National Film Award for Best Choreography
Indian annual award
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The National Film Award for Best Choreography is one of the National Film Awards presented annually by the National Film Development Corporation of India. It is one of several awards presented for feature films and awarded with Rajat Kamal (Silver Lotus).
- Rajat Kamal (Silver Lotus)
- ₹2,00,000
| National Film Award for Best Choreography | |
|---|---|
| National award for contributions to Indian Cinema | |
| Awarded for | Best choreography for a feature film song for a year |
| Sponsored by | National Film Development Corporation of India |
| Rewards |
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| First award | 1991 |
| Most recent winner | Vijay Ganguly, Stree 2 (2024) |
The award was instituted in 1991 at 39th National Film Awards but awarded first time at 40th National Film Awards and then awarded annually for films produced in the year across the country, in all Indian languages. Hindi (20 awards), Tamil (6 awards), Telugu (5 awards), Malayalam (4 awards), Bengali and Marathi (1 each).
The choreographer who has won most Rajat Kamal (Silver Lotus) for Best Choreography is Saroj Khan with 3 wins followed by Prabhu Deva, Raju Sundaram, Ganesh Acharya, and Vaibhavi Merchant with two wins each.
Sundaram and Prabhu Deva, Raju Sundaram are the father and son trio who are honored by this award.
Winners
Award includes 'Rajat Kamal' (Silver Lotus) and cash prize. Following are the award winners over the years:
Notes
- Jani Master was initially announced as the co-winner, but his win was retracted due to sexual harassment allegations made against him.[32]