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The National Film Award goes to!

The National Film Award goes to!

In response to the Covid-19 pandemic, the 68th National Film Awards were announced on Friday for films released in 2020. Why are these awards given, and how are they selected? What have been the biggest winners?

On Friday (July 22), the 68th National Film Awards were announced for films that were released in 2020; the Awards had been delayed by two years due to the Covid-19 pandemic. Winners were announced at a press conference in New Delhi, and the event was streamed on the PIB YouTube channel.

The Tamil film ‘Soorarai Pottru’ has won five awards: Best Feature Film, Best Actor for Suriya, Best Actress for Aparna Balamurali, Best Music Direction (Score) for G V Prakash Kumar, and Best Original Screenplay for Sudha Kongara.

He shares the award with Bollywood actor Ajay Devgn, who won for his role in Tanhaji: The Unsung Warrior. Awarded Best Popular Film Providing Wholesome Entertainment, the film also won the Best Popular Film Award.

‘Ayyappanum Koshiyum’ director Sachidanandan K R won the Best Direction Award, while ‘Mandela’ director Madonne Ashwin won the Best Debut Film of a Director Award.

The National Film Awards aim to promote films with aesthetic and technical excellence and social relevance, according to the Directorate of Film Festivals of the Union Ministry of Information and Broadcasting.

In addition to promoting unity and integrity, the Awards aim to increase the appreciation of different cultures and communities across India. Every year, they are presented by the President of India with the best films of the previous year.

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The State Awards were first given out in 1954 and recognized the best films from a dozen regional languages.

In 1968, separate awards were given to artists and technicians. The inaugural Best Actress Award went to Nargis for her role as a schizophrenia patient in Raat Aur Din, while Uttam Kumar won the award for both ‘Antony Firingee and ‘Chiriyakhana.’

Bharat Award and Urvashi Award were the official titles of these awards. “Urvashi Sharada” is the name given to the actress Sharada who won the award three times (for “Thulabharam,” “Swayamvaram,” and “Nimajjanam”).

A new category has been added to the Awards: ‘Features’ and ‘Non-Features.’ In addition, there is the award for ‘Best Writing on Cinema.’ The winning entries in the ‘Features’ and ‘Non-Features’ sections are selected based on “cinematic achievements.” The ‘Best Writing on Cinema’ Awards aims to promote “the study and appreciation of cinema as an art form.”

No award was given for Best Critic this time around. This year’s Best Book on Cinema went to Kishwar Desai’s ‘The Longest Kiss’ about Devika Rani, often referred to as “The First Lady of Indian Cinema.”

In accordance with the Directorate of Film Festivals, the jury deciding the winners consists of “people distinguished in the fields of cinema, other allied arts, and humanities.”

There was controversy in 2018 when President Ram Nath Kovind only presented awards in 11 categories out of 140 winners. Over 60 awardees wrote an open letter protesting the decision.

Despite asking the President to reconsider his decision, the letter noted that the National Awards had been considered “pristine and unbiased” compared with other awards ceremonies.

In 2017, eminent filmmaker A R Murugadoss accused the jury of bias and nepotism. In his opinion, the awards reflected the partiality of the jury members, headed by veteran director Priyadarshan.

It is Shabana Azmi who holds the record for winning the Best Actress Award five times, including three consecutive wins from 1982-84 for ‘Arth,’ ‘Khandhar,’ and ‘Paar.’ Indrani Halder and Rituparna Sengupta are the only two Bengali actresses to be honored for the same film, Rituparno Ghosh’s Dahan (1997).

Four of Satyajit Ray’s films have won Best Feature Film in four different decades: ‘Pather Panchali’ (1955), ‘Apur Sansar’ (1959), ‘Charulata’ (1964), ‘Goopy Gyne Bagha Byne’ (1968), ‘Seemabaddha’ (1971), and ‘Agantuk’ (1991).

There have been seven Shah Rukh Khan films that have won the award for Best Popular Film Providing Wholesome Entertainment, the most for any actor, but he has never won it himself.

There is a perception that Hindi cinema dominates the Awards. Since the categories were introduced, Bollywood has won 25 awards for Best Actor, 27 for Best Children’s Film, 19 for Best Music Direction, 17 for Best Supporting Actress, etc.

According to the winners of the past few years, films dealing with themes of nationalism and patriotism, often of a macho nature, have been rewarded. In this category are films about historical figures, such as ‘Tanhaji: The Unsung Warrior’ (2020).

Kangana Ranaut won her third Best Actress Award for Manikarnika: The Queen of Jhansi (2019); Vicky Kaushal won his first Best Actor Award for Uri: The Surgical Strike (2018); and Marakkar: Arabikadalinte Simham (2019) won Best Feature Film.

