Gollapudi Srinivas Award is a national-level private award given to a first-time director in Indian Cinema every year.[1][2] It is given out in the memory of Gollapudi Srinivas (3 March 1966 – 12 August 1992). He was the youngest son of veteran Telugu film personality Gollapudi Maruthi Rao. This award was first announced in 1997 at Chennai.[3]

Gollapudi Srinivas Memorial Foundation

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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.[4] 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 Indian-language films. As part of the event, an eminent Indian film personality gives the keynote lecture.[5]

Awards

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Year Recipient Film (language) Keynote speaker (topic)
1998 Leslie Carvalho
The Outhouse (English) Sunil Dutt ("My Experiments on Celluloid")
1999 Shyamaprasad Agni Sakshi (Malayalam) Mrinal Sen ("Cinema and Social Values")
2000 Manju Borah Baibhab (Assamese) M.T. Vasudevan Nair ("Literature and Cinema")
2001 Subrata Sen Ek Je Ache Kanya (Bengali) U. R. Ananthamurthy ("Moral Fatigue in Indian Cinema")
2002 Janaki Vishwanathan Kutty (Tamil) Shyam Benegal ("Secularism in Indian Cinema")
2003 Ram Madhvani Let's Talk (English) Javed Akhtar ("Poetry and Cinema")
2004 Anup Kurian Manasarovar (English) Naseeruddin Shah ("The Relationship Between Theatre and Cinema")
2005 Shonali Bose Amu (English) Buddhadeb Dasgupta ("The Dialectics Of Judging A Cinema")
2006 Indraganti Mohan Krishna Grahanam (Telugu) Gautam Ghose ("Collective Memories & Timelessness in Cinema")
2007 Rajnesh Domalpalli Vanaja (Telugu) Amol Palekar ("Regional Cinema: Beyond Bollywood")
2008 Aamir Khan Taare Zameen Par (Hindi) K. Balachander ("On Aamir Khan") and Anupam Kher ("Children of a Bigger God")
2009 Paresh Mokashi Harishchandrachi Factory (Marathi) Resul Pookutty ("Audiography in Indian Motion Picture")
2010 Amit Rai Road to Sangam (Hindi) Girish Karnad ("Religion & Mythology")
2011 Anusha Rizvi Peepli Live (Hindi) Girish Kasaravalli ("Time as a Construct in Contemporary Cinema")
2012 Madhav Ramadasan Melvilasom (Malayalam) Rishi Kapoor ("The Journey from Prithviraj Kapoor to Ranbir Kapoor")
2013 Kamal K. M. I.D. (Hindi) Balu Mahendra
2014 Gyan Correa The Good Road (Gujarati) Chetan Bhagat ("Entertainment for Change")
2015 Sanjeev Gupta Q (Hindi)[6] - -
2016 Jayaprakash Radhakrishnan Lens (English) - -
2017 Hemanth Rao Godhi Banna Sadharana Mykattu (Kannada) - -
2018 Konkona Sen Sharma A Death in the Gunj (English) - -
2019 C. Prem Kumar 96 (Tamil) - -
2020 Madhu C Narayanan Kumbalangi Nights (Malayalam) [7]

References

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  1. ^ "Business Line : Features / Life News". Thehindubusinessline.com. Retrieved 2012-09-19.
  2. ^ "Aamir Khan crying at award ceremony! Part 1". YouTube. 2009-02-02. Retrieved 2012-09-19.
  3. ^ "MIAAC FILM FESTIVAL: November 7-11, 2007". Iaac.us. 2006-12-01. Archived from the original on 2019-07-25. Retrieved 2012-09-19.
  4. ^ "Tamil Nadu / Chennai News : Gollapudi Srinivas award presented to Amit Rai". The Hindu. 2010-08-13. Archived from the original on 2010-08-16. Retrieved 2012-09-19.
  5. ^ "Tamil Nadu / Chennai News : Mohan Krishna receives Gollapudi award". The Hindu. 2006-08-14. Archived from the original on 2006-08-23. Retrieved 2012-09-19.
  6. ^ Debut director Sanjeev Gupta received Award
  7. ^ "Kumbalangi-Nights Director-Madhu-C-Narayanan-wins-Gollapudi-Srinivas-Award". Sify. Archived from the original on March 18, 2020. Retrieved 23 April 2020.
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