66th National Films Award 2019: “Harjeeta” Receives the Award for Best Punjabi Film

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Chandigarh 24^th Dec: 𝘍𝘪𝘭𝘮 𝘮𝘢𝘬𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘪𝘴 𝘢 𝘱𝘳𝘰𝘤𝘦𝘴𝘴 𝘰𝘧𝘥𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘮𝘪𝘯𝘨𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘯 𝘵𝘳𝘢𝘯𝘴𝘭𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘩𝘰𝘴𝘦 𝘥𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘮𝘴 𝘪𝘯𝘵𝘰 𝘢 𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘭𝘪𝘵𝘺 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘵𝘦𝘢𝘮 𝘦𝘧𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘵𝘴. The above quote had inspired many lives resulting a comeback of good cinema from past two years especially in Punjabi industry.

The National Film Awards are organized every year to facilitate the excellence of the movies of several languages of India. The films are shortlisted on the basis of several categories. The first ever Punjabi film which received this award was "Chaudhary Karnail Singh" in 1962. Released in 2018, Harjeeta was an inspiring film which boosted many youngsters of Punjab towards sports. Holding so many positive facts, the film today received the best film award in the ceremony of National Film Awards 2019. The moment had occurred after four years when earlier Diljit Dosanjh's Punjab 1984 won this title and everyone related to the industry is celebrating it proudly.

It's proud moment for punjabi cinema said, Munish Sahni after winning national award for best film (Harjeeta).

Harjeeta" a film based on the biopic of Harjeet Singh Tuli, the Indian hockey international champion who worked really hard to reach his goal was released on 18^th May 2018.The film was directed by talented director Vijay Kumar Arora. The award ceremony held today at Vigyan Sabha Delhi. The award ceremony was guested by Hon. Vice President of India Venkaiah Naduwho presented the award to the producer of Harjeeta,MunishSahni. MunishSahni was present at the occasion along with director of the film Vijay Kumar Arorawho too was facilitated with an award titled Rajat Kamal.

The live broadcast of the award ceremony was available on several news channels and DD channels. Prominent personalities from Pollywood has shared the news on social media and congratulated the team for such a great success. The date 23^rd December 2019 has been saved as another wonderful achievement of Punjabi Cinema.