Awardees whose characters do not conform to the gender binary is an interesting feature that many would like to see become a full-fledged trend.

The Bengali actor Riddhi Sen won Best Actor for his portrayal of a trans woman in Nagarkirtan (2017) – incidentally, he is also the youngest recipient of the award so far. Similarly, Tamil actor Vijay Sethupathi won the Best Supporting Actor Award for ‘Super Deluxe’ (2019), in which he played a trans woman.

When the National Flag was adopted

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Jawaharlal Nehru moved the Resolution with an emotional speech, and it received a rousing endorsement from members. Standing ovations followed the adoption of the Motion.

Today, July 22, 1947, marks the 75th anniversary of the adoption of the National Flag by the Constituent Assembly of India. On Friday, Prime Minister Narendra Modi led the nation in “recalling the monumental courage and efforts of all those who dreamed of a flag for free India when we fought colonialism.”

In a post on Twitter, Prime Minister Narendra Modi reiterated his commitment to fulfill Jawaharlal Nehru’s vision and build the India of his dreams, along with a picture of the first Flag unfurled by him, relevant pages from the Constituent Assembly debates, and his legacy copy of the Shahid Garjana, “Jhanda Ooncha Rahe Hamara.”

Dr. Rajendra Prasad was the chairperson of the Constituent Assembly, which met in the Constituent Hall in New Delhi at 10 o’clock. Having met on December 9, 1946, the Constituent Assembly discussed a variety of topics.

Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru’s Motion about the Flag was the first item on the agenda, according to the Chair. Nehru then moved the following Resolution: “That the National Flag of India shall be a horizontal tricolor of deep saffron (Kesari), white, and dark green in equal proportions.”.

There shall be a navy blue wheel representing the Charkha in the center of the white band. The Wheel shall be designed after the Wheel (Chakra) on the abacus of the Sarnath Lion Capital of Asoka.

The diameter of the Wheel should be approximately equal to the width of the white band. In general, the ratio of the width to the length of the Flag should be 2:3. “The motion was adopted, the whole Assembly standing at the end of the day,” the record states.

In his opening remarks, Nehru spoke about the “glow and warmth which I feel at the present time,” as well as the “concentrated history through which we have all passed during the last quarter century.”

In the House, he and others remembered “looking up to this Flag not just with pride, but with a tingling in our veins. Also, when we were sometimes down and out, the sight of this Flag gave us the courage to continue”.

As he sank, he handed it over to others to hold aloft in tribute to the freedom fighters who had passed, who held onto this Flag until they were drowned. Despite the fact that we still have a lot of work to do in the present and in the future, he declared, to applause, that “this moment represents a triumph and a victorious conclusion to all our efforts.”

That great and mighty empire which has represented imperialist dominance in this country has decided to end its days here is no small feat. It was that objective we set out to achieve… We have achieved it or will achieve it very soon. There can be no doubt about that.”

According to Nehru, India has been able to face its problems historically: “Take a look at any country in the world. There is no country in the world today, including the great and big powers, which does not face terrible problems, which does not struggle politically and economically for freedom that somehow or other eludes it?

India’s problems do not appear to be terrible when viewed in the broader context. We are not new to the problems.

The past has been filled with many disagreeable experiences. There has been no holding back on our part. No matter what else we have to face in the present or in the future, we will not flinch, we will not falter, and we will not give up.”

“We aim at that,” he said. “We aim to free the country and the world of “starvation, hunger, lack of clothing, lack of necessities of life, and lack of opportunity for growth for every single human being, man, woman, and child in the country.”

Nehru said the Flag defined in the Resolution “was not adopted by a formal resolution, but by popular acclaim and usage, and more by sacrifice that surrounded it in the past few decades” and that the Constituent Assembly was “in a sense only ratifying that popular adoption.”

He clarified that the Flag should not be considered communal and that it had no communal significance when it was created. “We wanted to design a Flag that was beautiful since a nation’s symbol must be pleasing to the eye. We imagined a Flag that represented the spirit of the nation, the tradition of the nation, that mixture of spirit and tradition which has grown up in India for thousands of years. This Flag was devised as a result,” he said.

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Although the new Flag differed in some aspects from the previous one, “its colors remain the same,” Nehru said, “a deep saffron, a white, and a dark green.” Charkha, which symbolized the common man in India, had been “slightly modified” – the practical reason being that “the symbol on one side of the flag should be exactly the same as the other side” and “the Charkha, as it appeared previously on this flag, had the wheel on one side and the spindle on the other… and on the other side…the spindle comes the other way and the wheel comes this way”.

