National Film Award / Second best film

The winners of the National Film Award category Second Best Film ( Second Best Feature Film ) were:

year	Movie	language	Director
1956	Jhanak Jhanak Payal Baaje	Hindi	V. Shantaram
1957	Andhare Alo	Bengali	Haridas Bhattacharya
1958	Jalsaghar	Bengali	Satyajit Ray
1959	Heera Moti	Hindi	Krishna Chopra
1960	Kshudita Pashan	Bengali	Tapan Sinha
1961	Pava Mannippu	Tamil	A. Bhimsingh
1962	Abhijan	Bengali	Satyajit Ray
1963	Narthana Sala	Telugu	K. Kameswara Rao
1964	Haqueeqat	Hindi	Chetan Anand
1965	Athithi	Bengali	Tapan Sinha
1966	no price	-	-
1967	Upkar	Hindi	Manoj Kumar
1968	Thulabharam	Malayalam	A. Vincent
1969	Dibratrir Kabya	Bengali	Bimal Bhowmick Narayan Chakraborty
1970	Pratidwandi	Bengali	Satyajit Ray
1971	Anubhav	Hindi	Basu Bhattacharya
1972	Calcutta 71	Bengali	Mrinal Sen
1973	Kaadu	Kannada	Girish Karnad
1974	Ankur	Hindi	Shyam Benegal
1975	Mausam	Hindi	Gulzar
1976	no price	-	-
1977	no price	-	-
1978	no price	-	-
1979	no price	-	-
1980	Oppol	Malayalam	KS Sethumadhavan
1981	Pokkuveyil	Malayalam	G. Aravindan
1982	Kharij	Bengali	Mrinal Sen
1983	Maya Miriga	Oriya	Nirad Mohapatra
1984	no price	-	-
1985	no price	-	-
1986	no price	-	-
1987	no price	-	-
1988	no price	-	-
1989	Parasuram Kuthar	Bengali	Nabayendu Chatterji
1990	Ek Doctor Ki Toll	Hindi	Tapan Sinha
1991	Firingoti	Assamese	Jahnu Barua
1992	Padma Nadir Majhi	Bengali	Gautam Ghose

Since 1993 this prize - a Rajat Kamal - has not been awarded.

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