The National Film Award for Best Investigative Film 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 1990, at 38th National Film Awards and awarded annually for short 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 Exploration/Adventure 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) 1990 Una Mitran Di Yaad Pyaari(In Memory of Friends) EnglishHindiPunjabi Anand Patwardhan Anand Patwardhan 1991 Bhagirathi Ki Pukaar Hindi Anwar Jamal Anwar Jamal 1992 Ram ke Naam Hindi Anand Patwardhan Anand Patwardhan 1993 Benefit For Whom at Whose Cost? English Dinesh Lakhanpal Dinesh Lakhanpal 1994 Father, Son and Holy War (Part I – Trial by Fire, Part II – Hero Pharmacy) HindiEnglish Anand Patwardhan Anand Patwardhan 1995 Limit to Freedom English Deepak Roy Deepak Roy 1996 N. M. No. 309 Bhiwandi Tragedy English Yash Chowdhary V. Packiri Swamy 1997 Thirst Hindi Y. N. Engineer for Films Division Swadesh Pathak for Films Division 1998 Saga of Darkness Bengali Creative Image Gautam Sen 1999 No Award 2000 Wearing the face English Bankim for Films Division Joshy Joseph for Films Division 2001 Kalahandi OriyaEnglish Soudamini Mishra Gautam Ghose 2002 No Award 2003 A Silent Killer English Dhananjoy Mondal Dhananjoy Mondal 2004 Harvest of Hunger EnglishOriya Action Aid India Rupashree Nanda 2005 The Whistle Blowers English Rajiv Mehrotra Umesh Aggarwal 2006 Mere Desh Ki Dharti Hindi Rajiv Mehrotra Sumit Khanna 2007 The Journalist and a Jihadi English Romesh Sharma Romesh SharmaAhmad Jamal 2008 Distant Rumblings English Ms. Rongsenkala Bani Prakash Das 2009 No Award 2010 A Pestering Journey MalayalamPunjabiHindiEnglishTulu Ranjini Krishnan K. R. Manoj 2011 Cotton for My Shroud English Kavita Bahl Nandan SaxenaKavita Bahl 2012 Inshallah, KashmirEnglishAshvin KumarAshvin Kumar 2013 Katiyabaaz HindiUrduEnglish Globalistan Films Pvt. Ltd. Deepti KakkarFahad Mustafa 2014 Phum Shang Films Division Haobam Paban Kumar 2015 Tezpur 1962 English Films Division Samujjal Kashyap 2016 Placebo English Archana Fadke Abhay Kumar 2017 1984, When the Sun Didn't Rise Teenaa Kaur Pasricha Teenaa Kaur Pasricha 2018 Amoli Culture Machine Media Pvt. Ltd. Jasmine Kaur Roy Avinash Roy 2020 The Saviour Brig. Pritam Singh Punjabi Akaal Productions Paramjeet Singh Kattu Karanvir Singh Sibla 2021 Looking for Challan English Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts Bappa Ray
References
External links Official Page for Directorate of Film Festivals, India National Film Awards Archives