National Film Award for Best Investigative Film

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National Film Award for Best Investigative Film
Type National
Category Short films
Instituted 1990
First awarded 1990
Last awarded 2013
Total awarded 21
Awarded by Directorate of Film Festivals
Cash award ₹50,000 (US$740)
Medal Rajat Kamal (Silver Lotus)
First awardee(s) Una Mitran Di Yaad Pyaari (In Memory of Friends)
Recent awardee(s) Katiyabaaz

The National Film Award for Best Investigative Film 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 non-feature films and awarded with Rajat Kamal (Silver Lotus).

The award was instituted in 1990, at 38th National Film Awards and awarded annually for short films produced in the year across the country, in all Indian languages.

Winners

Award includes 'Rajat Kamal' (Silver Lotus) and cash prize. Following are the award winners over the years:

List of films, showing the year, language(s), producer(s), director(s) and citation
Year Film(s) Language(s) Producer(s) Director(s) Citation
1990
(38th)		 Una Mitran Di Yaad Pyaari
(In Memory of Friends)[1]		  • English
 • Hindi
 • Punjabi		 Anand Patwardhan Anand Patwardhan <templatestyles src="Template:Hidden begin/styles.css"/>
For the ardent pursuit of truth in an explosive contemporary atmosphere, with objectivity, courage and lucidity.
1991
(39th)		 Bhagirathi Ki Pukaar[2] Hindi Anwar Jamal Anwar Jamal <templatestyles src="Template:Hidden begin/styles.css"/>
For the in-depth analysis of the impact of proposed Tehri Dam on the environment and the people affected by it.
1992
(40th)		 Ram ke Naam[3] Hindi Anand Patwardhan Anand Patwardhan <templatestyles src="Template:Hidden begin/styles.css"/>
For a skilfully made film on a major problem of the times; the communal divide.
1993
(41st)		 Benefit For Whom at Whose Cost?[4] English Dinesh Lakhanpal Dinesh Lakhanpal <templatestyles src="Template:Hidden begin/styles.css"/>
For a well researched and detailed investigation of the fears and tribulations of the people living under the looming shadow of a long-delayed multipurpose hydel project.
1994
(42nd)		 Father, Son and Holy War (Part I – Trial by Fire, Part II – Hero Pharmacy)[5]  • Hindi
 • English		 Anand Patwardhan Anand Patwardhan <templatestyles src="Template:Hidden begin/styles.css"/>
For probing beyond the objective, in its pursuit of insights, allowing even the unexpected to suggest the oblique.
1995
(43rd)		 Limit to Freedom[6] English Deepak Roy Deepak Roy <templatestyles src="Template:Hidden begin/styles.css"/>
For depicting the miserable plight of women prisoners and their bleak protests for any future.
1996
(44th)		 N. M. No. 309 Bhiwandi Tragedy[7] English Yash Chowdhary V. Packiri Swamy <templatestyles src="Template:Hidden begin/styles.css"/>
For the exploration of the issue of health hazards faced by migrant industrial workers.
1997
(45th)		 Thirst[8] Hindi Y. N. Engineer for Films Division Swadesh Pathak for Films Division <templatestyles src="Template:Hidden begin/styles.css"/>
For a hard hitting indictment of the realities of water resource mismanagement in rural India.
1998
(46th)		 Saga of Darkness[9] Bengali Creative Image Gautam Sen <templatestyles src="Template:Hidden begin/styles.css"/>
For its courageous expose of an inhuman practice and state apathy.
1999
(47th)		 No Award[10]
2000
(48th)		 Wearing the face[11] English Bankim for Films Division Joshy Joseph for Films Division <templatestyles src="Template:Hidden begin/styles.css"/>
For insight-fully and sensitively probing the masked lives of college students of Manipur, who are compelled by socio-political circumstances to pull rickshaws for their livelihood.
2001
(49th)		 Kalahandi[12]  • Oriya
 • English		 Soudamini Mishra Gautam Ghose <templatestyles src="Template:Hidden begin/styles.css"/>
For its courageous expose of endemic poverty in the backward region of Orissa and the state's apathy to it.
