National Film Award for Best Female Playback Singer
Indian film award
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The National Film Award for Best Female Playback Singer is an honour presented annually at the National Film Awards of India since 1968 to a female playback singer for the best renditions of songs from films within the Indian film industry. The National Film Awards were called the "State Awards for Films" when established in 1954. The State Awards instituted the "Best Female Playback Singer" category in 1968. Throughout the years, accounting for ties and repeat winners, the Government of India has presented a total of 55 Best Female Playback Singer awards to 33 different female playback singers.
- Rajat Kamal (Silver Lotus)
- ₹2,00,000
| National Film Award for Best Female Playback Singer | |
|---|---|
The 2024 recipient: Vaikom Vijayalakshmi | |
| Awarded for | Best Vocal Performance by a Female Playback Singer |
| Sponsored by | National Film Development Corporation of India |
| Rewards |
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| First award | 1968 |
| Most recent winner | Vaikom Vijayalakshmi, ARM (2024) |
| Most wins | K. S. Chithra (6) |
Until 1974, winners of the National Film Award in this category received a commemorative plaque and certificate; since 1975, they have been awarded with a "Rajat Kamal" (silver lotus), certificate and a cash prize that amounted to ₹50,000 (US$520) in 2012, and ₹2 lakh (US$2,100) in 2022.[1] Although the Indian film industry produces films in more than 20 languages and dialects,[2] the female playback singers who have received the 'Rajat Kamal' awards have recorded their renditions in nine major languages: Tamil (fifteen awards), Hindi (fifteen awards), Telugu (six awards), Marathi (six awards), Bengali (six awards), Malayalam (six awards), Kannada (one award), Assamese (one award) and Konkani (one award).
The first recipient was P. Susheela, who was honoured at the 16th National Film Awards in 1968 for her rendition from the Tamil film Uyarntha Manithan. As of 2021, The female playback singer who won the most 'Rajat Kamal' awards is K. S. Chithra with six wins, followed by P. Susheela and Shreya Ghoshal with five wins each. S. Janaki won the award four times. Two female playback singers — Lata Mangeshkar and Vani Jairam have won it thrice, while three female playback singers — Asha Bhosle, Alka Yagnik and Arati Ankalikar Tikekar have won it twice. Shreya Ghoshal won the award for her renditions in five different languages, followed by S. Janaki and K. S. Chithra, both of whom won for their renditions in three different languages. Sandhya Mukhopadhyay and Shreya Ghoshal are the only recipients who received the award for two renditions from two different films in the same year, with Ghoshal being the only recipient who received the award for two renditions from two different films in two different languages. K. S. Chithra and Roopa Ganguly are the only recipients who received the award for two renditions from the same film in the same year. Vani Jairam and Lata Mangeshkar are the only recipients who received the award for their various renditions in a single film in the same year. As of 2022, Uthara Unnikrishnan is the youngest recipient who received the award at the age of ten,[3] and Nanjamma is the oldest recipient who received the award at the age of sixty-two.[4] The only siblings who have received the award are Lata Mangeshkar and Asha Bhosle. No award was given in this category at the 21st National Film Awards in 1973. The most recent recipient of the award is Vaikom Vijayalakshmi who will be honoured at the 72nd National Film Awards for the song "Angu Vaana Konilu" from the Malayalam film ARM.
Key
| Symbol | Meaning |
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| Year | Indicates the year in which the film was censored by the Central Board of Film Certification (CBFC) |
| † | Indicates a joint award for that year |
| ‡ | Indicates that the winner won the award for two renditions from the same or two different films in that year |
| ⸸ | Indicates that the winner won the award for various renditions in that year |
Superlatives
Recipients
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See also
Notes
- Denotes The year in which the film was censored by the Central Board of Film Certification.
- Mukhopadhyay was awarded for two songs from two different films.
- Jairam was awarded for her various renditions in the film Sankarabharanam.
- K. S. Chithra was awarded for two different songs in the same film.
- Ghoshal was awarded for two songs from two different films in two different languages.
- Ganguly was awarded for two different songs in the same film.
- Unnikrishnan is the youngest recipient of the award who won at age of 10.
- Nanjamma is the oldest recipient of the award who won at age of 62.
- Ghoshal was awarded for a bilingual song.