As a result, it was decided to keep only the Wheel and not the rest of the Charkha, and for that purpose, the Wheel that appears on the column of Asoka was chosen. According to Nehru, “the wheel is a symbol of India’s ancient culture; it symbolizes many things that India has stood for throughout history.” “At this point of strife, conflict, and intolerance, our minds should go back to what India stood for in the ancient days and what it has stood for throughout the ages,” Nehru said about the association with Asoka.

India’s remarkable cultural continuity, its acceptance of new ideas and influences, and its internationalist spirit were also mentioned. “India’s greatest periods have been when she has reached out to other countries, sent her emissaries and ambassadors, sent her trade agents and merchants there, and received ambassadors and emissaries from abroad,” Nehru said. He emphasized the importance of the Asokan period in this context.

Rather than a flag of empire or imperialism or dominance, this Flag is a symbol of freedom not just for ourselves, but for all people who may see it,” Nehru said. “Wherever it goes…it will bring a message of freedom, a message of comradeship, a message that India wants to be friends with every country in the world and that it wants to help anyone who seeks freedom.”

Despite preparing two amendments, none of them was ultimately moved. A number of members of the Constituent Assembly, such as Seth Govind Das, V I Muniswami Pillai, Chaudhri Khaliquzzaman, S Radhakrishnan, Saiyid Mohammad Saadulla, Frank R Anthony, Giani Gurmukh Singh Musafar, Dr. Joseph Alban D’Souza, Jai Narain Vyas, and Sarojini Naidu, paid glowing tribute to the Flag and supported the

Kamath originally proposed that “inside the Chakra in the middle of the white band, the Swastika, the ancient Indian symbol of Shantam, Shivam, Sundaram, be carved.”

It would convey “a dynamic peace that passeth all understanding, the peace of which Valmiki has sung,” and the Swastika would symbolize “both the exoteric and the esoteric aspects of our ancient culture.”

He said he had not seen the design of the Flag at the time, and after seeing it, he realized it would be “hard” and “cumbersome” to incorporate it into the Chakra.

P S Deshmukh of Central Provinces and Berar said he would have preferred to keep the tricolor “absolutely intact,” but “in view of the House’s preference for the proposed flag,” he would not move the amendment.

Importance of grain deal signed by Ukraine, Russia!

Ukraine and Russia sign UN-brokered deal to reopen grain export ports as  war rages on - ABC News

Both Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu and Ukrainian Infrastructure Minister Oleksandr Kubrakov signed separate agreements with United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres as well as Turkish Defense Minister Hulusi Akar.

Separate agreements were signed Friday by Russia and Ukraine with Turkey and the United Nations, clearing the way for millions of tons of Ukrainian grain to be exported – as well as Russian grain and fertilizer – ending a wartime standoff that threatened global food security. Separate agreements were signed by Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu and Ukrainian Infrastructure Minister Oleksandr Kubrakov with United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres and Turkish Defense Minister Hulusi Akar.

Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan witnessed the ceremony. According to Guterres, there is a beacon on the Black Sea today. A beacon of hope, a beacon of possibility, a beacon of relief in a world that needs it more than ever.” “You have overcome obstacles and put aside differences to pave the way for an initiative that will serve the common interests of everyone,” he said.

Ukraine is a major exporter of wheat, corn, and sunflower oil, but Russia’s invasion and naval blockade have halted shipments. During the nearly five-month war, some grain was being transported through Europe by rail, road, and river, but wheat and barley prices skyrocketed.

An agreement was tentatively reached last week between Ukrainian and Russian military delegations on a U.N. proposal that would also allow Russia to export grains and fertilizers. According to Mykhailo Podolyak, an adviser to Ukraine’s President, Ukraine, and Russia will sign separate agreements.

On Twitter, Podolyak wrote, “Ukraine does not sign any documents with Russia.” He said Ukraine would sign agreements with Turkey and the United Nations, while Russia would sign a separate agreement.

Safe passage of ships is provided for in the deal. A control center will be established in Istanbul, staffed by U.N., Turkish, Russian, and Ukrainian officials, to coordinate the process, Turkish officials have said. Ships would be inspected to ensure they do not carry weapons. It was Podolyak’s insistence that no Russian ship would escort vessels and that no Russian representatives would be present at Ukrainian ports. According to him, Ukraine also plans to respond immediately if provocations are made.

It is expected that Ukraine will export 22 million tons of grain and other agricultural products that have been stuck in Black Sea ports since the beginning of the war.

At a meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in Kyiv in late April, Guterres urged the return of Ukraine’s agricultural production and Russia’s grain and fertilizer to world markets.

 In early June, he proposed a package deal amid fears that the war was endangering food supplies and could worsen hunger for 181 million people. In response to the blockage of grain shipments, Russian and Ukrainian officials have blamed each other.

edited and proofread by nikita sharma

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