Gollapudi Srinivas Award
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Gollapudi Srinivas Award is given to a first-time director in Indian Cinema every year. This Award is given out in the memory of Gollapudi Srinivas (born March 3, 1966). He is the youngest son of Veteran Telugu film personality Gollapudi Maruthi Rao
. This award was first given in 1997 at Chennai.
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! Year !! Awarded To !! Film (Language) !! Keynote Speaker (Topic)
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| rowspan=1 style=background:#efefef; | 1997
| Leslie Carvalho
| The Out House (English)
| Sunil Dutt
("My Experiments on Celluloid")
|- style="background:#efefef;"
| rowspan=1 style=background:#efefef; | 1998
| Shyama Prasad
| Agni Sakshi
(Malayalam)
| Mrinal Sen
("Cinema and Social Values")
|- style="background:#efefef;"
| rowspan=1 style=background:#efefef; | 1999
| Manju Borah
| Baibhab (Assamese
)
| M.T. Vasudevan Nair ("Literature and Cinema")
|- style="background:#efefef;"
| rowspan=1 style=background:#efefef; | 2000
| Subrata Sen
| Ek Je Ache Kanya (Bengali
)
| U.R.Ananthamurthy ("Moral Fatigue in Indian Cinema")
|- style="background:#efefef;"
| rowspan=1 style=background:#efefef; | 2001
| Janaki Vishwanathan
| Kutty
(Tamil
)
| Shyam Benegal
("Secularism in Indian Cinema")
|- style="background:#efefef;"
| rowspan=1 style=background:#efefef; | 2002
| Ram Madhwani
| Let's Talk
(English)
| Javed Akhtar
("Poetry and Cinema")
|- style="background:#efefef;"
| rowspan=1 style=background:#efefef; | 2003
| Anup Kurian
| Manasarovar (English)
| Naseeruddin Shah
("The Relationship Between Theater and Cinema")
|- style="background:#efefef;"
| rowspan=1 style=background:#efefef; | 2004
| Shonali Bose
| Amu
(English)
| Budhdeb Dasgupta ("The Dialectics Of Judging A Cinema")
|- style="background:#efefef;"
| rowspan=1 style=background:#efefef; | 2005
| Indraganti Mohan Krishna
| Grahanam
(Telugu
)
| Gautham Ghose ("Collective Memories & Timelessness in Cinema")
|- style="background:#efefef;"
| rowspan=1 style=background:#efefef; | 2006
| Rajnesh Domalapalli
| Vanaja
(Telugu
)
| Amol Palekar
("Regional Cinema: Beyond Bollywood")
|- style="background:#efefef;"
| rowspan=1 style=background:#efefef; | 2007
| Aamir Khan
| Taare Zameen Par
(Hindi
)
| Anupam Kher
("Children of a Bigger God")
|- style="background:#efefef;"
| rowspan=1 style=background:#efefef; | 2008
| Paresh Mokashi
| Harishchandrachi Factory
(Marathi
)
|
|- style="background:#efefef;"
| rowspan=1 style=background:#efefef; | 2009
| Amit Rai
| Road to Sangam
(Hindi
)
|
|- style="background:#efefef;"
|rowspan=1 style=background:#efefef; | 2010
| Anusha Rizvi
| Peepli Live
(Hindi)
| Girish kasaravalli
Gollapudi Maruthi Rao
Gollapudi Maruthi Rao is a mathematical physicist turned editor, writer , dramatist, cine actor, TV anchor, and journalist who is well known for his many contributions to Telugu literature and culture...
. This award was first given in 1997 at Chennai.
Gollapudi Srinivas Memorial Foundation
While directing his début Telugu film Prema Pustakam, Gollapudi Srinivas succumbed to a water accident on August 12, 1992. The Telugu film industry lost a promising director. The Maruthi Rao family established the Gollapudi Srinivas Memorial Foundation to perpetuate the memory and instituted an annual cash award for the Best Début Director chosen from among the Indian language films. As part of the event, every year, an eminent Indian film personality gives the keynote lecture.Awards
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! Year !! Awarded To !! Film (Language) !! Keynote Speaker (Topic)
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| rowspan=1 style=background:#efefef; | 1997
| Leslie Carvalho
| The Out House (English)
| Sunil Dutt
Sunil Dutt
Sunil Dutt , born Sunil Balraj Dutt, was an Indian Hindi movie actor , producer, director and politician. He was the cabinet minister for Youth Affairs and Sports in the Manmohan Singh government...
("My Experiments on Celluloid")
|- style="background:#efefef;"
| rowspan=1 style=background:#efefef; | 1998
| Shyama Prasad
| Agni Sakshi
Agni Sakshi
Agni Sakshi is 1996 Hindi movie directed by Partho Ghosh starring Jackie Shroff, Nana Patekar and Manisha Koirala. The music given by Nadeem-Shravan...
