56th NATIONAL FILM AWARDS
FEATURE FILMS JURY
Chairman
Shri Shaji N. Karun
Members
Shri Roshan Taneja
Shri H.M. Ramachandra
Ms Nagma
Shri Satyabrata Kalita
Shri Neelakanta
Shri Dilip Ghosh
Shri Swapan Mullick
Shri Sudesh Syal
Shri S.K. Srivastava
Ms Archana
Shri B. Shashi Kumar
Shri Subhash Sehgal
Shri Santosh Desai
Ms Sreelekha Mukherjee 56th NATIONAL FILM AWARDS
NON-FEATURE FILMS JURY
Chairperson
Ms Arunaraje Patil
Members
Shri Krishnendu Bose
Shri Anirban Dutta
Shri Sandeep Marwah
Ms Reena Mohan
Shri R. V. Ramani
Shri Sarfaraz Siddiqui
JURY FOR BEST WRITING ON CINEMA
Chairman
Shri Sunil Gangopadhyay
Members
Shri Sudhish Pachauri
Shri Zia-us Salam 56TH NATIONAL FILM AWARDS
ENTRIES NON-FEATURE FILMS
S.No Title Language Director Format
1. And the Friends of Assamese Kaju Video Kaziranga 2. Boliya Pitaier Assamese & Altaf Mazid Video Sohoki Sootal Bodo 3. Baba Black Beard Bengali Sanghamitra Karmakar Video 4. Fables of Birth Bengali & Sahana Bhattacharya Video Santhali 5. I’m the Very Bengali Shyamal Kumar Video Beautiful Karmakar 6. Jibaner Jalsaghorey Bengali Satarupa Sanyal Video 7. Kalo Sheikh Bengali AlokeDas Video 8. Padma Patar Jal Bengali Dhananjay Mandal Video 9. Shabnam Bengali /EST Aditi Sircar Video 10. The Shop That Sold Bengali Abhyuday Khaitan 35mm Everything 11. Songs, Colours and Bengali Joshy Joseph 35mm Market 12. Yearn to Learn- Bengali S.K.Abdul Rajjak Video Madrasah Education in West Bengal 13. The Assassination of English R.Krishna Mohan 35mm Rajiv Gandhi-A reconstruction 14. Blood on My Hands English Manak Matiyani Video 15. Broken Wings-The English Mike H.Pandey Video Vanishing Cultures 16. Chasing Angelina English & Hindi Saurav Dey Video Jolie 17. Children in Distress English Subinay Dutta 35mm 18. Denouement English Shweta Koroe 35mm 19. Distant Rumblings English Bani Prakash Das Video 20. Divided Colours of a English Umesh Aggarwal Video Nation 21. Do Rafique English & Hindi Rafeeq Ellias Video 22. Doppelhanger English Jens D 35mm
23. 1876-An English Anasuya Vaidya Video Entertainment 24. Folk Tradition of English Bappa Ray Video Ramakatha in Northeast 25. Forever Young English, Khasi Ranjan Palit 35mm 26. Giduku Hogathu English Venu Nair Video 27. The Ice Factor English Hari S.Upreti Video 28. Inampei-Lin English A.Priyobrata Singh Video 29. A Journey Home English Shraddha Pasi Video 30. Kalakshetra English V.Packirisamy 35mm 31. Krishnajatra English Dhananjay Mandal Video 32. Kudumbashree English Venu Nair Video 33. The Land of English A.K.Sidhpuri Video Rupshupas 34. The Last Board English N.Sundar 35mm 35. A Life Less English Raabiya Jayaram Video Ordinary 36. Life and Works of English Rupai Bysack Video Somnath Hore 37. Murmurs of Silence English Ashoke Viswanathan 35mm 38. A New Dawn in English R.Krishna Mohan Video Andaman & Nicobar 39. Pather Panchali:A English Aloke Banerjee,Jaydip Video living Resonance Mukherjee 40. Polio vs Polio English Hindi & Aman Sachdeva Video Victims Marathi 41. Prince & the Crown English Gautam Benegal 35mm of Stones 42. Pung, Rhythm of the English A.Priyobrata Singh Video Paradise 43. Remembering Bimal English, Hindi & Joy Bimal Roy Video Roy Bengali 44. Sanakeithal English Bachaspa Timayum