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 reception was enthusiastic. "The Times of India" wrote, "It is absurd to compare it with any other Indian cinema ... "Pather Panchali" is pure cinema". Chief Minister Roy arranged a special screening in Calcutta for Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru, who came out of the theatre impressed. Despite opposition from some within the governments of West Bengal and India because of its depiction of poverty, "Pather Panchali" was sent to the 1956 Cannes Film Festival with Nehru's personal approval. It was screened towards the end of the festival, coinciding with a party given by the Japanese delegation, and only a small