The National Film Award for Best Exploration/Adventure Film (including sports) was 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 was one of several awards presented for non-feature films and awarded with Rajat Kamal (Silver Lotus).
The award was instituted in 1984, at 32nd National Film Awards and awarded annually for films produced in the year across the country, in all Indian languages. At the 70th National Film Awards, the award is discontinued and clubbed with National Film Award for Best Promotional Film, National Film Award for Best Scientific Film, National Film Award for Best Educational/Motivational/Instructional Film, National Film Award for Best Investigative Film, National Film Award for Best Anthropological/Ethnographic Film, National Film Award for Best Agriculture Film, National Film Award for Best Film on Social Issues and National Film Award for Best Non-Feature Environment/Conservation/Preservation Film, and two new categories were created; Best Documentary and Best Non Feature Film Promoting Social and Environmental Values.
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) and director(s) Year Film(s) Language(s) Producer(s) Director(s) 1984 Everest 84 English Cinema Vision India Siddharth Kak 1985 High Adventure on White Waters English Yash Choudhary C. L. Kaul 1986 No Award 1987 Antarctica: A Continuing Mystery(News Magazine No: 101) English Vijay B. Chandra for Films Division Mahesh Kamble (Cameraman) 1988 No Award 1989 No Award 1990 The Indigenous of Manipur English Aribam Syam Sharma Aribam Syam Sharma 1991 No Award 1992 Antarctica: A Scientists' Paradise English R. Krishna Mohan for Films Division A. Udayashankar 1993 The Splendour of Garhwal and Roopkund English The Garhwal Mandal Vikas Nigam Victor Banerjee 1994 No Award 1995 No Award 1996 No Award 1997 In Search of Excellence Hindi Kuldeep Sinha for Films Division Raghu Krishna 1998 Malana: In Search Of English Neo Films Vivek Mohan 1999 No Award 2000 No Award 2001 No Award 2002 No Award 2003 Madness in the Desert English Aamir Khan Satyajit Bhatkal 2004 Shores of Silence: Whale Sharks in India English Gautam Pandey Ranjana Pandey 2005 No Award 2006 No Award 2007 No Award 2008 Shingnaba Manipuri Bachaspa Timayum Sunzu Bachaspa Timayum Sunzu 2009 No Award 2010 Boxing Ladies Hindi Satyajit Ray Film and Television Institute Anusha Nandakumar 2011 The Finish Line English Syed Sultan Ahmed and Tabassum Modi Akshay Roy 2012 Manipuri Pony EnglishManipuri Films Division of India Aribam Syam Sharma 2013 No Award 2014 Life Force – India's Western Ghats English Grey Films India Pvt. Ltd. Nallamuthu Subbiah 2015 Dribbling with their Future Kannada N. Dinesh Raj KumarMathew Verghese Jacob Verghese 2016 Matitle Kusti EnglishTelugu Madhavi Reddy Prantik Vivek Deshmukh 2017 Ladakh Chale Richawala Films Division of India Indrani Chakrabarti 2018 No Award 2019 Wild Karnataka English Amoghavarsha JS Amoghavarsha J. S. Kalyan Varma Sarath Champati Vijaya Mohan Raj 2020 Wheeling the Ball English Hindi Films Division of India Mukesh Sharma 2021 Ayushman English Kannada Mathew Varghese Dinesh Rajkumar N. Naveen Francis Jacob Verghese
References
External links Official Page for Directorate of Film Festivals, India National Film Awards Archives