Video Sunzu 45. Steps in Time English & Hindi Rafeeq Ellias Video 46. To Catch The Wind English Vasudha Joshi Video 47. To Think Like a English Arpita Sinha Video Woman 48. Trip English Emmanual Palo Video 49. Underground English Sanjeev Sivan Video Inferno 50. Undertakers English Emmanual Palo 35mm 51. Antargatha Hindi & English Dollar Mondal 35mm 52. The Vishnupur English & Ashoke Viswanathan Video Gharana Bengali 53. Apna Aloo Bazaar Hindi Pankaj H Gupta Video Becha 54. Bhavai-Fading Hindi V.Packirisamy 35mm Memories 55. Buru Gaara Hindi Shriprakash Video 56. Children of The Pyre Hindi Rajesh S. Jala Video 57. Chilika Bank$ Hindi Akanksha Joshi Video 58. Dard-e-Ganga Hindi Sudhesh Unniraman Video 59. Dhin Tak Dha Hindi Shraddha Palo 35mm 60. Doors of Perception- Hindi & English Pravesh Bharadwaj Video The Art of Manoj Kachangal 61. The Female Nude Hindi Hemjyotika & Devi Video Prasad Mishra 62. Four Women and a Hindi & English Ambarien Al Qadar Video Room… 63. Give the Dog Bad Hindi & English Bhavana Sheel Video Name and Hang Him 64. Goodnight Hindi Geetika Narang Video 65. Jis Tarah Hum Bolte Hindi Arun Chadha Video Hain 66. Katputli Hindi Charmi Chchedda 35mm 67. Keemat Hindi Akash Manohar 35mm 68. Mallika Hindi Alok Naik 35mm 69. Narmeen Hindi & Punjabi Dipti Gogna 35mm 70. Prayaag Hindi Sachin Chandrakant Video Shirke 71. Scavenging Dreams Hindi Jasmine K Roy & Video Avinash Roy 72. Stations Hindi, Marathi & Emmanual Palo 35mm English 73. Wheel in Motion Hindi & English Dollar Mondal Video 74. When This Man Hindi & English Arun Sukumar Video Dies 75. Women in Hindi Apurwa Yagnik Video Panchayati Raj 76. Yuddh Hindi Suresh Menon 35mm 77. Devakaru (Death of Kannada Mr.P.Sheshadri Video a Village) 78. Putti Kannada Jacob Varghese 35 mm 79. Cinemayude Malayalam M.R.Rajan 35mm Kalpadukal 80. Katal Theerath Malayalam Sherry Video 81. Manal(The Sand) Malayalam Tony Sukumar 35mm 82. Prathyasha Malayalam Leenus L.K 35mm 83. Type Writer Malayalam Deepesh T. Video 84. AFSPA 1958 Manipuri Haobam Paban Kumar Video 85. Mr Manipur Manipuri Aribam Syam Sharma Video 86. Ratan Thiyam-The Manipuri & Oken Video Man of theatre English Amakcham,Nirmala Chanu 87. Shingnaba Manipuri Bachaspa Timayum Video (Challenge) Sunzu 88. Bilory (Marbles) Marathi Sandeep Modi Video 89. Ethics (Neeti) Marathi T.Surendra Video 90. Khel Marathi Sushant Tambe Video 91. Lost & Found Marathi, English Harshavardhan Video & Hindi G.Kulkarni 92. Vitthal Marathi Vinoo Choliparambil Video 93. Celebrations Only Music Sachin Chndrakant Video Shirke 94. Red to Black Only Music Kripal Kalita Video 95. Three of Us Only Music Umesh Kulkarni 35mm 96. Kunir Kutil Dasha Silent Altaf Mazid Video 97. Appuvin Nayagan- Tamil Mr.Madhavan 35mm Spotty(My Hero) 98. Karna Motcham Tamil S.Murali Manohar 35mm 99. Margazhi Raagam Tamil Jayendra Video
56TH NATIONAL FILM AWARDS
ENTRIES BOOKS
S.No Title Language Author
