Today, the 71st National Film Award Ceremony was held at Vigyan Bhawan in Delhi, the capital of the country. Where President Draupadi Murmu honored the Winners by giving the National Award in different categories. Bollywood superstar Shah Rukh Khan received the National Award for the first time in a 33 -year career. At the same time, Rani Mukherjee was also awarded the National Award for the first time. Apart from this, Mohanlal was awarded the Dadasaheb Phalke Award.

• Shah Rukh Khan was given the first National Award for Best Actor for the film ‘Jawa’.
• Rani Mukherjee was awarded the Best Actress Award for the film ‘Mrs. Chatterjee Verses Norway’.
• Vidhu Vinod Chopra’s film ’12th Fail’ (Hindi) received the Basch feature film award.
• Vikrant Massey was given the National Award for Best Actor for ’12th Fail’.
• Karan Johar’s film ‘Rocky Aur Rani’s Prem Kahani’ won the Best Popular Film Award.
• Sudipato Sen was awarded the Best Director Award for ‘The Kerala Story’.

Awards given in music and singing

Category	Winner	Film/song	Language
Best Mail Playback Singer	PVNS Rohit	Premistunna (Baby)	Telugu
Best Female Playback Singer	Shilpa Rao	Called (young)	Hindi
Best Music Directions (songs)	Yes. V. Prakash Kumar	Vaathi	Tamil
Best Music Direction (Background Score)	Harshvardhan Rameshwar	Animal	Hindi
Best liricist	Kasarla Shyam	Oru Palleturu (Balagam)	Telugu
Best choreography	Vaibhavi Merchant	Dhindora Baje Re (Rocky and Rani’s love story)	Hindi

Non-feature film award winners

National Award also received in Technical Category