National Film Award For Best Feature Film in Malayalam - Winners

For capturing with an unerring eye for detail the trivia of village life; for presenting through its calculated pace and rhythm a true slice of a rural culture in Kerala; for revealing through seemingly insignificant vignettes the gradual transformation of a casual village drifter into a person of genuine worth and true dignity.

For its cinematic virtousity and defiance of all narrative traditions of film making.

For presenting dilemma of romantic revolutionary who understands the futility of his misadventure at the cost of some rare moments of happiness, for successfully building up the sense of impending doom underlining the human relationships throughout the film.

For presenting the total decadence of the feudal system with unusual sensitivity and realism and for perceptively portraying the personal tragedy of those caught up in it.

For its powerful depiction of a lone individual's determined fight against tyranny.

For the courageous effort to present the cause of tribals and their efforts to join the national mainstream.

For exploring the layers of family relationship in a rural setting threatened by urban culture and explains how the imminent breakdown of the joint family is prevented by a death.

For its depiction of people caught in the midst of religious conservatism.

For creating highly disciplined work of great formal quality of a little boy's discovery of his dead father's environment and his eventual alienation from his mother.

For compassionate depiction of the human condition permeating the dark realities of a social evil.

For its remarkable creation of an imprisoned writer's mind hovering between the pain of confinement, existential apprehension of death and the hallucinatory "reality" of sensual love.

For being a human document, depicting the cruelties meted out by society to the dispossessed.

For its simplicity of treatment in the delineation of rural life with a genuine feel for human values and relationships.

For its original concept and in-depth exploration of the psyche of a man who escapes into the mystic past to flee from the harsh reality of everyday life.

For its in-depth handling and complex delineation of the psychological evolution of two characters, representative of the transformation of terror into power and its hold over the life of the existentialist outsider.

Against the backdrop of impending death, complex marital and social relationships are explored.

For the film, which through the eyes of a young boy traces the graph of a political transformation in Kerala.

For depicting in an excellent manner the conflicts between love, traditional bonds and duties, arising out of religious beliefs.

The film tells the story of a remarkable courageous middle class woman who takes challenge upon challenge in her stride. Each confrontation makes a comment on social structures.

It authentically deals with the social ambience prevailing among the brahmin community ages ago. The story unfolded through the bold adventures of one brahmin woman, Thethi, who finally takes to Sanyas.

For depicting an intricately structured screenplay about the need for discovering new adjustments in family relationship and the complexities and fallacies of conjugal harmony.

For the film with a wonderful structure and well worked out mise-en-scenes tries to depict a complex story of the Christian community in a simple manner.

For a brilliant narrative depicting the complex relationship between a dancer wife and a loving husband. It highlights the values of life, art and the co-existence of the two.

For documenting the of life of an ordinary human being who is denied any meaningful relationship within his family. In the end however the film very subtly but effectively brings out the triumph of the dignity of human relationships.

For its exploration of the mind of a hangman.

For its sensitive portrayal of an old couple in their loneliness and togetherness.

For its sensitive handling of characters trapped in tragic situation, in an unconventional filmic way.

For the moving depiction of a middle class family which struggles to lead a dignified life in the face of the house holder’s gradual loss of memory.

For a powerful tribute to the co modification of ancient tradition.

A well crafted movie on the emotional conflict of a middle class housewife irresistibly drawn to a radical intellectual.

For its poignant story of an actress told with sincerity and conviction.

For recreating the life and times of a forgotten and unsung hero who gave the first call of freedom from British rule.

For narrating the story of a doctor who overcomes personal loss to journey through an unfamiliar landscape to fulfil a promise to a dying mother and in the process finds a personal salvation.

For its seemingly breezy take on the booming real estate sector of urban Kerala, mirrored in towns and cities all over India, of irregularly employed youth who give up traditional values of family, society and education for quick money. But what director manages to communicate is the message that crime eventually does pay, but at almost unbearable loss of self esteem, panic, anxiety and loneliness.

The trials and tribulations of the passionate filmmaker and father of Malayalam cinema, J.C. Daniel are poignantly depicted in this biopic.