18h Gollapudi Srinivas National Award for the Best Debut film was bagged by Sanjeev Gupta for his film “Q”

The film was selected from 27 nominations from across the country in many languages including Hindi, Malayalam, Marathi, Bengali , Telugu and Kannada. The jury consisted of Shri. S M Vasanth Veteran Film Director, Shri. Singeetham Srinivasa Rao, National Award winning Film Editor and Ms. Rohini, Actress.

 The earlier winners of this prestigious award include:

SL.NO..	NAME	FILM	LANGUAGE	YEAR
1	Shri. LESLIE CARVALHO	The Outhouse	English	1997
2	Shri. SHYAMA PRASAD	Agnisakshi	Malayalam	1998
3	Smt. MAJU BORA	Baibhab	Assamese	1999
4	Shri. SUBRATA SEN	Ek Je Acha Kanya	Bengali	2000
5	Smt. JANAKI VISHWANATHAN	Kutty	Tamil	2001
6	Shri. RAM MADHVANI	Lets Talk	English	2002
7	Shri. ANUP KURIAN	Manasarovar	English	2003
8	Smt. SONALI BOSE	Amu	English	2004
9	Shri. MOHANA KRISHNA	Grahanam	Telugu	2005
10	Shri. RAJNEESH DOMALAPALLI	Vanaja	Telugu	2006
11	Shri AAMIR KHAN	Taare Zameen Par	Hindi	2007
12	Shri. PARESH MOKASHI	Harischandrachi Factory	Marathi	2008
13	Shri. AMIT RAI	Road to Sangam	Hindi	2009
14	Ms. ANUSHA RIZVI	Peepli Live	Hindi	2010
15	Mr.MADHAV RAMADASAN	Melvilasom	Malayalam	2011
16	Mr KAMAL MOHAMMED	I D	Malayalam	2012
17	Mr. GYAN CORREA	THE GOOD ROAD	Gujarati	2013

The award comprising of a cash prize of Rupees One Lakh Fifty Thousand and a memento will be presented at a glittering ceremony to be held on 12^th August 2015 at THE MUSIC ACADEMY, Chennai.      

                                                                                                                                    

Established in 1998, this trust envisages to perpetuate the memory of Gollapudi Srinivas a young director, who tragically passed away in an accident during the shoot of his maiden venture in 1992. The award is announced annually on the 17^th of March and presented on the 12^th of August each year.   

   

The dignitaries who have participated in the award presentation ceremony in the last ten years include Messers Sunil Dutt, Jaya Bachchan, Naseeruddin Shah, Mrinal Sen, Govind Nihalani, Mani Ratnam, Sekhar Kapur, Adoor Gopalakrishnan, Aparna Sen, Mammooty, Akkineni NageswarRao, Dasari Narayana Rao, T Subbirami Reddy, Shabana Azmi, Sharmila Tagore, Aamir Khan, Shobana, Gautham Ghose, Anil Kapoor, Vidya Balan, Madhur Bhandarkar , Vishal Bharadwaj, Shatrughan Sinha, Lakshmi, Balu Mahendra,Rishi Kapoor, Gautam Vasudev Menon and Prakash Raj. 

This award serves as a huge incentive for debutant directors who have laboured long and hard to translate their ideas onto celluloid. In their struggle and subsequent success, the family witnesses its own son’s dream come alive. This award promises first-time directors of not just nation-wide appreciation, but also recognition of their hard work, and encouragement to scale new peaks of success.

Also, in a bid to make the award function entertaining and educational as well, the spell binding guest performance is often flanked by a Memorial Lecture delivered by an eminent film personality. This serves as the perfect platform for the lecturer to share his/her wisdom and experience in filmmaking with the budding directors. Messers Naseeruddin Shah, Sunil Dutt, Goutham Ghose, Javed Akhtar, Mrinal Sen,   Shyam Bengal, Amol Palekar,  Goutam Ghose,  Girish Kasaravalli, Girish Karnad and Rishi Kapoor have been part of this rewarding endeavor in the past. These lectures will be eventually compiled into a book for the sake of posterity.         

              

Mr Chiranjeevi would be the Chief Guest while Ms Farah Khan and Mr Karthik Subbaraj would be the Guests of Honour.Mr Siddarth would deliver the Gollapudi Srinivas Memorial Lecture on “MY TRYST WITH DEBUTANTE DIRECTORS”. The entertainment for the evening would feature a Dance ballet “ANTARAM”by Ms Suhasini Maniratnam and party.