National Film Award for Best Child Artist
| National Film Award for Best Child Artist | |
|---|---|
| Awarded by Directorate of Film Festivals | |
| Type | National |
| Category | Indian Cinema |
| Description | |
| Description | Best Performance by a child artist in a year |
| Medal | Rajat Kamal (Silver Lotus) |
| Statistics | |
| Instituted | 1968 |
| First awarded | 1968 |
| Last awarded | 2015 |
| Total awarded | 71 |
| Cash award | ₹50,000 (US$740) |
| First awardee(s) | Baby Rani |
| Recent awardee(s) | Gaurav Menon |
The National Film Award for Best Child Artist is 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 is one of several awards presented for feature films and awarded with Silver Lotus (Rajat Kamal).
The award was instituted in 1968, at 16th National Film Awards and awarded annually for films produced in the year across the country, in all Indian languages.
Winners
| Indicates a joint award for that year |
Award includes 'Silver Lotus' (Rajat Kamal) and cash prize. Following are the award winners over the years:
| List of award recipients, showing the year (award ceremony), film(s) and language(s) and citation | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Year | Recipient(s) | Film(s) | Language | Citation | Refs. |
| 1967 (16th) |
Baby Rani | Kuzhanthaikkaga | Tamil | – | [1] |
| 1969 (17th) |
No Award | [2] | |||
| 1970 (18th) |
Rishi Kapoor | Mera Naam Joker | Hindi | – | [3] |
| 1971 (19th) |
Sachin | Ajab Tujhe Sarkar | Marathi | – | [4] |
| 1972 (20th) |
Neera Malia | Ranur Prtham Bhag | Bengali | – | [5] |
| 1973 (21st) |
G. S. Nataraj | Kaadu | Kannada | – | [6] |
| 1974 (22nd) |
Kushal Chakraborty | Sonar Kella | Bengali | – | [7] |
| 1975 (23rd) |
No Award | [8] | |||
| 1976 (24th) |
Raju Shrestha | Chitchor | Hindi | – | [4] |
| 1977 (25th) |
Ajith Kumar | Ghatashraddha | Kannada |
For depicting with rare sensitivity, a child's growth into awareness of the coarseness and brutality of the adult world, for his silent struggle to retain his innocence and his natural sense of justice; for his poetic evocation of the child's response to the slowly unfolding mysteries of life, the trivial, the brutal and tragic being inextricable elements of human experience. |
[9] |
| 1978 (26th) |
Kanchan De Biswas | Ganadevata | Bengali |
For being utterly himself. |
[10] |
| 1979 (27th) |
Geeta Khanna | Aangan Ki Kali | Hindi | – | [11] |
| 1980 (28th) |
Aravind | Oppol | Malayalam |
For portraying the complex role of a lonely child who is a victim of social ostracisation for no fault of his own, for bringing out the terrible emotional trauma with little dialogue and a superb economy of gesture. |
[12] |
| 1981 (29th) |
Leikhendra Singh | Imagi Ningtham | Manipuri |
For an endearing portrayal of a child and his yearning for a mother's love. |
[13] |
| 1982 (30th) |
Vimal | Aroodam | Malayalam |
For its touching innocence and lack of self-consciousness which lend meaning to the theme. |
[14] |
| 1983 (31st) |
Suresh | Malamukalile Daivam | Malayalam |
For lively depiction of a wide range of emotions of a tribal lad. |
[15] |
| 1984 (32nd) |
• Aravind • Suresh • Mukesh • Sonia |
My Dear Kuttichathan | Malayalam | – | [16] |
| 1985 (33rd) |
Puneeth Rajkumar | Bettada Hoovu | Kannada |
For his lively and effortless performance in the role of a poor boy who has to make the difficult choice between his personal goal and his family responsibilities. |
[17] |
| 1986 (34th) |
Aniket Sengupta | Phera | Bengali |
For his lively and poignant portrayal of a young boy who brings new faith and meaning to the life of an aged artiste. |
[18] |
| 1987 (35th) |
Manjunath | Swamy | Hindi |
For his utterly charming and delightful portrayal of a young school going village boy who is combination of innocence and mischief, pointing to the inherent natural wisdom of the young. |
[19] |
| 1988 (36th) |
Shafiq Syed | Salaam Bombay! | Hindi |
For the natural ease with which he has portrayed a slum child. |
