National Film Award for Best Narration / Voice Over
Indian film award
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The National Film Award for Narration / Voice Over is one of the National Film Awards given by the National Film Development Corporation of India for the non-feature films. It was instituted in 2003 and awarded at 51st National Film Awards.[1]
Rewards
- Rajat Kamal (Silver Lotus)
- ₹2,00,000
Firstaward2003
Most recent winnerHarikrishnan S, The Sacred (2023)
| National Film Award for Best Narration / Voice Over | |
|---|---|
| National award for contributions to non-feature film | |
| Sponsored by | National Film Development Corporation of India |
| Rewards |
|
| First award | 2003 |
| Most recent winner | Harikrishnan S, The Sacred (2023) |
Films made in any Indian language shot on 16 mm, 35 mm or in a wider gauge or digital format and released on either film format or video/digital but certified by the Central Board of Film Certification as a documentary/newsreel/fiction are eligible for non-feature film section.
Awards
All the awardees are awarded with 'Silver Lotus Award (Rajat Kamal)' and cash prize of ₹2 lakh (US$2,100). Following are the winners over the years:
| List of award recipients, showing the year (award ceremony), film(s) and language(s) | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Year | Recipient(s) | Film(s) | Language(s) | Refs. |
| 2003 (51st) |
Balachandran Chullikkadu | The 18 Elephants – 3 Monologues | Malayalam | [1] |
| 2004 (52nd) |
Yang Yen Thaw | The Legend of Fat Mama | English | [2] |
| 2005 (53rd) |
Ajay Raina | Wapsi | English, Hindi, Urdu, Punjabi and Kashmiri | [3] |
| 2006 (54th) |
Nedumudi Venu | Minukku | Malayalam | [4] |
| 2007 (55th) |
Vani Subramanian | Ayodhya Gatha | English and Hindi | [5] |
| 2008 (56th) |
Elangbam Natasha | Sana Keithel | English | [6] |
| 2009 (57th) |
Ranjan Palit | In Camera | English | [7] |
| 2010 (58th) |
Nilanjan Bhattacharya | Johar : Welcome to Our World | Hindi and English | [8] |
| 2011 (59th) |
Ann Abraham | Just that Sort of a Day | English | [9] |
| 2012 (60th) |
Moni Bordoloi | Suranjana Deepali | Assamese | [10] |
| 2013 (61st) |
Lipika Singh Darai | Kankee O Saapo | Odia | [11] |
| 2014 (62nd) |
Ambooty (Anil Kumar) | Nitya Kalyani – Oru Mohiniyattam Patham | Malayalam | [12] |
| Devi S. | ||||
| 2015 (63rd) |
Harish Bhimani | Mala Laj Watat Nahai | Marathi, Hindi and English | [13] |
| Aliyaar | Arangile Nithya Vismayam Guru Chemancherry Kunhiraman Nair | Malayalam | ||
| 2016 (64th) |
Setsu Makino Togawa | Makino An Indian Haiku | English | [14] |
| 2017 (65th) |
Francois Castellino | The Lion of Laddak | ||
| 2018 (66th) |
Deepak Agnihotri | Madhubani – The Station of Colours | ||
| Urvija Upadhayay | ||||
| 2019 (67th) |
David Attenborough | Wild Karnataka | English | [15] |
| 2020 (68th) |
Shobha Tharoor Sreenivasan | Rhapsody of Rains – Monsoons of Kerala | English | [16] |
| 2021 (69th) |
Kulada Kumar Bhattacharjee | Hati Bondhu | English and Assamese | [17] |
| 2022 (70th) |
Sumant Shinde | Murmurs of the Jungle | Marathi | [18] |
| 2023 (71st) |
Harikrishnan. S | The Sacred – Jack Exploring the Tree of Wishes | English | [19] |
| 2024 (72nd) |
Soundarya Jayachandran | Little Planet: A Tale of Frogs | English | [20] |