(Malayalam)
| Mrinal Sen
Mrinal Sen
Mrinal Sen is a Bengali Indian filmmaker. He was born on 14 May 1923, in the town of Faridpur, now in Bangladesh in a Hindu family. After finishing his high school there, he left home to come to Calcutta as a student and studied physics at the well-known Scottish Church College and at the...
("Cinema and Social Values")
|- style="background:#efefef;"
| rowspan=1 style=background:#efefef; | 1999
| Manju Borah
| Baibhab (Assamese
Assamese language
Assamese is the easternmost Indo-Aryan language. It is used mainly in the state of Assam in North-East India. It is also the official language of Assam. It is also spoken in parts of Arunachal Pradesh and other northeast Indian states. Nagamese, an Assamese-based Creole language is widely used in...
)
| M.T. Vasudevan Nair ("Literature and Cinema")
|- style="background:#efefef;"
| rowspan=1 style=background:#efefef; | 2000
| Subrata Sen
Subrata Sen
Subrata Sen , is a critically acclaimed Bengali Indian film director, writer, novelist and producer.- Early life :Subrata Sen was born in Kolkata in 1963...
| Ek Je Ache Kanya (Bengali
Bengali language
Bengali or Bangla is an eastern Indo-Aryan language. It is native to the region of eastern South Asia known as Bengal, which comprises present day Bangladesh, the Indian state of West Bengal, and parts of the Indian states of Tripura and Assam. It is written with the Bengali script...
)
| U.R.Ananthamurthy ("Moral Fatigue in Indian Cinema")
|- style="background:#efefef;"
| rowspan=1 style=background:#efefef; | 2001
| Janaki Vishwanathan
| Kutty
Kutty
Puthukkody Kottuthody Sankaran Kutty Nair , better known as Kutty, was an Indian political cartoonist, best known for his popularly known as Cartoonist Kutty.-Biography:...
(Tamil
Tamil language
Tamil is a Dravidian language spoken predominantly by Tamil people of the Indian subcontinent. It has official status in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu and in the Indian union territory of Pondicherry. Tamil is also an official language of Sri Lanka and Singapore...
)
| Shyam Benegal
Shyam Benegal
Shyam Benegal is a prolific Indian director and screenwriter. With his first four feature films Ankur , Nishant Manthan and Bhumika he created a new genre, which has now come to be called the "middle cinema" in India although he himself has expressed dislike in the term preferring his work to...
("Secularism in Indian Cinema")
|- style="background:#efefef;"
| rowspan=1 style=background:#efefef; | 2002
| Ram Madhwani
| Let's Talk
Let's Talk
Let's Talk is an Indian English language film, released on 13 December 2002. It is produced by Shift Focus and directed by Ram Madhvani.- Plot :...
(English)
| Javed Akhtar
Javed Akhtar
Javed Akhtar is a poet, lyricist and scriptwriter from India. Some of his most successful work was done in the late 1970s and 1980s with Salim Khan as half of the script-writing duo credited as Salim-Javed...
("Poetry and Cinema")
|- style="background:#efefef;"
| rowspan=1 style=background:#efefef; | 2003
| Anup Kurian
| Manasarovar (English)
| Naseeruddin Shah
Naseeruddin Shah
Naseeruddin Shah is an Indian / Bollywood film actor and director. He is considered to be one of the finest actors of Indian cinema. In 2003, the Government of India honored him with the Padma Bhushan for his contributions towards Indian cinema.-Early life:...
("The Relationship Between Theater and Cinema")
|- style="background:#efefef;"
| rowspan=1 style=background:#efefef; | 2004
| Shonali Bose
Shonali Bose
Shonali Bose is an Indian film director, screenriter and producer. She is known for her film Amu which explores the suppressed history of the genocidal attacks on Sikhs in Delhi twenty-five years ago.-Early life:...
| Amu
AMU
As an abbreviation, AMU may refer to:* Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań, Poland* African Mathematical Union* Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, India* American Military University, Charles Town, West Virginia* Arab Maghreb Union...
(English)
| Budhdeb Dasgupta ("The Dialectics Of Judging A Cinema")
|- style="background:#efefef;"
| rowspan=1 style=background:#efefef; | 2005
| Indraganti Mohan Krishna
| Grahanam
Grahanam
Grahanam is a 2004 Telugu film directed by Indraganti Mohan Krishna. The film is based on the Novel and Story written by Gudipati Venkatachalam. The film won many critical acclaims and National and Andhra Pradesh state awards.-Cast:* Tanikella Bharani ... Swamy* Jayalalitha ... Saradamba*...