[20] |
| 1989 (37th) |
Mrinmayee Chandorkar | Kalat Nakalat | Marathi |
For her innocent and spontaneous portrayal. |
[21] |
| 1990 (38th) |
• Shamili • Tarun • Shruthi |
Anjali | Tamil |
For giving excellent performances in which the children come across in all naturalness and yet give a glimpse of the adult within. |
[22] |
| 1991 (39th) |
Santhosh Reddy | Bhadram Koduko | Telugu |
For giving a natural performance of a street-smart child. |
[23] |
| 1992 (40th) |
Amit Phalke | Mujhse Dosti Karoge | Hindi |
For the sheer joy and versatility he brings to the portrayal of a lovable lad lost in his own dream world. |
[24] |
| 1993 (41st) |
Tarasankar Misra | Lavanya Preethi | Oriya |
For depicting successfully the process of growing up from childhood to adolescence and the first awareness of sexuality. |
[25] |
| 1994 (42nd) |
Vijay Raghavendra | Kotreshi Kanasu | Kannada |
For his portrayal of bright little boy who is a social outcast. He wins your heart with his soft and endearing mannerisms. |
[26] |
| 1995 (43rd) |
Vishwas | Kraurya | Kannada |
For his sensitive portrayal of a child, traumatised in an adult world devoid of love and understanding. |
[27] |
| 1996 (44th) |
Kavya | Little Soldiers | Telugu |
For her excellent performance. |
[28] |
| 1996 (44th) |
Kumar | Desadanam | Malayalam |
For his excellent performance. | |
| 1997 (45th) |
Dhanraj | Dhanna | Hindi |
For actor's natural portrayal of a disabled person. His curiosity and interests make him turn from a social outcaste into a self-learning member of community. |
[29] |
| 1998 (46th) |
P. Shwetha | Malli | Tamil |
For her infectious and vibrant performance of a young child's pure bonding with nature and her trauma at the decadence in environment. |
[30] |
| 1999 (47th) |
Aswin Thampy | Jalamarmaram | Malayalam |
For essaying the innocent faith of a child in the existence of a mermaid, and his confident strides to provide it with a safe environment. |
[31] |
| 2000 (48th) |
Udaya Raj | Nila Kaalam | Tamil |
For his portrayal of Pulli in the film. Pulli is a very young orphan who works in a motor garage in chennai. The jury applauds the way in which master udayaraj brings out both the innocence and street-smartness of Pulli, with a combination of energy and spontaneity. |
[32] |
| 2001 (49th) |
P. Shwetha | Kutty | Tamil |
For her subdued portrayal of Kutty, a young girl made to suffer the agonies of social disparity and human exploitation. |
[33] |
| 2002 (50th) |
Shweta Prasad | Makdee | Hindi |
For her spontaneous and lively portrayal of twin sisters. |
[34] |
| 2002 (50th) |
P. S. Keerthana | Kannathil Muthamittal | Tamil |
For her heart vending portrayal of a girl in search of her mother. | |
| 2003 (51st) |
Ashwin Chitale | Shwaas | Marathi |
For his haunting performance as a child who realises he is going to lose his eyesight. |
[35] |
| 2003 (51st) |
Kalidas Jayaram | Ente Veedu Appoontem | Malayalam |
For his versatility in portraying a range of complex emotions. | |
| 2004 (52nd) |
Om Bhutakar | Chhota Sipahi | Hindi |
For his gradual evolution from a naïve innocent young child to a patriot in the liberation movement of Goa. |
[36] |
| 2005 (53rd) |
Sai Kumar | Bommalata | Telugu |
For his haunting performance as a child who realises his burning desire to access school education. |
[37] |
| 2006 (54th) |
Divya Chaphadkar | Antarnad | Konkani |
For evoking the complex emotions of a talented child overshadowed by a celebrity mother. |
[38] |
| 2007 (55th) |
Sharad Goekar | Tingya | Marathi |
For covering the range from tenderness to angry defiance with consummate ease, while portraying Tingya, a boy whose love for his ox is the driving force of his young life. |
[39] |
| 2008 (56th) |
Shams Patel | Thanks Maa | Hindi |
For his very natural depiction of a street child thrown into an unusual situation. |
[40] |
| 2009 (57th) |
• Kishore • Sree Raam |
Pasanga | Tamil |
