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35th National Film Awards

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Presented on
  
April 1988 (1988-04)

Date
  
April 1988

Official website
  
dff.nic.in

Other ceremonies
  
1987, 1989

Awarded for
  
Best of Indian cinema in 1987

Awarded by
  
President of India (R. Venkataraman)

Best Feature Film
  
Halodhia Choraye Baodhan Khai

Best Non-Feature Film
  
Bhopal: Beyond Genocide

Presented by
  
Directorate of Film Festivals

The 35th 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 1987. Ceremony took place in April 1988 and awards were given by then President of India, R. Venkataraman.

Contents

Starting with 35th National Film Awards, National Film Award for Best Direction for Feature films section is awarded with Swarna Kamal (Golden Lotus). For Non-feature films section, two new awards were instituted and awarded with Rajat Kamal (Silver Lotus) namely, Best Educational / Motivational Film and Best Short Fiction Film.

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 35th National Film Awards, an Assamese film, Halodhia Choraye Baodhan Khai won the National Film Award for Best Feature Film and a Malayalam film, Anantaram along with a Tamil film, Nayagan and a Hindi film, Tamas won the maximum number of awards (3). Following were the awards given in each category:

Juries

A committee headed by Shyam Benegal was appointed to evaluate the feature films awards. Following were the jury members:

  • Jury Members
  • Shyam Benegal (Chairperson) • Abdul Majid • Amita Malik • Sowcar Janaki • Jaya Bachchan • Nachiket Patwardhan • B. S. Narayana • V. K. Pavithran • Sadhu Meher • Salil Chowdhury • Shaji N. Karun • U. S. Vadiraj

    • All India Award

    Following were the awards given:

    Golden Lotus Award

    Official Name: Swarna Kamal

    All the awardees are awarded with 'Golden Lotus Award (Swarna Kamal)', a certificate and cash prize.

    Silver Lotus Award

    Official Name: Rajat Kamal

    All the awardees are awarded with 'Silver Lotus Award (Rajat Kamal)', a certificate and cash prize.

    Regional Awards

    The award is given to best film in the regional languages in India.

    Non-Feature Films

    Short Films made in any Indian language and certified by the Central Board of Film Certification as a documentary/newsreel/fiction are eligible for non-feature film section.

    Juries

    A committee headed by Buddhadeb Dasgupta was appointed to evaluate the non-feature films awards. Following were the jury members:

  • Jury Members
  • Buddhadeb Dasgupta (Chairperson) • K. K. Kapil • N. Lakshminarayan • K. Viswanath • Ram Mohan

    • Golden Lotus Award

    Official Name: Swarna Kamal

    All the awardees are awarded with 'Golden Lotus Award (Swarna Kamal)', a certificate and cash prize.

    Silver Lotus Award

    Official Name: Rajat Kamal

    All the awardees are awarded with 'Silver Lotus Award (Rajat Kamal)' and cash prize.

    Best Writing on Cinema

    The awards aim at encouraging study and appreciation of cinema as an art form and dissemination of information and critical appreciation of this art-form through publication of books, articles, reviews etc.

    Juries

    A committee headed by Sunil Ganguly was appointed to evaluate the writing on Indian cinema. Following were the jury members:

  • Jury Members
  • Sunil Ganguly (Chairperson) • Manarcad Mathew • K. L. Nandan

    • Silver Lotus Award

    Official Name: Rajat Kamal

    All the awardees are awarded with 'Silver Lotus Award (Rajat Kamal)' and cash prize.

    Awards not given

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

    References

    35th National Film Awards Wikipedia
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