While Mumbai-based Odia journalist Alaka Sahani has won the Swarn Kamal (Golden lotus) as the best film critic, two others from Odisha have won national film awards for their works in two different categories at the 61st National Film Awards 2014 ceremony.
Sahani was honoured for her series of out-of-the-box articles that go beyond glamour, glitz and gossip. The award carries the Golden lotus trophy, cash award of `75,000 and a citation.Filmmaker lipika Singh Darai won the Rajat Kamal (Silver lotus) for the ‘best voiceove’ in the nonfiction category for her documentary Kanki O Saapa, which captures her candid conversation with her grandmother. This 16-minute film has been scripted, directed, audiographed and edited by her.
lipika had won the national film awards in 2010 for her audiography in Marathi film Garood and in 2012 for her nonfiction work Ek Gaccha, Ek Manisha O Ek Samudra.Mumbai-based Odia audiogarpher Nihar Samal has won the national film award for best audiography (sound) in Hindi film Madras Cafe.
