash prize.<ref name="59threg" /> Following were the awards given:
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|-
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! style="background-color:#EFE4B0;"|Producer(s)
! style="background-color:#EFE4B0;"|Producer(s)
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|{{INRConvert|100000|nolink=yes}}
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! scope="row" |[[Discontinued and Intermittent National Film Awards#Best Feature Film in Dogri|Best Feature Film in Dogri]]
! scope="row" |[[Discontinued and Intermittent National Film Awards#Best Dogri Feature Film|Best Feature Film in Dogri]]
|''Dille Ch Vasya Koi''
|''Dille Ch Vasya Koi''
|Sanjeev Rattan
|Sanjeev Rattan
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! scope="row" |[[National Film Award for Best Feature Film in Malayalam|Best Feature Film in Malayalam]]
! scope="row" |[[National Film Award for Best Feature Film in Malayalam|Best Feature Film in Malayalam]]
|''[[Indian Rupee (film)|Indian Rupee]]''
|''[[Indian Rupee (film)|Indian Rupee]]''
|[[August Cinema]] India Pvt. Ltd.
|August Cinema India Pvt. Ltd.
|[[Ranjith (director)|Ranjith]]
|[[Ranjith (director)|Ranjith]]
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|{{INRConvert|100000|nolink=yes}}
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|''[[Anhe Ghore Da Daan]]''
|''[[Anhe Ghore Da Daan]]''
|[[National Film Development Corporation of India|NFDC]]
|[[National Film Development Corporation of India|NFDC]]
|[[Gurvinder Singh]]
|[[Gurvinder Singh (director)|Gurvinder Singh]]
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|{{INRConvert|100000|nolink=yes}}
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! scope="row" |[[National Film Award for Best Non-Feature Film|Best Non-Feature Film]]
! scope="row" |[[National Film Award for Best Non-Feature Film|Best Non-Feature Film]]
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! scope="row" |[[National Film Award for Best First Non-Feature Film of a Director|Best First Non-Feature Film]]
! scope="row" |[[National Film Award for Best First Non-Feature Film of a Director|Best First Non-Feature Film]]
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! scope="row" |[[National Film Award for Best Book on Cinema|Best Book on Cinema]]
! scope="row" |[[National Film Award for Best Book on Cinema|Best Book on Cinema]]
|''[[R. D. Burman: The Man The Music]]''
|''[[R. D. Burman: The Man The Music]]''
|English
|English
|Author: Anirudha Bhattacharjee and Balaji Vittal<br />Publisher:[[HarperCollins|Harper Collins India]]
|Author: [[Anirudha Bhattacharjee]] and Balaji Vittal<br />Publisher:[[HarperCollins|Harper Collins India]]
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! scope="row" |[[National Film Award for Best Film Critic|Best Film Critic]]
! scope="row" |[[National Film Award for Best Film Critic|Best Film Critic]]
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;Feature films
;Feature films
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{{div col|colwidth=28em}}
* [[National Film Award for Best Animated Film|Best Animated Film]]
* [[National Film Award for Best Animated Film|Best Animated Film]]
* [[National Film Award for Best Film on Environment Conservation/Preservation|Best Film on Environment Conservation / Preservation]]
* [[National Film Award for Best Film on Environment Conservation/Preservation|Best Film on Environment Conservation / Preservation]]
* [[National Film Award for Best Film on Family Welfare|Best Film on Family Welfare]]
* [[National Film Award for Best Film on Family Welfare|Best Film on Family Welfare]]
{{col 3}}
* [[Nargis Dutt Award for Best Feature Film on National Integration|Best Film on National Integration]]
* [[Nargis Dutt Award for Best Feature Film on National Integration|Best Film on National Integration]]
* [[National Film Award for Best Film on Other Social Issues|Best Film on Other Social Issues]]
* [[National Film Award for Best Film on Other Social Issues|Best Film on Other Social Issues]]
* [[National Film Award for Best Feature Film in Assamese|Best Feature Film in Assamese]]
* [[National Film Award for Best Feature Film in Assamese|Best Feature Film in Assamese]]
{{col 3}}
* [[National Film Award for Best Feature Film in English|Best Feature Film in English]]
* [[National Film Award for Best Feature Film in English|Best Feature Film in English]]
* [[National Film Award for Best Feature Film in Oriya|Best Feature Film in Oriya]]
* [[National Film Award for Best Feature Film in Oriya|Best Feature Film in Oriya]]
* [[National Film Award for Best Feature Film in Telugu|Best Feature Film in Telugu]]
* [[National Film Award for Best Feature Film in Telugu|Best Feature Film in Telugu]]
{{col end}}
{{div col end}}


