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Awards for Best Book on Cinema
Awards for best book on cinema is a national award for encouraging the study of Indian cinema

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Awards for Best Book on Cinema , National Film AwardAward for best book on cinema is a national film award. This award aims at encouraging the appreciation and study of Indian cinema as an expressive art form through the publication of cinema centric books, reviews articles etc. The best book on cinema is decided after a thoughtful judgement of the jury of national Film award. In the year 1982 for the first time the Tamil book on cinema named as Thamizh Cinemavin Kathai written by Aranthai Narayanan Tamil won the award.


Following is a list of the awards for Best Book on Cinema

2007 Helen: The Life and Times of an H-Bomb Jerry Pinto English
2005 Stardust - Vignettes from the Fringes of Film Industry Roopa Swaminathan English
2004 Filmi Jagat mein Ardhashakti ka Romanch Ramakrishna Hindi
2003 1Paroma and other Outsiders: The Cinema of Aparna Sen Shoma Chatterjee English
  2.Ritu Aaye Ritu Jaaye Sarat Dutt Hindi
2002 no award - -
2001 Sholay: The Making of a Classic Anupama Chopra Hindi
2000 1Malayala Cinemayum Sahithyavum Madhu Eravankara Malayalam
  2.Marathi Chitrapat Sangeetachi Vatchal Aruna Anand Damle Marathi
1999 Cinema ki Bhasha aur Hindi Samvadon ka Vishleshan Dr. Kishore Vasvani Hindi
1998 1.Hindi Cinema aur Delhi Savith Bhakhir & Adithya Aswathi English
  2.Cinemachi Goshta Anil Jhankar Marathi
1997 no award - -
1996 Marathi Cinema - In Retrospect Sanjit Narwekar English
1995 Abhinayam Anubhavam Bharat Gopi Malayalam
1994 Naalo Nenu Dr. Bhanumathi Ramakrishna Telugu
1993 Awaara Gayatri Chatterji English
1992 Athmanindayude Pookal Dr. Aravindan Vallchira Malayalam
1991 Hindi Cinema ki Itihaas Manomohan Chandha Hindi
1990 1.Shatranj Ke Khiladi Surendranath Tiwari Hindi
  2.Cinema, Kannakkum Kavithayum Sreekumaran Thampi Malayalam
1989 Moving Image Kishore Vallicha English
1988 Kazhchayude Assanthi Dr. V. Rajakrishnan Malayalam
1987 Rabindranath O Chalachithra Arun Kumar Roy Bengali
1986 Gurudutt Teen Anki Shonkat Iki Arun Khopkar Marathi
1985 Chalachitrer Abirbhab Jagannath Chathopadhyay Bengali
1984 Cinemayude Lokam Adoor Gopalakrishnan Malayalam
1983 Chalachitra Sameeksha Vijaya Krishanan Malayalam
1982 Thamizh Cinemavin Kathai Aranthai Narayanan Tamil



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