With cinemas back in the theatres, the first physically held award ceremony of the country, ‘Cinemar Samabartan’ was organized by West Bengal Film Journalists’ Association (WBFJA) in Kolkata. ‘Cinemar Samabartan’ was held after a gap of a year and the Best Bengali Cinemas and their performers for the years 2021 – 2022 were honored at the Priya Cinema.

The launch of the new streaming platform Colorob also took place at the event. The theme of this year’s event was ‘Cinemar Mawja Cinemar Hall E’.

There were 17 award categories in the popular segment, 8 award categories in the Technical Award segment, and the Satyajit Ray Lifetime Achievement Award for each of the years. Victor Banerjee and Dipankar Dey were conferred with the Satyajit Ray Lifetime Achievement Award for the years 2020 & 2021 for their notable contributions to the World of Cinema.

The show started with the grand launch of WBFJA’s publication of the original handwritten script of the film ‘GhareBaire’, by Satyajit Ray, to commemorate his birth centenary.

Award winners for 2020 – 2021 in the different categories were:

Best Film 2020: ‘Borunbabur Bondhu’

Best Film 2021: ‘Binisutoy: Without Strings’

Best Director (In the memory of late Shri Hiralal Sen) 2020: Anik Dutta for ‘Borunbabur Bondhu’

Best Director (In the memory of late Shri Hiralal Sen) 2021: Atanu Ghosh for ‘Binisutoy: Without Strings’

Best Actor in Leading Role 2020: Parambrata Chattopadhyay for ‘Dwitiyo Purush’& Saswata Chattopadhyay for ‘Chobiyal’

Best Actor in Leading Role 2021: Ritwick Chakraborty for ‘Binisutoy: Without Strings’ & Paran Bandhopadhyay for ‘Tonic’

The Best Actress in Leading Role 2020: Aparajita Auddy for ‘Chini’

The Best Actress in Leading Role 2021: Jaya Ahsan for ‘Binisutoy: Without Strings’

Best Actors in a Supporting Role 2020: Samiul Alam for the movie ‘Tangra Blues’

Best Actors in a Supporting Role 2021: Paran Bandhopadhyay for ‘Tonic’

Best Actress in a Supporting Role 2020:Paoli Dam for ‘Love Aaj Kal Porshu’& Bidipta Chakraborty for ‘Dracula Sir’

Best Actress in a Supporting Role 2021:Alakananda Roy Banerjee for ‘Ekannoborti’

The Best Actor in a Negative Role 2020:Anirban Chatterjee for ‘Asur’

The Best Actor in a Negative Role 2021:Tota Roy Chowdhury for ‘ Mukhosh’ & Anirban Chakraborty for F.I.R.

The Best Actor in Comic Role 2020: Manasi Sinha for ‘Brahma Janen Gopon Kommoti’

Best Music Direction 2020: Anupam Roy for ‘Dwityo Purush’

Best Music Direction 2021: Nabarun Bose for ‘Tangra Blues’

Best Playback Singer (Male) 2020:Ishan Mitra for ‘Dracula Sir’

Best Playback Singer (Male) 2021:Anindya Chatterjee for ‘Prem Tame’ and Shovan Ganguly for ‘Golondaaj’.

Best Playback Singer (Female)2020: Surangana Bandhyopadhyay for the cinema ‘Brahma Janen Gopon Kommoti’

Best Playback Singer (Female)2021:Shreya Ghoshal for ‘Prem Tame’

Best Background Score 2020:Joy Sarkar for ‘Doodhpither Gachh’

Best Background Score 2021:Bickram Ghosh for ‘Abhijatrik’

The Most Promising Director 2020: Arjun Dutta for ‘Abyakto’

The Most Promising Director 2021: Arun Roy for ‘Hiralal’ and Subhrajit Mitra for ‘Abhijatrik’

The Most Promising Actor 2021: Kinjal Dutta for ‘Hiralal’

The Most Promising Actress 2020: Ritabhari Chakraborty for ‘Brahma Janen Gopon Kommoti’

The Most Promising Actress 2021:Ananya Sen for ‘Ekannoborti’

The Most Popular Film of the Year 2020: ‘Dwitiyo Purush’

The Most Popular Film of the Year 2021:‘Tonic’

The Most Popular Actor 2020: Anirban Bhattacharya for ‘Dwityo Purush’

The Most Popular Actor 2021: Dev for ‘Tonic’

Best Screenplay 2020: Srijit Mukherji for ‘Dwitiyo Purush’

Best Screenplay 2021:Saibal Mitra for ‘Takhan Kuasha Chilo’ & Kamaleshwar Mukherjee for ‘Anusandhan’

Best Cinematographer 2020: Sirsha Ray for ‘Shironaam’

Best Cinematographer 2021: SupratimBhol for ‘Abhijatrik’

Best Editor2020:Arghyakamal Mitra for ‘Borunbabur Bondhu’

Best Editor 2021: Sujay Datta Ray for ‘Binisutoy: Without Strings’

Best Lyricist 2020: Anindya Chatterjee for ‘Brahma Janen Gopon Kommoti’

Best Lyricist 2021:Prasen for ‘Prem Tame’ &Nilanjan Chakraborty for ‘Ekannoborti’

Best Art Director 2020: Ananda Addhya for ‘Asur’

Best Art Director 2021:Shibaji Pal for ‘Golondaaj’

Best Sound Designer 2020: Anindit Roy &Adip Singh Manki for ‘DwitiyoPurush’

Best Sound Designer 2021:Tirthankar Majumdar for ‘Avijatrik’

Best Costume Designer 2020: Abhishek Roy for ‘Guldasta’

Best Costume Designer 2021: Agnimitra Paul for ‘Avijatrik’

Best Makeup Artist 2020: Manjeet Tiwari for ‘Asur’

Best Makeup Artist 2021: Sk Azad Ahmed for ‘Hiralal’

Congratulations to the winners.

Priyanka Dutta