2002
(50th)		 No Award[13]
2003
(51st)		 A Silent Killer[14] English Dhananjoy Mondal Dhananjoy Mondal <templatestyles src="Template:Hidden begin/styles.css"/>
The film is a forceful statement on the disastrous consequences of millions of people drinking water contaminated with "arsenic". In a simple but effective manner, the filmmaker explores and then brings out the enormity of the problem.
2004
(52nd)		 Harvest of Hunger[15]  • English
 • Oriya		 Action Aid India Rupashree Nanda <templatestyles src="Template:Hidden begin/styles.css"/>
For portraying the apathy and the hardships of drought effected villagers from Bolangir District, and their struggle to survive under an atmosphere of compulsive exploitation in excellent investigative and poignant style.
2005
(53rd)		 The Whistle Blowers[16] English Rajiv Mehrotra Umesh Aggarwal <templatestyles src="Template:Hidden begin/styles.css"/>
For a small film with a big impact! In the best traditions of Investigative reportage, the film highlights the burning issue of hazards to health and pollution norms.
2006
(54th)		 Mere Desh Ki Dharti[17] Hindi Rajiv Mehrotra Sumit Khanna <templatestyles src="Template:Hidden begin/styles.css"/>
For exploring in depth the problem of falling agro-production and poisoning of the food chain due to use of chemical fertilizers and chemical pesticides.
2007
(55th)		 The Journalist and a Jihadi[18] English Romesh Sharma  • Romesh Sharma
 • Ahmad Jamal		 <templatestyles src="Template:Hidden begin/styles.css"/>
For trying to uncover the sequence of events that led to the gruesome murder of the Wall-street journalist, Daniel Pearl. This film is very well researched and the investigation provides an insight into the working of a militant organisation.
2008
(56th)		 Distant Rumblings[19] English Ms. Rongsenkala Bani Prakash Das <templatestyles src="Template:Hidden begin/styles.css"/>
For evoking painful memories of World War II as experienced by people of North East India, after the Japanese invasion. Through war wreckages found in the jungles and first person accounts, the film stitches together a moving story of affected families long forgotten.
2009
(57th)		 No Award[20]
2010
(58th)		 A Pestering Journey[21]  • Malayalam
 • Punjabi
 • Hindi
 • English
 • Tulu		 Ranjini Krishnan K. R. Manoj <templatestyles src="Template:Hidden begin/styles.css"/>
For the pet detective in a reverse act, an emotive documentary exposing not only stories of cruel impact of pest control on human health but also arrests out attention to a more fundamental question – who is a pest ?.
2011
(59th)		 Cotton for My Shroud[22] English Kavita Bahl  • Nandan Saxena
 • Kavita Bahl		 <templatestyles src="Template:Hidden begin/styles.css"/>
For exposing the growing apathy of the state, the tightening grip of multinationals and the web created by middlemen and moneylenders towards small cotton growing farmers in Vidarbha. The film successfully investigates the vicious trap of debts, deceptions and suicides.
2012
(60th)		 Inshallah, Kashmir[23] English Ashvin Kumar Ashvin Kumar <templatestyles src="Template:Hidden begin/styles.css"/>
For unflinchingly and boldly stepping into unearthing the truth about Kashmir. A passionate inquiry connecting with the people, discovering what is called 'Kashmiriyat' and at the same time exposing the role the state, police and army have played in alienating them from India.
2013
(61st)		 Katiyabaaz[24]  • Hindi
 • Urdu
 • English		 Globalistan Films Pvt. Ltd.  • Deepti Kakkar
 • Fahad Mustafa		 <templatestyles src="Template:Hidden begin/styles.css"/>
For its cutting edge investigation into the life of a typical Indian city, the film uses strong characters, juxtapositions and humour to create a visual arch that delineates the haves and have-nots of power.

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