49th National Film Awards
Golden Lotus Award
Official Name: Swarna Kamal All the awardees are awarded with 'Golden Lotus Award (Swarna Kamal)', a certificate and cash prize.

49th National Film Awards

Section Title: Golden Lotus Award
Table Section Text: Official Name: Swarna Kamal All the awardees are awarded with 'Golden Lotus Award (Swarna Kamal)', a certificate and cash prize.

Name of Award	Name of Film	Language	Awardee(s)	Cash Prize

Best Feature Film	Dweepa	Kannada	Producer: Soundarya Director: Girish Kasaravalli	₹ 50,000/- Each

Citation: For the film combines integrity, creativity and aesthetics in its depiction of both the dilemmas and the spirit of a family who defy logic and weather to hold on to their roots.

Best Debut Film of a Director	Thiladaanam	Telugu	Producer: NFDC Director: K. N. T. Sastry	₹ 25,000/- Each

Citation: For its juxtaposition of two diverse ideologies existing within the same family – the father's belief in his religion and traditions and his son's revolutionary ideology.

Best Popular Film Providing Wholesome Entertainment	Lagaan	Hindi	Producer: Aamir Khan Director: Ashutosh Gowariker	₹ 40,000/- Each

Citation: For showing the victory of the human spirit in the face of oppression and for the creative use of a Cricket game as a metaphor for both colonisation and nationalism.

Best Direction	Ooruku Nooruper	Tamil	B. Lenin	₹ 50,000/-

Citation: For telling the eventful story of a revolutionary who has killed for his cause and awarded the death sentence for his crime.

Sentence(s)

For 49th National Film Awards, a Kannada film, Dweepa won the National Film Award for Best Feature Film.

final_sentence: For 49th National Film Awards, a Kannada film, Dweepa won the National Film Award for Best Feature Film.