National Film Award for Best Feature Film and Beary film "Byari". Most recently, the award is presented to Assamese film "Village Rockstars", produced and directed by Rima Das. Satyajit Ray is the most honoured director where six of his films"Pather Panchali" (1955), "Apur Sansar" (1959), "Charulata" (1964), "Goopy Gyne Bagha Byne" (1968), "Seemabaddha" (1971), and "Agantuk" (1991)won the award, followed Buddhadeb Dasgupta (five), Girish Kasaravalli and Mrinal Sen (four each), Shaji N. Karun (three), and Adoor Gopalakrishnan, Tapan Sinha, and G. V. Iyer (two each). , the award was presented to the films of ten debutant directors; Satyajit Ray ("Pather Panchali", 1955), Adoor Gopalakrishnan ("Swayamvaram", 1972), M.
Satyajit Ray and "Rupasi Bangla", Bibhutibhushan Bandyopadhyay's "Chander Pahar", Jim Corbett's "Maneaters of Kumaon," and Jawaharlal Nehru's "Discovery of India." He worked on a children's version of "Pather Panchali," a classic Bengali novel by Bibhutibhushan Bandyopadhyay, renamed as "Aam Antir Bhepu" ("The mango-seed whistle"). Designing the cover and illustrating the book, Ray was deeply influenced by the work. He used it as the subject of his first film, and featured his illustrations as shots in his ground-breaking film. Along with Chidananda Dasgupta and others, Ray founded the Calcutta Film Society in 1947. They screened many foreign films, many of which Ray watched