1. 24 Frames Assamese Utpal Dutta 2. Marbo Ekhane Laash Porbe Shoshane Bengali Ashishtaru Mukherjee 3. Behind the Glitz English Someswar Bhowmik 4. Bollywood Melodies English Ganesh Anantharaman 5. Guru Dutt:Through Light & Shade English Rashmi Doraiswamy 6. Ray on Ray English Pradip Biswas 7. Seduced by the Familiar: Narration & English M.K. Raghavendra Meaning in Indian Popular Cinema 8. Seeing is Believing: Selected English Chidananda Das Gupta Writings on Cinema 9. Ten Years with Guru Dutt English Sathya Saran 10. The Director’s Mind English Ujjal Chakraborty 11. The Playback in Malayalam Cinema English Kiran Ravindran 12. The Shadow of the Dog: A Critique English Pradip Biswas 13. Under Her Spell English Dileep Padgaonkar 14. Alamaara Hindi Shivnand Kamde 15. Naushad:Zarra Jo Aftab Bana Hindi Choudhari Zia Imam 16. Chitra- Kathe Kannada A N Prasanna 17. Bodha Theerangalil Kaalam Malayalam A Chandrasekhar Midikkumbol
18. Film Makers Marathi Sh Ganesh Matkari 19. Ganga Aaye Kahan se Marathi Vijay Padalkar 20. Urdu Fiction Aur Cinema Urdu Dr.Rizvanul Haque
56TH NATIONAL FILM AWARDS
FILM CRITICS
S.No Name of Critic Language
1. Utpal Dutta Assamese
2. Amitava Nag Eng/Bengali 3. Utpal Borpujari English 4. Dalton L. English 5. Dr.Shoma A.Chatterji English 6. Saibal Chatterjee English 7. Johnson Thomas English 8. Altaf Mazid English/Assamese 9. Ajit Rai Hindi 10. Suresh Sharma Hindi 11. P.S.Radhakrishnan Malayalam 12. Madhu Eravankara Malayalam 13. R.K.Bidur Singh Manipuri 14. Avinash T. Chandane Marathi 15. Dillip Hali Oriya 16. Challa Srinivas Telugu 17. Mamidi Harikrishna Telugu
56TH NATIONAL FILM AWARDS
ENTRIES FEATURE FILMS
S.No Title Language Director
1 Aai Kot Nai Assamese Manju Borah 2 Ajan Faquir Saheb Assamese Asif Iqbal Hussain 3 Mon Jai Assamese M Maniram 4 Aainaate Bengali Dulal Dey 5 Antaheen Bengali Mr. Aniruddha Roy Chowdhury 6 Chaturanga Bengali Suman Mukhopadhyay 7 Eka Eka Bengali Tapas Majumadar 8 Ekdin Thik Bengali Nirmalya Banerjee 9 Kaler Rakhal Bengali Sekhar Das 10 Laal Ranger Duniya Bengali Nilanjan Bhattacharya 11 Mon Amour-Shesher Kabita Bengali & English Subhrajit Mitra Revisited 12 Rangeen Godhooli Bengali Debanik Kundu 13 Shob Charitro Kalponik Bengali Rituparno Ghosh 14 My Name is Shiekh Chilly Bhojpuri Arvind Rai 15 Chowrasta English Anjan Dutt 16 Land Gold Women English Avantika Hari 17 Little Zizou English & Gujarati Sooni Taraporevala Partly 18 Love Songs, Yesterday English Jayabrato Chatterjee Today & Tomorrow 19 A Wednesday Hindi Mr. Neeraj Pandey 20 Aamir Hindi Mr. Raj Kumar Gupta 21 Bits & Pieces Hindi Manmohan Mahapatra 22 Black & White Hindi Subhash Ghai 23 Chintuji Hindi Ranjit Kapoor 24 Dhuaaan Hindi Dr. Mrunalinni Dayal 25 Dostana Hindi Tarun Mansukhani 26 Ek Thi Maa Hindi Melwyn Williams 27 Fashion Hindi Madhur Bhandarkar 28 Firaaq Hindi Nandita Das 29 Hulla Hindi Jaideep Varma 30 Jab Din Chale Na Raat Chale Hindi Tripurari Sharan 31 Jodha Akbar Hindi Ashutosh Gowariker 32 Khargosh Hindi Paresh Kamdar 33 Luck By Chance Hindi Zoya Akhtar 34 Meerabai Not Out Hindi Chandrakant Kulkarni 35 Mukhbir Hindi Mani Shankar 36 Mumbai Meri Jaan Hindi Mr. Nishikant Kamat