;Non-Feature Films
;Non-Feature Films
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{{div col|colwidth=28em}}
* [[National Film Award for Best Non-Feature Animation Film|Best Animation Film]]
* [[National Film Award for Best Non-Feature Animation Film|Best Animation Film]]
{{col 3}}
* [[National Film Award for Best Agriculture Film|Best Agricultural Film]]
* [[National Film Award for Best Agriculture Film|Best Agricultural Film]]
{{col 3}}
* [[National Film Award for Best Scientific Film|Best Scientific Film]]
* [[National Film Award for Best Scientific Film|Best Scientific Film]]
{{col end}}
{{div col end}}


== Award ceremony ==
== Award ceremony ==
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To mark the centenary of Indian cinema, the ceremony started with clips of the first full-length Indian feature film, ''[[Raja Harishchandra]]'' (1913). Directed by Dadasaheb Phalke, this silent film was released on 3 May 1913 at [[Coronation Cinema]], Mumbai. To honour this historic event, Soni announced that 2013 would be observed as the centenary year of Indian Cinema and that the National Film Awards ceremony would be held on 3 May every year. She also announced that a National Heritage Mission would be set up to digitise and restore all audio and video tapes of Indian films. A Museum of Indian Cinema would also be inaugurated at the [[Gulshan Mahal]], Mumbai, before May 2013.<ref group=a>{{cite news|url=http://www.business-standard.com/generalnews/news/nat-film-awards-ceremony-to-be-heldmay-3-every-year-soni/4460/|title=Nat Film Awards ceremony to be held on May 3 every year: Soni|newspaper=[[Business Standard]]|author=Press Trust of India|author-link=Press Trust of India|date=3 May 2012|access-date=3 May 2012|archive-date=3 September 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200903185826/https://www.business-standard.com/article/pti-stories/nat-film-awards-ceremony-to-be-held-on-may-3-every-year-soni-112050300505_1.html|url-status=live}}
To mark the centenary of Indian cinema, the ceremony started with clips of the first full-length Indian feature film, ''[[Raja Harishchandra]]'' (1913). Directed by Dadasaheb Phalke, this silent film was released on 3 May 1913 at [[Coronation Cinema]], Mumbai. To honour this historic event, Soni announced that 2013 would be observed as the centenary year of Indian Cinema and that the National Film Awards ceremony would be held on 3 May every year. She also announced that a National Heritage Mission would be set up to digitise and restore all audio and video tapes of Indian films. A Museum of Indian Cinema would also be inaugurated at the [[Gulshan Mahal]], Mumbai, before May 2013.<ref group=a>{{cite news|url=http://www.business-standard.com/generalnews/news/nat-film-awards-ceremony-to-be-heldmay-3-every-year-soni/4460/|title=Nat Film Awards ceremony to be held on May 3 every year: Soni|newspaper=[[Business Standard]]|author=Press Trust of India|author-link=Press Trust of India|date=3 May 2012|access-date=3 May 2012|archive-date=3 September 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200903185826/https://www.business-standard.com/article/pti-stories/nat-film-awards-ceremony-to-be-held-on-may-3-every-year-soni-112050300505_1.html|url-status=live}}
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59th National Film Awards
Logo reads "59th" with the lotus symbol on top and golden yellow background
59th National Film Awards event logo
Awarded forBest of Indian cinema in 2011
Awarded byDirectorate of Film Festivals
Presented byMohammad Hamid Ansari
(Vice-President of India)
Announced on7 March 2012 (2012-03-07)
Presented on3 May 2012 (2012-05-03)
SiteVigyan Bhavan, New Delhi
Hosted byVinay Pathak and Saumya Tandon
Official websitedff.nic.in
Highlights
Best Feature Film
Best Non-Feature FilmAnd We Play On
Best BookR. D. Burman: The Man The Music
Best Film CriticManoj Barpujari
Dadasaheb Phalke AwardSoumitra Chatterjee
Most awards • Anhe Ghore Da Daan
 • Balgandharva
 • Chillar Party
 • Deool
 • Ranjana Ami Ar Ashbona
 • The Dirty Picture (3)

The 59th National Film Awards, presented by the Directorate of Film Festivals, honoured the best of Indian cinema for 2011 and took place on 3 May 2012 at Vigyan Bhavan, New Delhi. Awards were presented in 38 categories in the Feature Films section, 20 categories in the Non-Feature Films section and two categories for the Best Writing on Cinema section; 41 jury members chose the winners from 392 entries. The ceremony was hosted by actors Vinay Pathak and Saumya Tandon. Awards were presented by the Vice-President of India, Mohammad Hamid Ansari. The ceremony was broadcast live on three television channels, eleven All India Radio stations, and webcast live.

