Who holds the record for the highest number of National Film Award with 32 wins various categories ?
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Answer:
Satyajet Ray
Explanation:
Bengali filmmaker Satyajit Ray and Malayalam filmmaker Adoor Gopalakrishnan have won the most Best Director awards, with six and five wins respectively. Ray, incidentally, holds the record for the highest number of National awards in various categories, with 32 wins.
Overall, its Satyajit Ray with a whopping 32 wins across all categories (interestingly only 6 of which were for direction).
Among the actors, Kamal Hasan and Manmooty have won thrice and Amitabh Bachchan has won Four National Award-the most by any in best actor category.
However, the actor with most number of National awards is Mohan Lal with 4 awards which includes 2 Best actor awards, 1 Special jury award and 1 Best movie (Producer)
Among the actresses, Shabana Azmi tops the list with 5 wins.
Among the male singers, K.J Yesudas has the most with 7 awards to his name.
Among the female singers, K.S Chithra tops the list with 6 Silver Lotus in her kitty.
I have tried to cover only the main categories. Hope it helps.
Edit: 1. Before 1968 the awards for outstanding contributions in different fields were given as Rashtrapati (President) awards. After 1968 the awards were made independent to the field of Achievement and thus National Film Awards were constituted.
2. Kamal Haasan had received Presidents gold medal award for Best Child Actor for his debut film Kalathur Kanamma but since it was released in 1960, it is usually not mentioned alongwith the National film awards
3. As pointed out in the comments, Kamal Haasan has also bagged a National award for best feature film in Tamil for the movie Thevar Magan which takes his total tally across all categories to 4 National awards + 1 President gold medal.