For the spirited performance of a protagonist and an antagonist who are incomplete without each other. The two young shoulders carry the narrative through a delightful journey. |
[41] |
| 2010 (58th) |
Harsh Mayar | I Am Kalam | Hindi |
For performing with bright, shining eyes and an urchin smile, the razor sharp spirit of a survivor who dreams of excelling. |
[42] |
| 2010 (58th) |
• Shantanu Ranganekar • Machindra Gadkar |
Champions | Marathi |
For two brothers bonded by blood and responsibility battling for survival in the underbelly of a heartless city. | |
| 2010 (58th) |
Vivek Chabukswar | Baboo Band Baaja | Marathi |
For capturing the indomitable spirit of a young village boy who is hungry to learn in an environment that closes all doors on him. | |
| 2011 (59th) |
Partho Gupte | Stanley Ka Dabba | Hindi |
For demonstrating a rare maturity in his performance as he conveys his interiority. His expressive face and an obvious ability to understand the complex role of a child who invents a harrowing double life – make him an outstanding child artiste. |
[43] |
| 2011 (59th) |
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Chillar Party | Hindi |
For performing its roles extremely well with a refreshing and credible on-screen innocence. The roles were difficult as the children not only had to rise to the challenge of interacting with one other as a gang of young kids who have to battle against a universe of adults, but also to develop their own characters, which required both humour and pathos. They played out the comic sequences with impeccable timing. | |
| 2012 (60th) |
Virendra Pratap | Dekh Indian Circus | Hindi |
Unaffected and natural to the core, the child actor looks totally at home in the role of a playful yet responsible youngster. |
[44] |
| 2012 (60th) |
Minon | 101 Chodyangal | Malayalam |
A precocious child pushed into the vortex of his struggling family, the actor has displayed consummate artistry | |
| 2013 (61st) |
Somnath Avghade | Fandry | Marathi |
For playing the role of a Dalit teenager to perfection. His angst clearly boils over as the realities of life dawn upon him. |
[45] |
| 2013 (61st) |
Baby Sadhana | Thanga Meenkal | Tamil |
For playing the part of a dyslexic child with sensitivity and exuberance and yet with ease. | |
| 2014 (62nd) |
• J. Vignesh • Ramesh |
Kaaka Muttai | Tamil |
For their portrayal of inseparable siblings living in a slum who innocently struggle with rare dignity to acquire what attracts them in this vast market of products unleashed by a liberal economy only to realise the harsh reality of invincible class boundaries. |
[46] |
| 2015 (63rd) |
Gaurav Menon | Ben | Malayalam |
For an outstanding performance on a wide spectrum of emotions, of a boy going through great turmoil. |
[47] |
References
- ↑ "16th National Film Awards" (PDF). Directorate of Film Festivals. p. 2. Retrieved 22 September 2011.
- ↑ "17th National Film Awards" (PDF). Directorate of Film Festivals. Retrieved 26 September 2011.
- ↑ "18th National Film Awards" (PDF). Directorate of Film Festivals. Retrieved 26 September 2011.
- 1 2 "Shortlived stardom". The Tribune. 13 August 2011. Retrieved 22 June 2012.
- ↑ "20th National Film Awards". International Film Festival of India. Retrieved 26 September 2011.
- ↑ "21st National Film Awards" (PDF). Directorate of Film Festivals. Retrieved 29 September 2011.
- ↑ "22nd National Film Awards" (PDF). Directorate of Film Festivals. Retrieved 1 October 2011.
- ↑ "23rd National Film Awards" (PDF). Directorate of Film Festivals. Retrieved 4 October 2011.
- ↑ "25th National Film Awards" (PDF). Directorate of Film Festivals. Retrieved 4 October 2011.
- ↑ "26th National Film Awards" (PDF). Directorate of Film Festivals. Retrieved 4 October 2011.
- ↑ "27th National Film Awards". Retrieved 22 June 2011.
- ↑ "28th National Film Awards" (PDF). Directorate of Film Festivals. Retrieved 4 October 2011.
- ↑ "29th National Film Awards" (PDF). Directorate of Film Festivals. Retrieved 4 October 2011.
