The 60th National Film Award for the best debut film of a director has been conferred on lipika Singh Darai for Odia film Eka Gachha Eka Manisa Eka Samudra.
In the non-feature film category, Vikrant Pawar has got the best director award for the film Kaatal (Marathi).
The prestigious awards for the year 2012 were announced in New Delhi on Monday at a joint Press conference addressed by chairpersons of the three juries, Basu Chatterjee for feature films, Aruna Raje for non-feature films and Swapan Mullick for best writing on cinema.