An award Certificate presented to
Prabhat Film Company
in 1944 was recently found in
FTII
's Prabhat Studio.
The details in
the Certificate of Merit
revealed that it was presented to the film 'Ramshastri' for Best Hindi Picture of the year 1944 by
Bengal Film Journalists
' Association, Calcutta. It bears the signature of the Association's President
Tushar Kanti Ghosh
and Honorary Secretary S M Bagde.
'Ramshastri', one of the most successful films of its time, actually swept the awards announced by the association. It won six other major awards- Best Film, Best Screenplay, Best Dialogues, Best Direction, Best Actor and Best Supporting Actor.
'Ramshastri' was among the first biopic films of its time when it was released on June 30, 1944, in Marathi and Hindi. The runaway success of the film was also attributed to the powerful acting of Gajanan Jagirdar, who straddled both Marathi and Hindi with finesse and ease and in 1961 went on to become the first Principal of the erstwhile Film Institute of India (now Film and Television Institute of India, FTII).
The invaluable Certificate was discovered by Ashutosh Kavishwar, Asst Prof, Dept of Art Direction and Production Design during a clean up of some rarely-visited areas of Prabhat Studio. The Certificate will be restored and kept in
Prabhat Museum
.
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