Which one of the following films has won the Best Film Award in Environment Conservation category at the 67th National Film Awards, 2021?

Correct — C, Water Burial. The 67th National Film Awards, announced in March 2021 for films of 2019, gave the award in the environment conservation and preservation category to Water Burial, made in the Monpa language of Arunachal Pradesh. The category exists to recognise films whose subject is the protection of the natural world, and it sits within the feature-film section of the awards, judged separately from the non-feature categories.

• (a)Jonaki Porua — A film from the north-east of the same awards cycle, which is why it is in the option set, but it did not take the environment category.
• (b)Wild Karnataka — The strongest distractor by subject, since it is a natural-history documentary on Karnataka's wildlife narrated by David Attenborough. It was recognised at the same 67th National Film Awards, but in a different category from the environment one.
• (d)Ronuwa—Who Never Surrender — Another film from the same awards cycle placed here to fill the option set; the environment award did not go to it.

The National Film Awards are given annually by the Directorate of Film Festivals for films of the preceding year, with separate juries for feature films, non-feature films and writing on cinema. Alongside the general categories the awards carry several thematic ones — environment conservation, social issues, national integration, family welfare — which is how a small film in a language with few speakers can be recognised nationally.

The trap is subject matter. A candidate who has heard of Wild Karnataka will reach for it, because a wildlife documentary sounds exactly like an environment-category winner. The thematic categories, though, are awarded within the feature-film section, and a documentary competes elsewhere. Two useful anchors from the same 67th awards: Marakkar, Lion of the Arabian Sea took the best feature film award, and the Dadasaheb Phalke Award went to Rajinikanth.

• The 67th National Film Awards were announced in March 2021, for films of 2019.
• Water Burial, in the Monpa language of Arunachal Pradesh, won the environment conservation category.
• Wild Karnataka, narrated by David Attenborough, was recognised at the same awards in a different category.
• Marakkar, Lion of the Arabian Sea won the best feature film award that year.
• The Dadasaheb Phalke Award for that cycle went to Rajinikanth.

• Choosing a wildlife documentary for an environment category awarded within the feature-film section.
• Attaching an award to the wrong year; the 67th awards covered films of 2019 but were announced in 2021.

An awards item whose distractors are all genuine films of the same cycle, so subject matter alone misleads.

No directly related past PYQ was found.

• practice — not a real PYQ

  The Dadasaheb Phalke Award announced along with the 67th National Film Awards went to

  • (a)Rajinikanth
  • (b)Amitabh Bachchan
  • (c)Vinod Khanna
  • (d)Asha Parekh

  Answer(a) Rajinikanth — announced in 2021 for the 67th awards cycle.

• practice — not a real PYQ

  Wild Karnataka, recognised at the 67th National Film Awards, was narrated by

  • (a)David Attenborough
  • (b)Amitabh Bachchan
  • (c)Shah Rukh Khan
  • (d)Morgan Freeman

  Answer(a) David Attenborough — the natural-history documentary was made on Karnataka's wildlife.