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.
Pather Panchali shot on location with an amateur cast. The international success of Akira Kurosawa's "Rashomon" (1950) and Bimal Roy's 1953 film "Do Bigha Zamin" (which was shot partly on location and was about a peasant family) led Ray to believe that "Pather Panchali" would find an international audience. Ray also had more indigenous influences, such as Bengali literature and the native Indian theatrical tradition, particularly the "rasa" theory of classical Sanskrit drama. Darius Cooper describes the complicated doctrine of "rasa" as " predominantly on feelings experienced not only by the characters but also conveyed in a certain artistic way to the