Deool, a Marathi film, and Byari, the first and only Beary film, shared the award for the Best Feature Film. The award for the Best Non-Feature Film was given to the Hindi-English documentary And We Play On. The book, R. D. Burman: The Man, The Music, co-authored by Anirudha Bhattacharjee and Balaji Vittal, won the Best Book on Cinema; Assamese film critic Manoj Barpujari was declared the Best Film Critic. Gurvinder Singh won the best feature film direction award for his directorial debut, Anhe Ghore Da Daan. For the film Deool, Girish Kulkarni won the awards for Best Actor and Best Dialogue; Bollywood actress Vidya Balan won the Best Actress award for The Dirty Picture. The Dadasaheb Phalke Award, regarded as the most prestigious recognition in Indian cinema, was given to the veteran Bengali actor Soumitra Chatterjee for his contribution to Bengali cinema.

Selection process[edit | edit source]

The Directorate of Film Festivals invited nominations for the 2012 award ceremony on 26 December 2011.[1] Feature and Non-Feature Films certified by Central Board of Film Certification between 1 January 2011, and 31 December 2011, were eligible for the film award categories. The written material on Indian cinema published in Indian print media during the same period were eligible for the best writing on cinema section.[2] The dubbed, revised or copied versions of a film or translation, abridgements, edited or annotated works and reprints were ineligible for the awards.[3] The deadline for submissions was 17 January 2012.[1]

The Feature Film category received 186 entries in 19 languages, marking the highest number of submissions in the history of the National Film Awards, as of 2011. A total of 156 entries were received in the Non-Feature Films category along with 28 books and 22 articles which were submitted for the Best Writing in Cinema.[4]

Awards[edit | edit source]

The National Film Awards are grouped into three sections: Feature Films, Non-Feature Films and Writing on Cinema. On 7 March 2012, in a press conference held at Shastri Bhavan, New Delhi, the winners for the 2012 award ceremony were announced.[5] A lifetime achievement award, named after Dadasaheb Phalke, was awarded to a film personality for an outstanding contribution to the Indian Cinema. The winners were awarded a medallion, a cash prize and a certificate of merit.[3][6]

Dadasaheb Phalke Award[edit | edit source]

Introduced in 1969, the Dadasaheb Phalke Award is the highest award given to recognise the contributions of film personalities towards the development of Indian cinema and for distinguished contributions to the medium, its growth and promotion.[7] A committee consisting of five personalities from the Indian film industry was appointed to evaluate the Dadasaheb Phalke award nominations for 2011. Following were the jury members:[8]

 • Shyam Benegal
 • Girish Kasaravalli
 • Saeed Akhtar Mirza
 • Ramesh Sippy
 • V. K. Murthy

The Dadasaheb Phalke award for 2011 was announced on 23 March 2012. Actor Soumitra Chatterjee won the award for his contribution to Indian cinema, predominantly in Bengali cinema.[9] Chatterjee was a regular in Satyajit Ray films, has worked with other notable directors such as Mrinal Sen and Tapan Sinha in a career lasting over 50 years.

Name of Award Image Awardee(s) Awarded As Awards
Dadasaheb Phalke Award Soumitra Chatterjee[10] Actor Swarna Kamal, ₹1 million (US$14,000) and a Shawl

Feature films[edit | edit source]

Feature films were awarded at national and regional levels. A Marathi film, Deool and a Beary film, Byari, shared the National Film Award for Best Feature Film. Deool became the third Marathi film to win the honour after Shyamchi Aai (1953) and Shwaas (2003).[11] The film's author and lead actor, Girish Kulkarni, won the awards for Best Actor and Best Dialogues. Byari is the first feature film ever made in the Beary language.[12] In this section, 24 films won awards, and six films, including Deool, the Punjabi film Anhe Ghore Da Daan, another Marathi film Balgandharva, a Bengali film Ranjana Ami Ar Ashbona and two Hindi films Chillar Party and The Dirty Picture, won three awards each.[13]

Jury[edit | edit source]

For the Feature Film section, six committees were formed based on the different geographic regions in India. The two-tier evaluation process included a central committee and five regional committees. The central committee, headed by the actor Rohini Hattangadi, included the heads of each regional committee and five other jury members. At regional level, each committee consisted of one chief and four members. The chief and one non-chief member of each regional committee were selected from outside that geographic region. The table below names the jury members for the central and regional committees:[13][14]

Central Jury

 • Rohini Hattangadi (Chairperson) (Actress)
 • K. Hariharan (Filmmaker)  • K. P. Kumaran (Filmmaker)
 • Vinay Shukla (Filmmaker)  • Aloknanda Roy (Actress)
 • A. S. Kanal (Filmmaker, cinematographer and editor)  • Latika Padgaonkar (Writer)
 • Prakash Belawadi (Director and journalist)  • Hiren Bora (Actor)
 • Kishwar Desai (Author)  • Ranjani Mazumdar (Author)

