Last Updated on 16/08/2024 by wccexam Desk
The winners of the country’s most prestigious cinema award, the National Film Awards, have been announced. This time, the Tamil film ‘Ponniyin Selvan’ won the most, 4 awards. The Bollywood film ‘Brahmastra’ also came close to it by winning 3 awards. Like every time, cinema fans were excited to see the names of their favorite films and artists in the list of National Awards.
But some fans on social media were disappointed to see Vikrant Massey’s film ’12th Pass’ not in this list. This film of director Vidhu Vinod Chopra, which came last year, touched the emotions of the public very deeply and this film was also one of the biggest hits of 2023.
Vikrant’s work also impressed the audience a lot and after watching his work, as soon as people came out of the theatres, they started saying that this is a performance worthy of a National Award. Then why did the name of this film disappear from the list of 70th National Film Awards? Even after watching ‘Chandu Champion’ released this year, fans started a campaign on social media that Kartik Aryan deserves a National Award for this. But the name of this film was also not there in the announcement of National Awards. Let us tell you why this happened…
Although the winners of National Film Awards are announced directly, no nomination list is announced like the popular film industry awards. Therefore, it cannot be said clearly which films are the jury’s favourites in the awards race. Still, people try to guess which film is ahead in the race for National Film Awards based on the general feelings of the audience and critics for the films. But ’12th Fail’ could not have been in the race for this year’s National Award, there is a very technical reason for this.
The 70th National Film Awards have been given to those films which have been given censor certificate by the Film Censor Board between 1 January 2022 and 31 December 2022. Whereas, in December 2022, the shoot of Vikrant Massey’s ’12th Fail’ was just over.
This film got the censor certificate (this certificate is displayed at the beginning of the film) on 6 October 2023 and it was released in theatres on 27 October. That is, it was not in the cut off date of the 70th National Film Awards. This also means that if you are a fan of ’12th Fail’ then do not be disappointed, this film will be in the race for the next i.e. 71st National Awards.
For this very reason, Kartik Aaryan’s ‘Chandu Champion’ was also not in the awards race this time, because its censor certificate was received on 31 March 2024. And Kartik’s film has the chance to go before the jury for the National Awards because of the 72nd National Film Awards.
Actually, all this confusion is because the National Film Awards held every year were given for the films that got the censor certificate last year. That is, if the list of award winners is being announced in 2024, then it makes common sense that the films released in 2023 have received awards in it. But when the world came to a standstill due to Covid 19, not only films but awards also came to a standstill. Therefore, the awards for the films of 2020 which were to be announced in 2021 were announced in 2022. And the gap of one year that everyone was aware of has now become 2 years.
This confusion increased further when Alia Bhatt’s ‘Gangubai Kathiawadi’ and ‘The Kashmir Files’ got awards in 2023 because these films were released in 2022. But in reality they had received the censor certificate in 2021 and their release was postponed due to Covid 19. And that is why these films got the award in the same list, which included Allu Arjun starrer ‘Pushpa: The Rise’ released in 2021.
This time, as soon as people came to know about the announcement of the National Film Awards, everyone, as per the usual idea, chose their favourites from the films released a year ago. And that is why many media reports and social media users added ’12th Fail’, which released in 2023, to the list. Whereas in reality, the selection was from the films of 2022.
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