(Telugu
Telugu language
Telugu is a Central Dravidian language primarily spoken in the state of Andhra Pradesh, India, where it is an official language. It is also spoken in the neighbouring states of Chattisgarh, Karnataka, Maharashtra, Orissa and Tamil Nadu...
)
| Gautham Ghose ("Collective Memories & Timelessness in Cinema")
|- style="background:#efefef;"
| rowspan=1 style=background:#efefef; | 2006
| Rajnesh Domalapalli
| Vanaja
Vanaja
Vanaja is a former municipality of Finland. It was located in Tavastia Proper about north of Helsinki. It is also speculated that it might have been the name for an Iron Age and early Middle Ages settlement found opposite to the Häme Castle....
(Telugu
Telugu language
Telugu is a Central Dravidian language primarily spoken in the state of Andhra Pradesh, India, where it is an official language. It is also spoken in the neighbouring states of Chattisgarh, Karnataka, Maharashtra, Orissa and Tamil Nadu...
)
| Amol Palekar
Amol Palekar
Amol Palekar is an Indian actor of the 1970s and a director of Hindi and Marathi cinema.-Theater career:Palekar began in Marathi experimental theatre with Satyadev Dubey, and later started his own group, Aniket, in 1972 [citation needed]...
("Regional Cinema: Beyond Bollywood")
|- style="background:#efefef;"
| rowspan=1 style=background:#efefef; | 2007
| Aamir Khan
Aamir Khan
Aamir Hussain Khan is an Indian film actor, director and producer who has established himself as one of the leading actors of Hindi cinema....
| Taare Zameen Par
Taare Zameen Par
Taare Zameen Par is a 2007 Bollywood drama film directed by Aamir Khan, written by Amole Gupte, and produced by Aamir Khan Productions. Gupte initially developed the idea with his wife Deepa Bhatia, who served as the film's editor...
(Hindi
Hindi
Standard Hindi, or more precisely Modern Standard Hindi, also known as Manak Hindi , High Hindi, Nagari Hindi, and Literary Hindi, is a standardized and sanskritized register of the Hindustani language derived from the Khariboli dialect of Delhi...
)
| Anupam Kher
Anupam Kher
Anupam Kher is an Indian actor who has appeared in nearly 400 films and 100 plays. Though mainly appearing in Bollywood films, he has had roles in some films from other nations as well...
("Children of a Bigger God")
|- style="background:#efefef;"
| rowspan=1 style=background:#efefef; | 2008
| Paresh Mokashi
| Harishchandrachi Factory
Harishchandrachi Factory
Harishchandrachi Factory is a 2009 Marathi film, directed by Paresh Mokashi, depicting the struggle of Dadasaheb Phalke in making Raja Harishchandra in 1913: India's first feature film, the birth of Indian cinema.Harishchandrachi Factory is the directorial debut of Paresh Mokashi who won the Best...
(Marathi
Marathi language
Marathi is an Indo-Aryan language spoken by the Marathi people of western and central India. It is the official language of the state of Maharashtra. There are over 68 million fluent speakers worldwide. Marathi has the fourth largest number of native speakers in India and is the fifteenth most...
)
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|- style="background:#efefef;"
| rowspan=1 style=background:#efefef; | 2009
| Amit Rai
Amit Rai
Amit Rai is an Indian film director and writer. He won the Gollapudi Srinivas National Award in 2009 for directing Road to Sangam. His 2009 Marathi film Tingya, won him the best director award at the International Film Festival of South Africa, 2009....
| Road to Sangam
Road to Sangam
Road to Sangam is a 2009 Bollywood film written and directed by Amit Rai. The film features Bollywood actors Paresh Rawal, Om Puri and Pawan Malhotra....
(Hindi
Hindi
Standard Hindi, or more precisely Modern Standard Hindi, also known as Manak Hindi , High Hindi, Nagari Hindi, and Literary Hindi, is a standardized and sanskritized register of the Hindustani language derived from the Khariboli dialect of Delhi...
)
|
|- style="background:#efefef;"
|rowspan=1 style=background:#efefef; | 2010
| Anusha Rizvi
Anusha Rizvi
Anusha Rizvi is an Indian film director and Screenwriter. Her directorial debut is Peepli Live. The movie won the Best First Film award at the Durban film festival.-Career:...
| Peepli Live
Peepli Live
Peepli Live is a 2010 Indian comic satire that explores the topic of "farmer suicides" and the subsequent media and political response. It is written and directed by Anusha Rizvi in her directorial debut, and produced by Aamir Khan Productions...
(Hindi)
| Girish kasaravalli
Girish Kasaravalli
Girish Kasaravalli is a noted film director, and one of the pioneers of the Parallel Cinema in Kannada cinema, who has won the National Film Award for Best Film four times, Ghatashraddha , Tabarana Kathe , Thaayi Saheba and Dweepa...