National Film Award / Best Film on Social Issues

The winners of the National Film Award category Best Film on social issues ( on Film Best Social Issues: such as Prohibition, Women and Child Welfare, Anti-Dowry, Drug Abuse, Welfare of the Handicapped, etc. ) were:

year	Movie	language	Director	producer
1985	Accident	Kannada	Shankar Nag
1986	Doore Doore Koodu Kottam	Malayalam	Sibi Malayil
1987	Vedham Pudhithu Ore Oru Gramathile	Tamil Tamil	Bharathiraja Jyothi Pandian
1988	Main Zinda Hoon	Hindi	Sudhir Mishra
1989	Unnikuttant Jolikitty	Malayalam	VR Gopinath
1990	Oru Veedu Iru Vaasal	Tamil	K. Balachander
1991	Yamanam	Malayalam	Gopi
1992	Neenga Nalla Irukkum	Tamil	Visu
1993	Janani Narayam	Hindi Malayalam	Sanat Das Gupta Sasi Shanker
1994	Parinayam Wheel Chair	Malayalam Bengali	Hariharan Tapan Sinha
1995	Doghi	Marathi	Sumitra Bhave and Sunil Sukthankar
1996	Tamanna	Hindi	Mahesh Bhatt	Pooja Bhatt
1997	Dhanna	Hindi	Deepak Roy
1998	Chinthavishtayaya Shyamala	Malayalam	Sreenivasan
1999	Kairee	Hindi	Amol Palekar
2000	Vetri Kodi Kattu Munnudi	Tamil Kannada	Cheran P. Sheshadri
2001	Chandni Bar	Hindi	Madhur Bhandarkar
2002	Swaraj	Hindi	Anwar Jamal
2003	Koi Mil Gaya	Hindi	Rakesh Roshan
2004	Perumazhakkalam	Malayalam	Kamal
2005	Iqbal	Hindi	Nagesh Kukunoor	Subhash Ghai
2006	Hope	Telugu	K. Satyanarayana	P. Venkata Subbaiah
2007	Antardwandwa	Hindi	Sushil Rajpal	Sushil Rajpal
2008	Jogva	Marathi	Rajeev Patil	IDream Production

The producer and director of the winning film are currently receiving a Rajat Kamal and prize money of 150,000 rupees .

Footnotes

1. ↑ Year for which the award was made
2. ↑ http://dff.nic.in/56th_NFA_Regulations.pdf