37 Oye Lucky!Lucky Oye Hindi Mr. Dibakar Banerjee 38 Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi Hindi Mr. Aditya Chopra 39 Race Hindi Abbas- Mustan 40 Rang Rasiya Hindi Ketan Mehta 41 Roadside Romeo Hindi Jugal Hansraj 42 Rock On Hindi Abhishek Kapoor 43 Siddharth, The Prisoner Hindi Pryas Gupta 44 Sikandar Hindi Piyush Jha 45 Staying Alive Hindi Mr. Ananth Narayan Mahadevan 46 Straight-Ek Tedhi Medhi Hindi Parvati Balagopalan Love Story 47 Summer 2007 Hindi Suhail Tatari 48 Surabhi Hindi Vishal Chatturvedi 49 Tahaan Hindi Santosh Sivan 50 Thanks Maa Hindi Irfan Kamak 51 The Stoneman Murders Hindi Manish Gupta 52 The White Elephant Hindi Aijaz Khan 53 Welcome to Sajjanpur Hindi Mr. Shyam Benegal 54 Akka Thangi Kannada S Mahendra 55 Banada Neralu Kannada Umashankar Swamy 56 Beli Matthu Hola Kannada P R Ramadasa Naidu 57 Chaitanya Kannada Shivaraj 58 Ganga Kaveri Kannada Vishnukanth 59 Gubbachigalu Kannada Abhaya Simha 65 Haaru Hakkiyaneri Kannada A N Prasanna 60 Ijjodu Kannada M S Sathyu 61 Mandakini Kannada Ramesh Surve 62 Moggina Manasu Kannada Shashank 63 Mukhaputa Kannada Roopa Iyer 64 Mussanje Maathu Kannada Mahesh 66 Samskaravantha Kannada Parthasarathy K 67 Shankara Punyakoti Kannada G Murthy 68 Slum Bala Kannada D. Sumana Kittur 69 Ugragaami Kannada Baraguru Ramachandrappa 70 Vimukthi Kannada Mr. P Sheshadri 71 Ponnra Manass Kodava Raj Ballal 72 Yarwng Kokborok Joseph Pulinthanath 73 Saavariyaa.com Konkani Rajendra N. Talak 74 Bhoomimalayalam Malayalam T.V.Chandran 75 Bioscope Malayalam K M Madhusudhanan 76 Calcutta News Malayalam Blessy 77 Chithra Salabhangalude Malayalam Krishna Kumar Veedu 78 Gulmohar Malayalam Jayaraj 79 Kurukshethra Malayalam Major Ravi 80 Mizhikal Sakshi Malayalam Asok.R. Nath 81 Oru Penum Randaanum Malayalam Adoor Gopalakrishnan 82 Raman Malayalam Dr. Biju 83 Thalappavu Malayalam Madhupal 84 Thirakkadha Malayalam Ranjith 85 Veruthe Oru Bharya Malayalam Akku Akber 86 Vilapangalkkappuram Malayalam T.V. Chandran 87 Aaji- Aajoba Marathi Milind Dastane 88 Chanda Marathi Gajendra Ahire 89 Dukhache Shwapad Marathi Let. Shree Vishal Aahire 90 Gabhricha Paus Marathi Satish Manwar 91 Gandha Marathi Sachin Kundalkar 92 Gho Mala Asla Hava Marathi Sumitra Bhave & Sunil Sukthankar 93 Guilty Marathi Kumar Sohoni 94 Gulmohar Marathi Gajendra Ahire 95 Harishchandrachi Factory Marathi Mr. Paresh Mokashi 96 Jogva Marathi Rajeev Patil 97 Made In China Marathi Santosh Kolhe 98 Mahasatta Marathi Ramesh More 99 Mareparyant Fashi Marathi Mr. Chandrakant Barve 100 Marmabandh Marathi Dinesh P. Bhonsle 101 Samaantar Marathi Amol Palekar 102 Urus Marathi Shekhar Dattatray Naik 103 Jianta Bhoota Oriya Prashanta Nanda 104 Lakh Pardesi Hoiye Punjabi Dr. Swaran Singh 105 Abhiyum Naanum Tamil Radha Mohan 106 Ashoka Tamil Mr. Prem 107 Dasavatharam Tamil K.S.Ravi Kumar 108 Dhanam Tamil G Shiva 109 Meipporul Tamil Natty Kumar & Krishbala 110 Mudhal Mudhal Mudhal Tamil Krishnan Sheshadri Varai Gomatam 111 Naan Kaduul Tamil Bala 112 Pirivom Sandippom Tamil Karu Palaniappan 113 Poo Tamil Mr Sasi 114 Sakkarakatti Tamil Kala Prabhu 115 Subramaniyapuram Tamil M Sasi Kumar 116 Vallamai Thaarayo Tamil Mrs. Madhumita 117 Vannathu Poochi Tamil C. Azhagappan 118 Veranamayiram Tamil Gantham Vasudeva Menon 119 1940 Lookagramam Telugu Narasimha Nandi 120 Arundathi Telugu Kodi Ramakrishna 121 Ashta-Chamma Telugu Mr. Mohana Krishna Indraganti 122 Bathukamma Telugu T. Prabhakar 123 Cell Telugu Venkata Narayana 124 Gamyam Telugu Radha Krishna Jagarlamudi 125 Neninthe Telugu Puri Jagannadh 126 Gaggara Tulu Shivadhwaj Shetty