National Film Award For Best Feature Film in Marathi - Winners

For consistently transferring to the film medium a successful fictional work (Thakurwadi by G. N. Dandekar); for high lightening the mutual inconsistencies of love, of the fear of God and of superstition in a simple, innocent community of tribal, for the memorable use of the drum in evoking presence of the God and expressing the inexorable demands of love for a cinematic form which captures the lyricism, the cadence and the lilt of folk culture.

For a sincere cinematic statement on the theme of a woman seeking to establish her identity by pursuing a career, even at the risk of alienation from her family.

For dealing with several dimensions of feudalism.

For its compassionate portrayal of an early woman writer and its compelling study of a tormented soul coming to terms with her social condition.

For a film with powerful social content, exposing the evil of dowry and underlining that the only solution is social censure.

For its patriotic vigour in the retelling of a story set during the turbulent times of Shivaji.

For its delicate description of the tension of love in various facets; wife, mistress and children; and the resolution of tensions in favour of keeping a family together.

For its humane portrait of simple tamash clown sucked in by the glittering world of show business and exploited by politicians.

For its clever portrayal of comedy of errors, cutting across the generation gap and for its charming depiction of puppy-love, extending from the campus to the homes of today's youth, in a refreshing directorial debut.

For its realistic portrayal of a Maharashtrian village in the thirties through the experience of a young school teacher who tries to fight against all odds and superstition.

For depicting the struggle for power of ambitious politicians in a most effective manner.

For shedding light on the plight of the old and the ageing and the crumbling of the joint family system in a novel and entertaining format of a love story. Beautiful performance by Mohan Joshi and Suhas Joshi are the highlights of the film.

For depicting the hypocrisy exercised by man in complete contradiction of declared socio-political positions and a total reversal of behaviour when it comes to power and lust. It draws attention to the inherent problems in the empowerment of women.

For dealing with the social issues, adultery and the subjugation of women. The film ends on a positive note of a woman's empowerment when the protagonist extends her horizon beyond home and hearth.

For its competent handling of a feudal family caught in the vortex of social change in post-independence India.

For its treatment of two women's struggle against male exploitation and domination.

For its portrayal of nostalgic love between two aged characters and their problems with the next generation.

For its portrayal of an urban middle class man who breaks down under tremendous stress and pressures of life in a corrupt modern city.

For an empathetic portrayal of the struggles of middle class married woman estranged from her family.

An original offbeat film that gives a fresh perspective of the internal landscapes of the human mind.

For its original of stylised recreation of a slice of history.

For depicting the passion of an artiste, who despite social ostracism, political oppression and personal failures, pursues his dream.

For an emotional presentation of the story of a surrogate mother who is torn between love and sacrifice for the child.

For film set in the time of the Emergency that is at once a coming of age, a slice of life and a political film. The director draws a map of ephemeral and fleeting moments, sensitively making connections between political culture, sexual repression, the family and the School System. The director also manages to maintain a unique balance between historical turbulence and the tender innocence of teenage love.

This bold film portrays the devastating effects of instilling wrong values among children.