Northern Region: (Bhojpuri, Dogri , English, Hindi, Punjabi, Rajasthani, Urdu)

 • K. Hariharan (Head)
 • Amrik Gill (Writer)  • Ayesha Sayani (Ad filmmaker)
 • K. Bikram Singh (Filmmaker)  • Shyamal Karmakar (Director and editor)

Eastern Region: (Assamese, Bengali, Oriya and North-Eastern dialects)

 • K. P. Kumaran (Head)
 • Satarupa Sanyal (Filmmaker, actress and poet)  • Dilip Patnaik (Filmmaker)
 • Bhagirathi (Actress)  • Ganesh Matkari (Film critic)

Western Region: (Gujarati, Konkani, Marathi)

 • Vinay Shukla (Head)
 • Pandhari Juker (Makeup Artist)  • Kanchan Nayak (Director)
 • Hemendra Chaya (Actor)  • Banwari Taneja (Actor)

Southern Region I: (Malayalam, Tamil)

 • Aloknanda Roy (Head)
 • Sashi Paravoor (Director)  • T. G. Thyagarajan (Producer)
 • S. P. Jananathan (Director)  • Bela Negi (Filmmaker and editor)

Southern Region II: (Kannada, Telugu)

 • A. S. Kanal (Head)
 • Umashanker Swamy (Filmmaker)  • P. H. Vishwanath (Filmmaker)
 • K. Satyanarayana (Filmmaker)  • Ratnottama Sengupta (Film critic)

All India Awards[edit | edit source]

At national level, feature films competed in 29 categories. The Swarna Kamal (Golden Lotus Award) was awarded in five categories, the Rajat Kamal (Silver Lotus Award) in the rest. In this edition, the Golden Lotus Award for the Best Animation Film and eight Silver Lotus Awards were not announced. The awards given were as follows:[15][16]

Golden Lotus Award[edit | edit source]

All the winners were awarded with a Swarna Kamal (Golden Lotus Award), a certificate and a cash prize.[3]

Name of Award Name of Film(s) Language Awardee(s) Cash prize
Best Feature Film Deool Marathi

Director: Umesh Vinayak Kulkarni

₹250,000 (US$3,500)
Byari Beary Producer: T. H. Althaf Hussain
Director: Suveeran
Best Debut Film of a Director Aaranya Kaandam Tamil Producer: S. P. B. Charan
Director: Thiagarajan Kumararaja 		₹125,000 (US$1,800)
Best Popular Film Providing Wholesome Entertainment Azhagarsamiyin Kuthirai Tamil Producer: P. Madhan
Director: Suseenthiran 		₹200,000 (US$2,800)
Best Children's Film Chillar Party Hindi Producer: UTV Software Communications, Salman Khan
Director: Vikas Bahl and Nitesh Tiwari 		₹150,000 (US$2,100)
Best Direction Anhe Ghore Da Daan Punjabi Gurvinder Singh ₹250,000 (US$3,500)

Silver Lotus Award[edit | edit source]

All the winners were awarded with a Rajat Kamal (Silver Lotus Award), a certificate and a cash prize.[3]

