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Sanjit Narwekar conferred with V Shantaram Lifetime achievement award at MIFF 2022

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Lifetime achievement award 2022

The 17th edition of the Mumbai International Film Festival of India (MIFF 2022) confers Dr V. Shantaram Lifetime Achievement Award on noted author and documentary filmmaker Shri Sanjit Narwekar to commemorate his exquisitely deep, remarkably diverse and inspiring body of work. Union Minister of Commerce & Industry, Consumer Affairs, Food & Public Distribution and Textiles Piyush Goyal presented the award to Sanjit Narwekar along with a cash prize of Rs 10 lakhs (Rs 1 million), Golden Conch and a citation.

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About the Shri Sanjit Narwekar

  • Shri Narwekar is a National award-winning film historian, author, publisher and documentary filmmaker with more than four decades of cross-media experience in Journalism, Public Relations, Publishing and Filmmaking.
  • Shri Narwekar has rendered a seminal contribution for the enrichment of documentary cinema and its literature. Through his lifelong and passionate engagement with the past, present and future of films, Shri Narwekar has touched many hearts across ages.
  • Winner of the National Award for the Best Book on Cinema in 1996, Shri Narwekar’s passion for film history has manifested in writing and editing more than 20 books on cinema, including Marathi cinema ‘In Retrospect’, which won him the Swarna Kamal.
  • He is credited with directing Films Division’s ‘The Pioneering Spirit: Dr V Shantaram’, a biopic of the legendary filmmaker, and writing and directing a number of documentaries on varied subjects.
  • He has also served on the selection committee and Jury of many national and international film festivals, including the National Award Jury for Writing on Cinema.

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