Hindi Awards 49th National Film Awards

49th National Film Awards The National Film Awards gets presented every year >> Read More... ceremony took place on 23 February 2003 for the best feature and non-feature films of 2002. A. P. J Abdul Kalam, the President of India, awarded the prizes to the winners this time. The directorate of film festivals presents the awards, an organization established under the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting in India. K.K Kapil, K.S Sethumadhavan, and Bharat Gopy head the people announcing the awards for the different sections: books on Indian cinema, feature films, and non-feature films, respectively.

Starting with the awards, they classified into feature and non-feature genres and books written on Indian cinema. First, they gave the Dadasaheb Phalke Award to Yash Chopra Film maker Yash Chopra is recognized as the ‘king >> Read More... for his contribution as director and producer to the Bollywood industry. The award is a Swarna Kamal and a Shawl and award money of One Lakh. Moving on to the feature films, they got awards at both regional and national levels. The national film award went to a Kannada film, Dweepa. Lagaan won the best popular film providing wholesome entertainment. The Best Direction award went to Ooruku Nooruper in Tamil by director B. Lenin, winning the prize money of fifty thousand. The Best Debut Film for a Director went to a director named K.N.T Sastry for the movie Thilaadaanam. Following that, Bub won the award for the Best Feature Film on National Integration.

The Best Film on Other Social Issues went to the movie Chandni Bar. Murali and Shobana won the award for Best Actor and Best Actress. On the other hand,  Atul Kulkarni Atul Kulkarni was born in the year 1965 in Karnata >> Read More... and Ananya Khare received Best Supporting Actor and Best Supporting Actress awards. P. Shwetha, for her movie as a young girl in the Tamil movie, Kutty got the award for the Best Child Artist. This year,  Udit Narayan One of the famous playback singers of Indian Film >> Read More... won the Best Male Playback Singer award for songs Mitwa in the movie Lagaan and Jaane Kyon in Dil Chahta Hain. Sadhana Sargam Sadhana Sargam is a playback singer of Indian cine >> Read More... won for the Best Female Playback Singer for the song Pattu Cholli in the Tamil film Azhagi. In the best Cinematography section, Ramachandra Halkare got the award for the movie Dweepa. The best Screenplay Award was given to G. Neelakanta Reddy Neelakanta, a Telugu film director, and screenwrit >> Read More... . Javed Akhtar Javed Akhtar is an Indian poet, lyricist, film scr >> Read More... received the Best Lyrics for the two songs, “Ghanan Ghanan” and “Radha Kaise Na Jale.”

The best choreography went to Ragu Khan for the number “Ghanan Ghanan” in the movie Lagaan. Then there was the category for Silver Lotus Awards: the Best First Non-Feature film went to the movie Diary of a Housewife (Malayalam). The Best Anthropological Film is the movie the Monpas of Arunachal Pradesh. The Best Biographical Film is by Teejan Bai Teejan Bai was born on August 8, 1956, is an exper >> Read More... , the Best Film on Social Issues went to A New Paradigm. Chitra won in the Best Short Fiction genre.