Name of Award Name of Film(s) Language(s) Awardee(s) Cash prize
Best Actor Deool Marathi Girish Kulkarni ₹50,000 (US$700)
Best Actress The Dirty Picture Hindi Vidya Balan ₹50,000 (US$700)
Best Supporting Actor Azhagarsamiyin Kuthirai Tamil Appukutty ₹50,000 (US$700)
Best Supporting Actress Phijigee Mani Manipuri Leishangthem Tonthoingambi Devi ₹50,000 (US$700)
Best Child Artist Stanley Ka Dabba Hindi Partho Gupte ₹50,000 (US$700)
Chillar Party Hindi  • Irrfan Khan
 • Sanath Menon
 • Rohan Grover
 • Naman Jain
 • Aarav Khanna
 • Vishesh Tiwari
 • Chinmai Chandranshuh
 • Vedant Desai
 • Divij Handa
 • Shriya Sharma
Best Male Playback Singer Balgandharva Marathi Anand Bhate ₹50,000 (US$700)
Best Female Playback Singer Abosheshey
("Dure Kothao Dure Dure" and "Aaji Bijan Ghare") 		Bengali Roopa Ganguly ₹50,000 (US$700)
Best Cinematography Anhe Ghore Da Daan Punjabi Cameraman: Satya Rai Nagpaul
Laboratory Processing: Reliance MediaWorks 		₹50,000 (US$700)
Best Screenplay
 • Screenplay Writer (Original) 		Chillar Party Hindi  • Vikas Bahl
 • Nitesh Tiwari
 • Vijay Maurya 		₹50,000 (US$700)
Best Screenplay
 • Screenplay Writer (Adapted) 		Shala Marathi Avinash Deshpande Nigdi ₹50,000 (US$700)
Best Screenplay
 • Dialogues 		Deool Marathi Girish Kulkarni ₹50,000 (US$700)
Best Audiography
 • Location Sound Recordist 		Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara Hindi Baylon Fonseca ₹50,000 (US$700)
Best Audiography
 • Sound Designer 		Game Hindi Baylon Fonseca ₹50,000 (US$700)
Best Audiography
 • Re-recordist of the Final Mixed Track 		Game Hindi Hitendra Ghosh ₹50,000 (US$700)
Best Editing Aaranya Kaandam Tamil  • Praveen K. L.
 • N. B. Srikanth 		₹50,000 (US$700)
Best Art Direction Noukadubi Bengali Indraneel Ghosh ₹50,000 (US$700)
Best Costume Design Balgandharva Marathi Neeta Lulla ₹50,000 (US$700)
The Dirty Picture Hindi Niharika Khan
Best Make-up Artist Balgandharva Marathi Vikram Gaikwad ₹50,000 (US$700)
The Dirty Picture Hindi
Best Music Direction
 • Songs 		Ranjana Ami Ar Ashbona Bengali Neel Dutt ₹50,000 (US$700)
Best Music Direction
 • Background Score 		Laptop Bengali Mayookh Bhaumik ₹50,000 (US$700)
Best Lyrics I Am
("Agar Zindagi") 		Hindi Amitabh Bhattacharya ₹50,000 (US$700)
Best Special Effects Ra.One Hindi  • Harry Hingorani
 • Keitan Yadav (Red Chillies VFX) 		₹50,000 (US$700)
Best Choreography Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara
("Senorita") 		Hindi Bosco-Caesar ₹50,000 (US$700)
Special Jury Award Ranjana Ami Ar Ashbona Bengali Anjan Dutt (Actor, Singer, Writer, Director) ₹200,000 (US$2,800)
Special Mention Byari Beary Mallika (Actress) Certificate only
Adimadhyantham Malayalam Sherrey (Director)

Regional Awards[edit | edit source]

National Film Awards are also given to the best films in the regional languages of India. Awards for the regional languages are categorised as per their mention in the Eighth schedule of the Constitution of India. Awardees included producers and directors of the film. No films in languages other than those specified in the Schedule VIII of the Constitution were eligible.[15][16]

All the winners were awarded with Rajat Kamal (Silver Lotus Award), a certificate and cash prize.[3] Following were the awards given:

Name of Award Name of Film Awardee(s) Cash prize
Producer(s) Director
Best Feature Film in Bengali Ranjana Ami Ar Ashbona Rana Sarkar Anjan Dutt ₹100,000 (US$1,400)
Best Feature Film in Dogri Dille Ch Vasya Koi Sanjeev Rattan Sanjeev Rattan ₹100,000 (US$1,400)
Best Feature Film in Hindi I Am  • Onir
 • Sanjay Suri 		Onir ₹100,000 (US$1,400)
Best Feature Film in Kannada Koormavatara Basant Kumar Patil Girish Kasaravalli ₹100,000 (US$1,400)
Best Feature Film in Malayalam Indian Rupee August Cinema India Pvt. Ltd. Ranjith ₹100,000 (US$1,400)
Best Feature Film in Manipuri Phijigee Mani  • Takhelchangbam Ongbi Medha Sharmi Oinam Gautam Singh ₹100,000 (US$1,400)
Best Feature Film in Marathi Shala  • Vivek Wagh
 • Nilesh Navalkar 		Sujay Dahake ₹100,000 (US$1,400)
Best Feature Film in Punjabi Anhe Ghore Da Daan NFDC Gurvinder Singh ₹100,000 (US$1,400)
Best Feature Film in Tamil Vaagai Sooda Vaa S. Muruganandham A. Sarkunam ₹100,000 (US$1,400)

Non-Feature Films[edit | edit source]

In the Non-Feature Film section, 21 films won awards. Three films—Panchakki, There is Something in the Air and Tiger Dynasty—won three awards each. There is Something in the Air also won the award for best direction—one of the Golden Lotus awards for Non-Feature Films.[16] Three Silver Lotus Awards from Non-Feature Films section were not awarded.

