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Indira Gandhi Award for Best First Film Director
Indira Gandhi Award for Best First Film of a Director is a national film award.

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The Indira Gandhi Award for Best First Film of a Director is a national film award. For the greater objective of recognising the talent of the Indian debutant director, this award is presented. This award is given in cash to a feature film production after the judgement of the best debut film of an Indian director by jury of the national film awards. In the year 1981 director Utpalendu Chakraborty won this award for the first time for his Bengali debut film, Maina Tadanta.

Following is a list of the winners of the Indira Gandhi Award for Best First Film of a Director




















Year Film Director Language
2010 Lahore Sanjay Puran Singh Chauhan Hindi
2009 A Wednesday Neeraj Pandey Hindi
2008 Frozen Shivajee Chandrabhushan Hindi
2007 1. Kabul Express
2. Ekantham		 1. Kabir Khan
2. Madhu Kaithapuram		 1. Hindi
2. Malayalam
2006 Parineeta Pradeep Sarkar Hindi
2005 Grahanam Mohan Krishna Indraganti Telugu
2004 Margam Rajiv Vijaya Raghavan Malayalam
2003 1. Patal Ghar
2. Prohor		 1. Abhijit Chaudhary
2. Subhadro Chaudhary		 1. Bengali
2. Bengali
2002 Thiladaanam K.N.T. Sastry Telugu
2001 Sayahnam R. Sarath Malayalam
2000 1. Laado
2. Dollar Dreams		 1. Aswini Chowdhary
2. Shekhar Kammula		 1. Haryanvi
2. English
1999 Daya Venu Malayalam
1998 Bhoothakkannadi A. K. Lohitha Das Malayalam
1997 Rag Birag Bindhu Chakraborthy Assamese
1996 Kahini Malaya Bhattacharya Bengali
1995 Moghamull G. Rajasekharan Tamil
1994 Sunya Theke Suru Ashok Viswanathan Bengali
1993 Mrs. Beatty`s Children Pamela Rooks English
1992 Haldhaar Sanjeev Hazarika Assamese
1991 Perumthachan Ajayan Malayalam
1990 Wosobipo Gautam Bora Karbi
1989 Thrishagni Nabayendu Ghosh Hindi
1988 Ekti Jiban Raja Mitra Bengali
1987 Yeh Woh Manzil To Nahin Sudhir Mishra Hindi
1986 New Delhi Times Romesh Sharma Hindi
1985 Meendum Oru Kaathal Kathai Prathap Pothan Tamil
1984 Jaane Bhi Do Yaaron Kundan Shah Hindi
1983 Kann Sivanthaal Mann Sivakkum Sridhar Rajan Tamil
1982 Aadhar Sila Ashok Ahuja Hindi
1981 Maina Tadanta Utpalendu Chakraborthy Bengali



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