- ↑ "30th National Film Awards" (PDF). Directorate of Film Festivals. Retrieved 4 October 2011.
- ↑ "31st National Film Awards" (PDF). Directorate of Film Festivals. Retrieved 9 December 2011.
- ↑ "32nd National Film Awards" (PDF). Directorate of Film Festivals. Retrieved 6 January 2012.
- ↑ "33rd National Film Awards" (PDF). Directorate of Film Festivals. Retrieved 7 January 2012.
- ↑ "34th National Film Awards" (PDF). Directorate of Film Festivals. Retrieved 7 January 2012.
- ↑ "35th National Film Awards" (PDF). Directorate of Film Festivals. Retrieved 9 January 2012.
- ↑ "36th National Film Awards" (PDF). Directorate of Film Festivals. Retrieved 9 January 2012.
- ↑ "37th National Film Awards" (PDF). Directorate of Film Festivals. Retrieved 29 January 2012.
- ↑ "38th National Film Awards" (PDF). Directorate of Film Festivals. Retrieved 9 January 2012.
- ↑ "39th National Film Awards" (PDF). Directorate of Film Festivals. Retrieved 27 February 2012.
- ↑ "40th National Film Awards" (PDF). Directorate of Film Festivals. Retrieved 2 March 2012.
- ↑ "41st National Film Awards" (PDF). Directorate of Film Festivals. Retrieved 3 March 2012.
- ↑ "42nd National Film Awards" (PDF). Directorate of Film Festivals. Retrieved 5 March 2012.
- ↑ "43rd National Film Awards" (PDF). Directorate of Film Festivals. Retrieved 6 March 2012.
- ↑ "44th National Film Awards" (PDF). Directorate of Film Festivals. Retrieved 9 January 2012.
- ↑ "45th National Film Awards" (PDF). Directorate of Film Festivals. Retrieved 11 March 2012.
- ↑ "46th National Film Awards" (PDF). Directorate of Film Festivals. Retrieved 12 March 2012.
- ↑ "47th National Film Awards" (PDF). Directorate of Film Festivals. Retrieved 13 March 2012.
- ↑ "48th National Film Awards" (PDF). Directorate of Film Festivals. Retrieved 13 March 2012.
- ↑ "49th National Film Awards" (PDF). Directorate of Film Festivals. Retrieved 14 March 2012.
- ↑ "50th National Film Awards" (PDF). Directorate of Film Festivals. p. 18-19. Retrieved 14 March 2012.
- ↑ "51st National Film Awards" (PDF). Directorate of Film Festivals. Retrieved 15 March 2012.
- ↑ "52nd National Film Awards" (PDF). Directorate of Film Festivals. Retrieved 28 January 2012.
- ↑ "53rd National Film Awards" (PDF). Directorate of Film Festivals. Retrieved 19 March 2012.
- ↑ "54th National Film Awards" (PDF). Directorate of Film Festivals. Retrieved 24 March 2012.
- ↑ "55th National Film Awards" (PDF). Directorate of Film Festivals. Retrieved 26 March 2012.
- ↑ "56th National Film Awards" (PDF). Directorate of Film Festivals. Retrieved 27 March 2012.
- ↑ "57th National Film Awards" (PDF). Directorate of Film Festivals. Retrieved 28 March 2012.
- ↑ "58th National Film Awards" (PDF). Directorate of Film Festivals. Retrieved 29 March 2012.
- ↑ "59th National Film Awards for the Year 2011 Announced". Press Information Bureau (PIB), India. Retrieved 7 March 2012.
- ↑ "60th National Film Awards Announced" (PDF) (Press release). Press Information Bureau (PIB), India. Retrieved 18 March 2013.
- ↑ "61st National Film Awards" (PDF). Directorate of Film Festivals. 16 April 2014. Retrieved 16 April 2014.
- ↑ "62nd National Film Awards" (PDF) (Press release). Directorate of Film Festivals. 24 March 2015. Retrieved 24 March 2015.
- ↑ "63rd National Film Awards" (PDF) (Press release). Directorate of Film Festivals. 28 March 2016. Retrieved 28 March 2016.
External links
- Official Page for Directorate of Film Festivals, India
- National Film Awards Archives
- National Film Awards at IMDB
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