Jury[edit | edit source]

A committee of seven, headed by director Romesh Sharma, was appointed to evaluate the Non-Feature Films entries. The jury members were:[13]

 • Romesh Sharma (Chairperson)(Producer and director)
 • Brahmanand Singh (Filmmaker and screen writer)  • Supriyo Sen (Director)
 • Suresh Kohli (Journalist)  • Sameer Hanchate (Producer and director)
 • Haobam Paban Kumar (Director)  • Gouri Patwardhan (Cinematographer)

Golden Lotus Award[edit | edit source]

All the winners were awarded with Swarna Kamal (Golden Lotus Award), a certificate and cash prize.[3]

Name of Award Name of Film(s) Language(s) Awardee(s) Cash prize
Best Non-Feature Film And We Play On  • Hindi
 • English 		Producer: Pramod Purswane
Director: Pramod Purswane 		₹150,000 (US$2,100)
Best Non-Feature Film Direction There is Something in the Air  • Hindi
 • Urdu
 • English 		Iram Ghufran ₹150,000 (US$2,100)

Silver Lotus Award[edit | edit source]

All the winners were awarded with Rajat Kamal (Silver Lotus Award) and cash prize.[3]

Name of Award Name of Film(s) Language(s) Awardee(s) Cash prize
Best First Non-Feature Film The Silent Poet Manipuri Producer: Borun Thokchom
Director: Borun Thokchom 		₹75,000 (US$1,100)
Best Anthropological / Ethnographic Film Bom  • Hindi
 • English 		Producer: Anirban Datta
Director: Amlan Datta 		₹50,000 (US$700)
Best Biographical Film /Best Historical Reconstruction Film Vishnupant Damle: Bolpatancha Mook Nayak Marathi Producer: Anil Anant Damle
Director: Virendra Valsangkar 		₹50,000 (US$700)
Best Arts / Cultural Film Fried Fish, Chicken Soup and a Premiere Show  • Manipuri
 • English 		Producer: Madhusree Dutta
Director: Mamta Murthy 		₹50,000 (US$700)
Lasya Kavvya – The World of Alarmel Valli English Producer: Sankalp Meshram
Director: Sankalp Meshram
Best Environment / Conservation / Preservation Film Tiger Dynasty English Producer: S. Nallamuthu
Director: S. Nallamuthu 		₹50,000 (US$700)
Best Promotional Film The Dream Fulfilled — Memories of the Engineering Challenges English Producer: Delhi Metro Rail Corporation
Director: Satish Pande 		₹50,000 (US$700)
Best Film on Social Issues Mindscapes... of Love and Longing  • Hindi
 • English 		Producer: Public Service Broadcasting Trust
Director: Arun Chadha 		₹50,000 (US$700)
Inshallah, Football  • Kashmiri
 • Urdu
 • English 		Producer: Javed Jaffrey
Director: Ashvin Kumar
Best Educational / Motivational / Instructional Film A Drop of Sunshine English Producer: Public Service Broadcasting Trust
Director: Aparna Sanyal 		₹50,000 (US$700)
Best Exploration / Adventure Film (Including sports) The Finish Line English Producer: Syed Sultan Ahmed and Tabassum Modi
Director: Akshay Roy 		₹50,000 (US$700)
Best Investigative Film Cotton for My Shroud English Producer: Kavita Bahl
Director: Nandan Saxena and Kavita Bahl 		₹50,000 (US$700)
Best Short Fiction Film Panchakki Hindi Producer: Sanjeev Rattan
Director: Sanjeev Rattan 		₹50,000 (US$700)
Best Film on Family Welfare Red Building where the Sun Sets English Producer: Syed Sultan Ahmed and Tabassum Modi
Director: Revathi 		₹50,000 (US$700)
Best Cinematography Tiger Dynasty English Cameraman: S. Nallamuthu ₹50,000 (US$700)
Best Audiography 1, 2 Hindi Gautam Nair ₹50,000 (US$700)
Best Editing There is Something in the Air  • Hindi
 • Urdu
 • English 		Iram Ghufran ₹50,000 (US$700)
Best Music Direction Panchakki Hindi Dhrubajyoti Phukan ₹50,000 (US$700)
Best Narration / Voice Over Just that Sort of a Day English Ann Abraham ₹50,000 (US$700)
Special Jury Award Jai Bhim Comrade Marathi Anand Patwardhan (Director) ₹100,000 (US$1,400)
Special Mention You Don't Belong  • Bengali
 • English 		Spandan Banerjee (Director) Certificate only
Airawat  • Marathi
 • Hindi 		Renu Savant (Director)

Best Writing on Cinema[edit | edit source]

The Best Writing on Cinema awards are intended to encourage the study and appreciation of cinema as an art form and the dissemination of information and critical appreciation of the medium through books, articles, reviews etc.[15]

Jury[edit | edit source]

A committee of three, headed by the National Award-winning writer Vijaya Mulay was appointed to evaluate the nominations for the best writing on Indian cinema. The jury members were as follows:[13]

 • Vijaya Mulay (Chairperson)(Filmmaker and writer)
 • J. M. Parakh (Writer)  • M. F. Thomas (Editor and writer)

Golden Lotus Award[edit | edit source]

Official Name: Swarna Kamal

All the winners were awarded with Swarna Kamal (Golden Lotus Award), cash prize and a certificate.[3]

