National Film Award For Best Investigative Film - Winners

For the ardent pursuit of truth in an explosive contemporary atmosphere, with objectivity, courage and lucidity.

For the in-depth analysis of the impact of proposed Tehri Dam on the environment and the people affected by it.

For a skilfully made film on a major problem of the times; the communal divide.

For a well researched and detailed investigation of the fears and tribulations of the people living under the looming shadow of a long-delayed multipurpose hydel project.

For probing beyond the objective, in its pursuit of insights, allowing even the unexpected to suggest the oblique.

For depicting the miserable plight of women prisoners and their bleak protests for any future.

For the exploration of the issue of health hazards faced by migrant industrial workers.

For a hard hitting indictment of the realities of water resource mismanagement in rural India.

For its courageous expose of an inhuman practice and state apathy.

For insight-fully and sensitively probing the masked lives of college students of Manipur, who are compelled by socio-political circumstances to pull rickshaws for their livelihood.

For its courageous expose of endemic poverty in the backward region of Orissa and the state's apathy to it.

The film is a forceful statement on the disastrous consequences of millions of people drinking water contaminated with "arsenic". In a simple but effective manner, the filmmaker explores and then brings out the enormity of the problem.

For portraying the apathy and the hardships of drought effected villagers from Bolangir District, and their struggle to survive under an atmosphere of compulsive exploitation in excellent investigative and poignant style.

For a small film with a big impact! In the best traditions of Investigative reportage, the film highlights the burning issue of hazards to health and pollution norms.

For exploring in depth the problem of falling agro-production and poisoning of the food chain due to use of chemical fertilizers and chemical pesticides.

For trying to uncover the sequence of events that led to the gruesome murder of the Wall-street journalist, Daniel Pearl. This film is very well researched and the investigation provides an insight into the working of a militant organisation.

For evoking painful memories of World War II as experienced by people of North East India, after the Japanese invasion. Through war wreckages found in the jungles and first person accounts, the film stitches together a moving story of affected families long forgotten.

For the pet detective in a reverse act, an emotive documentary exposing not only stories of cruel impact of pest control on human health but also arrests out attention to a more fundamental question – who is a pest ?.

For exposing the growing apathy of the state, the tightening grip of multinationals and the web created by middlemen and moneylenders towards small cotton growing farmers in Vidarbha. The film successfully investigates the vicious trap of debts, deceptions and suicides.