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31st National Film Awards

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Presented on
  
June 1984 (1984-06)

Best Feature Film
  
Adi Shankaracharya

Date
  
June 1984

Official website
  
dff.nic.in

Most awards
  
Adi Shankaracharya (4)

Other ceremonies
  
1983, 1985

Awarded for
  
Best of Indian cinema in 1983

Awarded by
  
Prime Minister of India(Indira Gandhi)

Presented by
  
Directorate of Film Festivals

The 31st National Film Awards, presented by Directorate of Film Festivals, the organisation set up by Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, India to felicitate the best of Indian Cinema released in the year 1983. Ceremony took place in June 1984 and awards were given by then Prime Minister of India, Indira Gandhi.

Contents

Juries

Three different committees were formed for feature films, short films and books on cinema, headed by veteran director K. Balachander, S. Krishnaswamy and Justice G. D. Khosla respectively.

  • Jury Members: Feature Films
  • K. Balachander (Chairperson) • Sai Paranjpye • M. T. Vasudevan Nair • Gangadhar Naskar • Meera Lakhia • Raghunath Seth • Madhu • Swapan Mullick • Iqbal Masud • Mrinalini Sarabhai • M. K. Binodini Devi • M. Prabhakar Reddy • K. K. Shukla • G. G. Mayekar • Marcus Bartley • Gautam Kaul • Raghava Menon • Jamuna
  • Jury Members: Short Films
  • S. Krishnaswamy (Chairperson) • Clement Baptista • Prakash Jha • Vinod Mehra
  • Jury Members: Books on Cinema
  • G. D. Khosla (Chairperson) • Vivek Bhattacharya • O. M. Anujan • Sukumar Dutta • V. K. Madhavan Kutty • Arun Khanna

    • Awards

    Awards were divided into feature films, non-feature films and books written on Indian cinema.

    Feature films

    Feature films were awarded at All India as well as regional level. For 31st National Film Awards, a Sanskrit film, Adi Shankaracharya won the National Film Award for Best Feature Film also winning the maximum number of awards (four). Following were the awards given in each category:

    All India Award

    Following were the awards given:

    Regional Award

    The awards were given to the best films made in the regional languages of India. For feature films in English, Gujarati, Kashmiri and Punjabi language, award for Best Feature Film was not given.

    Non-Feature films

    Following were the awards given:

    Best Writing on Cinema

    Following were the awards given:

    Awards not given

    Following were the awards not given as no film was found to be suitable for the award:

    References

    31st National Film Awards Wikipedia
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