Name of Award Name of Book Language Awardee(s) Cash prize
Best Book on Cinema R. D. Burman: The Man The Music English Author: Anirudha Bhattacharjee and Balaji Vittal
Publisher:Harper Collins India 		₹75,000 (US$1,100)
Name of Award Language(s) Awardee Cash prize
Best Film Critic  • Assamese
 • English 		Manoj Barpujari ₹75,000 (US$1,100)

Awards not given[edit | edit source]

Across all the sections, 12 out of 60 awards were not presented. Some were not awarded because no entries were submitted and for others, no suitable films were found. All the awards for the Best Writing on Cinema section were awarded. The following awards from the other two sections were not given:[15][16]

Feature films
Non-Feature Films

Award ceremony[edit | edit source]

The awards presentation ceremony took place on 3 May 2012, at Vigyan Bhavan, New Delhi. The ceremony was presided over by the Vice-President of India, Mohammad Hamid Ansari.[a 1][a 2] Other dignitaries present were Ambika Soni (Minister of Information and Broadcasting), Vinod Lamba (President of Film Federation of India), Dharmesh Tiwari (President of Federation of Western India Cine Employees), and two Ministers of State for Information and Broadcasting, C. M. Jatua and R. Jagathrakshkan. The chairpersons of the jury for the three awards sections were also present. The show was hosted by Hindi film actor Vinay Pathak and Hindi television actress, Saumya Tandon.[a 2][a 3] It was broadcast live on the television channels Doordarshan 1, DD India and DD News; on eleven All India Radio stations; and on the official websites of the Directorate of Film Festivals and the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting.[a 3][a 4] The public screenings of the award-winning films were scheduled from 1 June 2012, to 10 June 2012, at the Siri Fort Auditorium II, New Delhi.[a 5][a 6]

To mark the centenary of Indian cinema, the ceremony started with clips of the first full-length Indian feature film, Raja Harishchandra (1913). Directed by Dadasaheb Phalke, this silent film was released on 3 May 1913 at Coronation Cinema, Mumbai. To honour this historic event, Soni announced that 2013 would be observed as the centenary year of Indian Cinema and that the National Film Awards ceremony would be held on 3 May every year. She also announced that a National Heritage Mission would be set up to digitise and restore all audio and video tapes of Indian films. A Museum of Indian Cinema would also be inaugurated at the Gulshan Mahal, Mumbai, before May 2013.[a 7]

Rajiv Mehrotra of the Public Service Broadcasting Trust won his twentieth National Film Award. The acclaimed Kannada director Girish Kasaravalli received his 13th National Film Award when his film Koormavatara won the Best Feature Film in Kannada award.[a 2] The dress designer Neeta Lulla won her fourth award for the costumes in Balgandharva. Also, eleven child artists were given Best Child Artist Awards for their performances.

Three award-winners—Anand Bhate, Roopa Ganguly and Amitabh Bhattacharya, who won the award for Best Male Playback Singer, Best Female Playback Singer and Best Lyrics respectively—performed live during the ceremony.[a 3] Both the singers performed their award-winning songs—Bhate sang "Chinmaya Sakal Hridaya" from the Marathi film Balgandharva and Ganguly performed "Dure Kothao Dure Dure" from her film Abosheshey. Bhattacharya was accompanied by singer-songwriter Amit Trivedi for the song "Agar Zindagi" from I Am.[a 8]

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After the awards were announced on 7 March 2012, Enajori.com, a society which promotes cultural heritage of Assam, filed a petition against the jury's decision for not considering Ekhon Nedekha Nodir Xhipare as an Assamese film and rejecting its nomination.[17] In response to the plea the Delhi High Court issued a notice to the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, the Directorate of Film Festivals, the Central Board of Film Certification, Rohini Hattangadi—chairperson of Feature Film section, and Hiren Bora—a jury member for the Feature Film section.[18] After examining the documents submitted for the selection of regional films, the High Court dismissed the plea. The proceedings revealed that Ekhon Nedekha Nodir Xhipare, and other films from the eastern region, were previewed and rejected by the jury. The court imposed costs of ₹2,000 (US$28) on the petitioner for moving to the court without ascertaining the facts of the case.[19]

