The Rajasthan Film Festival Award ceremony (also known as the RFF Awards) is a set of awards presented annually to honour both artistic and technical excellence of artistes in Rajasthani cinema as well as in other Regional Cinema of India. The awards were instituted in 2013. The 11th award ceremony was held on 30th September 2023 at Deep Smriti Auditorium. Aftab Shivdasani and Neha Dhupia did the hosting at the award night and Lifetime Achievement Award was given to the Bollywood actor Gulshan Grover. Bollywood Actor Govinda attended the festival as the chief guest.
The theme for the festival was Unity in diversity and 24 awards were awarded in 2 broad categories: for films produced in Rajasthan and for films produced in other regions of India (except Rajasthan). In order to honour people who have been dedicated to the industry, a Lifetime Achievement Award is also presented at the ceremony.
The 10th edition of the RFF award ceremony was held from 22 September 2022 to 24 September 2022 at Maan Place, Jaipur.Tusshar Kapoor and Mahima Chaudhry were the hosts of the evening with Film Critic Komal Nahta and lifetime Achievement Award was given to Actor Sanjay Mishra.
The 9th and 8th edition of Rajasthan Film Festival was not held due to global pandemic of COVID 19.
The 7th edition of the award ceremony was organized for 3 Days (26 September to 28 September, 2019) at Maan Palace, in Jaipur. Shreyas Talpade was the host of the award night. Other prominent celebrities at the ceremony included Shakti Kapoor, Satish Kaushik, Rajesh Puri, Komal Nahta, Aniruddh Dave, Neha Shree, Aniruddh Singh among others. The eighth and ninth edition of the award ceremony were cancelled due to government-imposed covid restrictions.
The 2018 event was organized for 5 Days (25 to 29 September 2018) at Maan Palace, in Jaipur. Vatsal Seth was the host of the award night and the celebrities Jeetendra Kapoor, Mithoon Sharma, Neelu Vaghela, Gajendra Chauhan, Anirudh Dave and Sara Khan made their presence. In 2017, the ceremony was held at Deep Smriti Auditorium, on 14 to 16 September 2017.
History
The first awards were presented in 2013 at Rajasthan, India. From then onwards, the awards are held at various locations of Jaipur.
Sanjana Sharma is the founder of Rajasthan Film Festival. In its 6th edition (2018), the RRF has organized this event for 5 days. The event was started with theater competition held on 25–27 September. On 28 September, inter college dance competition was organize where several people from Rajasthani Film Industry shared their thoughts about Rajasthan cinema and on the last day of event (29 September), awards were given to the various categories by RFF.
Award ceremonies
The following is a listing of all Rajasthan Film Festival Awards ceremonies since 2013
Awards
Rajasthani Film ( Category-A)
Best Director
Best Writer
Best Cinematographer
Best Actor in Leading Role
Best Actress in Leading Role
Best Negative Performance
Best Supporting Performance
Best Music Director
Best lyrics Writer
Best Singer (Male) Best Singer (Female) Best Movie
Other Regional Film ( Category-B)
Best Director
Best Writer
Best Cinematographer
Best Actor in Leading Role
Best Actress in Leading Role
Best Negative Performance
Best Supporting Performance
Best Music Director
Best lyrics Writer
Best Singer (Male) Best Singer (Female) Best Movie
Special Award
Life Time Achievement
Jury Members
See also
1st Award Show (Rajasthan Film Festival)