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  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 "Entries open for 59th National Film Awards". Hindustan Times. 27 December 2011. Archived from the original on 13 April 2012. Retrieved 1 April 2012.
  2. ↑ "Call for entries; 59th National Film Awards for 2011" (PDF). Directorate of Film Festivals. Archived (PDF) from the original on 30 January 2013. Retrieved 1 April 2012.
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 3.5 3.6 3.7 "59th National Film Awards: Regulations" (PDF) (Press release). Directorate of Film Festivals. pp. 2, 4, 12, 14, 22, 24, 25, 30. Archived (PDF) from the original on 24 March 2012. Retrieved 29 July 2012.
  4. ↑ "59th National film Award given Away in New Delhi on 3rd May, 2012". Directorate of Film Festivals. 4 May 2012. Archived from the original on 9 May 2012. Retrieved 4 May 2012.
  5. ↑ "A press conference to announce 59th national film awards will be held" (Press release). Press Information Bureau (PIB), India. Archived from the original on 6 May 2014. Retrieved 30 March 2012.
  6. ↑ "Dadasaheb Phalke Award Past Recipients". Directorate of Film Festivals. Archived from the original on 26 May 2016. Retrieved 13 August 2012.
  7. ↑ "17th National Film Awards" (PDF). Directorate of Film Festivals. p. 38. Archived (PDF) from the original on 26 February 2012. Retrieved 26 September 2011.
  8. ↑ "59th National Film Awards: The Official Catalogue". International Film Festival of India. p. 156. Archived from the original on 14 July 2014. Retrieved 7 June 2012.
  9. ↑ "Soumitra Chatterjee to receive Dadasaheb Phalke Award for 2011 (PIB)" (Press release). Press Information Bureau (PIB), India. Archived from the original on 22 May 2014. Retrieved 1 April 2012.
  10. ↑ "Soumitra Chatterjee to receive Dadasaheb Phalke Award for 2011 (DFF)". Directorate of Film Festivals. Archived from the original on 16 March 2014. Retrieved 1 April 2012.
  11. ↑ Press Trust of India (10 March 2012). "Success of 'Deool' buoys spirit of Marathi cinema". The Hindu. Archived from the original on 19 July 2012. Retrieved 25 June 2012.
  12. ↑ Press Trust of India (7 March 2012). "'Byari' a study on the ethnic community: K P Suveeran". The Times of India. Archived from the original on 20 July 2013. Retrieved 25 June 2012.
  13. ↑ 13.0 13.1 13.2 13.3 "59th National Film Awards 2011". Directorate of Film Festivals. Archived from the original on 11 April 2012. Retrieved 1 April 2012.
  14. ↑ "Debut directors impress at National Awards". IBN Live. 7 March 2012. Archived from the original on 25 March 2012. Retrieved 5 April 2012.
  15. ↑ 15.0 15.1 15.2 15.3 "59th National Film Awards for the Year 2011 Announced" (Press release). Press Information Bureau (PIB), India. Archived from the original on 31 October 2014. Retrieved 1 January 2014.
  16. ↑ 16.0 16.1 16.2 16.3 "59th National Film Awards for 2011 -Feature Films" (PDF). Directorate of Film Festivals. Archived (PDF) from the original on 5 November 2013. Retrieved 2 April 2012.
  17. ↑ "Court notice to government over Assamese film". Indo-Asian News Service. 18 April 2012. Archived from the original on 8 December 2015. Retrieved 11 June 2012.
  18. ↑ Press Trust of India (19 April 2012). "Explain reasons for rejecting Assamese film at National Awards: High Court". NDTV. Archived from the original on 27 April 2012. Retrieved 11 June 2012.
  19. ↑ Press Trust of India (25 April 2012). "Court rejects plea for quashing the jury's decision in National Awards". NDTV. Retrieved 11 June 2012.
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  1. ↑ Press Trust of India (29 April 2012). "Vice President to honour winners at 59th National Film Awards". IBN Live. Archived from the original on 6 May 2012. Retrieved 29 April 2012.
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 "Hamid Ansari gives away the National Film Awards". IBN Live. 3 May 2012. Archived from the original on 5 May 2012. Retrieved 3 May 2012.
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 Live webcast of 59th National Film Awards ceremony. Vigyan Bhavan, New Delhi: National Informatics Centre. 3 May 2012.
  4. ↑ "59th NFA Live broadcast" (PDF). Directorate of Film Festivals. Archived (PDF) from the original on 3 March 2016. Retrieved 29 April 2012.
  5. ↑ "Public screening of award winning films" (PDF). Directorate of Film Festivals. Archived (PDF) from the original on 16 January 2013. Retrieved 2 June 2012.
  6. ↑ "National Film Festival 2012 begins at Sirifort, New Delhi". Directorate of Film Festivals. Archived from the original on 27 September 2012. Retrieved 4 June 2012.
  7. ↑ Press Trust of India (3 May 2012). "Nat Film Awards ceremony to be held on May 3 every year: Soni". Business Standard. Archived from the original on 3 September 2020. Retrieved 3 May 2012.
  8. ↑ "Hamid Ansari gives away 59th National Film Awards". IANS. Hindustan Times. 4 May 2012. Archived from the original on 3 September 2020. Retrieved 19 August 2012.

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